PC: Star Wars Galaxies: An Empire Divided - $39.90

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GoGamer.com currently has Star Wars Galaxies: An Empire Divided for the PC on sale for $39.90 as part of their 48-Hour Madness Sale. Other retailers including Walmart are currently selling this game for $49.97, so save $10 with this deal.

PC: Star Wars Galaxies: An Empire Divided - $39.90

 

[ElFenix]

was at CC a couple weeks ago for the same, and best buy the week before that

 

[frankqfrank]

my little brother has a bunch of pet rancors already
zaybx on the intrepid server, game looks good

 

[zodder]

I can't stop playing this game.............

 

[Kraeji]

is it that good?

 

[mikeashbishop2]

No.. It is not that good. By far the most shallow MMORPG ever made, and Ive played them all. This game is very fun for a month or so, but after that, any experienced player will have done everything there is to do and have seen everything there is to see. I litteraly finished out my character in 3 weeks, then deleted him to play a different race just to give me something to do. This game is bug ridden and sloppily developed. Unfortunatly, instead of fixing the bugs, the Devs seem more interested in nerfing everything in site.

The game is becoming a ghost town with the waves and waves of people leaving. I started playing with 7 other people, and not a single one is still playing. If you have 40 bux to spend on a month of entertaiment, then it's worth it. If you are an experince gamer and want more then that, stay away.

 

[sk3tch]

These games piss me off, only because they cost $40 AND then $8-$15/month. They should sell for $20 plus that monthly fee.

 

[Cleaner]

I agree totally. I refuse to play any game that costs just as much as the other games AND costs me 15-25% of the original cost every month to play. BS!! I'll just keep playing CS or waiting patiently for www.planeshift.it. I played DAOC for awhile and thought it was kewl but it just cost SO much to keep playing!

 

[Bacinator]

Originally posted by: mikeashbishop2
No.. It is not that good. By far the most shallow MMORPG ever made, and Ive played them all. This game is very fun for a month or so, but after that, any experienced player will have done everything there is to do and have seen everything there is to see. I litteraly finished out my character in 3 weeks, then deleted him to play a different race just to give me something to do. This game is bug ridden and sloppily developed. Unfortunatly, instead of fixing the bugs, the Devs seem more interested in nerfing everything in site.

The game is becoming a ghost town with the waves and waves of people leaving. I started playing with 7 other people, and not a single one is still playing. If you have 40 bux to spend on a month of entertaiment, then it's worth it. If you are an experince gamer and want more then that, stay away.

Star Wars is different, because it is what it is. An online universe, with things to do. It is NOT a single-player game, where quests are assigned to you. If you want to find jobs, you have to go out and look for them. Each economy on every server (every planet in ever server even) is different. Of course you can 'max out' your character in 3 weeks, if you 'grind' away, doing nothing but earning experience. But that is not the point of the game, and it was designed NOT to reward people like you. Especially some of the early exploits in which you could earn massive rewards for 'utilizing an illegal method'. Most of these exploits are fixed, but I'm glad you powergamers got to use them, because it clears out the riff raff much sooner. This is what is referred to above as 'Nerfing' to the '1337' powergamers. They make unbalanced character professions, more balanced. One person running around with 3 gigantic monsters, being able to easily kill the hardest creature in the game, and an army of opponents is 'unbalanced'. So now there is a cap, and those people cry and whine, and leave. Good riddance to you!

And as for the people who refuse to 'pay for a game every month'. Who do you think pays for MOH servers? Unreal Servers? Counter-Strike servers?
ANY online games, someone is paying for the servers and bandwidth for the server to allow you to play. I know I pitch in every 6 months to keep my counter-strike clan server, and I pay for our forums myself. I'm in the military, so I don't get paid a whole lot, but you've gotta support what you like to do, or leech off of people.

Keep living with your parents, keep trying to 'dominate' video games, and keep threadcrapping... It's what you're good at.

For everyone else:
The game is getting better all the time, and they update the game with fixes nearly every day. It's certainly not the 'most polished' game out there. But what game is, ESPECIALLY when starting with such massive numbers of people?

 

[Nebakanezzar]

I got in on the Beta, and i wasnt very impressed.

 

[DefRef]

The reviews have been mixed and the X-Play review whupped it a good one with constant shots of dancing Wookies and running for 15 minutes to get places.

When they announced this game, I thought this may be the game to get me into MMORPGs, but I decided to skip it because I don't have the time to dedicate to making a $15/mo. charge worthwhile. That's the rub of these games: It's not the $10 you save now, but the $180 per year you're going to need to shell out to stay active. If you're down with that, God love ya.

