Well, they failed to take on WoW. Now they are trying to take on Second Life. An opponent more evenly matched, most would say.

Very well said OP. While I may agree with some of your points more than others, overall this is a pretty decent description of why I will be moving on to other games. It just doesn't have any draw for me. I like you am a huge fan of the Kotor series and Bioware, but that hasn't been enough to keep my interest piqued for this game. As it is I am disappointed with the game in it's current state, and seeing the move to F2P and the lack of incoming content gives me little faith that this game could possibly change in the ways required to keep me playing it (and it shouldn't, it is a bit outrageous to expect it to be suited to my needs after this long). However that doesn't mean that I should just be patient and hope for the best, when those hopes are absolutely never going to be fulfilled. If you don't like the game now, you're not going to like it in 2 months or 6 or in a year. The basic formula for what this game will deliver has already been laid out and is probably not going to change very much. It is what it is, but what it is isn't enough for me.

The last word on faction imbalance is that there is no faction imbalance. Legacy race unlocks. Same faction Warzones. Cross faction GTN. There are no factions.

Obviously rushed stopgap that lasts for a week and doesn't even benefit half of the classes in the game? No. I call that out of ideas, you can call it what you will.

As most people that have already left this game know, that is because same-server LFG tools don't work well and you still find a group faster by doing both.

Yeah. Things are really looking up from here, I can't blame you for being optimistic, when you've hit rock bottom, the only way to go is up.

It was a poorly designed and implemented stopgap to quiet the 10 people that still care about content down and give the fanboys some ammunition to use when people say "Look, no content coming in August, like promised." It doesn't even benefit half of the classes in the game, why does it need to be here for more than a week? The question should really be: Why the hell did they bother to begin with?

They aren't doing anything for us other than allowing us the option of paying more money over and above our subscription fees for the same content that would have been rolled out in free content updates were the game to stick to a strictly sub model. There is something wrong with asking people to pay beyond their monthly subscription fee for a game that people apparently left because the subscription fee alone was too much to handle. Nothing wrong with making money, but there is something wrong with increasing price without improving your service, which they continue to be incapable of actually accomplishing. F2P games are basically geared towards gouging a small percentage of the population and allowing the rest to play for free. F2P hybrids are built around gouging a small percentage of the population while still receiving monthly subscription fee dollars and still making cash shop money from subscribers as well. The only model that isn't cornerstoned by some scrub feeding the cash shop money is the strict sub model, but F2P hybrids are far and above the worst for the average gamer's pocket.

Actually, MMOs are about having enough space/mobs/quest items that the players don't have to form lines to get their quests done. But hey, I guess thats why this game isn't cutting it as a MMO, because the people that can tolerate it have little grasp on what a MMO actually is.

My top 5 reasons are: -Complete Lack of difficult and engaging content at end game as well as quality repeatable content. -Unoptimized engine. You can't call a game a MMO when it can't handle 30 people on the same screen without tripping over it's own feet. -Free to play announcement. Little interest in supporting this pricing model, the only way to get that point across is to simply walk away. -Horrible rate of content delivery. Which is still continuing with the announcement of expected August content being pushed back into September. -No pull. I simply don't feel the pull from this game that kept me playing it for months and believing it was going to improve steadily the entire time. That hasn't happened in my eyes, in fact this game's life so far has been a steady regression. I probably wont be looking back, as I can't see anything they could possibly do at this stage to change this situation from my perspective. With most MMOs I've left, I've left intending to check back in 6 months or a year to see what progress has been made. I see no possible way of redeeming this game in my eyes and will not be making that annual check up on ToR.

The thing is that neither of those crowds are being vocal about this, so I don't know what you're hearing them say, but it has absolutely nothing to do with story. "PvE" does not mean "Story". The two are not synonymous. Casuals and single player RPG lovers are upset at a lack of story, people that care about meaningful MMO content are either upset about not having it or have already moved on, but story isn't what they are concerned with.

Man, screw all those trolls, haters, and negative nancies. Always trying to turn everything into a negative, never happy with anything...it seems they've even infiltrated the CMs! As you can tell, Allison here is obviously compromised by these twisted individuals. Burn her, I say! Burn her!!!! Seriously though. You're wrong Andryah, as usual.

Have you completed all 8 of the current class stories? If not, you're not finished with the currently available story content, and should continue your work progressing towards that goal. If you have.... Oh well. Story doesn't make MMOs anyhow. Dunno what to tell ya.

Why not? Why settle, if not beg, for mediocrity everywhere else, but not here?

They don't *want* you to be able to keep up with your monthly allowance. They expect you to be tempted by those monthly points, just shy of being able to afford anything, and to purchase more points to fill in the gaps left by your monthly allowance. You are not expected to get everything for just your monthly sub in a F2P hybrid game. You are encouraged and expected to spend above and beyond your monthly fee to get access to cash shop material. This is not a surprise or a coincidence. All free to play games seek to get more from the average player in a monthly period than what they would normally get from a subscription fee. It's common practice, and anyone leading you to believe otherwise is a liar.