Wow. Reviewing Star Wars Galaxies. Talk about your tough assignments. How do you review a childhood fantasy? For that matter, how do you review the "Living in the Star Wars universe" fantasy that currently lives inside the head of every gamer worth his salt? Indeed, peruse any message board and what you come across is passionate argument on both sides. One half of the gaming community would have you believe that Star Wars Galaxies is the greatest betrayal since a guy named Judas picked up 30 silver coins and the other half is currently too busy trying to get into Jabba's Palace or crafting Armorweave to do mundane things like talk… or eat… or go to the bathroom.
So where does the truth lie? As in most cases, somewhere in the middle. It must be acknowledged that, as a gaming experience and as a commercial product, Star Wars Galaxies is a huge, bug-infested mess. It suffers from the kinds of issues that plague nearly every MMO around launch time - broken servers, broken quests, buggy gameplay, lack of content - and adds to it some unique Galaxies issues such as infrequent patching and truly poor customer service all, at a premium price.
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Jul 15, 2003, 09:31 PM
