I sometimes think you will be the death of me
Combat : oh my god what a joke, faster paced yes but not very starwars like, unless you watched the films using fast forward button. With a combat system that once required thought and planning, now requires nothing but mind numbing clicking. Also the controls arent friendly for anyone with physical disabilities, i have a friend with this problem and he has allot of difficulties. . so bewarned.
One of the most disappointing features are the professions. Once a game known for its 30+ profesions and profession diversity this great system has been reduced to 9. 9 professions that you cant change, so once you have chosen you are stuck with it. Professions are very unbalanced to make them fun, obviously these people have no idea what fun is, being a lvl 80 character and being killed by 2 lvl 50s is great fun. . try say that without sarcasm. I once use to be able to kill 8 lvl 80s and not die once and now im dying due to major profession unbalance.
Veteran players are suffering through stupidity of the people who released this so called fun new system. Moving to a quest based leveling up system players above lvl 40 now are forced to wait for new quests to be introduced to allow them to lvl up. How many weeks or months will they be forced to wait? So veteran players are forced to wait to lvl up, with the old method of hunting seriously reduced to nothing.
SOE and lucasarts should have left the combat system as it was and tried to create more content to provide a better starwars galaxies.
At the end of the day, starwars galaxies would have never been "starwarsy" as the idiots refer to it now, It never had a story, it had a theme and it had freedom to do what you want and now the freedom has been reduced severly, If you want a Starwarsy feeling your better off playing games like KOTOR 1&2 or Jediknight Outcast.
So if you like simple knuckle dragging gameplay that doesnt require any thinking buy it, but if you like a game that challenges you and has its rewards for mastering it avoid like a gungan