Others say...

"HEY IDOTS!!!"
STOP CRITIZIZING THIS RESPECTABLE GAME!!!!!!!!!! YOU IDOTS JUsT LOOK AT THE FLAWS IN THE GAME BUT LOOK AT ALL THE CONS!!!!!! SHEESH

"Avoid This Game At All Costs!"
I'll start with my summary before anything else: avoid this game at all costs! There's nothing more to it than that.

Now, the question is why? I've played Star Wars Galaxies since launch. It was a fun game. It was one of the best games I've played. There were relatively few bugs, there were quests, and there was an extensive profession system.

There was. Star Wars Galaxies no longer exists. They screwed over their customers after 2 years of gameplay. Expansions were just a means of getting more money before altering the game entirely. You can no longer switch professions, and there are only 9 professions. Jedis are now available to everyone, and they are terrible.

I could continue on, but it only goes downhill from there. Do not buy this game. They just want your money.

IMPORTANT NOTE: If you want to see what this game is really like now, you need to read the reviews in the Star Wars Galaxies: Starter Kit and ignore the earlier ones here. A lot of these reviews are old, and that is a BIG difference. Had I written this review before October/November, I would have given it praise. If I wrote it before June, possibly 4 or 5 stars. They changed this game OVERNIGHT (In November) and right after everyone preordered the expansion! It was all one big scheme.

"Now free with Star Wars Galaxies"
As of November 15th 2005, this expansion (which is very fun by the way) is a standard, included, part of Star Wars Galaxies. If you buy the SWG Starter Kit you'll get Jump to Lightspeed for free.

THERE'S NO NEED TO BUY THIS EXPANSION!

"Do NOT buy this expansion."
This expansion is given as a FREE download to ALL players, now. Do not pay for this expansion.

"SOE Has Re-Written the Game, Worst Star Wars game now!"
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.

As for the Jump to Lightspeed Expansion... if you're on a bad internet connection then you won't have any fun here. Not to mention that SOE is now giving this Expansion away for free... and also announced a new Space Expanion coming out to replace this one most likely, which sucks for Space Content... sure the flight sim aspect of it and the combat aspect of it is fun, but other then that there is no real content to make you feel immersed in a Star Wars setting.

As for the rest of the game; 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.