The thought that WoW has more endgame content

I love this ideas , this is most constructive post on the subject, it would be great if BW would have someone like you in their dev team now.

I would only add this to the list :

17. BW should use more their planets and open world and give to players reasons apart from looking for datactrons to visit planets in the game and return to starting areas , make some use of the big cities in the game like Coruscant and Kaas because its shame they are waiste right now and they look much better than the fleets which looks like a prisons.

They should make Nar Shaada into big social hub for all players in the game , make neutral casino there where all players could hang out and implement there gambling and social games like pazzak and pod racing tournaments.

Amazing you really believe ToR as it currently stands is not competing with WoW... their loss in subs and subsequent layoffs beg to differ.

Also their 2million copy's sold and 1.7million resubs, highest first month retention of a MMO are really pointing towards DOOOOOOM!!!!

Let's not be over-dramatic. You are trying to make it feel like TOR's release was horrid.

It was not. Especially if you compare it to WoW's release, which is what you want to compare everything else to.

Maybe I've been lucky, but aside from Mortar Volley, I haven't noticed these supposed game breaking issues.

I do want mouseover macros but it's not a game breaking issue.

Nice ideas, but this is not a game breaking issue. The real problem with space flight is it is currently too unrelated to the rest of the game. The missions should have been tied to the story arc, as in fighting your way into a planet or into a space station as part of the class quest.

In the works.

Also, WoW professions have rarely been relevant for any longer than the initial gear up phase of an expansion cycle. They try harder at it now but it really sucked in the past.

I'll agree with a customizable UI but I think damage meters should not be available for normal mode end-game content or hardmode flashpoints.

I do want a better display for buffs and debuffs.

Yes, but not game breaking.

No. They were a failure in WoW and basically ended up having the same effect as benefits in the workplace do - make it difficult to leave a guild you don't really fit with or enjoy for fear of losing the benefits.

Not possible. There are too many scripted triggers on our class ships that would break quests - though, I suppose they could design it in a way that quest interactions were just disabled unless we were on our "main" class ship.

Nonetheless, not game breaking at the slightest.

No.

Challenge should be awarded with prestige items (titles, mounts, cute items) - not gear. Awarding new tiers of gear for elevated content modes only serve to inflate gear at a quicker rate.

See Greg Street's blog post in WoW for more information regarding that topic.

Honestly, we have plenty of raid content as it is. What TOR needs is more non-raid content. Small, single group content is where the future in the MMO genre is at. Raiding is dying. Word is there are more raids coming and more flashpoints coming.

Note: by small group content, I'm not necessarily talking about Flashpoints. I'm talking about things a single group of players can go and do together.

I semi-agree. Not a game breaking issue though.

Ultimately yes - but the game may still be too young for a LFD tool. I should not have to explain this one.

I would lean more toward Bioware releasing future flashpoints that allow Republic and Imps to form groups together.

Though I will admit, I'm dreadfully tired of every single MMO pushing a faction war these days. It is ignorant to divide the playerbase on each server right out of the gate.

No opinion on new warzones but a new planet area is supposedly coming already.

Meh. Nature of an MMO. This is part of the reason why WoW went with lower res cartoony looking characters. It's also a factor (albeit smaller) as to why raid sizes dropped from 40 to 25. Many computers just will not handle rendering a multitude of high polygon count models in the field of vision at one time.

Can the engine do better? yeah sure, whatever.

I think our ships need to be an instanced area on each of the planets, so we can run into them with no load time. It should be just like running into a class instanced zone.

On top of that - yeah, we should be able to quick travel to our ship. Also, once one player reaches the flashpoint zone line, everyone should receive the ability to instantly port to the flashpoint (ala Rift).

would love to smoke some of whatever it is you are smoking.

Hunters lost their real "choice" in pets about 4 years ago. They all basically became the same pet with a different graphic. Finally, sometime around Wrath, they gave the pets talent trees, which ended up with three different types of pets - regardless of what they looked like.

Pet families still had one semi-unique ability. While on the surface, it seemed that there were a lot of choices - in reality there was not. Oftentimes, the hunter was limited one what pet they could bring due to the buff the pet was able to give the group.

My gripe with companions in TOR is twofold.

1.) I should be able to rekit what my companion does so I am not forced to only use my healer companion. I would like to change my other companions to be "a medic" so I can use them instead to switch things up.

2.) I wish I could somehow utilize my companions in full group Flashpoints and Operations. Seems like a waste to essentially turn off the entire pet system in group content.

You realize that the bulk of WoW's subscription loss happened nearly a year before SWTOR was released, right?

And that out of the 600 people laid off, 540 of them were customer service reps?

get a damm life m8 - swtor is only 80days old and WOW is 6years so just stop it - wow dont even got ar raid dungen after 60days at the start so relax i stell rember wen i hit lvl50 after 8days in wow at ther start NO pvp NO raids at all so -- go spank som body and slap u selv

Um, WoW does NOT have day/night cycles. Every zone stays the same time no matter what.

Most everything else I kind of lol at...especially listing fishing.

Those positions are most closely tied with the size of the client population. It's logical to conclude that losing 2 million subscriptions would end up in eliminating customer service representatives.

You know if you need to cut your losses and you don't have as many costumers the costumer service department would be the first to go.