SW:TOR a average game!

OP: Not really a very constructive post at all about what improvements you would suggest, so expect it to be locked very soon.

Cheers.

All MMOs evolve over time, imagine a brand new mmo coming out with 10 raids, hundreds of zones, etc but being horribly broken in some way (let's say for arguments sake bad mechanics/class structure/storyline.) Then you have made 7 years worth of MMO content, but nobody is playing your game because it's pure trash.

In all MMOs the way they make money is subscription retention or micro-transaction monetization. It would be both overwhelming to have 30+ raid bosses at launch, but it would make no financial sense since we both know the way MMO gamers are that there would be groups of people who cracked that content extremely quickly.

Basically, it is in our best interests that a game starts small, has a decent core, and builds on it instead of trying to be "super awesome *****in mmo 9000" and delivering nothing but crap. It's not reasonable to put 7 years of development work into an MMO before launch, nobody would back it financially.

I like what I see so far and look forward to 6 months from now when I can actually give an opinion on how this game is, since the growth/development is more important to me than what it is at launch.

This person has no idea how WoW started.


1) WoW only had 4 total starting zones when it launched, not 8.

2) SWTOR planets are larger than WoW zones, so you can't compare them in size directly.

3) I have had no problem soloing any and all solo quests.

4) The only thing I agree with on the OP's post is the GTN UI being horrible.

5) WoW didn't even have an end game whatsoever when it launched.

6) SWTOR has FARRR more content than what WoW had when it launched.

7) There were plenty of people getting max level when WoW launched in ~3 days, not 3 months.

think you missed my point. i was speaking to that guy comparing the new games "starting areas" as some grand achievement. and what i was saying is i would hope they had a bit more content vs a game that came out 7 years ago. in this case, they have. which was my point.

In WoW, except for a few quests, you are just generic hero #487.

The "story" is the same no matter if you play a death knight or mage. You follow the same quest lines as everyone else.

I played WoW for 6-7 years and I thought that was ok but I prefer the way SWTOR does it. If you start a new character you have a totally new story to experience.

If you think WoW wasn't buggy at launch then you are lying and you didn't play WoW at launch. I used to wait 2-3 hours at times. Servers would crash. Quest targets would de-spawn. Mobs wouldn't be where they said they were. Not to mention you could get stuck without a place to go as the game didn't say where to go next.

Compare wow to swg not swtor ... personally I prefer to think outside the box, if you want to compare wow to a modern game, why swtor? Compare it to skyrim. If you want to compare SWTOR to an old game, why not Empire Strikes Back on Atari or metroid on nes?

Personally I play ESB on Atari just as much as any modern game like SWTOR, Skyrim, Crysis 2, DCUO, SC2, TWShogun2, and the Witcher 2. I play ESB on Atari like a mad man and I'm pretty ****** .... perhaps the best ESB on Atari player who had ever lived in the South Bronx.

My simple point is .... comparing swtor to wow is so overdone by people who were initially interested in investment and stocks. We're gamers so compare and contrast it to games. Be the black sheep.

Compare wow to swg not swtor ... personally I prefer to think outside the box, if you want to compare wow to a modern game, why swtor? Compare it to skyrim. If you want to compare SWTOR to an old game, why not Empire Strikes Back on Atari or metroid on nes?

Personally I play ESB on Atari just as much as any modern game like SWTOR, Skyrim, Crysis 2, DCUO, SC2, TWShogun2, and the Witcher 2. I play ESB on Atari like a mad man and I'm pretty ****** .... perhaps the best ESB on Atari player who had ever lived in the South Bronx.

My simple point is .... comparing swtor to wow is so overdone by people who were initially interested in investment and stocks. We're gamers so compare and contrast it to games. Be the black sheep.