Star Wars Galaxies: $25 Wasted (reprise)

[redgopher]

Picked up SWG: The Total Experience.. god damn, what a waste of money. My $25 could have gone towards better things, like keeping my WoW subscription and not even playing it.

Anyone else feeling totally stupid they bought SWG?

EDIT: Well I gave it another shot, and its not as bad as I thought.. I guess it just took this game with its 30fps cap and poorly written graphics code to realize that 512MB in my PC just won't cut it anymore. Couple of weeks and I'll have myself 1GB of Mushkin CAS2 Dual Channel DDR. Then all I'll need is a DVD±RW drive and a couple of SATA HDDs and I'll be set.

[Prowl]

I was sooo tempted, but I resisted. Luckily I have a lifetime subscription to EQ2 I won in a contest at work :) I think I will play that and WOW.

[redgopher]

I want to shoot myself. I've never felt so terrible for blowing $25.

[tenzor]

I am playing this right now, but so far its nothing great. I picked up my copy at Frys for $19.99. Anyway if anyone on CAG is playing this please let me know, because I need some help. I heard it takes forever to become a Jedi, but that is what I am trying to reach. For anyone who knows, I wanted to know if there is a way I can obtain a Jedi robe (w/ a hood) because I want to change my appearance, since I am stuck right now with the default clothing. I've seen people who are my level (3) that run around in a robe with a hood.

[redgopher]

Updated OP

[whoknows]

I was going to buy this and then decided I wasnt going to pay to play a game online.

[Roufuss]

I am playing this right now, but so far its nothing great. I picked up my copy at Frys for $19.99. Anyway if anyone on CAG is playing this please let me know, because I need some help. I heard it takes forever to become a Jedi, but that is what I am trying to reach. For anyone who knows, I wanted to know if there is a way I can obtain a Jedi robe (w/ a hood) because I want to change my appearance, since I am stuck right now with the default clothing. I've seen people who are my level (3) that run around in a robe with a hood.

Last time I played, it takes FOUR MONTHS of REAL WORLD TIME to become a Jedi. And they were horribly designed too, so that they were one of the weakest classes in the game.

Have to do some quest each month in some village to become one... talk about a time sink.

[humidore]

I just saw the TV commercial for this game, and they sure did make it look like the best thing since sliced bread. Although they kinda played into the stereotypical Star Wars fan thing by showing quite a few chubby guys in glasses with goatees (and one chick, I guess to "balance" it out)....

[redline]

I was thinking about picking this up at Fry's for $20 also. Is it that bad? I have an Athlon 2400+ XP with 512 MB RAM and a Radeon 9000 Pro video card. Is that enough to run the game? I'm not willing to upgrade my hardware, so if it's not enough I'll pass on the game. Is it just a bad game, or does it just require a high-end system?

[ZForce]

If you're looking for a good MMORPG, get World of Warcraft.... nuff said

[greydemise]

i got the freee 2 week trial last year at gamespot...it blew :\...sry

[Roufuss]

I was thinking about picking this up at Fry's for $20 also. Is it that bad? I have an Athlon 2400+ XP with 512 MB RAM and a Radeon 9000 Pro video card. Is that enough to run the game? I'm not willing to upgrade my hardware, so if it's not enough I'll pass on the game. Is it just a bad game, or does it just require a high-end system?

It's honestly just a bad game.

When I played it, all the quests were random... meaning you'd get quests to kill lizards and gang members for hours on end. It's nowhere close to the hand crafted quests WoW or Guild Wars gives you. It was basacially "Go to this checkpoint, blow up this flag and fight 3 guys, get some credits!!"

When I played, you could buff yourself up so much you could solo almost ANYTHING... groups were non important. I believe they changed this now, or at least put more of an emphasis on groups.

The game was nothing but grinding... you'd just grind from one skill block to the next, because the PvP, while there, is ultimately worthless. The Galatic Civil War is a joke in this game... it makes no difference whether you are Rebel or Empire, I never saw serious PvP'ing happen in the 4 or so months I played. Hell, the grinding was so bad, I remember I set up a macro to mine minerals, and left the game on overnight... in the morning, I was a master surveyor.

Some classes were broken to the point where people just avoided them completely, and SoE dragged it's feet for the longest time getting them fixed. The combat upgrade they just had was two years in the making - and I heard it was horrible.

I never experienced a sense of community when I played, even though that's the whole point of the game. You're much better off going with World of Warcraft or Guild Wars. When the new game shine comes off of SWG in about a month, you'll regret it very much.

This new expansion pack is just to hook all the people fresh off of Episode 3... this game should have died long ago.

[redgopher]

I played World of Warcraft for about four months (I love it, and I'll be coming back later this year), Final Fantasy XI for about four months (Pretty good), City of Heroes for two weeks (repetitive and boring as hell) and EVE Online (repetitive but very beautiful). All MMOs are grind-fests. It's just whether or not you enjoy the grinding...

[Scahom1]

I remember checking eBay on a daily basis just to watch the Jedi auctions, back when it was extremely hard to become one. People would pay thousands (YES, THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS) just to take somebody's created Jedi character.

[Roufuss]

I remember checking eBay on a daily basis just to watch the Jedi auctions, back when it was extremely hard to become one. People would pay thousands (YES, THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS) just to take somebody's created Jedi character.

