Star Wars Galaxies: An Empire Divided Collectors Edition

List Price: $79.99

Features:

• The Collector's Edition contains:
• The Game. Packaged in a leather box with gold title treatment. The manual inside will feature a special cover with the signatures of key-people from the Galaxies development team
• Sew on patch featuring the logo of the first exciting chapter of Star Wars Galaxies
• Art concept book This will feature drawings, computer models, renders, character information, etc. Revel in the art and history behind this massively multiplayer game
• EXCLUSIVE collectable of the all-powerful Zabrak female species immortalized in pewter.

Accessories:
Lego Star Wars Death Star II	LEGO Star Wars Imperial Dropship	PC Gamer (1-year)	Games for Windows: The Official Magazine	LEGO Star Wars Rebel Scout Speeder

Customer Reviews:

Star Wars Galaxies is Garbage [Posted on 2005-11-21]
i wonder how many of the positive posters work for soe.
we used to have 32 professions but soe decided to delete
21 of them. i feel so bad for the players their professions
got deleted. the combat is a joke and meant for 5yr olds.
only my 5yr old son has fun with click click click swing
swing swing. and even 10min later my son is smart enough
to want sesame street instead. soe has no respect for the vets in the game. how would you like your profession deleted after playing 2 1/2yrs and your rare items you have collected also made useless? this is not how you treat loyal customers.
there is no fun in pvping. it gets boring fast. what challenge is it that their is no decay and when you die you don't lose anything or penalties? you die, clone, die, clone. after while
it gets sickening killing the same guy over and over and he doesn't lose anything. if you find click click clicking challenging you must be 10yr old or younger. reminds me of an old atari game i played when i was 8yrs old.

stay away from this game unless you want your heartbroken.

SOE Has Re-Written the Game, Worst Star Wars game now! [Posted on 2005-11-22]
This game used to be cool, and one of the Best MMO's out there.

However, in the past few months, Sony Online Entertainment has completely scraped the original game coding and rewritten it from scratch.

There used to be 30+ professions to play, and players used to be able to mix them and be hybrids.

Now there are only 9 professions, and players are stuck in their jobs... You wanna be a Smuggler, great your a smuggler, only there is no smuggling existent in the game... and you can't play your favorite Stars Wars musical instrument anymore in the Cantina's... as a side job.

The Combat System in the game has been overhauled at least twice in the last few months, the original system completely scraped and re-coded from scratch.

All these changes to the game are forced upon the players by SOE, and the players have to download them from SOE's servers to make sure their installed version is up to date with SOE's version.

Some of the downloads take hours, some even days for Dial Up users. I have to burn all the downloaded updates into a CD or DVD for a friend of mine, and mail them to her because she gets them quicker that way.. because her Dial Up takes 36+ hours to download the biggest updates, and she can only let the download run for a few hours a day.

The game, at the present time... November 21st, 2005... the Game sucks. SOE keeps promising changes to make things better, but they're either not coming fast enough for the players... or they just never come out with the cxhange at all... Smuggler's have been waiting 2 years now for the "promised" ability to be able to Smuggle in the game... Players are cancelling their accounts left and right.

SOE, on the day of their latest, and largest recode of the game... two weeks ago, Fired their Community Correspondent (Tiggs, a very popular person with the players) who is their voice between us the Players.. and them... because they didn't like what she was telling them what we were saying about the changes.

The game is supposed to be set in the timeperiod between the first two, Original Movies... Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, and Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back...

Yet LucasArts is producing the Expansions for this game and they keep pushing in Episode II and III content... instead of content designed for the correct time line. Not only that, the new Clone Wars Content... is far better then the current timeline content... which supposed to be 20 years more advanced.

Jedi's... You wanna play a Jedi... this should be called, Star Wars: KOTOR Online. The Jedi Population is out of control and it was SOE's biggest mistake to allow players to become Jedi's... They should have left that as a rarity in the game, only had a few NPC Jedi's like Luke Skywalker in the game, as novelties for offering special Quests...

But no... they wanted to let players be Jedi's as a selling point.

How many Jedi did you see charging across the Hoth Battle Field with Luke, to take down the Imperial Walkers?

In Star Wars: Galaxies... there will be several hundred of them out there on Hoth... if SOE and LucasArts ever gets around to adding Hoth.

