Star Wars Galaxies: An Empire Divided for Windows

Pros: Nice Graphics. Content that keeps you engaged, so long as you do Combat stuff.
Cons: AWOL Development Team (usually) Social professions need a lot of help Poor communication from Devs

I've played this game for 6 months now. It's a lot of fun, and friends are what keep you coming back. The graphics are cool, and the options are endless. Sort of. The single greatest drawback? The development team for this game. They focus ...

Pros: Variety in the character creation and career ladders.
Cons: Players MUST be reliant on the rest of the game community.

Ahhh.. now the NDA is lifted and we can speak! The game is still in Beta today, but on the 26th it ...

Pros: Graphics/sound rocks Addictive once you get into it. Can solo or group Awesome crafting
Cons: Grinding Hard to learn Horrible customer service

Well it turned out my own isp was to blame for the lag. Although finding this out had nothing to do with a csr helping me..so in retrospect Id say the lag isnt as bad as I first thought, still the customer support on this title is a pain and any ...

Pros: Graphics, Size, Vision for future.
Cons: "Hack and Slash" gameplay, boring, no star or wars in a star wars game.

I was a beta tester for this game, and found myself hating it despite my honest hopes for a good gam ...

Pros: Great animations and graphics very fluid since not many are online anymore
Cons: Some people get very emotional on their game play or lack there of.

I have been playing this game for about 3 years and have seen minute and dramatic changes in game play. In the old days Pre-CU (Before the Combat Upgrade), the profession of Jedi was virtually unattainable to anyone without a considerable investment in ...

Pros: Excellent for fun and socializing with other humans
Cons: requires pretty steep computer system upgrades

I started playing from day 2 of the release. I still play and have a great life inside the game. I have friends that will last forever. Now, to the game itself... Since it is an online game with an everchanging world, don't expect for it to have an ...

Pros: Can be fun and action filled!
Cons: cheaters, lag, customer service

Being a non-gamer, I was introduced to SWG by my better half...ultimate gamer! I didn't quite know what I was supposed to do, so I DESPISED it!! I got on for an hour or so a week, desperately trying to figure out what all his excitement was with this ...

Pros: Graphics Gameplay
Cons: Buggy, being fixed

Although the game is buggy, the SOE team has been working hard to fix that and has made much prgress ...

Pros: Most likely will be dead by spring of 2006
Cons: Most likely will be dead by spring of 2006, Sony ruined a great game!

For those of you whom liked swg for it's original feel and gameplay wave good bye. The combat upgrade is nothing but a ripoff from games such as worlds of warcraft, Ever Quest2, and Guild wars. On top of that the devs rushed to push the revamp live and ...

Pros: Space, Star Wars
Cons: Juvenile players, SOE, cliched missions

I picked up SWG just after the now infamous NGE debacle (I won't go into this, too many other people have), and found myself engrossed in the seemingly 'alternate' Star Wars universe I was presented with. The graphics, whilst not up to the standard of ...

Pros: Used to be fun, graphics are nice, sounds are good, JTL is pretty decent
Cons: Horrible new combat system, player base dropping daily, no longer unique, lag, poor customer support

This is my opinion and my experience, you can choose to believe it or not. First let me say, i am still a player and have been since launch of the game. It used to be a unique game, in that it has great graphics, HAD a gaming system like no other, ...

Pros: fration controled planets, cant think of anything, just typing this.
Cons: gameplay, jedi, control's, buggy, long loads, usless professions, lack of people, useless drops.

I came to SWG (star wars galaxies) the day it launched, meaning i had it in my hands at launch day but couldn’t play because of a terrible launchpad bug. It was a Good fun, some time monotonous rpg. but it was accepted very well and there where a lot of complaints. So they did there first of 3 complete overhaul patches that changed the way it played all the way down to character dev, and leveling. One would have been ok, BUT they have done this to many times and have completely ruined the online RPG experience.

So many things are buggy in this game even today.eg. some days my group chat wouldn’t work, random hi-level spawns in lowbie areas, fraction mis-rewards.

The quest system is a joke. and now with the instant jedi character there so rampant they've made the Bounty Hunter profession useless because jedis now run in huge packs and kill anything that’s on there opposite fraction.

summery - I've blacklisted this game, so many headaches and wasted time. not to mention the lack of any useful game material.

Pros: great concepts, good graphics
Cons: everything is bugged, nothing is getting fixed, more things are breaking.

This is a terrible gaming experience for anyone. The game has been out a few months now and these are my observations... the developers working on this have little experience in what they are doing. Sony is not listening to customers. Bugs are not being fixed. For every fix that is implemented, something else breaks. Buggy patches are continually pushed out that break more than they fix. Poor communication... the list goes on. Forget the minimum requirements. I run with 1 gig of ram and a 128M vid card and have settings about 1/2 way up... anything higher and the game is unplayable.

Pros: It's a beautiful setting, it has a Star Wars feel to it.
Cons: Poor development, poor customer service, too few rewards at too high a cost.

More than a year after release, numerous professions are still broken and fixes to the core game have been postponed over and over in order to make way for the expansion coming out soon. Broken professions, poor response from developers to constructive customer feedback, poor customer support, current subscribers leaving out of frustration and boredom.

The short of it: spend your money on almost anything else.

Pros: None
Cons: I hate deceptive packaging. I let my kid down because of these thieves.

Here I am, in the computer store shopping for a Star Wars game for my nine year old. He's already become pretty proficient at Jedi Outcast 2. So I look at the packaging for Star Wars Galaxies and Knights of the Old Republic.

The Galaxies game looks interesting so I pay the thirty bucks to buy it. It wasn't till I get home and try to install the three CD monster that it informs me on the last screen that it wants my credit card number.

That's when my 45 yr. old eyes see the tiny small print on the very bottom of the box that states that it needs continual cash feedings to be operable.