Alot people forget that this game is new...

This game didn't come into being in a void, there is a long legacy of MMOs out on the market by now. 200 million dollars were spent on this game's development, it was many months in beta testing. It is aspiring to outdo its competition and the expectations were sky high. And yet this game still suffers from the lack of many elementary features and some serious design mistakes.

To list several:

1. pvp: too much crowd control. all levels are slapped together in the warzones.
2. graphics: high resolution textures were disabled since beta, everything looks blurred.
3. missing features: guild features (banks, halls, levels), chat bubbles, customizable UI, LFG System!

It also seems like there is some lvl 50 content missing for lasting appeal - but this is the only feature (additional content) that can be excused under the fact that this is a newly launched MMORPG.

once again....
you cannot compare the two launches, technology advances, this is 2012 not 2004. The dev team knows each and every feature wow has, and probably has a good read on what works and what doesn't. There is obviously a reason why some 7 million people still subscribe.

swtor isn't ground breaking in any way outside of story, they played it safe and followed a proven formula. However, they had 5 years of development, million and millions of dollars, how do you not see the the features in your biggest competitor and have them implemented and improved upon is beyond me...ppl dont want a wow clone but some of these things are pretty basic.

I'm debating the falacy of the argument, not which game is best. I'm just saying this argument is nonsense. If you're going to defend why a feature is not in a game, do so based on whether or not it's needed in the game, not on whether it existed in WoW when it launched. WoW isn't the only game out there now that has said features, by the way.

No its the same exact ballgame. WoW was measured against EQ at the time and its 5 or 6 expansions that added all sorts of content that people clamoured for.

Rift had an LFG tool and all the modern amenities within 2 months of release. Even at launch, it had everything proper you would need from start to finish. It didnt have giant bugs like the disaster that is Illum, and it had things for you to do.

New games have to match modern expectations. Pointing at WoW release at 2004 as a comparison is like saying a new car should compare to a model T when comparing their faults.

BW had 4 x the budget of WoW, a larger team and modern technology. They also had all the inovations of WoW and other MMO's to draw upon.

Regardless, they only choose to focus on voice overs.

Fail.

That's a intelligent observation based on fact. Oops quoted the wrong post.......

this whole comparing Swtor to launch wow is getting old, stop trying to make excuses for a Dev team that was not willing to step it up a notch and actually try something innovative.

then wonder where are all the subs going?

too much hype for a game that was lackluster at best. Voiceover is cool but it only lasts while you are questing, once you are done with that then you start to see the huge flaws in the game.

This game is new only because they released it. The game did not have to be released on December 20th. BioWare--or EA--chose that arbitrary date likely to fuel sales (as it's a business, you have to assume that decisions are made on the basis of how much money will be brought in).

The "game is new" excuse won't work. It's tired, it's old, and it's time to put it down like Old Yeller.

Once again we agree, Fay.

I agree with the idea that this a post making excuses, although Tera doesn't interest me much. I'm currently keeping an eye on GW2 and Archage myself.