I will never play another game from SOE!
I am a huge Star Wars geek. I camped in line for days just to be first in the door to see all of the movies. When I heard that there was an MMORPG coming out based on Star Wars, I absolutely had to have it. I bought the game and started playing immediately.
It wasn't great at the time, because there were several ongoing bugs. Nevertheless it was playable and I enjoyed it. My goal from the beginning was to be a jedi.
A year and some change later, Sony Online Entertainment in all its wisdom decided to change the feel of the game completely. They called it the Combat Upgrade. Unfortunately this new game brought back old bugs as well as new ones. I was disappointed in the change and I wish they had listened to the player base a bit more but the combat upgrade was still playable. However, I didn't see why I was paying 15 dollars per month to have an unwarranted change. I never asked for it, and it required me learning the game all over again.
At this point I was still not a Jedi, and more work was added on to becoming a Jedi. not to mention they changed the way Jedi was attained. so everything I worked for was for nothing.
Once I figured out how to play the game again, I started grinding Jedi the new way. I didn't want to give up because Jedi was worth the effort. Jedi was stronger than the other professions and it was the end game for me. I continued on...
I attained Jedi shortly before the Jedi profession was changed. What they did from this point really irritated me, because I worked so hard for something only for them to make it very difficult to play my Jedi. They destroyed most of the solo content and added more nerfs to the Jedi profession. It became boring to me and I had no desire to play my Jedi which I once loved to play.
It was then that I really started to notice that there was really no content. Primarily, this game was all about grinding your way to the "top". Whatever that may be. I started logging in less and started finding other games to play where solo content is still prominent.
To make a long story short, the final nail in the coffin and my ultimate reason for cancelling my subscriptions came when the "New game enhancements" were implemented. I thought it might be a "good" thing and just what I was looking for. I was wrong. NGE is nothing more than another combat upgrade. Not only did the Jedi profession become a starting profession (A cheap shot for those of us who took nearly 2 years grinding it prior to this change), but the game was changed completely once again.
New keys to learn, old keys don't work.... When I logged in, it took me 15 minutes just to get out of my own home. I can't tell if it is just a bug, or if its truly intended that way. Anyway, the playability of this game has gone down the drain.
While it is just my opinion that this could quite possibly be the most disappointing experience in gaming, I have learned that 52 in game friends of mine have also cancelled their accounts and have started looking for something else. The number of cancellations seems to be going up apart from just my friends list. I see several people who say they have cancelled their accounts on every galaxy. What good is an MMORPG if nobody is going to play it?
This is unfortunate to see a game with such potential turn to rubbish based on the shortsightedness of the Sony development team.
Don't buy this game. 15 dollars a month isn't worth the drastic changes or the disappointment associated with it.