People are exaggerating the few problems SWTOR has.

Crossrealm BG's 100% destroy one server's pvp community. NO THANKS !

What recent "nextgen" MMO came with all of those?

Based on what piece of actual factual data do they destroy community? What real proof do you have? What metrics did you use to come to this conclusion, other than your own opinion?

"At least it is fun."

They need to know that they're alienating a portion of that massive audience they were seeking. There are no alternative forms of gameplay within the game (thempark and sandbox) so either you like it and play, or you hate it and leave.

My guess is that BioWare and EA don't want people to leave (duh!), and that is why you see threads like this; the players who find this or that lacking want to spread the word and see these features added or integrated.

As a roleplayer, I find this game very unfriendly to my particular playstyle; I'd like to see chat boxes, more options at character creation across the board, more options for customization of my gear and weapons, emotes that actually emote, the ability to converse openly and easily with the opposing faction, the ability to sit in a chair if I can walk up to it, mini-games like pazaak... the list goes on. None of that hampers the ability of other players to play their way, but entices me and others like me to play a game we'd otherwise pass on for more roleplayer-friendly titles.

The sentiment that anyone who expresses criticism or is ungrateful is extremely insulting and counterproductive. BioWare needs the complaint threads at least as much--or more than--the praise threads.

Wow ... an intelligent and non-belligerent counterpoint. Well met!

Multiple interactive decisions/steps with questgivers is TOR's very foundation, and VA is its framwework. All that expensive voice acting is not an accessory that could have been added later. Without VA players would start the quest, read the popup quest text, make a choice, read more quest text, make another choice, rinse and repeat until the questgiver's story was finished. A questgiver system like that using pure text as the communicator would doom any multiplayer game.

The alternative is for the game to have click 'n go quests so it plays like every other MMO. And that's the point. SWTOR doesn't play like every other MMO and never will, regardless of some people's desire to fit their square pegs into TOR's round holes. That's why round pegs exist.

Advanced mechanics and features can always be (and are being) added, but the game itself is set in stone. TOR's quest interaction system is the game's bread & butter (BioWare's as well), and VA makes it work. So it had to come first, and it doesn't come cheap.

I like the game, the concept behind it, and what BioWare was shooting for. However, you don't get graded based on what u wanted to do, you get graded on how you executed that goal. Personally I don't see the immersive story-telling. Look at the SI story for instance:
Most of the other stories are the same kind of let down after chapter one (I've played consular, bh, si, trooper, and smuggler). As far as replayability goes besides the class quests nothing changes...Even if you switch factions you do the SAME QUESTS on what is basically a copy and pasted version of the other factions side of the map with lighter or darker overtones. This is if you can even remember the story behind what you are doing during your 15-20 minute debarkation/embarkation process (shuttle to dock to hanger to ship) or during your upwards of 20-30 minute speeder rides around going to the quest sight or during the 3 downtimes a week we have for them to patch, repatch, and then emergency patch the servers. The game seems like everything you want it to be until you hit about lvl30 where the story starts to wander and the leveling becomes grinding, I give them an A for vision but a D- for execution.

BTW my friend lost his blinders today when he fell through the map after completing a class quest on Hoth and has been left to die under the map by customer service...

PvP community? You must be joking...On the servers I'm on there is no pvp community, hell there is barely pvp due to ghost town servers. Not to mention the fact that no real pvp goes on because BioWare only rewards individual effort, especially since wins only count towards dailies 20% of the time now...

of course they are. It's becasue they can.

Anything a kid can get away with, they will do.

Internet anonymity is the easiest thing for bringing out the... (*insert your own expletives here)


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Illum ain't broken, it's just empty... last time i went there i saw 1 republic player for 1/2 hour and he vanished before i could do anything. Not having a lfg tool is not game breaking imo, played tons of games without it and still had fun.