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Dhruin
Stranger In A Strange Land
Joined: 20 May 2002
Posts: 1825
Location: Sydney, Australia |
Star Wars Galaxies Update @ Gamespy |
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Gamespy has posted the first of a planned series of periodic updates to check the state of play in Star Wars Galaxies. This first edition is pretty scathing, criticising poor balance and continued lack of content:<blockquote><em>There's still an extraordinary dearth of content. While Sony has added new things, much of what has been added is more-of-the-same that players have already become bored with. For example, I was thrilled when I learned that there were going to be exploration missions and Scout missions available in town. Unfortunately, said missions were the same dull FedEx quests I'd done a million times. "Kill 50 Corellian butterflies for 1,500 credits", "Go here and scout this location for me for 1,200 credits"? I'm sorry, sending me to run fifty miles to a randomly chosen spot on Corellia doesn't qualify as content, not when Xbox players (and soon, PC) can save the entire galaxy in Knights of the Old Republic.</em></blockquote>You can find the article <a href="http://www.gamespy.com/articles/october03/galaxies2/index2.shtml" target="_blank">here</a>. |
Mon Oct 13, 2003 9:41 am |
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methusala
Tempered Warlord
Joined: 06 Jun 2003
Posts: 281
Location: Odinwald |
I really shouldn't say"I told ya so" but "I TOLD YA SO"Sometimes it just takes longer for some people to realize that paying almost 15$ a month to beta test is a bit absurd.I got suckered in to paying to beta test this mmorpg when it was still officially being "beta tested" and I knew then(along with alot of other people I might add) that at release it would only be a continuation of the beta.The promises Sony and Lucas Arts made were all lies and their only concern was cashing in on the "Star Wars" mystique. |
Mon Oct 13, 2003 9:52 am |
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Snoekie
Baron of the Court
Joined: 09 Jul 2001
Posts: 335
Location: Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
I'm very happy that Gamespy is keeping track of SWG. I was in the beta and the first month of "gold" (which indeed was really a payed beta) and cancelled my account due to lack of content. missing game elements and ongoing bugs.
Someday I might return to SWG because I think it has potential. But not in the state it is in right now.
I'll be following Gamespy's reports to see if/when it is worth to come back.
In the meantime I can reccomend DAoC as a good alternative for a mmorpg. Especially with the new expansion, Trials of Atlantis, comming out.
I've beta-tested it and it's very stable and will make a nice addition. Not sci-fi like SWG but the best game in it's genre I've seen up to date. |
Mon Oct 13, 2003 11:04 am |
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Ale
Village Leader
Joined: 09 Aug 2003
Posts: 90
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I'm still upset I paid for the beta. I was waiting for a long time for a good new MMORPG to play, and so I was upset that way too.
I just recently went back into DAoC to try a new class. I guess I'm waiting for Eq2 or WoW or whatever comes out first. |
Tue Oct 14, 2003 1:19 pm |
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nazzer
Village Dweller
Joined: 21 Sep 2003
Posts: 8
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i just cancelled my acc by the last big patch what did more wrong then good to the game |
Wed Oct 15, 2003 9:21 pm |
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Ammon777
Warrior for Heaven
Joined: 20 Apr 2002
Posts: 2011
Location: United States |
I was in beta, but i never bought the game because of the same things you are quiting it for. I got caught up in the mega hype and was drooling all over the SWG game until i logged into the beta and figured out that its garbage. Admittedly it might have potential, but i dont have faith in the game (or the designers) like i used to have, so i highly doubt i would give it a second chance. |
Wed Oct 15, 2003 10:04 pm |
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