Star Wars: Galaxies NDA lifted

[Mithrandir]

... And it's getting ripped a new one. Here are a couple opinions that I have found to be common from beta testers:

"....about SWG...honestly...after having it to play for roughly 3 months now...id say stay away from it as if it were the black plague. Its the most awful game i have played in years.

The best part is character creation, by far. Besides that there is little to be desired.

Combat is very redundant. Meleers completely and utterly blow against EVERYTHING. Pistoleers have it too easy...seriously all i have to do is run and spam body shot 2 and i could kill reds(hardest con)...yet they found this to be ok?

The bazaar(the main way of buying from other people) is often not working, or simply just takes your money and doesnt let you get your item in return.

Just a week ago, i ran off the top of a mountain and flew over the damn city, i could also walk on water. However, i couldnt recreate this...

PvP...if thats what you want to call it, is retarded. People can just camp hospitals and kill everyone, they can also camp cloning stations...yeah...makes for tons of fun *shakes head*. Killing people is just as irritating, sometimes when theyre incapacitated you cant get in a killing blow...also if youre the victim this means the person can sit there incapacitating you for like an hour if they want.

Some mobs dont attack, and give experience. Some attack and DONT give experience.

Overall its just a horrible game. I can say i am not hesitant at all to take this off reserve...reserve, of which it has been on since last June(yeah thats how bad i wanted it).


Even the graphics, i run with everything on, and i do run fairly lag free...except in major cities my frame rate drops big time...but the graphics...well theyre good...but not worth paying 15 bucks a month for. Really thats all youd be paying for.

Seriously, you'd have more fun rolling a briton, naming him Luke Skywalker, and giving him a glow wep...then in SWG. I highly doubt i will ever play beta for a worse game.

Also just the mere fact that they're putting this #$%& on shelves on the 26th is ridiculous. Its nowheres near ready...maybe in another 6 months...but there is no way in #$%&ing hell that they could have this even mildy enjoyable in 7 days."

And,

The game is just plain booring. As for background I got into Beta about 3 months ago and only played for a month. So things may have changed.

My Problems:

1) Its a treadmill but it manages to be even less fulfilling that EQ/DAOC/UO. In EQ/DAOC all you had to do was mindlessely mash mobs but at least sometimes you had to have some skill and organization. In Star wars you have to mindlessly kill, harverst resources, craft, and find a buyer. You have to do incredibly stupid and pointless things just for the sake of doing them.

2) Interface. A little on the clunky side.

3) Twinking will be crucial. If you have friends that can hook you up with money or resources you are going to advnce much faster than the poor bastard that has to do it the hard way. I see a booming trade in credits on Ebay.

4) Its 99% empty space. Sure its big and has lots of running room but theres nothing there. For anyone thats played EQ imagine east karana except there is even less there and its 10 times as big....

5) No dungeons, no wrecked ships to explore, no ruins to check out, ect. Just run out find a camp and start blasting.

6) Items are painfull. Imagine DAOC but there are no npc vendors, you buy crap that players put for sale on the bazaar or buy player crafted direct.

7) Class design is plain silly. Imagine being a healer class except you have to craft your healing items. Your medic has to personally make the medi-kits he is using on you. So not only does he have a finite source of "heals" but it costs him time and money to get them. How would you like to spend a few hours a day as a medic crafting in preperation of actually playing?

8) Huge ammounts of "promised game features" have been removed to make the ship possible. There isnt enough left.

9) I can only speak of early pvp testing but it was so pointless that it made DAOC/Planetside look like it was a epic struggle against the forces of darkness. SWG pvp is nothing more than a street mugging by comparison.

I am going to watch the game and hopefully in 6 months or so I can buy it. That or all my friends will force me to play....

In fact, the only positive comments I have been able to find about the game are alleged "real player beta experiences" off the official SWG website. Hmm, I wonder if the makers of SWG are providing a fair and unbiased representation of their game? :blink: Very, very disappointing considering how much was promised. AC2, Shadowbane, Planetside, and now SWG... are we ever going to get a MMOG that is balanced and relatively bug-free (much less working) on release to rival the established MMO's EQ and DAoC (and some might argue AO)?

Another one bit the dust... can Blizz break the mold to make this a three game race and pull through with WoW?