The joke would be on them when they finally got that character and they were worthless.

Hell, I remember one bug where Jedi's would be forever marked with the bounty hunter's bug... meaning they would never leave the terminal, and would get hunted as soon as they logged on by everyone on the server.

Jedi's were supposed to go in the terminal for showing off and such, but were supposed to be taken off of it upon dying or staying logged out for a certain period of time. With this bug, they never left the terminal.

It didn't help that instead of FIXING this bug, SoE made it so that it was alot easier to BECOME a Bounty Hunter meaning more people to hunt Jedi's. I knew a couple of Jedi characters who could never leave their house, because they would get mobbed as soon as they stepped outside.

It was stuff like that, that ultimately led to me quitting. I mean, when a doctor can buff you up so much so that you could take on 6 guys at once and win no problem, something was wrong.

That's not even getting into the other problems in the game, such as the abandoned player made cities (called ghost towns when I played), and hell, 80% of the REAL cities were abandoned.

I remember when being a Jedi was such a mysterious thing, and instead they turned it into a 4 month time sink.

I never played any of the expansions, but the way SoE handled this game has made me never want to go back to it ever again. It was pretty funny when they removed the option to cancel your account from the launcher, and replaced it with a "REGISTER JUMP TO LIGHTSPEED" button in it's place.

[msdmoney]

I wasted $50 on SWG a few months after it first came out, just be glad you only wasted $25. It was the most lifeless game I have ever played. Randomly generated terain, boring combat and randomly generated quests. It is as if they spent no time on the actual game. I remember running accross a planet once just to see the terrain, nothing changed, it was all the same, just different "nests" everywhere. Then they introduced the jedi system, originally supposed to be completely random, could be different for anyone....come to find out it is a grind-fest of learning different professions. Yes I am bitter about this game.

[Spacepest]

Oh noes! I still have this game someone gave me as a gift, I haven't installed it or played it yet. (The gift giver didn't realize that I had gotten WoW in the same month).

Hmm, I guess I will have to install it and play for a week or two. But still, it just bothers me that someone I know might have wasted their money on this game. I get a free month of play with it, but I doubt I will be playing it much longer than that.

Some of my friends who play this game, people that actually enjoyed it, immediately quit after the Combat Upgrade. That in itself doesn't make me very eager to play it.

[tcrash247]

I remember playing the beta of this, it was terrible. No point whatsoever to doing anything in the game. The environments, while huge, were pretty bland.

I've been wanting WoW, maybe I'll pick it up soon. I've played Dark Age of Camelot and it was really good. I really enjoyed that game. I hope WoW is just as good.

[Scahom1]

That's not even getting into the other problems in the game, such as the abandoned player made cities (called ghost towns when I played), and hell, 80% of the REAL cities were abandoned.

That's one of the main reasons why I quit. 9 out of 10 places I went to, I was the only soul there.

[redline]

Against the general consensus of this thread, I went out and bought the Total Experience yesterday. Hard to resist for a price match of $19.99 at Best Buy. I figure at that price I'll play the hell out of it for a month and if I don't like it, no biggie. I've never played a MMORPG anyways, so I won't have anything to compare it to. And if it's really that bad maybe it will turn me off of the MMORPG genre entirely, which might be a good thing for my wallet and my wife. Imagine that, a video game might actually convince me to spend MORE time with my wife. :D

[Mr. Anderson]

Against the general consensus of this thread, I went out and bought the Total Experience yesterday. Hard to resist for a price match of $19.99 at Best Buy. I figure at that price I'll play the hell out of it for a month and if I don't like it, no biggie. I've never played a MMORPG anyways, so I won't have anything to compare it to. And if it's really that bad maybe it will turn me off of the MMORPG genre entirely, which might be a good thing for my wallet and my wife. Imagine that, a video game might actually convince me to spend MORE time with my wife. :D

Tell me how it is. I'm thinking about getting it. I want to fly an X-Wing!

[Ziv]

I couldn't be a Jedi Jawa so I decided not to play.

[Zman310]

Tell me how it is. I'm thinking about getting it. I want to fly an X-Wing!

If you really want to fly an X-Wing, you should buy the game X-Wing. And TIE Fighter. And X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter. And X-Wing Alliance.
Easily the best space combat sims ever.

[Spacepest]

If I cannot kill Ewoks and Gungans, I am going to be seriously disappointed.

[Mr. Anderson]

If you really want to fly an X-Wing, you should buy the game X-Wing. And TIE Fighter. And X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter. And X-Wing Alliance.
Easily the best space combat sims ever.

Yeah, I have X-Wing for DOS, but if I could combat and leisure flight with my own custom designed ship, AND have a ground-based MMO at my disposal, how sweet would that be? But I might just pass and get Guild Wars. We'll see.

[tcrash247]

Can anyone tell me if World of Warcraft comes with a month or so free? I'm really thinking about picking this one up for the summer.

[Roufuss]

Can anyone tell me if World of Warcraft comes with a month or so free? I'm really thinking about picking this one up for the summer.

Mostly all MMO's come with a free month - WoW has one as well.

[tcrash247]

Ok, cool. Maybe I'll get it this weekend.