SWTOR is less than a month old, wow is 7 years old. Why do people compare?

Never played rift. Seems like i missed out on some hot MMO action.

Sorry sir, but people don't want a WoW clone. If you do, please GBTW and leave this game.

You didn't miss much. Rift just proved that good graphics doesn't make a game good. The leveling experience was a grind and the end-game sucked more arse than a prostitute on a Friday night.

Bioware seems to that people do want a WoW clone, because they did their utmost to produce one. With the exception of replacing quest text with cinematic voiceovers - which are finite content that does not last forever - how does this game appreciably differ from / improve upon WoW?

The point I was tryign to make is, the game can still be good without tons of useless addons. I kinda went overboard a little, but I like playing the game with very minimal addons or mods. Yeah, simple stuff like having macros, or a UI to resize or move bars and chat windows. I remember when FL came out, everyone was rusing to get an addon that warned of a certain mechanic on one of the first bosses.

I also understand WoW doesn't allow cheating, or addons that let you get an advantage, but annotations popping up telling you so and so buff is coming "MOVE", I particularly don't like that and hope it's not coming here to make the player base lazy.

Also on the LFG, LFR and LFD; There has been a lot of talk that it's what killed the WoW community over time. I like the idea of having to have a good reputation on "your" server to be able to group, it makes people try harder and not be @ss hats towards other people that they know they'll never see again.

It is already, if you been playing WoW, you could recognize a lot of similarities. Standard approach from MMO developers, copy each other.
But no one is been more successful than WoW, that's a fact. I'm pretty sure, EA bosses would love to see 12 millions active subs. That was peak for any released MMO to date.
And peoples comparing only for 1 reason, this game has nothing else to offer that archaic outdated lame UI. Yeah, forgot, voice overs. But for how long you can watch them over and over?
Even lotro had 3 default bottom bars, instead of 2 and completely movable UI elements at launch.

Companions
Group instances while leveing that are not Dungeons/FP
Single Player instances - which is *********** amazing
Commendations for each planent, so that they don't fail like wow did and have to worry about converting them to a different type
Huttball - best PVP area ever, too bad Imp get it so often cuz no one plays Rep lol.

I could go on, but you get the idea. WoW failed in so many areas that SWTOR has excelled.

So I should wait 7 years before I judge SWTOR?
lol.

I guess I should go play WoW in the meantime... Is that what you're saying hmm?

I like this guy too Dathron

This post should be on every page of this thread
Just admit it WoW people.....you've given into your lusts, wants, and desires and turned to the Dark Side!

This biodrone wants ToR to become the fanboi paradise of a few hundred drones who wear the magic underwear free to play the game they love in harmony with other drones. What they are too dim to realize is that EA/BioWare is in the MMO business to make money not provide a few drones their monotheistic utopia.

The multitude of normal gamers want populated servers with full queues, zones, GTN, and plenty of competent/geared players to run ops/HM/FP/etc. I am sorry to burst your bubble biodrone, EA/BioWare is siding with the millions of average gamers and not the few thousand "magic underpants." The only question is whether they get up to speed fast enough so we don't lose a bunch of good players in the interim.