How are people bored already?

There should be an option to quest in story mode or "Free" mode and go to the planets of your choice.

1. Reputation
2. Story Deviation/Unlock
3. Greater Difference between L/D

All 3 of which have been done before in other games, some of which are more than 10 years old.

i love how everyone assumes you have to be 50 to be bored with this game, tons of people including myself quit long before 50.

Then why are you still here?

I meant, freedom in WHERE you can quest. SWTOR is VERY defined in how you advance through the "game". You go from planet X to planet Y. In WoW you have a choice (limited of course by level), but still a choice in where you want to quest.

For ex: if I was level X in WoW, I could go to STV or whatever other area to quest. If I'm level X in SWTOR, I go to planet Y, no iffs and or buts. No options. :\

Which is why I said they need to do either of those two things above (increase the class story or give more options in how you can do sidequests)

I'm left thinking that people must have forgotten the adage that you can make all people happy some of the time, but you can't make everyone happy all of the time.

^^This. So much this.

In a WoW quest, you do what the quest giver wants HOW they want you to do it. Don't want to slaughter Blood Elves? Tough, you have to do it to advance the so-called plot. Don't want to kill someone in swtor? Guess what, you probably don't HAVE to! In fact, in many cases, you can do the exact opposite of what the quest giver wanted you to do! MUCH more immersive than "Hey, robot! Follow my every command! You have no choice!"

Also, I'd like to point out that I am nowhere near bored yet, and I onl have one, count em ONE character. How is being bored playing this ame possible? Are we really this self-entitled as gamers? Heck, BW is already coming out with new content for the game, and it's barely a month old!

However the fanboys will tell you that this game offers 8 unique levelling experiences.

And the haters will tell you "there's no content at end game" when the game is 1 month old.

Since this thread consists of the same content as several other similar threads on this forum and pretty much every other mmo forum out there, you can apply these terms interchangeably as you revisit them in your quest for mmovana.

"the quests are all the same"

I really don't know what some people want. If the quests are too long, don't have circles and tooltips guiding their every movement and have parts that, God forbid, require outside help then they're either too hard or force grouping (yes, apparently that's bad). If the objectives are woven into a purpose that has responsive visuals vs. the old "get me 10 bear rectums" then it's still considered too familiar. I think people are confusing questing and leveling with actually "beating" a game. Someone needs to tell them that it actually is part of the game and whizzing through it isn't actually an accomplishment so much as comparable to fast forwarding through a movie and complaining that it's over.

"not enough content" sometimes viewed as "not enough meaningful content"

Has the word "content" reached cliche status yet? Some people want to level forever, others want to finish it and get to the end of whatever it is they're progressing through and it's irrelevant how much there is, they're going to adjust their pace according to the distance to the "end". This is when the game is supposed to start all over again with "content" that isn't just raiding (because that makes modern mmo players sad) but also is challenging and "meaningful", but not too meaningful in the sense of wasting time on immersion or plot, but some other type, like gear, better gear, and eventually gear that gets better every valuable minute you're logged into the game. The flashpoints/instances/raids/ can be played if they always offer better gear than what they're wearing upon completion and can never be the same one twice or even be similar in appearance or objectives.

"there's nothing to do at *insert max level*"

No one really knows what they want to be doing, but that doesn't stop them from wanting to do it anyway. Whatever it is, it probably isn't more leveling and it can't be fluff content because that doesn't do anything to improve their character and further trivialize prior content. If it's raids/operations then they can't be too easy, too hard, or require too many people coordinating or have a chance at not providing constant gear upgrades. Other than that, they want more of "it" and they want "it" now. "It" better be good and keep them busy for at least a week or they'll go back to the other game they left last month that released more "content" that doesn't appeal to their progressive nature but have to be there to criticize it anyway.

I'm sorry if this offends anyone, but after countless mmos and forum haunting I've become cynical as to what the mass market deems as a successful product. Instead, I poke fun because I'm probably no better and could name a few niche games I think are great but admittedly are not playing and that nobody today will start playing anyway. Down the road when the dust settles, that's where the game stands with its remaining stalwart playerbase and the cycle continues.