OTOH, KOTOR is a STEAL at the full $50 price tag, but it's not the same thing as Galaxies. It does deliver a solid dose of Star Wars action.

 

[Johnbear007]

Originally posted by: mikeashbishop2
No.. It is not that good. By far the most shallow MMORPG ever made, and Ive played them all. This game is very fun for a month or so, but after that, any experienced player will have done everything there is to do and have seen everything there is to see. I litteraly finished out my character in 3 weeks, then deleted him to play a different race just to give me something to do. This game is bug ridden and sloppily developed. Unfortunatly, instead of fixing the bugs, the Devs seem more interested in nerfing everything in site.

The game is becoming a ghost town with the waves and waves of people leaving. I started playing with 7 other people, and not a single one is still playing. If you have 40 bux to spend on a month of entertaiment, then it's worth it. If you are an experince gamer and want more then that, stay away.

I beta tested this game. Unless you are an EXTREME power gamer thereis NO way you did everything you could do in 3 weeks.

I agree that the game sucks, and is shallow, but there is much more than 3 weeks worth of play to it. There is actually quite a bit to do, it's just that it is all redundant and stupid and boring.

 

[Johnbear007]

Originally posted by: Cleaner
I agree totally. I refuse to play any game that costs just as much as the other games AND costs me 15-25% of the original cost every month to play. BS!! I'll just keep playing CS or waiting patiently for www.planeshift.it. I played DAOC for awhile and thought it was kewl but it just cost SO much to keep playing!

I've played planeshift. It sux REALLY really bad.

 

[Johnbear007]

Originally posted by: DefRef
The reviews have been mixed and the X-Play review whupped it a good one with constant shots of dancing Wookies and running for 15 minutes to get places.

When they announced this game, I thought this may be the game to get me into MMORPGs, but I decided to skip it because I don't have the time to dedicate to making a $15/mo. charge worthwhile. That's the rub of these games: It's not the $10 you save now, but the $180 per year you're going to need to shell out to stay active. If you're down with that, God love ya.

OTOH, KOTOR is a STEAL at the full $50 price tag, but it's not the same thing as Galaxies. It does deliver a solid dose of Star Wars action.

Thats was probably the game breaker for me. Running everywhere. I'm in this super advanced society where faster than light travel is taken for granted, but I have to runn my dumb @$$ for 15 minutes to get anywhere. I think I might have bought it if vehicles had been in. Not having vehicles is just retarded. Not even being able to hire a shuttle to take you somehwere to make up for it (other than the regular shuttle routes)

Anyway, I think they pushed out a majorly unfinished product. It looks great, and it COULD be a great game but IT hink it needed another solid 6 months of developement with a solid 6 months of beta after that.

I don't like paying to develope a game, and thats what is going on right now. In a year it might be the game it should have always been.

 

[Pezman]

Originally posted by: mikeashbishop2
No.. It is not that good. By far the most shallow MMORPG ever made, and Ive played them all. This game is very fun for a month or so, but after that, any experienced player will have done everything there is to do and have seen everything there is to see. I litteraly finished out my character in 3 weeks, then deleted him to play a different race just to give me something to do. This game is bug ridden and sloppily developed. Unfortunatly, instead of fixing the bugs, the Devs seem more interested in nerfing everything in site.

The game is becoming a ghost town with the waves and waves of people leaving. I started playing with 7 other people, and not a single one is still playing. If you have 40 bux to spend on a month of entertaiment, then it's worth it. If you are an experince gamer and want more then that, stay away.

Its too bad too because this game could have brought in a whole new wave of people to MMorGs... oh well if only this game hadn't arrived on shelves nearly DOA to begin with. It sounds like Ultima IX all over again.

 

[Hankysmoo]

My brother got this game about a month ago and is still playing it reilgiously. It's his first MMORPG and despite all the bugs, he still loves it.

 

[MixDJ]

I'm not huge on playing massive online games or any games as a matter of fact anymore, but I'm playing this one like crazy.

I like it, even though they do seem to like to nerf things. We're currently ticked about them nerfing xp when killing things on Lok.

 

[Gibzilla]

I had "graduated" from mmorpgs long time ago,... like after I cashed out my everquest account for 1400 dollars on eBay. I don't think I'll ever go back to killing, jar-jars, wah-wahs, suc-sucs, dik-dik's for 12 straight hours to get half a bubble of experience only to lose it all by getting killed by GayOrc001.

