Star Wars Galaxies: Jump to Lightspeed Expansion Pack - PC

Collectors Item only, don't be fooled into buying this as the game, SWG (Star Wars Galaxies) is NO longer available unless you join an EMU server and then this too won't qualify as you need the ORIGINAL game disks. This is an expansion pack, and again got it ONLY for collectors item,nothing more.

I miss SWG so much. appears to be one the first things I bought from Amazon. Although my first copy was bought and gifted to me by my brother. I do have a signed copy by some the Dev form a sony live event the last one for SWG

Star Wars Legends

Game

This game is obsolete and no longer is playable due to not having any gaming servers available

Wish this game was still online! Loved it thanks!

SOE ruined the game with the combat upgrade. Don't waste your money. They also have horrible customer service.

I have been a player of LucasArts / Sony Online Entertainment's MMORPG Star Wars Galaxies since October of 2003. I quickly became enraptured by it, and purchased additional copies of the game, so that I could have multiple accounts to experience all that the game had to offer. Not having been involved from launch, I thought I was doing the smart thing, because I'd be avoiding any bugs or growing pains typically associated with such a game's startup. I was wrong. My issue with Sony Online Entertainment is not that Combat isn't working, even though it's not. I have a crafting character on one of the accounts, and am largely unaffected by Combat matters, though my other two accounts go largely unfulfilled as a result. My issue with Sony Online Entertainmnet is not that the Galactic Civil War has been shut down indefinitely, even though it has, and it was the entire reason to set the game between Episodes 4 and 5. Likewise, my issue with Sony Online Entertainment is not that they've dedicated too much of their time to perfect the Jedi class within the game, even though the Jedi are supposedly extinct during this time period. They have, of course, and there are now hordes of Jedi trolling starports for overt players to murder, and because of their recent rebalances, they cannot be killed. But again, I can avoid that aspect of the game for the most part. My issue with Sony Online Entertainment is the breaches of trust between development team and players they've committed since I first signed on. In November 2003, we were that the team was developing a Combat Balance, and that this Balance was a priority with the developers. Over the next few months, these plans were restated, alluded to, and hinted at, with no real information other than the fact that they were being worked on. This continued through FanFest this summer, when the developers once again professed the Combat Balance as a priority. On the online message boards, 80% of player concerns and questions were answered with the catch-all "Wait for the Combat Balance." A few days ago (7/15/04), Community Manager Kurt "Thunderheart" Stangl made the announcement that the long-promised Combat Balance was going to be pushed back until after the Jump to Lightspeed expansion pack's release. The Combat Balance, so essential to the game, and such a priority to the team for over nine months now, was going to take at least another six months to be addressed. ([...]) Again, I don't much care about the Combat Balance myself, because I have a character who can get by without fighting. I am, however, highly offended at the disrespect Sony Online Entertainment has shown to us, its loyal fanbase. Players were assured on the message boards that the Jump to Lightspeed expansion would not affect the ground game's development at all, because there was a separate team working on it. Yet in Thunderheart's announcement, he cites the need to delay the Combat Balance till after the expansion's release because "to deliver on these major features, we will need the full development team and re-assembling the team isn?t going to happen until after the upcoming Jump to Lightspeed expansion is shipped," which would indicate that the development team was, in fact, split, and that the expansion was, in fact, affecting the ground game's development. Just like we were told wouldn't happen. In practical terms, the monthly subscription fees I was paying to play "An Empire Divided" were not going to the team that was fixing and improving "An Empire Divided" to ensure my satisfaction. Instead, my money was paying for the development of "Jump to Lightspeed." An expansion pack for the broken game was delaying the repairs on the broken game. I was paying for Sony to produce a new product, while not getting the promised repairs on the product I was paying for. This kind of questionable business practice is highly offensive to me as a customer. Thunderheart's original announcement was met with 60+ pages of outrage, account cancellations, and demands that Jump to Lightspeed be pushed back until the current game is fixed. That thread was locked and archived, and a new one put in its place. The current thread currently has 25+ pages of the same. Over 85 pages of dissatisfaction, outrage, hurt players, and cancelled accounts, all since Friday, and the list and discontent are only growing. Sony, in response, has opened the Jump to Lightspeed beta, the ultimate shiny object to distract us. Expansion sales will net Sony more profits than monthly fees; they'll likely net enough to offest the loss of the cancelled accounts. But such a callous disregard for the demands of the customer should not be allowed to continue. Customers might not always be right, but they should never be made to feel unheard.