I'm very pleased with what FFG has been doing with the license... After WEG folded for moronic reasons, WotC did it's best to destroy Star Wars gaming for good. (D20 Star Wars? No, thank you).

Not a good game but it was the one that got me into making Star Wars ships so i cant really complain. We pretty much ditched it though once we finished our own system just keeping a few of the bent capital ships for background vessels

I'm very pleased with what FFG has been doing with the license... After WEG folded for moronic reasons, WotC did it's best to destroy Star Wars gaming for good. (D20 Star Wars? No, thank you).

I'm very pleased with what FFG has been doing with the license... After WEG folded for moronic reasons, WotC did it's best to destroy Star Wars gaming for good. (D20 Star Wars? No, thank you).

I liked d20 Star Wars! I liked Saga better, though. Not everything WotC did was crap, by any means. Starship Battles was indeed one of their low points. Star Wars Miniatures, on the other hand, ultimately provided upwards of a thousand different minis from all eras for gameplay. Those minis will work for role-playing under any game system, and though the quality varied they were overall pretty good. Even now I read on the FFG RPG boards "where can I get minis?" Duh. Now, most of them sell for a song - at least the ones you need for an RPG!

See I never collected the land-based minis, but my friend has a ton of them he's not sure what to do with. On the one hand he's tempted to keep them as future RPG props, but on the other hand there does still seem to be a market for them.

No, I never played it. What I have seen hasn't left me super impressed, but I only discovered it after X-Wing and never played it.

I was looking at it long and hard for while, but the price was the only thing holding me back. When I found out the boosters were random, that put me off it. Then along came X-Wing with superior quality and no randomness. Woohoo!

I've seen someone who uses a bunch of storm trooper minis and other minis from this game to proxy his imperial guard army in 40k, it's nifty.

Did anyone else play this game? When I think of how much I spent on it in the day, and then compare it to X-wing, I get kind of sick. If you didn't play it, I'll sum up all the problems with it in three points:

1) Random Booster Packs.

2) Warped ships were so common it wasn't even funny. I never saw a straight star destroyer.

3) Complete ignoring of scale.

And this was from Wizards of the Coast - a company that had no right to release something so crap. I put up with heroclix quality flaws because they were a young company, bad scuplts/paints were not THAT common, and the game was fun, but this other thing? Basically put me off WotC for life. Luckily I got out and recouped some of my investment before the whole thing collapsed.

I honestly can't express how much better we have it now...can anyone else here relate to this, or did fate spare you all?

lol I still have mine. Yeah random miniatures were never a good business model. To be honest with the random models I saw them used mostly played with Star Wars RPG much like Dungeons and Dragons 4th ed. rather than with the "rules and cards" they came with. Yet I still have my AT-AT miniature.