Star Wars Galaxies: New Game Experience Review
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The changes to combat definitely make Star Wars Galaxies a more exciting experience overall. Sure, it suffers from a few unavoidable limitations due to the MMO format, but the basic experience is definitely more rewarding that the click and watch affair of most MMOs. The new simplified class system is a big step backwards as far as I'm concerned. If all you want is to be Boba Fett or Princess Leia, you'll have less of a problem with this, but you'll still feel like your character's identity and abilities is being determined by the designers, not by you.
Good or bad, this second revamp for Galaxies gives us little confidence in the future stability of the design. The scope of the recent changes prompts us to question how long it will be before the team decides to reinvent the game again, purely on the justification that it still "doesn't feel like Star Wars." Given that the MMO format requires a substantial investment of time and money, the reliability of the game is a crucial factor in determining whether or not that investment will pay off.
