Rate Bioware's performance thus far.

I am curious what everyone thinks here. I understand what goes into these games and how complicated and expensive they are to make. (did a little college for programming and design.) Considering this is the developers first MMO I think they have done an amazing job. I know a lot of people want to complain about all the bugs and other issues but the devs have been rolling out fixes and other updates rather quickly. I think it's amazing that whole new content was released after only a couple of weeks. I think they are doing a great job balancing fixes and what is being fixed. Some think the game should have been delayed but I'll take a game that needs a little fixing before I wait another 6 months.
The game isn't perfect but I dare you to find an MMO that is (WOW is far from, accessibility generated community, thats WOWs secret). I am throughly impressed by the game and by the team continuing to be behind it. Their handling of the community has also been well above average.
I rate Bioware's performance at a 10!

Handling of the community? Really bro? Your giving their performance a 10? SWTOR is flawless right now?..

Negative criticism has always had this fashionable air about it. That being said I think Bioware handled the launch of the game very, very well.

I'd like to see them get their maintainance times under control, but that will come.

As for their management of the game, I think they've been way too heavy handed with the nerf bat. I'd advise them to be very careful with that, and learn from other developers. Subtle tweeks are always the best way to go when it comes to balance issues, because no matter how accurate or pervasive your metrics are, sudden changes aggravate your players.

I give them a solid 8:

• Five Stars for release handling
• Two Stars for downtime
• One Star for management

We all felt the squishyness of the nerf bat the minute we discovered what those classes could do. It was a little heavy handed but I for one expected that. I do agree that their maintenance schedule needs to level out, and that it will with a little time. I give them a 10 because this is their first MMO, if this was a company like sony or cryptic (*cough* the game would suck *cough*) I would agree with an 8 or even 7. Extra credit for first time Win.

Release was great so thats a 10

Patching frequency gets a 10

Fixing bugs is a 10

but having new bugs in their patches gets them a 6 for that

Overall I give them a 9


Keep up the good work Bioware.

For a company that's a rookie to the MMO scene, they're doing alright, I think.

In my opinion, they made some very amateurish mistakes in the 'Obvious thing is Obvious' department, and I don't think they asked the right questions of the right people (or listened to the right people perhaps) about a fair few things....but.

I'm seeing evidence all over the place that they learn fast, and they learn pretty well.

All in all, I am not impressed with some of those mistakes made, though I am impressed at how they've handled the back end where networking and server stability is concerned; quite impressed there, actually.

I'm still waiting to see more of how they address existing issues, but so far, what they've shown so far and what they're statedly on docket to address -looks- like it -could- be good.

Time will tell on that one.


Server downtimes for patching? Eh, no, it's not terribly -convenient- the servers have been down so often for so long as they have been, but I cannot fault them for it. Those patches need to happen and that's just that.

I haven't played in a couple of weeks, both for RL being busy for me as well as a general lack of interest, but I won't be unsubbing.

They're upping their game admirably, and that gets my nod.

Bioware has impressed me.

I got exactly what I expected and in some areas I got more.

10? Not to insult you but your delusional.

BW customer service is massively unresponsive. They don't actually read the tickets and instead toss everything into the "bug report". Speaking of bugs everytime the fix one they create new ones. They don't test their fixes enough. Someone would say how can they fix them when no one tests them on the test server. I have a better idea how about they pay players to test their fixes maybe then they can actually fix things.

Lets move on; how about server downtimes. This is important but I'm not complaining about the how many times they bring the servers down but when. There is a serious lack of logic and common sense at BW/EA. So much so that I am beginning to wonder if some adolescent is the one in charge. YOU DON'T BRING DOWN SERVERS WHEN POPULATIONS ARE HEAVY! This goes for U.S. and Europe. There is absolutely no excuse for this. I can understand if the server needed to be rebooted or a very important hot fix for an exploit but maintenance??? No sorry that's total bull. Most if not all MMO's take there servers down in the late AM meaning 4-5am PST. Why? Common sense! Populations are at there lowest.

End game is garbage and nothing but a major grind.

Loot drops are garbage. Instead of getting an item that you need you get something for the spec that you are not. Example; Sith Warrior I only ever get armor for juggernauts and not for my marauder.

Loading screens stall because of FPS? What? How is a simple load screen that has very little graphic intensity stopping my loading in to a warzone. I can't tell you how many times I have been booted because I didn't clear the zone in time.

Developers are non-existent. I saw there so called Q&A. Hardly any questions were answered in regards to hot topic issues but instead talked about future stuff that doesn't mean squat right now. They should concentrated solely on the hot topics. Ilum - server down times (there are hundreds if not thousands of posts on this) - loot drops - FPS - ability delay - etc.

I'm tired of ranting right now but there is no way they get 10 nothing higher than a 3 from me. Until they start addressing the hot topics and fixing them especially downtimes for me and thousands of others who have this issue than it will never go any higher.

5

I think their release was very good, which brings their rating up (9), in my eyes. However, their end game is a 2 (typical MMO, with no story and companion development), bugs and bugs in their fixes gets a 4, and lag and other performance issues gets a 2. Thus, a 5 overall. Could be a lot better, but its not the worst out there either!

6.

Their CS is terrible and while they are trying to work on PvE and PVP content they didn't mention much on crafting.