The All Encompassing Star Wars Galaxies Thread

[Arm]

TBH, the 2 dollar hike in the monthly fee is annoying...but nothing major in my justification of whether to buy the game or not. I would gladly pay 14 dollars a month if the game came even CLOSE to delivering the immersive Star Wars environment that we were led to believe existed.

As it stands now, I get more of that feeling from playing Rebellion.

[Vyk]

I was very dissapointed with the beta test. I found that the game was just not something I'd put time/energy into. I play games to have fun, not to take on a 2nd job.

I might give it a go in about 6-7 months after it's a bit more stable, bit more contect and a bit more fun. Assuming that last one actually happens.

[Apokx]

Swg prolly gonna bomb

[Vizzini]

Originally posted by Gortexfogg
I made the mistake of blowing $50 on Sims Online. I will not make that mistake again. Thanks for all the opinions.

Dear GOD! Whatever compelled you to do that?

[copenhagen]

I have heard a lot of bad things about this game. I think i will avoid it.

[Antagony]

My roommate was in the beta as well.

He agrees with what the others have said.

I watched him play a lot, and my most common question was, "So do you do anything in this game?" I don't think I could possibly imagine a more boring game.

[Drider_it]

Well I for one will wait about 6 mos to a year before i pick this title up.. I didnt try EQ till it was over a year old and even then it was about what 2 years before i bought it with no expansions.. Just didnt have the time to play it for the money I would be shelling out for it per month.

Every game no matter if its a 1st person shooter, rpg, MMORPG, or tactical.. they all have bugs.. why you always see patches come out..

I wont even get into the lol game Daggerfall. (anyone remember that bugged out game?)

As more money comes in for swg they might begin to patch things out.. heck from what I saw on their forums.. it was nasty.. even to the point of cdkeys already reg.. ouch..

also.. from what ive seen on fan sites.. the day it went live the game was already hacked... peps had access to all skills .. sigh.. they got a long way to go..

although I will say they could pull it off if they are on the ball. The perma-death for a jedi.. I agree.. what? how many jedi's were running around during the empire era? what .. lets see offically in the movies ..

obi, yoda, quazi-luke, sleeper-leia, emperor(sith but still a jedi) and darthvader(sith kickin jedi)

the point is during this era.. the empire was out to snuff any and every jedi they found.. and not just jedi's.. those that were force sensitive.

90% of all peps that think of SW, they think Darth Vader, space battles and JEDI.. most the peps ive seen are/were psyiced about being a jedi.. there should be some danger of being one.. seeing how dangerous/deadly it was to be one in the movies..

[lionrock]

Thanks for the heads up. Once again, Mister Lucas just doesn't care. Oh well.

[Bonesaw]

I was in beta 3. I had never played a MMOG before. To me the learning curve was pretty steep. A lot to learn and then nothing gained by it. By the time my marksman was fairly proficient they wiped all characters. <sigh>

I never even got to run around on all of the planets. But that is exactly what you'd have to do is run. Lots of time spent running and trying to play in a large enough group to get larger sums of XP was only so-so. Half the time you'd be moving in a large group to a target the servers would crash and by the time you got back into the game the group was gone and you're stuck out in the middle of nowhere.

I'd be tempted to try the game out down the road but not right now, not for the money they are asking for.

Just my 2 cents worth.

[NeverBorn]

Say it isn't so

[TrollInvestigtr]

what fun to be jedi if everyone is trying to kill you all the time? screw that.

[jerkstore]

Wow, if it's worse than EQ...that's just a shame.

[w3r7y]

i bought it.. and i like it... just as mch if not more then eq.

[shalafi]

my buddy and his brother both got it and they love it. i played it for a little while and it was alright but i didnt take the time to really figure it out. there was drinking to be done. I was thinking of getting it but he failed to mention the monthly charge to play the thing. Im not paying by the month for any game.

[nachttod]

Hey Forks, I love the game and I was in beta. I played eq and I like this game more. Just because you didn't like it doesn't mean that all of the people who liked it are plants. The professions are not meaningless. The game allows you to become whatever you want even if you change your mind after you made your initial selection. Therefore, one of the reasons you hate the game is because you hate to have options in your life? Well have fun not playing SWG. I for one will be enjoying my time in the game.

