Why I'm not playing.

I liked how in Vanilla, it was "go pick up so many piles of dung". In BC, "go pick up so many piles of dung". In WoTLK, "go pick up so many piles of dung." (I quit after that).....

Why I`m not playing ? ...

That`s not a hard question ... BUGS BUGS BUGS ... me and 2 of my friends allready canceled our subscriptions (my friends that are at home (I`m at work) allready uninstalled tha game .. I`ll do so when I`ll go home) and more will do so in the near future.. We payed money to play what ? A bugged game ? Something that`s borring and anoyng ? This in not fair ... Too bad .. We where expecting this game with such enthusiasm but it was such a dissapointment ... The crew behind the technical department is just incapapble of handling such a job.

My ingest gripe from a playing perspective, the game is way to solo friendly.

If they have added in more joint/group story modes so that you needed to pp up with people to do certain parts it would have brought the players together more.

Yes you have FP's and even the heroic 4 mans but they are really needed.

As its so quick to level in the game, it's just another get to 50 to then really have to group up.

The amount of times I can quite easily just level through pvp and just do the class quest when I am the appropriate level and skip all the other content as its just a filler, is so annoying.

The MMO is meant to be massively MULTIPLAYER online, it's a game where yes you see other people, but from 1-49 there is no real incentive to group up with people which is such a shame.

This is fundamentally behind the times in terms of theme park MMO's. Even WoW, the old mainstay, has quests that are more than that, even going back to its first release in 2004. In WoW, many of the quests would be variations on the 'kill this theme', but there were also such quests where I could bomb an enemy fortress, seek assistance for a dying crusader, throw parachutes to falling warriors in the air, or even compete in racing orcs on dragons. You could even reveal the royal adviser to be an evil dragon, and trigger a city wide event that could involve dozens of players (sadly, this quest is long gone.). The Old Republic, as far as I saw it, does not do this. It is simply two types of quests, repeated ad nauseam, with voice acting to cover it up. It is simply unacceptable for an MMO to have this design in 2011. It is even beat by WoW in what should be most important in a story-driven game - the permanence of your actions. For example, on the planet Balmorra, I was ordered to take an Imperial base for the resistance on the planet. I cleared out the base, and reached what the game calls a 'group phase' - essentially, a walled off area that only you and members of your group, if you are in one, can access. I wiped out the base, and watched the cutscene where the resistance establishes itself in the base. Then I left the group based phase. Now I am no longer allowed in the interior of the base, and furthermore, the outside of the base was still covered in Imperials. It was if I'd done nothing at all, except turn a bunch of green lines in a door into red ones saying I could no longer enter this door and explore that part of the game world. In WoW, this would have been handily carried out by phasing. Instead of entering a 'group phase', the whole world would have phased, from being an Imperial base into a Republic one, with generic Republic NPC's instead of Imperial ones. There is even a quest line like this in WoW, in the second expansion, Wrath of the Lich King, where you build the Crusaders Tower, and add a new town for yourself to the map, along with the quest hub. In The Old Republic, the world does not change with your actions. The base is still the same as if you had left it.