This game will be HIGHLY successful!

I played WoW since it's release. I don't play anymore, but I still think it was and is a GREAT game. The simple truth is I just don't have the time in my life for two MMOs.

WoW is the only other MMO I played, so I wouldn't say I'm a hardcore mmoer or anything. But having played since release I remember what it was like when it came out. MUCH different than it is now.

At release, wow had no:
Warzones (battlegrounds)
Open world pvp
Valor (honor)
LFG system
Cross-server anything
Faction balance (still doesn't really)
UI customization
Quest objective help
Chat bubbles
...and numerous other things that would now be considered standard.

Now SWTOR has released with many of those things, along with FAR greater stability. Was it released with all of them? No, but only within the Blizzard development team is it known for sure whether some of those things were an actual improvement or not. There were droves of people crying for NO LFG system prior to launch because it "damaged the community" or some such thing. Now those folks have fallen conspicuously silent, and droves are crying for a system.

Bioware is not privvy to all of Blizzards trade secrets. It's their first delve into the genre, and it has gone WAY better than Blizzards. Just like Blizzard did, Bioware will constantly improve upon the game. I'm confident we'll see a LFG system (a better one) before long. This dev team will learn its own trade secrets, and eventually polish out all the bugs/imbalances that are present.

The bottom line is this game in its release state is head and shoulders above what WoW was in its release state. I can't wait too see what they can do with it with a couple years of iterative improvements, as the other game had.

It's already pretty awesome, and it can only get better.

First impressions are everything. The market is much different than when WoW came out, what MMO players seven years ago expected from their game is much different than today.

In a few years this game might be the perfect MMO, question is...will anyone care?

Rift had each of those items. Are they considered highly successful?

SWTOR only has 3 of those things you listed, Warzones, Valor, and Open World PvP (which is currently completely broken so you could argue it only has 2 of those things).

There accounts are in the green no ?

Pong had none of those and people loved it.

tbh, I don't really give a damn what WoW released with. If I enjoy playing SWTOR I'll keep playing it, if not I'll find something else to do(maybe even go outside).

It's upto BW to keep me entertained, not what another game happened to have 7 years ago.

This is exactly what I was about to say.

Rift had all of those things and more at launch and it flopped.


Not saying SWTOR will flop, there are many things this game has going for it that Rift does not, mainly an IP people have actually heard of before hand.


But don't kid yourself. SWTOR will niche out, it won't blow up like WoW did. No game blows up like WoW did. WoW is an anomaly and it would behoove people to understand this and stop comparing games to it, regardless if you think it works in favor of your point.

Stop comparing the game to WoW at release time, it doesn't make any sense.
If you go out and buy a new car today would you then be happy if it only had the same features as cars made 20 years ago?

SWTOR is sold today and should be compared to similar games made today.
Comparing it with a game made 7 years ago is just stupid.

If I built a car that only had features that were available 20 years ago, how many do you think I would sell? Do you think me saying "what? That successful car from 22 years ago didn't have all those modern whatchamicallits when it first hit the market, and it sold like hot cakes!" would help me sell more?