Design decisions and why the game engine hurts TOR

You sound like a business man yet you do not see the fact that this game right now, is a poor investment on multiple levels.

LOL @ #firstworldproblems

Care to expand on that?

I mean if I am playing at least 15 hours a month and having fun, how is that a poor investment?

The point of the matter is, you are paying for future updates and content.

If they patched COD weekly and added content every month to their dedicated servers, they would have tons of people paying $15 a month to get it.

Don't they have one million Call of Duty plus subscribers? $15 a month for monthly dlc.

We are not paying for future content we are paying to play the game as it is now now then.

As players, we're not in a position to declare whether it's the engine or the dev's implementation of it that is the problem.

I played an MMO that used Unreal, and it was terrible - horrible lag, players warping all over etc. But TERA, on the exact same engine, performs flawlessly.

If that's the case for Unreal, it could well be the case for the Hero engine, and there is no way for us as players to know either way.

The OP's post brings nothing new and exciting. The same biased QQ we've come to expect from haters.

I disagree with him on every point and especially the raids, wich i have trouble believing he even tried. The raids are alot better than WoW's and i actually dont think there is even any fire you need to stand out of, except on karagga's palace last boss. Eternity vault in particular is the most incredible raid i have ever experienced and has none of this "stand out of fire" mumbo jumbo.

I am sad that some people can not avoid beeing this biased. If WoW is the perfect game, i dont understand why come to this game just to ditch it, even though you are a minority.

There was an open beta, we all played the game. The game is good. What the game isnt is WoW 2.0. And thank god for that.

I think everyone who doesnt like this game is welcome to go back to WoW, and realise why your views were parcial in 1 to 2 weeks of boredom.

can somebody confirm if this is yet another

peace out everybody, game sux DOOOOOOOM.

"can't wait for GW2 to release"?

Pretty much, just longer with a girlfriend thrown in to defend the OP.

My post will look so poor compared to the OP, but still, this thread needs attention and bump, so here I am.

Excelent work OP, you pretty much covered EVERYTHING me and most of the playerbase had in mind, explained clearly and backed up with facts.

My theory for the game fail is - EA.
We all had great hopes that their long greedy hands won't touch the game that much, but seems we were all wrong...
I am saying this, because EA are worldwide known for their strict and SHORT time deadlines (hope that expressin was correct) - they say to bioware "We want the game released December 2011. Period. No matter finished or not, we need the money"

Even if there's no big need to express my own opinion, I'll do it just for the OP's sake:
I was just like you, quited WoW, and excited as hell about this, seeing all the bright sides of it, looking forward to years of playing it, and now I think I am slowly but surely losing interest...

Respect to you mate!