 

[msdmoney]

Here is a link with a bunch of website reviews on the game
Star Wars galaxies reviews

They have both positive and negative reviews on the game. However be wary of some of the reviews, some seem like they reviewed the game by reading what you can do on the back of the box or maybe just watching someone play for a few minutes. They don't go into details about specifics of the game. And just to highlight one review,gamepro, which gave it a glowing recommendation but said "even with tons of balancing and content missing..." They gave it a 5.0, Huh?

Here is in my opinion the best review of the game (He is a little opinionated but many of his points on the game especially missions and combat are right on, although his review was made long ago so some bug issues have been fixed)
Guru3d review

Now for my 2 cents to save some of the people who may be thinking about buying the game.

I was hyped about this game, really hyped. I played DAOC before and quit because of the level grind and the overall feeling that rvr/pvp was meaningless. I looked forward to swg, especially the skill system which was I thought would ease the grind aspect of MMORPG's. But when I played I felt it more of a grind than DAOC without any reward. Once you gain the next level in a skill you really get nothing new as far as abilities. Combat is nothing more than click and hope you kill the creature before it gets you. And grouping doesn't have any perks besides people to chat with, because half the people in the group have the same skills as you do. There is no group mentality where everyone has to do their job or the group will fail. There are no roles each person brings to the group, tank, healer etc. Maybe people don't want that cause its to eq-esque? But that just makes for some stale group combat. I really don't understand the attraction of the whole entertainer profession, just imagine doing a few limited "sims" emotes over and over to gain xp. Crafting is supposed to be the saving grace of this game but thats not my thing, I play for combat.

Originally posted by: Bacinator
Star Wars is different, because it is what it is. An online universe, with things to do. It is NOT a single-player game, where quests are assigned to you. If you want to find jobs, you have to go out and look for them.

Thats just it there isnt much content added to the game, most reviews even positive ones like gamepro have said that. Quests are "go kill this lair so far away" and "go deliver this" (fed-ex). They are repetitive and boring. Vehicles are needed for the ridiculous travel time, very little loot is in place, most spawns are dynamic which means they didnt spend any time thinking of cool placement of mobs, they neeed amore creative questing system, more interactive npcs, more compelling reasons to pvp. This is supposed to be the next gen of mmorpg and it lacks so many basic functions. Im not talking copying whats been done before (like everquest uber camp loot, god forbid), I'm talking the simple content that gives players something to do

Originally posted by: Bacinator
Especially some of the early exploits in which you could earn massive rewards for 'utilizing an illegal method'.

Thats the other thing, there are still bugs, lots of them, and they are still working like mad months after the games release to fix what should have been fixed in beta. Players paying now are basically paying to work through MAJOR problems that should have been fixed long before it was released to the public. With all these problems there is very little time to be working on vehicles, space expansion, major content addition etc.

Don't beleive me check out their official boards.
SWG Boards

One final note. Those who complain about paying per month, stop. These games have an entirely different business model than most. Some games have a couple patches, bug fixes, etc.
But they don't add more and more content constantly, make ongoing changes daily, weekly etc., add characters, abilities, new areas to explore, weapons, etc. Think if Quake added their own official new maps daily/weekly, added more weapons all the time, etc. Or warcraft added new official maps, units, abilities, races, units, etc. Official stuff not player developed stuff. They make you pay for this stuff too in expansions.

 

[huesmann]

Originally posted by: msdmoney
Once you gain the next level in a skill you really get nothing new as far as abilities. Combat is nothing more than click and hope you kill the creature before it gets you. And grouping doesn't have any perks besides people to chat with, because half the people in the group have the same skills as you do.

See, now that's where you're just wrong. Leveling up does give you new abilities, you just need to know what to do with them. Head shot, leg shot, etc. And grouping up lets you tackle MOBs that you'd have no chance at solo.

I do agree with you regarding schlepping about and the need for vehicles. I should be able to buy a landspeeder or a speeder bike or something. I don't think it's necessary that there be vehicle combat (though it would be nice) since I'm not sure the engine can handle it.

 

[Cleaner]

Originally posted by: Johnbear007

Originally posted by: Cleaner
I agree totally. I refuse to play any game that costs just as much as the other games AND costs me 15-25% of the original cost every month to play. BS!! I'll just keep playing CS or waiting patiently for www.planeshift.it. I played DAOC for awhile and thought it was kewl but it just cost SO much to keep playing!

