I was speaking with a former SWG player like myself and he was speaking about the avaliablilty of Star Wars Galaxies: The Complete Collection. Basically he said the game as become hard to find in the UK. Apparently the US as the game now on Direct 2 Drive but UK does not.

Basically hes been looking for the game for sometime now but without any luck, he doesn't want to pay over the odds. Some places are selling it for more then it was worth. I know places like Amazon and Play.com were selling it pretty cheaply but they have sold out now. I'm quite surprised  I'm guessing it's not because the game is popular but because SOE have stopped dispatching copies of the game. Still  a little surprised by that. Especially from SOE who usually will get every penny out of a game they can!

Mate hasn't played the game since leaving before the changes so was looking for it.

Any ideas where they can find a copy for a good price?

You don't waste the money putting boxed sets in stores of a game that isn't going to be around in 6 months.

It's not available on the UK direct2drive basically because LEC doesn't care enough to do it.

Originally posted by salvaje

You don't waste the money putting boxed sets in stores of a game that isn't going to be around in 6 months.

It's not available on the UK direct2drive basically because LEC doesn't care enough to do it.

 

lol your probably right! 

Besides, what more can they do as far as a boxed set?  There hasn't been an expansion since 2005, so what do they call it, the "Star Wars Galaxies Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious! Complete Edition"?

Why would a retail chain what to carry that, when the chances of it selling 50K boxes (which isn't a lot) is practically nil?

You can buy it retail as 'the complete online adventures', which includes all expansions and original game.

You can also purchase it via Download, and pay via credit card or paypal etc, earlier this year LA put more funding into digital distribution, which is the favored way of distribution in this day and age.

It's possible that you could find last years Complete pack in the shops still, but they seem to be sold out in most places now.  The Digital download version is apparantly in the process of being made available from the UK version of Direct2drive, so it's not a permanent thing.

However, you don't need that pack to get into the game.  Simply start a trial account and then once the trial finishes, choose to pay the sub fee of $15.  This will get you the main game (which now includes JTL) and I think RoTW too.  The only expansion you'll be missing is ToOW.  Since ToOW is high level content, by the time you need it, hopefully that Digital download version of the Complete pack will be available in the UK.

Originally posted by Obraik

It's possible that you could find last years Complete pack in the shops still, but they seem to be sold out in most places now.  The Digital download version is apparantly in the process of being made available from the UK version of Direct2drive, so it's not a permanent thing.

However, you don't need that pack to get into the game.  Simply start a trial account and then once the trial finishes, choose to pay the sub fee of $15.  This will get you the main game (which now includes JTL) and I think RoTW too.  The only expansion you'll be missing is ToOW.  Since ToOW is high level content, by the time you need it, hopefully that Digital download version of the Complete pack will be available in the UK.

Thanks for mentioning the trial though, I always thought that once the trial was over you needed to buy the game from store or online. So theres a start for him! I believe hes downloading the trial right now to give ago!..... I'm slightly worried what he'll think because he hasn't played for ages.

To be fair he stayed after the changes for a good few months, he left after being unable to find a good guild again. We had spent all our time in the same guild, plus most of his mates left... same as myself!

It's more a case they're no longer stocking than sold out. Digi downloads have taken over boxed copies everywhere that matters to SOE/LA, Europeans as usual get the shaft.