Did this game deliver on the hype?

This is meaningless because gaming review sites often fail to accurately rate a game.

PC Gamer gave Duke Nukem forever an 80, ToR a 93.

Yea.

My thoughts:

The problem often forgotten is not everyone falls under a blanket-term, "hater or fanboy." For myself, I can appreciate both positive and negative criticism; blindly following (without taking into consideration all the information available and forming your own opinion,) is only proof you cannot think for yourself.

This concept applies to both those who hate the game, and those who enjoy the game equally. If you refuse to see one side, but continue to preach about another, it becomes very clear to everyone else that you are biased.
With that being said, knowing the game has flaws and areas of improvement: Does that mean I don't enjoy it? Certainly not! I love this game and am perfectly capable of understanding it takes time for things to improve. Under the rare possibility that they decide to never fix something, I will continue to play the game until something more appealing comes along, or I get bored. Simple as that!

If you’re a “hater”: Know this is a two way street; if you expect all of the fans recognize the "reality," as some call it: You also need to recognize that these fans can enjoy something, even if it's not working to your standards.

If you’re a “fanboy”: Know this is a two way street; if you blind yourself to the issues at hand, and carry on as though there is nothing wrong with the game, you aren’t helping yourself or your argument. It is ok for people to post their feelings, opinions, and/or ideas about the game; as long as it remains productive, constructive or endures an actual purpose other than attempting to destroy the games reputation.

Both sides of the argument are flawed. It's those customers who buy the game, play the game, and decide they hate it; go to the forums and provide zero feedback. They simply exclaim: those who like it are wrong, and spend their entire day attempting to destroy the games reputation, or debunk anyone with an opinion. The customers who completely go out of their way any time they see the tiniest issue, and blow it way out of proportion.

It’s those customers who respond with statements like “go back to <insert game here>,” that really ruin productive discussions. Or the customers who see a legitimate complaint about a bug issue, and label someone a “hater,” rather than discuss the problem. It’s the customers who make irrelevant threads with the appearance of altruism, when it’s really selfishness involved.

There is a considerable difference between each individual player and how they interpret this game and its launch. It's not fair for any one of us to lump sum anyone into a group or category. Each and every single person’s reaction is unique, and should be treated as such! It's those who blindly follow and blindly hate the game that should be disregarded.

I’ve tried to remain as unbiased as possible; perhaps if more people can recognize this concept, we’d have a friendlier more constructive community! Remain neutral; allow yourself the ability of critical thinking, and consider all possibilities both negative and positive.

This is what I strive for!

Now this is too funny. Talk about shooting ones self in the foot. You're a self professed Valor rank 80 but, drum roll please...............you hate the game.

You've played more than I'd guess 90% of the player base, a game that you hate.

Your opinions counter intuitive and therefore invalid. Go back to playing parchesi, you'll probably enjoy that more and it doesn't have a monthly fee. Oh, and don't let the door hit you in the back of your front on the way out.

1) Former employees of Bioware/EA? Links or you are talking out of your rear end.

2) Many media publications? Many more give thumbs up...but either way, they are media publications, so don't put too much stock in that.

3) Gamers across the globe? How many? Five? One in the US, one in the EU, one in Russia, one in Australia and one in Hong Kong? Please don't use terms like "across the globe" as if it means something massive. You obviously have no real numbers.

The real bottom line is that you don't like SWTOR and I do. And that's for each and everyone to decide themselves. As soon as you need to bring in the rest of the world as your support, I can only conclude that your own opinion isn't strong enough. So please, have a real opinion and stop acting like you know what the majority of the world wants.

The blizzard trolls are very obvious. If you didnt like the game so much why stick with it, even if you did pay? They spend too much time on the forums trying to convince people who terrible it is. either they are paid trolls are just really bored trolls. No ones fault you got over hyped but your own. If you can not fins anything fun with the game, cancel sub, delete characters and go about your way.

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2...ve-reviews.ars

Read it or don't. This is exactly why you won't find negative reviews. Publishers pay reviewers for their reviews. Why would they pay for a negative review? Why would a reviewing company post a bad review if it's going to cut into their future funding?

No. But that doesn't make it a bad game. The fun wore off very quickly for me because once the voice over honeymoon period was over it was just too much like the other MMO's I've played and burned out on. For someone who's not a huge MMO player and came here for the Star Wars IP it'll probably be fun for a while.

No XI leveling and TOR leveling are nothing alike, that's for damn sure. I was just commenting on you saying what you did at cap level and stating that you weren't able to get there very fast so doing that stuff at end game still took a while regardless. But then you'd still be spending a lot of time farming and what not for boss kills in sky and then merting etc etc etc. There was plenty to keep you busy in between big group fights.

This game delivered on the hype, my biggest complaint is that the personal story temporarily ends at level 50, and I think they should of had the next part ready.

It is the same people in every post saying teh same thing.

Person 1: Game seems a little less populated
Biodrone: SOURCE!!!!!??? YOU CANT PROVE IT.