Some may say galaxies far, far away is not what it used to be. Star Wars Galaxies was released in 2003 and the game received mostly positive reviews, however, starting in 2005 some updates were made that were met with mixed reviews by gamers. While some supported the updates, many criticized Sony Online Entertainment (SOE) for making some of these changes and signups began dropping dramatically. Two major updates were:

Combat Upgrade (CU) fixed exploits that previously allowed some professions to abuse defensive abilities and also some which allowed characters to attack while afk (away from keyboard). With this fix, combat turned into more of a talent for those players who were skilled with SWG macro scripting code instead of those who were skilled at technical combat.

After the combat update:

New Game Enhancements (NGE) was an update where professions were reduced and many aspects of the game were overly simplified. Jedi also became a starting profession. SOE was criticized for taking the depth and complexity out of the game with this update.

After the NGE update

SWG is also notorious for being extremely buggy which makes it easy to exploit. A SWG exploit is a game glitch or bug that can be used to player’s advantages to do incredible things that are not possible with regular game play. Although these bugs can take away from gameplay and quality of the game, like many other players, I have found that by taking advantage of the Star Wars Galaxies exploits we can bring back some of the fun and excitement of the old SWG that we loved.

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