This game is TWO MONTHS old.

UI scaling? Hardly.

Guild functionality? You mean banks? What about leveling and progression, achievements? Other guild mechanics like credits earned going into the guild bank, etc? I somehow doubt it.

And, the point is these should have been in from Day 1. There just isn't any excuse for the amount of time and money spent, and looking at what other lesser, smaller games have done... and what Guild Wars is about to do.

******** max 6 hour waiting queue, try not being able to play the game for days. That "same issue" was quickly smashed in to oblivion every time it happened with SW:TOR due to the response time.

Rift still had and has ghost servers. I don't see your point.

I disagree. LOTRo's endgame was better than Rift's.

Yes I'm sure Guild Wars is going to scrape the competition and become a god within the MMO community. As soon as it beats its direct competitor, WoW.

But if it doesn't, don't even play it, because that's all that's going to matter.

Did we play the same game?
I played Rift from the 1st day and it was the smoothest launch I experienced.
(And trust me, I experienced a good number of them)



Yes, Rift has ghost servers. But the count of them is lower and they were nice enough to introduce a server transfer for free.
What do you think, will you see this feature in SWTOR too?
Or most importantly, will it be for free too?



Could you explain me, where I talked about LotRo?
But yes, LoTRo > Rift.

I talk about the endgame in SWTOR as a heavy focused PvP player, and the endgame here is horrible... straight horrible.
I was in WoW a very dedicated raider and compared with the difficulty in WoW, we cant talk about a challenging PvE endgame in SWTOR either.
(but yes, once again this is my subjective opinion)

Because I disagree with you On AOC. I as well played to lvl cap and for much longer then 3-4 months. My father played multiple characters to lvl cap. somewhere to 7-10 characters.

We are talking about AOC before expansion. The problem with AOC was they couldn't deliver enough content. it took them too long.

I'm not saying AOC didn't look great but when it comes to graphics lets face it, its the icing on a cake and nothing more. game play > then graphics.

That excuse doesn't fly anymore. It's a product. You pay money for it. It should be pretty damn close to perfect when you buy it. If you bought a refrigerator and they said "we're adding shelves later, but you can keep your stuff cool in the mean time." If you bought an Xbox game, would you be ok with "just play it for now, we're going to add hairstyles for your character later". No. In both of those cases you would expect a complete product, not something to be finished later.

Players are fine with working out some bugs, or of course the long-term content will come. But it's the very core features that are missing... guild functionality, UI customization, mobile/web external access, etc. The bare bones skeleton shell of a game from 2006. That's what we have.

Some players simply aren't willing to wait for a game to "grow up" again, and pay for it all the while. That's the problem BioWare is facing. Especially when you look at Guild Wars 2, who just had a rousing success with their press beta and opened up signups for regular beta.

If you want to compete with the market leader, and they do, you have to be competitive in every way.




Content? Fine.

Bugs? Fine.

Featues? Lacking well-established best-of-breed features that have become standard? Not fine.

It remains to be seen if the "game" is good of course (GW2) but it has all of the foundational pieces that TOR was missing. In other words, they come out of the gate ahead of where TOR is still trying to get to (and of course, well ahead of previous competition like WoW etc)

Why 1.2 and not launch?

Rushed? "We do it our own way"-Mentality?

Trying to cram 10 years of development time in 6 and having to pick and choose which mechanisms are going to be included in launch?

Running out of investment money (that staff of several hundred costs upwards of a million each month, money that has to be earned back at some point. Which is when investors say, not when the techicians say).

For the first several months a relatively small proportion of the players are going to care overly much about end raids, niceties for guilds and stuff like that.
So the developers shift with something in place and then scramble like mad the next several months to iron out the worst bugs and performance issues and to add the mechanisms that were being worked on but were not yet ready for release, trying to stay ahead of the bigger bulk of the player base that grinds through the game at a bit slower pace than the most vocal complainers.
There is no conspiracy, no incompentence. Just plain technical and financial common sense. Annoying for you if you are at the wrong side of the development curve that has been projected, I will give you that.

........ An MMO which brings change people might ask for, but upon release completely disappoints the masses apparently.