Why are so many people saying this game is bad?

After three months i'm 100% certain there will be PLENTY of stuff to do...

Despite the trollish name I totally agree with you. If the 'way to play' is to constantly reroll in order to 'experience' storylines that isn't going to be enough of a hook for quite a lot of people. Retention rates would plummet.

This isn't a single player game. (Ok, to some it is). For MMOs to be successful, to get people to keep paying the sub, there has to some sort of attachment to their character. A reason to grow and build them. If the design goal is to play them all you'll have a tough time creating that attachment that keeps people coming back.

Wait.. wut? So if I don't agree it is because I'm 'some carebear casual'?
There is a name for trying to win an argument by disqualifying the person instead of going into the arguments used. Unfortunately I don't know it since English isn't my main language, but perhaps someone else can enlighten me

From what I've seen it's mainly the 'MMO' orientated players complaining about certain popular MMO features being missing, the 'RPG' orientated players seem quite content.

My biggest issues with the game are in the fact that endgame content was clearly not tested. Bonethrasher wasn't tested at all before release - you could tell by the fact that you couldn't even engage the boss.

Now they are pushing out patches without testing them. Once again apparent with the fact that they 'fixed' Bonethrasher, yet he is still bugged. Sure you can engage him now, but you can also die while in the dialogue getting to him.

Oh, and that they put in the patch notes that you can now emote while on mounts, but you cannot. Nothing was actually fixed there, and they didn't even test it clearly.

Oh! Also! Half of the population couldn't raid tonight because their patch broke phasing! How does that one even make it off the test shard?

If they do not fix all of these issues before the casual players start hitting max level, the game is not going to make it. I really enjoy this game, and I want it to succeed, but the buggy endgame is starting to wear me down.

And I totally 100% agree. But the game is mere weeks old. You have more unique content than most MMOs have in their life at your finger tips. You have eight engaging and unique storylines to get through and experience, like 8 inidivudal little stories.

Will social interaction become an essential part of the game? Yes, of course it will, and it'll be put in probably with a nice new big open planet and a daily quest hub in the near future. But I'd estimate less than 10% of the players are anywhere near 50 right now on even one character. You've got lots to do. Don't act like the game has nothing going for it.

MMO is short for MMORPG - or massively multi-player ROLE-PLAYING game. In this instance, I might have to say that SWToR does it right. Unfortunately for Bioware, the "standard-setting" MMOs didn't really focus on interactive/immersive story, so people don't expect it.

Im on character 3 and storylines unfortunately only encompass about 5% of the leveling experience. EVERYTHING else is exactly the same on the planets.

Now had your decisions in the class areas affected what side quests were available to you, replay value would have skyrocketed.

I've not heard one person say the game is bad, any "normal" people anyway. Of course you will get the losers that rushed to level 50, did everything and now have nothing to do except complain and compare it with another very popular MMO that has been out 6 years.