They're too busy adding Episode II and III content like the planets Kashyyyk and Mustafar... speaking of which, if you're a Jedi then you can go to Mustafar and help save Obi Wan Kenobi's ghost; whose "lost his way" ... how lame is that?

Now, they can't remove the Jedi from the game like they should.. because they hyped up being Jedi so much that "everyone and their mother" has one, or has played one... and would cry, bitch and comlain if SOE removed them.

SOE is "claiming" all these changes are making the game feel more "Star Wars" like... however within the last two weeks they have destroyed the in-game player economy, destroyed the orininal 30 Player Professions and redesigned 9 new ones... removed the ability to play a Hybrid Profession.. and turned the game into a massive online FPS that seems like it is based off of the KOTOR Timeline, instead of the Timeline it is supposed to be based off of... and ruined the combat system.

Do not buy this game.

If you want to play a Star Wars game, go play one of the Console Games like Star Wars: KOTOR series... or the new BattleFront series.

At present, this is probably one of the worst Star Wars Games ever made now.

It is all thanks to mismanagement and bad design ideas at SOE and LucasArts... who both seem to think they can use this game to completely rewrite all of Star Wars history.

Maybe, someday in the future they'll get smart and fix this game... but for now... George Lucas ought to be ashamed of this game, it is an embarrassement to the Star Wars Universe.

STOP BUYING THAT MESS [Posted on 2005-11-27]
I played SWG since 2003 ... it was fun in the beginning , until they released the "New Game Enhancements" = NGE .
SOE ( Sony Online Entertainment ) did an CU where they changed the core rules and not an year later the made the NGE .
Most of my Equipment , where i spend much time to get it is useless now.
There are no longer 30 professions , only 9 iconic professions left .
They want to make the game more " Star Warsy " ..... its really Star Warsy when an lvl 80 jedi get killed by two lvl 50 enemies.
There is no longer item decay ..... so the crafters will leave the game.
The game has only the state of an Alpha version .... bugged everywhere .

I will miss my old Star Wars Galaxies ... after NGE its not the game i bought.

2 accounts canceld now ...

RIP SWG

It's still alive [Posted on 2006-06-10]
There is little point in buying the collector's edition unless you want your character to have goggles and it's very difficult to get hold of the collector's edition these days.

If you want to play Star Wars Galaxies you want the 'Starter Kit'

'Star wars Galaxies Starter Kit'

Although in previous years this MMORPG has been much better the game is still very much worth playing and enjoyable.

If you want any advice on SWG the you may talk to me on:
smakerjack@hotmail.com

Certainly not for everyone [Posted on 2006-06-21]
I went into Star Wars Galaxies (SWG) with the highest of expectations. Sure, I'd heard about a myriad of bugs and other troubles related to launch, but I wasn't concerned about that. I really was just looking forward to getting into the Star Wars universe. And SWG provides one of the best Star Wars experiences to date, despite its ever present flaws.

As it was a little over a year ago, SWG was a decent game. It had its problems (bugs mainly, which seemingly took months to fix) and, like just about every other title in the Massively Multiplayer genre, suffered from repetitive gameplay. These elements are still present - the development team often takes a long time to get around to bug fixes and, more often than not, patches or added content to the game leave much to be desired. Furthermore, the game recently underwent a complete rewrite, making it more of a first-person shooter/roleplay hybrid and the control scheme more similar to that of World of Warcraft. It was an odd thing to get used to, especially after two or three years of playing. Newer players, however, should have little problem adjusting.

The Collector's Edition is a good additon to your collection, if you happen to find one and have the cash on hand. It comes packaged in an attractive leather textured box with the logo on front. Goodies include a "An Empire Divided" pin, game manual with developer signatures printed on the back, and a pewter figurine of a female Zabrak, one of the many playable races in-game. The biggest selling point for me, aside from the game, was the art book included; art books such as these are often included in limited edition release packages and really are nice collectibles.

Now, I recently left SWG because I simply didn't like the new changes made to the game and because my life has taken me in a direction away from such time consumption. The game certainly isn't for everyone, but if you happen to be a Star Wars fan and have the time to devote to an online game such as this, SWG might be one of the better experiences you have.

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