[Darkblack]

I was in beta and play now. I have to say this is the best online game out right now and probably will stay number 1 for a while.

[Rupuert1]

I bought SWG, its no where near as good as i thought'd it be and theres lots of bugs. But there fixing most of the bugs extremly fast and i still think its the funnest game out right now.

[a_divine_martyr]

Originally posted by nachttod
Hey Forks, I love the game and I was in beta. I played eq and I like this game more. Just because you didn't like it doesn't mean that all of the people who liked it are plants. The professions are not meaningless. The game allows you to become whatever you want even if you change your mind after you made your initial selection. Therefore, one of the reasons you hate the game is because you hate to have options in your life? Well have fun not playing SWG. I for one will be enjoying my time in the game.

What do you like about it?

The people who don't like it, give reasons, but I have yet to hear someone who likes it give a reason.

So ya mind telling me?

[Bonesaw]

Originally posted by a_divine_martyr
What do you like about it?

The people who don't like it, give reasons, but I have yet to hear someone who likes it give a reason.

So ya mind telling me?

I'll expand a little more on my thoughts. The game truly has some serious potential. On Tattooine you have the factions of Rebel or Imperial but you also have factions to think about like Jawa and Sandpeople and townspeople and then of course Jabba vs Lady Valerian.

Since I started playing the game as a Marksman it was hell of a lotta fun to go around wasting Jabba's arch enemies knowing that I was gaining faction points to let me go see the main slug himself. (but then they wiped my character and I never got to see him but I degress)

If you choose to play as an Imperial and you make it higher into the ranks you can get Stormtroopers as your "pets" and they will follow you around and do what you tell them to do. That is freakin' awesome. Plus as you gain faction points with the Imp's you can get Stormtrooper armor. That right there is bad ass in my book.

The only problem that I truly had with the beta was how little information was available unless you wanted to spend all of your time reading through hundreds if not thousands of posts to get the information your looking for (the search engine didn't work half the time I tried looking for anything specific).

There is a lot of good stuff going on with SWG but the price is what is keeping me away from it right now. Monthly fee after 50.00 to buy the game just doesn't sit right with me.

another 2 cents worth

[bermuDa]

My friend was accepted as a beta tester but was going on a long vacation and offered his account to me... I accepted but when I saw they wanted to charge me for the discs and wouldn't just let me download them i said forget it. I'm not paying them so i can help debug their stupid game.

[Ogre840]

bought the game... waiting for my new comp, but so far all i hear is good things about the final version... i'll let you know my take after tuesdat (that is... if i ever come back!!!)

[DaveTheLurker]

Well, I'm having tons of fun in the game. I was in beta as well, and yes there are tons of bugs still. The downtime isn't there anymore, and it's fun to advance through the skills. I've never played any MMORPG before, except PSO for Dreamcast (not really MMO).

[Bonesaw]

I've checked the stores and every where that I went that carried was sold out. That's a good sign for the future of the game.

[stinkynutz]

i guess i'll just stick to Dark Age of Camelot

[human]

Disclaimer, I haven't played Galaxies yet, but likely will soon but I have a fair bit of experience with software development and alpha/beta testing...

Some of the comments have bugged me, feel I should say something. Several people have mentioned that the beta was very buggy and had to download tons of patches. That's what a beta is, there is no way to seriously test a complex bit of software without actually using the thing. And in order to find some/most of the serious bugs, you have to use the software a lot. Hence the pseudo-open beta tests of games like Galaxies.

Most companies have to hire people to do thier beta testing for them. But, when there is a lot of hype for a new game, some recent game development houses have harnessed (tricked/enslaved) the pre-fans to use for these betas. This is far cheaper and due to the larger numbers of people, more serious bugs get flagged for repair. Basically the point is, beta tests are not fun. The game in question is not finished, it has bugs, that's why you are testing.

