Abeloth is a Force entity, not an individual. It's arguable Palpatine was more than just a mere mortal (if you interpret what his father said about him in Darth Plagueis and combine it with all the rhetoric about him being the dark side incarnate), but he's still not a Force entity on the likes of Abeloth - she was a servant of the Ones of Mortis (Celestials? Above Celestials?) who used the Font of Power/Pool of Knowledge, and because of the fact that she's an entity of the Force, she can't really be killed (except, apparently, by the Mortis dagger that Luke & Co are now searching for post-Apocalypse). Palpatine, on the other hand, can very easily be killed, but his will transcends death and he's able to transfer his spirit into cloned bodies, if available (although this does backfire on him, due to the intervention of the self-sacrificing Jedi). Still, it seems a lot harder to kill off Abeloth than it does Palpatine. Nevertheless, in terms of dark side proficiency and raw power, I still have to go with Palpatine. Abeloth was a force of nature, but she was always easily stopped; she's just damned hard to kill because she can easily swap between bodies (for Palpatine this is harder). But in nearly every book she was in, she was thwarted time and time again by lesser beings (Tahiri & Boba Fett, the Lost Tribe Grand Master, Ben & Vestara, Luke with the Lost Tribe, Luke & Krayt, Luke, Corran & Jaina, and Saba and Tahiri). I can easily see Palpatine defeating her (though whether or not he can actually kill her is another question. I wonder what would happen if he tried to absorb her energy with Force Drain?)

It feels like I spend the vast majority of the game in silence, save for combat sounds. I very, VERY rarely hear music, and when it does play, it's only for a few seconds before disappearing again. I've only heard music in battlegrounds maybe a handful of times. It's really bad.

This is definitely my biggest gripe with the game. 90% of my time questing or PvPing is done in near silence, with only some ambiance and combat sounds playing. I hardly ever hear music. It's very sad

A voice of reason? Here? Nonsense...

From my experience, about 90% of my time questing or PvPing is done in music silence. There's plenty of ambiance and combat sounds, but I very rarely if ever hear music. I thought it was a bug. It pops up once in a blue moon, but it's so sparse... I want more! Loop it!

I thought there was a bug or something. The vast, vast majority of time I spend questing or in PvP is silent, just combat sounds or ambiance. Music only pops up once in a blue moon. Really depressing

Don't judge a game based on the forum negativity. Most of them are trolls, and the rest are simple human beings, and as humans we love to tell people why everyone else is wrong for liking something. So naturally, the people enjoying the game will be spending more time playing the game rather than surfing the forums, while those who don't will be spending their free time here bashing it because they have nothing better to do.

I played in beta with a regular ol' HDD, and live with a SSD. Back in beta there were some lengthy load times (about a minute maybe) but now I don't even know what a load time is. Perhaps instead of immediately casting blame at the game, you should look at your own computer as the source of problem? Most people complaining about FPS or load times are usually dealing with problems on their own end.

No, it's absolutely fair to say WoW has had 7 years of release time to perfect things. A video game has a time table in which to create the game and put in all the features that can be done within that time. They have to create the main crux of the game first, obviously, and all the rest comes after. They have to get the game out soon, so they can start generating revenue to keep the game alive. When it comes to, they have to leave certain things out. Sure, a guild achievement system is nice, but is it 100% necessary for day 1? Will delaying the game to get that feature in on day 1 a must? WoW didn't have guild achievements until end of WotLK. Yes, it's a nice feature, but it's not imperative to the functioning of the game. And when you have a time table, some things have to be left on the cutting room floor until you have the time and money to go back to it. If Bioware tried to cram every single thing into the game on day 1, then the game would never be released. It's just not possible. It's a completely unfair expectoration and completely defies the reality of business and game development.

Everyone has different experiences it seems. I enjoyed Taris. Had no problems. So using blanket statements like Taris is broken is not necessarily true - it's good for some, not so for others, it seems. Is it gamebreaking? Not at all. Will it eventually be fixed? Absolutely. It's Day 5 of official release. I'm a patient man and I know they're working hard to fix all the major bugs. No MMO is 100% perfect at launch. No game is 100% perfect at launch. Stop expecting it to be so.

He was trolling.

You're missing the point of the OP, and pretty much everything else in general. Bioware is given a budget and a time table in which to release the game. It can't spend forever in development, because it would just drive the company into bankruptcy - an unreleased product isn't generating any revenue. So they have to take the money they are given and fit this massive, massive game into a set time period. It can't have everything in at day one, completely bug-free. It's simply impossible. WoW had a similar development period to SWTOR, plus 7 years of post-release in which it was generating millions of dollars to then fund all the new stuff that came later. WoW's had all the time and money to put in stuff like barber shops, transmogrification, LFD/LFR system, an active and huge economy, flying mounts, and very little bugs. Was it like that at the beginning? No, of course not, it came out over time and evolved into the well polished game it is today. SWTOR will follow the same route, but unfortunately so many people have been spoiled by modern WoW that they expect absolute perfection from every other MMO even though the game has been on shelves for 5 days now.

I've bought the wrong item a few times when I accidentally hit CTRL+Right click instead of CTRL+Left click to preview it. Really stinks... especially when I did it on a 90,000 credit speeder from the Light Side vendor. And then I realized you couldn't even preview speeders, anyway. Sucked! But a confirmation box would be really nice, if not a sell back feature.

I want to see a confirmation box for expensive purchases and items bought with commendations. Too many times I've bought the wrong thing because I meant to preview instead of buy! Or at least a short grace period (5 minutes?) for full refunds.

Well, yes. It was always sold to us as just that: a simple mini-game to do when you want a break from leveling. It was never anything more than that. But people got the impression it would be the second coming of "TIE Fighter." Nevertheless, they have promised to expand upon it. What that will be is unknown at the time. I am hoping it will eventually be taken off rails, but you never know.