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SWG is out
SWG of course, is Star Wars Galaxies, a game that has been highly anticipated, not only among MMORPG players, but Star Wars fans.
Too bad it sucks.
No space travel. Yet. Wait for the expansion, which you get to pay for. Even though the space travel part was supposed to be part of the game.
Last I heard, you were limited to one character per server. Which means that if you royally hose your character in terms of skills or whatever, either start on a different server, erase the character and start over, buy another copy to play on the same server, or suck it up.
It's been "up" for a couple days, and they've already had big problems with people not being able to log in, play on servers, etc. The only part that seems to be working as advertised is the Billing Department.
Oh yes, and it's $15 a month. Down to $12 a month if you pay for a year at a time. Odd, I play DAOC for like $10 a month, IIRC.
Oh yes, and it's a Sony/LucasArts game. Sony, those wonderful uncaring bastards who brought us EQ. And we know all about the fun there. About the only bright light in this whole thing is that by now, some of the slugs they have working in Customer Support will be able to invalidate names that violate the TOS in a heartbeat.
Too bad it sucks.
No space travel. Yet. Wait for the expansion, which you get to pay for. Even though the space travel part was supposed to be part of the game.
Last I heard, you were limited to one character per server. Which means that if you royally hose your character in terms of skills or whatever, either start on a different server, erase the character and start over, buy another copy to play on the same server, or suck it up.
It's been "up" for a couple days, and they've already had big problems with people not being able to log in, play on servers, etc. The only part that seems to be working as advertised is the Billing Department.
Oh yes, and it's $15 a month. Down to $12 a month if you pay for a year at a time. Odd, I play DAOC for like $10 a month, IIRC.
Oh yes, and it's a Sony/LucasArts game. Sony, those wonderful uncaring bastards who brought us EQ. And we know all about the fun there. About the only bright light in this whole thing is that by now, some of the slugs they have working in Customer Support will be able to invalidate names that violate the TOS in a heartbeat.
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Mind you, if the game didn't suck, I think there would be a lot less people complaining. Sure, there will still be people who pay that. I just hope it doesn't send a new trend for monthly costs. Because, any month now, CoH will be out, and I'm going to at least give that one a try.
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Course..I'm not much of a PC/Console gamer. :) Heck, I'm still playing The Sims Online, which I also beta tested. *grin*