Anyhow, if the version of the game that is currently sitting on store shelves is ass, tell everyone not to spend money on it. I bought Daggerfall, never again will I pay money for a buggy game. But the beta is not the version on the shelves. Probably not even all that close, we're talking 2-3 weeks of crunch time bug fixing by several talented programmers.

Yeah, that was a bit off topic, but still, I feel better, all that 'don't judge a book by it's cover/1st draft/10th draft' crap.

[cheese]

Hey, I play SWG and i hope you do too i love this game.

anyway if you do play please post you server, char. name, race, Planet and proffecion. If you think it sucks please keep it to your self. i dont want to sound like an ass but i know alot of ppl dont like it and thats fine but honestly i dont care

Server : starsider
Planet: curtrently tattoine
Name Norman Alata
Race. Twi' Lek
Proffecion: artisan(with hope to become an armorsmith) marksman(on my way to pistolier)


if your on starsider send me add me to your freinds list and send me a tell i can hook you up with good equipment . Mabey we can make a TFP PA that would rock. I would realy like to see some one who is a good surveyer (matirals are WAY to expencive)

[darkshade]

I'm desperate to buy the game, only problem is i dunno is my SiS 740 onboard graphics will cut it so i havent ordered the game...i meet all the other requirements so easily too. also i dont have an AGP slot on my damn comp so its useless to upgrade


pity me

[thecow]

I just got it this weekend. My first MMORPG. Here are my current stats.

Race: boring human
Profession: Marksman
Location: currently tattoine
Server: Ahazi
Name: Steho
Playing times: 11:00pm-01:00am CST

If you play around that time, let me know and I'll try to start a character on your server. If so, what else is needed badly besides surveryors?

[tardbong]

Bought the game couple days ago, certanly worth the $15 a month.

Human
Marksmen
Interiped
Tattonie (guess we all love this place)
Stegier Meister

But, SOE needs to get on dem' patches der. Me no like getting stuck in the world for two hours at a time .

[Ogre840]

Server: Corbantis and Ahazi
Race: Zabrak and a lizard dude
Proffesion: Marksman/scout on both guys if i remember correctly...
Planet: Tatooine, and Corellia
Name: Dark'Lotus and Ogre Pavey

*note* the first listed on each item relates to the first related on the others... and same for the second... save for class which im multi on both... */end note*

[poit77]

I haven't been able to to even play the freakin game yet! Every time they try to give me the updates they say there is a download error and I have to try it again. Any one have any ideas how to fix that or to overide it so I can just play the damn game

[thecow]

poit77: have you tried a reinstall?

[mrquackers]

Spent some time in the beta and wasn't too impressed. I'll pop in, though, when there's space flight. Unfortunately, that'll be about 18 months.

[Drider_it]

got 6 of my old diablo 2 crew playing it.. gonna get it next month i hope..

gonna end up playing a bounty hunter.. the lure of money and hunting down jedi is the ultimate challenge

[cheese]

Drider..good luck on that bounty hunter thing that takes ALOT of time to get...

[Mr_Anderson]

I heard the SWG combat system was pretty crappy actually. But then i dont find MMORPG's that appealing.

My feelings can be summed up here
http://www.penny-arcade.com/view.php3?date=2003-07-16

http://www.penny-arcade.com/view.php...03-06-23&res=l

[Hrothgar]

Im gonna get it as soon as they iron out the majority of the bugs. I don't want to bust my butt playing to log on and find that my inventory is gone or encounter one of the hundreds of bugs other players complain about on the SWG forums.

[goatse]

Server: Bria
Race: Trandoshan
Proffession: master scout/ teras kasi novice/ novice ranger/ novice creature handler
Planet: mostly Tatooine, sometimes naboo, sometimes corellia, Lok when i feel adventerous
Name: chauncho

played in beta, beta was more fun to be honest, alot less n00bs.

[diergray]

server: Corbantis
race: Human
Profession: Marksman/Scout
Planet: I haven't left Tatoonie yet
name: Diergray

I love the game but hate the huge time commitment!

[Tanerax]

This is my first MMORPG experience and i love it ... myself and a bunch of coworkers currently reside here

Location: Corellia, Tatooine, Naboo
Server: Sunrunner