I've played planeshift. It sux REALLY really bad.

AS I SAID I'LL WAIT PATIENTLY FOR PLANESHIFT! Its not even in Beta yet dude. For an open source project it looks great and its FREE. If you can't appreciate that then keep giving $200 a year to Sony Online.

 

[Cleaner]

Originally posted by: Bacinator

Originally posted by: mikeashbishop2
No.. It is not that good. By far the most shallow MMORPG ever made, and Ive played them all. This game is very fun for a month or so, but after that, any experienced player will have done everything there is to do and have seen everything there is to see. I litteraly finished out my character in 3 weeks, then deleted him to play a different race just to give me something to do. This game is bug ridden and sloppily developed. Unfortunatly, instead of fixing the bugs, the Devs seem more interested in nerfing everything in site.

The game is becoming a ghost town with the waves and waves of people leaving. I started playing with 7 other people, and not a single one is still playing. If you have 40 bux to spend on a month of entertaiment, then it's worth it. If you are an experince gamer and want more then that, stay away.

Star Wars is different, because it is what it is. An online universe, with things to do. It is NOT a single-player game, where quests are assigned to you. If you want to find jobs, you have to go out and look for them. Each economy on every server (every planet in ever server even) is different. Of course you can 'max out' your character in 3 weeks, if you 'grind' away, doing nothing but earning experience. But that is not the point of the game, and it was designed NOT to reward people like you. Especially some of the early exploits in which you could earn massive rewards for 'utilizing an illegal method'. Most of these exploits are fixed, but I'm glad you powergamers got to use them, because it clears out the riff raff much sooner. This is what is referred to above as 'Nerfing' to the '1337' powergamers. They make unbalanced character professions, more balanced. One person running around with 3 gigantic monsters, being able to easily kill the hardest creature in the game, and an army of opponents is 'unbalanced'. So now there is a cap, and those people cry and whine, and leave. Good riddance to you!

And as for the people who refuse to 'pay for a game every month'. Who do you think pays for MOH servers? Unreal Servers? Counter-Strike servers?
ANY online games, someone is paying for the servers and bandwidth for the server to allow you to play. I know I pitch in every 6 months to keep my counter-strike clan server, and I pay for our forums myself. I'm in the military, so I don't get paid a whole lot, but you've gotta support what you like to do, or leech off of people.

Keep living with your parents, keep trying to 'dominate' video games, and keep threadcrapping... It's what you're good at.

For everyone else:
The game is getting better all the time, and they update the game with fixes nearly every day. It's certainly not the 'most polished' game out there. But what game is, ESPECIALLY when starting with such massive numbers of people?

Let's start with your stereotypes and then move on.
A) I don't live with my parents and haven't for over 10 years.
B) I do support a clan but I don't pay anything near $200 a year for that CS server, and I'm definately not going to pay $10 a month to beta test a game as you are "The game is getting better all the time, and they update the game with fixes nearly every day. It's certainly not the 'most polished' game out there."
C) I'm not thread crapping as I gave my honest opinion without resorting to personal attacks which you are obviously incapable of. Kakka poohpooh head.

Please continue your stereotypes and personal attacks...lets the flames begin!

 

[Jadow]

many people want to play it, but be forwarned, it is a rotten horrible game.

 

[mngisdood]

great game!

 

[Bacinator]

Originally posted by: Cleaner
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Let's start with your stereotypes and then move on.
A) I don't live with my parents and haven't for over 10 years.
B) I do support a clan but I don't pay anything near $200 a year for that CS server, and I'm definately not going to pay $10 a month to beta test a game as you are "The game is getting better all the time, and they update the game with fixes nearly every day. It's certainly not the 'most polished' game out there."
C) I'm not thread crapping as I gave my honest opinion without resorting to personal attacks which you are obviously incapable of. Kakka poohpooh head.

Please continue your stereotypes and personal attacks...lets the flames begin!

You can feel free to fit into the "EVERYONE ELSE", below my A, B, and C. Categories. But if you feel you need to step up and protect the lame, feel free to be their hero.

And as for not paying anything near $200 a year for a CS server. How much DOES a CS server cost you? I'm sure you've got the hook up, and are super special, unlike the rest of the world, as you've mad imminently clear. I know with Recongamer.Com the fee is $300 every six months. Someone has to pay for it.

And as for beta testing, name a good quality game, from a major company (not your buddy Joe's shareware tetris) that is in revision 1.0 please. Every good game with proper support has updates, patches, and fixes.