Blackmoor Vituperative

This is my final update on my evaluation of Star Wars Galaxies.

I have played a Jedi up to level 20, a spy up to around 10, and was working on another character when I ran into a peculiar error message. When attempting to create a character named “Siobhan”, I got an error message that said names of famous Star Wars characters and planets were not permitted.

Um… what the hell? Since when is the name “Siobhan” a Star Wars character or the name of a planet?

So I went on the Star Wars Galaxies forums and asked if this was a famous planet or character that I’d somehow never heard of. The answer was… ye gods, it’s just too ridiculous. Because the name filter won’t permit any name that has the letters H – A – N in it.

Ethan. Chani. Hannibal. Vaughan. Nathaniel. Siobhan. “…han…” is a very common series of letters in names. And none of those names are permitted? You’re kidding me, right? They weren’t kidding.

You know, there are so many, many things wrong with this game (I am not going to list them all, because it’s simply not worth the effort), but I have struggled through and persevered over the past couple of weeks because, by gosh, it’s Star Wars. I will go a long way and forgive a host of faults just to play in the Star Wars universe.

But this is the last straw. Any game with that level of obnoxious, overt stupidity built into it is simply not worth my time.

I really, really look forward Bioware’s game. Hell, at this point I am thinking about giving World Of Warcraft another try. I hadn’t played SWG yet when I evaluated WOW, and I think I may have been too harsh on it.