Did this game deliver on the hype?

Personally I had no reall expectations , Had my friends not decided to play i'd be in vanguard still.

However I do like the game , but No didnt live up to the hype. Has any game?

Should it live up to the hype?

The hype mostly exists in your head as opposed to something tangible that exists for itself in the real world. I dont recall the hype including an explicit set of features that were'nt included at launch . Correct me if im wrong on this.

So the discussion becomes incoherent.

I was expecting a Star Wars themed MMO and I got it.

Hype I think is synonymous to Advertising , which used to be called Public Relations after its name was changed from the much stigmatized , " Propaganda"

Hype , or Advertising is by it's very nature an attempt at coercion

I was expecting the game the developers promised. Silly me.

what were you promised that you didnt get.

Not trying to be confrontational. I'll admit I didnt follow this game during developement or beta and just came to game with friends. So I really dont know.

Nah, a solid game to be sure, and fun, but it was hyped up to be the second coming.... It didn't even turn out to be a second placer...

One of the few MMOs that lived up to the promises made.

I have been following this game for 2 years prior to the launch pretty closely. The game didn't release the way I thought it would be. I was expecting a pure single player game and the only group content would have been the Flash Points and Operation. Always makes me laugh when people mention that the game wasn't what they expected because it feels like a single player game, when in the last 2 years that is one of the major points that was being talked about with this game.

Too many people expect new games to be just as good as MMO's that have been out for years and I hate to say it, but that will never happen.

There is only so much time and money available for development before a MMO has to start earning its way. With that limited time and financing, companies make the best game they can. They try to improve upon previous game launches with new systems or unique features but truth be told their is only so much innovation a game can carry. The bread and butter will be the time tested systems that make MMO's what they are.

SWTOR launched better than any other MMO I've been involved with. It wasn't perfect, but it was good and playable. Mistakes have been made, some unfortunately being the same old mistakes every MMO seems destined to make, but for the most part the game is solid and enjoyable.

Hype is a two edged sword. It generates excitement but it also creates expectations that are often unreasonable.

The game is cut scenes.

Nothing More.

an informed, well thought out offering.

Thanks for clearing this up for us.

P.S.

Remember what a big deal those 3 or 4 cut scenes were in some other games

Absolutely impossible to live up to quarter BILLION dollar hype. Just the way it is. Good game, but great? No. I feel that it still has potential but that far too many resources were sunk into the voice acting ****, which frankly after a few hours of play (or ANY time spent on an alt doing the same quests) feels like a gimmick.