Play Galaxies or get a refund

By Tom Bramwell Published 17 November, 2005

Trial version, refund offer.

Sony Online Entertainment seems a bit hot and cold about Star Wars Galaxies these days. Red and blue you might say. DARK and LIGHT. HAHAHA. On the one hand, SOE and LucasArts are now offering gamers the chance to download a ten-day trial version of the Star Wars-themed MMORPG to get a feel for it. On the other, they're offering refunds to people who've bought new expansion Trials of Obi-Wan.

The 10-day trial version allows players to tuck in to the meaty mixture of the full original game and the first expansion pack, Warp to Lightspeed. The enormous downloadable installer is available from various sites including 3d Gamers.

Details of the refund offer, meanwhile, can be found on the likes of GameSpot. We're not sure if the offer's limited to American gamers - our emails to the email address supplied went unanswered, helpfully - but anybody who does want a refund will have to request it prior to December 1st, 2005. It's all to do with some controversial changes made by Trials of Obi-Wan - reviewed elsewhere on the site - which upset a few long-term fans' virtual apple carts.

For more details on all this Galaxies, have a look around the game's official website.

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About Tom Bramwell

Tom is Operations director of Eurogamer Network and Editor-at-Large of Eurogamer.net. He joined the company in February 2000.

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Comments (10) Latest comment 6 years ago

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  • superdelphinus #1 6 years ago

    does the demo let you play the actual game or just the tutorial does anyone know?

  • DodgyG #2 6 years ago

    Just the tutorial, if you want to leave the space station you have to take out a subscription

  • superdelphinus #3 6 years ago

    does it have any other real people on the spacestation? if not its a disgrace

  • Gurgeh #4 6 years ago

    When an online game is undergoing its second major revamp inside 12 months something is seriously wrong.

  • MrAtheist #5 6 years ago

    Yes there are other real people on the station.

  • Sko #6 6 years ago

    If only I could get a refund for buying the original game when it first came out :(

    "Live in the Star Wars galaxy!" Wooo! "Be an dress-maker!" Wooo..?

  • Psi #7 6 years ago

    stop with the dark and light comments!!! im bloody dying for some news on that!!!! make sure you let me know :p :p

  • Kostabi #8 6 years ago

    In a way I have to admire SOE for handing out a refund to disgruntled players, more often than not companies will nerf their game and then say "tough" if you don't like it.

    Is this the first time they've offered a free trial to Galaxies?

  • superdelphinus #9 6 years ago

    no they had a 14 day one a year ago or so. I cant help but feel this incarnation will be crap? There will literally be 90% of people playing as jedi to start with, then they'll get board leaving 6 people left. If the point of this revamp was to make it more star warsy then why ruin by having so many light sabered bell ends running around?

  • vane101 #10 6 years ago

    I always thought that the the original game was the best. The NPC cities were always busy, you could have a mix of skills and still be powerful and Jedi were so rare, you were actually impressed when you saw one wave his/ her lightsaber about.

    @Sko - I actually enjoyed being a dressmaker!!! :)

    Last time I was on though with one of my old characters, gangs of Jedi were fighting it out in Bestine and the feeblest NPC was able to shoot me down in a few shots. So I decided that was that!