CHOICE IS AN ILLUSION - not an RPG - MMO on rails

Nah, you got it all wrong, it is the other way round. The players who would play and stick with the original EQ/SWG are very few these days. Why would any big company try to target such a small group? They are all trying to steal WOW's 11 or 12 million players. That is where the money is.

This is the only person who read the actual post?

Great summary. This is what I was trying to express.

I don't even like WoW. If half of you had read my post you could stop bashing me and realize I said I'm a Star Wars fanboy and I plan on continuing to play SWTOR. However, it's important that Bioware gets this feedback so they can tweak the game in the future to be a little less on rails - and maybe a tad bit more challenging during quests.

This. EVE is pretty much the only true sandbox MMO around.

And EVE has virtually no story at all. It's an open galaxy for the players to pretty much do whatever they wish without boundaries and without direction. My friends and I played it for about a year.

Does it effect anything? And do you see a difference with the money exchange?
Just out of curiosity, i did the same quest on Coru with my consular after my trooper where i could get money instead.
No difference.

The OP compares this game to WoW, but has apparently never played WoW since the Cataclysm expansion. Example: Mount Hyjal. You make your way down a path going down around a mountain. The quests lead you down, one step at a time, with no variation whatsoever. Compared to the actual choices you make in SWTOR, and the variation in different class story lines, WoW is much more an on the rails game.

/endthread.

Except, you know, they said that grey relics are coming. So yeah, whatever.

This exactly what every triple A MMO since WoW has been designed to do. Every single MMO had no intention of making a game as good as WoW or even good at all. They just wanted to leech off of the market that Blizzard literally invented with its stellar product.

Warhammer and AoC offered the PvP and RvR niches. SW:TOR has no niche, it's a strict WoW clone, but they instead put all their money on people liking the IP enough, whereas WAR and AoC had significantly lesser known IPs.

Isn't all choice simply an illusion? hmmmm????

Other than doing the quests needed to get your ship, which seems to be necessary to go anywhere, can anyone confirm you're locked/gated to other content unless you do your class quests? If I want to do nothing more than PVP, fly space missions, and land on random planets and kill random mobs solely for the kill XP, is there any reason to think I couldn't hit level cap?

It would be a stupid, dull, and boring way to play, of course, but that's another issue entirely.

(Given that the game's questing system and themepark, rather than sandbox, design was clearly spelled out in pre-release info, and given that the OP is comparing single-player games to multi-player games, which have very different design constraints, I have to suspect he is basically making up his outrage; it's difficult to imagine he could have neither known what kind of game this was going into it, or know so little about game design that he'd think "What works in Fallout can work in SWTOR".)

As it is, I managed to skip all of Nar Shadaa except for my class quest, because I'd leveled up so high on Balmorra I just went to Tattooine. Thus, I'm not sure why the OP feels "forced" to do low-level quests; I've skipped plenty. I'm not even sure you "have" to do the class quests once you get your ship, as noted in the first paragraph. I'd like an informed answer on if you're gated or not.

He is 100% not necessary. You can go to Rivet City without ever talking to him, as I did on my first play through. In Rivet City, it will be just as if you'd met him first, then went there to find your father.