Why are so many people saying this game is bad?

Sums up nearly every complaint thread.

People say it's bad because they're spoilt brats who've been playing endgame MMOs and expect all new MMOs to be working 100% straight off launch day. Even after beta testing and live test realms there's still going to be problems. Having the game being non-customizable is also a letdown, many players are too used to browsing for addons to redesign the UI the way they want it. Perhaps in given time we'll be allowed a certain amount of UI customization but don't get your hopes up, Bioware seems adamant they will not allow 3rd party addons so you may just have to live with it. On top of that there's a lot of people who raced to 50 and are now stuck on what to do and moaning there's no new content, that's after 2 weeks of launch. Slow down!

The game is great, no question. Most fun MMO I ever played and amazing as the first days in WoW. It brought the thrill back...

But: Missing of fluidity in the combat system aka ability delay and some laggy feeling in BGs, is very important for people who love PvP (closed PvP if you like to call it that way). And PvP is one of the two pillars of the content once one reaches level 50. For me actualy is the only important element once I am 50

That's why some reasonable persons call this game bad. That's why they mention WoW so often, though they dont intend to go back to that game. They just address an existing and important problem cause they love SWTOR and want it to succeed!

If you like this game, you should definitetly try World of Warcraf. It's like SWTOR, but better.

The bugs in this game don't bother me at all, except the ability delay, which is game breaking. I know they will be fixed.

My problem is, this game is step backwards in MMO genre. Meaningles talent trees, boring abilities, boring questing that you grind till max level and after that you grind heroics, raids and battlegrounds. Its all we have been doing in world of warcraft for 7 years now. Its the reason I quitted WOW a year ago and its the reason I quitted SWTOR now.

Guild Wars 2 is trying to change how MMOs work. I am very interested to see how it ends up.

Agreed. I survived Age of Conan's launch and SWTOR doesn't have anywhere near the problems that game had.

Good luck with that Gutrik. Like all MMOs there's an endgame, and when you reach that you'll be in the same boat as you are now - bored with nothing to do but the same endgame stuff over and over and over and over and over........

WoW is only better (matter of fact: far superior) when it comes to PvP Combat Fluidity. I played it for over 6 years, and I loved the feeling in BGs and Arenas. Up to date unmatched experience...

... But to call WoW better than SWTOR? I wouldnt do so. When they get the fluidity into SWTOR I definitely wont touch WoW anymore. Balance, content and other things will come with time. The only thing I want is a playable PvP-game

Why those people are brats?
This game has to compete with any MMOs current state, not what they were 7 years ago.
Even if they had to compete vs WoW classic, they would lose.

You know what bugs are? Bugs are things which are triggered by special events in special circumstances. What you see in SWTOR is not even beta, it's alpha. Empty content which never was created with the whole thing in mind. It feels like every programmer worked into his cellar, not communicating with his mates. At the end everything got trashed into a bucked and glued together -> SWTOR release.

This game in generel is not even slightly balanced or optimised. Crafting does not go hand in hand with pvp items, token items or drops. Talent trees are messed up, for expample the lethality tree for marksmen agents. Lethalty tree skills range = 30m, Sniper specialization skills = 35m. Now have fun combining 30m and 35m skills :~

Yet these ppl are still here, rather than playing their vastly superiod wow.

So far I'm extremely happy with my purchase, I'm also having the time of my life (for MMO's anyway). The only thing I want is an easier way to find a group (not LFG tool), that's my only real complaint out of everything.