The story based gameplay is flawed and might kill the game.

1. Sharding isn't a bad thing since it is only partial sharding. You are free to move between "shards" as you see fit if your area is too crowded, or if noone is participating in world PvP (hah) at your location.

2. Rockstar's GTA/Read Dead series hasn't moved an inch in years. It is still the same old boring "rags to riches" story being told in such a predictive manner that by the end of the tutorial you already know exactly where you'll end up by the end of the game.

Bioware IS evolving both genres by bringing them together - showing that MMO's can actually have real stories besides 700 pages of quest logs you'll skip because they don't have any bearing on your feelings towards a faction or individual.

3. I will agree though that some of the planets seem vague and unscripted compared to the early ones. Some streamlining and more "consistensy" is welcomed by me.

4. You've clearly missed the big fat label on the packaging saying "Rated T for Teen" - you can't have "adult/unsafe" situations in a game marketed at teenagers, as long as parent guidance organisations cry bloody murder the second you see a piece of naked skin, or a scene with REAL emotions in them.

Even if they wanted to go darker, they could not because of these limitations. Why market it at teens you ask? Because anything higher than that isn't globally acceptable (see Australia) and isn't as profitable (more subscribers, more content). As for the "Good Vs. Evil" argument - did you watch the movies? The entire universe is built around the eternal Good Vs. Evil struggle. In the end evil always fails, and the empire of this age is no different if you follow the story.

Baseline: If you want darker, more realistic stories play a singleplayer RPG such as the Witcher series. Never expect such themes in an MMO in this day and age.

PS: Some of the things mentioned in (4) do happen - you may want to explore some other classes for those particular events.

Your opinion is wrong.

Nope pretty sure it's content. WoW is about as deep as a half-empty kiddie pool, I played it for a long long time. They have so much content, they have become a literal juggernaut in the gaming industry by dwarfing any other game in content. But the gameplay itself is stale and old. Star Wars admittedly is a new skin on a lot of those mechanics, but you sir are missing my point. If I like it, why the flaming f*** do you care? I happen to enjoy my Inquisitor and my Imperial Agent story and I recognize video games as the story telling medium of today. It is engaging, exciting and bringing that to an MMO shouldn't threaten you. But apparently it does.

Quit talking out of your rear. I know you are bored and want to come off as smart guy, but please think before you post.

I agree with this wholeheartedly. We need more grownup situations in this game.

I propose a quest linein which a high ranking Sith Lord dies, leaving his estate the child of his first wife. As the child of his second wife, you're left with naught but a small inheritance. And even though your Sith father made your half-brother promise to take care of you, his womanizing and drinking ways get the better of him and his own selfish apprentice convinces him to reneg on his father's dying promise.

Your involvement would begin as you set out from the comfort of what was to be your legacy with no one to trust but your sister and widowed mother as you seek out your fortunes in order to marry above your current station, thereby legitimizing your existence. Much of the action of this series would revolve around such things as courting, playing music on the piano, small dogs, harsh winters, and rain storms as well as a need to maintain countenance and propriety at all costs.

Mmmm yes it is sooo banal. You must teach us naive fans of the game why you are so right and cool, because there is no way that other people enjoy it if you don't.

Is the weather nice all the way up there on your high horse?

Everyone keeps hanging on to the story as the one huge redeeming factor in the game. The story won't even be talked about in 6 months. Most of you will be completely done with it and done leveling alts for a while. In fact, you can only even get 4 unique stories. If you decide to play the other 4 classes, you'll get the same story.

The voice acting is sub par. The story line itself, is sub par, even compared to some of Bioware's other games.

People are just enamored by the fact that it exists in an MMO, so they're obsessed with it.

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You really are a bad troll, you know? It's been a month and Bioware has ALREADY added additional end game content to this game. You have 8 unique classes/stories in the game and it being an MMO, new content will be coming out every few months. For those of us who don't space bar through every cut scene (probably you seeing how you don't care for story) and power grind to 50 in a week and then refuse to play any alts for their story... well, the game's obviously not for you. All bigger games like Wow have at the end is a daily gear grind. You run the same content over and over and OVER hoping a new piece of gear drops or that you can save enough points to buy gear. Oh and PVP.. THAT'S IT! TOR also has this at end game on currently a smaller scale, but the "getting there" part is much, MUCH better thanks to the story aspects.

And this is coming from someone with 3 level 85's in WOW. Bioware did something very right with this game. If you don't like the main drawing point of the game, instead of saying that it will "kill" the game, how about you just stop playing and go back to an MMO with no story?