Star Wars Galaxies

I was in beta and live for over two years. Left after the holo grind and just befor the NGE. How is SWG doing now? I was a Master Arch and Droid Engr for most of my play time trying to build our server.

Any comments on the game would be appriciated.

Thanks

Click my sig, use the trial first.

Get yourself off the station, spend at least 1 hour on the ground before making up your mind.  Don't spend any money until you decide that you like the NGE game.

Thank you Salvaje, I will look at your link and do the trial. I still have fond memories of SWG but from what I have read so far there looks to be a lot of changes since I left.

Thanks again

Originally posted by Moudeeb

Thank you Salvaje, I will look at your link and do the trial. I still have fond memories of SWG but from what I have read so far there looks to be a lot of changes since I left.

Thanks again

 

They have, and not for the better.  That's why I'd rather you not be out any money while deciding.

Lots of people come back and try out of curiosity/nostalgia.  I don't want to see SOE pocketing $15 from people who do this if they come back, try it, get disgusted and leave again after a few hours/days.

So it's best to take advantage of the trial.

Moudeeb, my guess is you probably have an available trial to use. Simply check your account status. If it says "pending" then you have some free time to try the game.

The game now has levels, no more sandbox.  The populations are extremely low.  My advice, and obviously  the advice of others...

Do NOT spend a dime on this game, use the Free Trials you have and make up your mind. 

Go to www.tryswg.com - I recommend playing on chilastra or any other high pop server, But chilastra because I play on it and the community is fun :D.

Originally posted by Moudeeb

I have pretty much the same experience as you. I came back just last week to try out the state of game. I have to say I've never seen such a depressing state of affairs in an MMO before.

The game is unrecognizable. The graphics are the same, but everything else has been changed/gutted/simplified. And by simplified I mean the interface is actually more of a nightmare to setup to a usable state due to their horrible idea of trying to make it FPSy, but the choice of classes and the customization of those classes have been decimated. Most of the new content is bugged. There are more jedi's than any other characters. My actual gameplay, after spending a day trying to get the interface to behave, was very much like I remember, but the characters are for the most part, weaker than they were. HAM is gone, It's now Health and Action, the stats system is completely different.

The game is on its last legs and the jokers at SOE are humming and hawing about what they're going to do about the ghost town servers. They're still charging 30 to 50 dollars to transfer characters between servers! I think they're trying to smother the last hangers on so they can shut down the project entirely. There's no other explanation for this continued nightmare environment. For god sake, don't spend a nickel on the game. Get your trial time on your vet account and just walk around, marvel at the incompetence. Took me about 3 days to realize the game was a lost cause.

I deleted all my characters, I have no desire to relevel again (did that with my 3rd character slot when NGE came out). It's my way of having no intention of going back.

The character transfer costs are absolutely outragenous, and the chances of losing your valuable items are fairly high for the cost. Most other games charges you between $10-25 with everything, and sometimes free transfers.

Originally posted by moskowitz

 

Originally posted by Moudeeb

 

I have pretty much the same experience as you. I came back just last week to try out the state of game. I have to say I've never seen such a depressing state of affairs in an MMO before.

The game is unrecognizable. The graphics are the same, but everything else has been changed/gutted/simplified. And by simplified I mean the interface is actually more of a nightmare to setup to a usable state due to their horrible idea of trying to make it FPSy, but the choice of classes and the customization of those classes have been decimated. Most of the new content is bugged. There are more jedi's than any other characters. My actual gameplay, after spending a day trying to get the interface to behave, was very much like I remember, but the characters are for the most part, weaker than they were. HAM is gone, It's now Health and Action, the stats system is completely different.

 

The game is on its last legs and the jokers at SOE are humming and hawing about what they're going to do about the ghost town servers. They're still charging 30 to 50 dollars to transfer characters between servers! I think they're trying to smother the last hangers on so they can shut down the project entirely. There's no other explanation for this continued nightmare environment. For god sake, don't spend a nickel on the game. Get your trial time on your vet account and just walk around, marvel at the incompetence. Took me about 3 days to realize the game was a lost cause.

I really don't believe you did try the game.  At the very least, you didn't put effort into trying to try the game.