Why are so many people saying this game is bad?

Because what is good and bad is entirely an opinion. What one person likes is not always the same as what you like. I however see no reason for all the hate. You tried it, it didnt like it so why not quietly move on and maybe post a small post of constructive criticism.
I love this game and am very glad I got it if I wasnt enjoying it I would have just uninstalled it and gone to do something different, as I did with rift and warhammer. I have played wow in the past and eventually got sick of it lotro too. Again I didnt feel the need to post huge posts of spam and vitrol and then troll anyone else who doesnt agree with me. I uninstalled after saying goodbye to friends in game.

The only complaint I have is my compaion, Kailyo, is supposed to be a ranged tank and yet her guard stance only gives her 100% threat generation and a 20% more chance to activate her shield.

They took away the 60% mitigation of her skill and thus she's more like a ranged target than a tank, which pretty much forces me to go medicine tree just to progress through the game as she takes too much damage to even survive.

Why even give her a guard mode if it does nothing but get her killed, then the enemies turn on me and blast me to meat.

It may be fine in lower levels but from nar shadda on, where everything seems to either have a strong enemy, be an entire spawn of strong enemies, or be an elite, it's starting to really annoy me.

Once again, you played the game wrong. You raced to 50, missed all the content, then are complaining that the content is bad.

It is not their fault that you played the game wrong.

you will find these type of people in every single MMO most of the time they play for the first week or two then stop playing proclaim the game is garbage then spend the next 5 years constantly dissing the game over and over. and if you say anything they declare you a blind fan boi (or whatever the terminology is)

Surprisingly you will find the majority of players never actually visit the forums of most games and are quite happily actually playing the game they are paying money.

Just put them into the "troll" box and either do what you with caged animals feel pitty for them or poke them with a stick to see if they bite

(disclaimer : dont put animals in boxes and poke with sticks because i know i will eventually see it on youtube)

I havent personally met a single game-breaking bug so I have to disagree. Lvl 40 here.

The most annoying ones:
- missing map marker for personal shuttle to elysium, inquisitor class quest in alderaan
- 5-inch tall Satele Shan in jedi knight early game cutscenes
- non working keybinds for targeting
- repeatedly falling on the ground and attempting to rise animation, when knocked on the ground by a grenade/mine and using an attack instead of movement button to rise. Affects companion too and the only solution is to dismiss/recall companion.

None of these have been big enough to mess my enjoyment of the game though

Dude. Please stop. Stop being rational, logical, reasonable.

This is not the place for that. ;p

This is true. I never read the forums in the evening coz I'm busy playing, I read through the forums during the day when I can, while at work. Forums for new and established mmo's are always riddled with pointless postings that nobody cares about. SWTOR was always going to be in the firing line for the army of man babies with there retarded opinions that nobody cares about at all. Some really make me lol though.

I'm really enjoying SWTOR. I'm level 44 and looking forward to making a new character after level 50, if im stuck for things to do..

I'm already experiencing this at 34 in PVP/Flash Points/ Any type of MMO situation. I don't have to be 50 to know crap programming when i see it. Thankfully the game is so 'dumbed down' that an monkey with a mouse and keyboard can play it. So the onslaught of glitches/bugs/etc can be overcome with some keyboard spamming and just watching the quickslot bar.

Thankfully the quests are engaging enough to keep my interest, otherwise I'd be out of here.

A) That's what the general area of the forums are for.

B) These are the people that would never be happy with anythng.

C) For 1% the game really wasn't for them, and they feel compelled to post about it. Seldom constructively, however.

Edit: A legitimate complaint is if there system isn't good enough to run it. Although the specs aren't that high for this game, they are significantly higher than say...WoW. If you have to play on low res, the game doesn't even look like the same game.

Seems he forgot to check his sanity at the door before entering the General Forums.

As for the game, I haven't progressed far, because I like to try things out and usually start over a few times. But from what I have experienced it's been fun, and the bugs I have seen are minor annoyances.