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Star Wars Galaxies Overhaul Continues

Posted by Zonk on from the there's-a-noise-under-the-hood dept.

With the combat update to Star Wars Galaxies coming up soon, you would have thought the design changes to the game would have slowed. Instead, the development team is making major changes to just about every system, with looting changes, a complete revamp of the PVP system, the addition of a Planetary Control Meta Game to the design, and for good measure a well thought out Veteran Rewards program is going to be added to the game. Criticism of the game's real or percieved flaws aside, you have to be impressed with the team's dedication to the virtual world.

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  1. Despite the changes... by TheOnlyJuztyn · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ... Star Wars Galaxies is still just a bunch of boring planets with boring professions and no real reason to advance at all. I played the game for nine months of beta and three months of retail and all I really got was twelve months older. I've been following it for ages and I'm still not sure what the real purpose of the game is. I know MMORPGs are suppose to be less linear then they're single player counterparts, but SWG takes it to the extreme. They plop you down in an empty, boring, EMPTY landscape and say "Go!" and then expect you to have fun.

    Faction bases? They're exactly the same as before except some of them will have defenders! Looting changes? What loot? Crap you sell at vendor for 5 credits in a world where a new shirt will cost you 1000? PvP changes? Isn't that how covert and overt factions worked before, just without the ability to accidentally become overt? Veteran Rewards? .. okay, I can't really complain about free stuff. But geez, none of this stuff really excites me, and I was hardcore into Star Wars Galaxies before beta.

    If it weren't for the Star Wars licence, I don't think SWG ever would have made it out of the starting gate. It's just not a fun game.

    Now, World of Warcraft... Blizzard did it right.

  2. My Grief with SWG by Krizhek · · Score: 4, Informative

    Was that I constantly felt like I had to log on
    -I needed to get on to check my factory
    -I have to go one and check to see which of my items were sold
    -Have I collected my resources from my farms?

    Then a shared multi-guild base was razed by a bunch of 12 year olds when no one else was on.
    I ended up quitting since it was affecting my relationship with my wife.
    Then right after I had quit, the game ,the weight of the world felt like it was gone.