3 big problems with SWTOR

Why not spawn into the game at level 50, skipping the (usually boring, excluding TOR) leveling part, pick our skill trees, and hop on into a LFG que (automatic of course, too lazy otherwise), and then raid all night, every night until our eyeballs bleed.

Oh and have Devs develop a constant stream of eye candy armor sets with 'Epic' slapped on the title that will be replaced every month or so, to keep us busy working like pack mules (because God knows people who pay to play are really looking to work on menial tasks for the sake of pixel rewards.).

So you level FOR the end, not for the adventure. Why? For the glorious, almighty endgame, and what a prize it is - finally being allowed to enter into the special club of idiots that swing their bats for virtual goodies and yell at you for doing the smallest thing wrong.

I don't hate endgame, but it's no object of perfection, and definitely not the end all be all of MMO's - not good ones anyway.

Okay, what you are saying is:

1. Make the game easier for you to play, and understand.

2. Less Phasing.

3. More people, and smaller planets.

4. More end game.

I constantly hear about the delay thing everyone is mentioning, and I myself have experienced it (when I first started playing), but then I realized that sometimes it wasn't happening (Hmm, maybe there is a trick to it? lol). I learned my build's rotation, and I found that it came from me button mashing at the wrong time.

Basically: learn to play.

Smaller planets? I'm not sure if MMOs are for you, bro.

OP you are fail. You think the main focus of a game should always be end-game. WRONG! Every single MMO that has come out has gone that route, and guess what? They have all failed. People are tired of the same old crap at end game, and it is about time someone comes out with something new, rather than just dailies, heroics and raids.

That is your problem right there. If your whole game only happens at the end they would start you at the end and make that the start. You are working from a completely false premise.

Essentially, you're saying ability delay is caused by a lack of skill.

Ok.

I've had it with this garbage. I feel like I'm still beta-testing this game, halfway through January, and I'm not paying anymore for something that feels half-finished.

Today, my preferences were reset without my doing. The font size in the chat window was bigger (which I quickly reset), but what I didn't realize was the option to see whether my dialogue choices resulted in light or dark side points was also reset. I made a wrong choice and mistakenly earned my first light side points after many, many hours of play. I understand there's no real difference, but it screwed up the way I wanted to play.

I've been unable to enter some flashpoints, even after opening up tickets to report the problem, resetting phases, waiting 10-15 minutes, logging out and back in, etc. many of the flashpoints and heroic areas are horribly unpolished, unfinished and unbalanced, I've had my party die altogether when fighting elites (from 70% health to zero with absolutely no cause), I've been stuck, my droid companion lets me know how happy he is to have something to do for me 8-9 times per fight, etc. etc. etc.

The "protocol droid" schtick that the in-game customer service responses uses is really, really stupid when almost all of my tickets result in a non-response with a mention that the issues have been forwarded to the relevant department, or whatever. My in-game tickets have given me a direct response exactly once, and even that time, whoever responded totally mis-read what my question was. In addition, it was condescending and did not address what I was asking at all.

The talent trees are incredibly boring. Sinking points into the majority of the talents to boost an ability's effects by 2/4/6% is everything that's wrong with MMO's. Leveling up and gaining an extra 4% effect to some basic-class level ability is stupid.

I've spent a lot of time playing other competing MMO's and have had high hopes for swtor- I excitedly participated in the beta testing- but I'm not bashing my head against this wall anymore.

So sorry - swtor has a long way to go. I've given it many many chances, but it it seems like every single day something glitches that makes me log out and go do something else. There's a lot of good things in there but it just feels totally unfinished, and I can't justify spending any more cash to log in, get frusturated at a game-breaking or immersion-breaking bug, and log out.

I dont even get how people justify the ability delay by saying someone just lacks skill.

Been playing MMOs for a coons age and there is nothing unskillful about hitting 5, 7 times to get my move to activate.

1) Responsiveness:

Where did I say the whole game should happen at the end?

The main focus of an MMO should ALWAYS be end game.

Because getting your character to end game is a very valuable part of the game too, but it should NEVER be the focus. Ever.