Did this game deliver on the hype?

It got me too for Warhammer online.

But on topic, aside from story i dont think SWTOR added anything new to mmos? And after all this is a mmo, they should have focused on endgame content before story. If i want a good story i will go play a single player rpg.

And to the person that said this game got good reviews, you have to remember most reviews reviewed the game while leveling up, had they give reviews for lv 50 and endgame content this game would be avging 5/6 out of 10.

Mate, for me the game died at level 20, after that it was just like doing CPR on a dead body until I finally realised at level 44 that it is as dead as dead can be, so i finally stopped playing.

It's lived up to the BW's own hype of delivering a sterling single player storyline levelling experience with VO-d dialogues in a multiplayer context.

So far as I know that's the only hype BW themselves have pumped about the game.

Don't know what other "hype" people are talking about.

Well thank you!

Those of us still enjoying this game, appreciate you funding its continued development with your sub fees! Please continue to do so.

As it is they dont need to, if it meets the recommneded specs you dont need anymore, as there is nothing graphically to need more hardware power as it is.

My opinion of playing MMOs since '02 and video games since the original Donkey Kong was new in the arcade and Atari 2600s were THE console to have, if you buy into the hype, you're more often than not going to get disappointed.

And by that I don't mean becoming interested in the game because you read a dev blog about a certain aspect of the game or a preview article online or in some magazine.

I mean getting all anxious and jumping around in glee like a 6yo on Christmas Eve waiting to open presents the next morning.

In my own experience there are very few games I remember getting super excited about and found the game to be all that and more. Total Annihilation and Civilization 3 come to mind. There were probably others that I thought were really good, even great but don't recall if they were really hyped up all that much or not.

If you temper your expectations with the realities of the past, you might find you're able to enjoy things more for what they are rather than being disappointed for what they're not.

Sadly, too often today people look for reasons to shoot something down. And I don't mean that as people should sugarcoat their statements about the game or tell falsehoods or anything else. But simply that to read the forums of a MMO you start to wonder if all anyone sees in these games are the problems (until a year or more after they've left the game and then they see nothing but how great it was through their rose colored glasses.)

So to answer the original question, I didn't buy into the hype, I simply expected a fun game which is what I got. Your mileage of course may vary.

Can a review be more bought? ANet and NCSoft have cash too. Sorry, bought.

Oh, we have conspiracies now... LOL.

I am till end of March, if no better textures then a new MMO awaits me, and another company pushing its hype will have robbed me again.

I know I'm still happy he's paying.

I'm still having a blast playing even with the non-game breaking bugs.