Does an MMO need a story?

Ill answer for him.

Its solo game not because you can solo to 50 but because you can solo to 50 with out speaking or interacting with a single other player the entire time. IE, as in your playing offline by yourself in a SINGLE PLAYER GAME!

I can play hours and hours and hours and not see a single word typed in general chat by anyone.

Its a single player game because there is no in game community!

I can tell by your above responces you dont want to see that but the majority out there already do.

This game is almost the perfect

MASSIVE SINGLE PLAYER ROLE PLAYING GAME!

As a single player game this game is excellent (and I still sub because its a excellent single player game).

As a MMORPG its one of the worst ever as it completely misses the boat on what a MMORPG offers and entails.

And thats got nothing to do with Raids and PVP as Raiding and PVP do not define MMORPGs. They are just added aspects to the core being.

Cant say it anymore clear but I suspect you will feign confussion or ignorance of what is being said.

But deep down we all know the truth, no matter what is typed on the forums by those in denial of reality.

You can do that. Or you can group and do heroics and flashpoints, or you can do PVP warzones, or you can craft and trade your wares with other players.



I suppose it depends on your server. General chat on my server is usually pretty busy with people arranging datacron missions or groups, or informing people that enemy players were spotted near such and such a base.

I rarely quest without running into other friendly players, and enemy players on planets where that can happen.

A lot of the in-game community is within guilds/groups where you won't be seeing it if you are not in those guilds/groups.

I agree that the solo aspects of SWTOR are pretty excellent, at least to level 47 (which is as high as I have reached so far).

It has most of the features that I am looking for -- the ability to group, the ability to form guilds, the ability to chat with other players and group up to do warzones, the ability to trade items with other players.

It could probably use more social features and I expect that at least some are coming, sooner or later.

By getting the basic solo functionality in place, I have something to do while they work on other stuff and while I'm not doing PVP warzones.

What a bunch of unsubstantiated b.s. You state an unsubstantiated premise (failure) as a fact, and then proceed to base your argument off of that. Horrible rhetorical fallacy.

I also find it amusing that you then try to bring in a previous post as if this is somehow evidence of your claims. Again, another rhetorical fallacy.

I weep for the education system. I truly do.

Players like Kalfear want forced grouping. One can only speculate why. I certainly have no trouble grouping when I want to, with the players I want to group with.

I can't say that MMOs need a story but I know this one does!

If a Star Wars MMO didn't have a story, it's not Star Wars.

Ultima Online had a small back story but that was it. It was up to us players to create a story for our characters. The reason for this is because when we logged in, we WERE our characters. It was a virtual WORLD where you were immersed and you were who you logged in as for a few hours.

Your adventures were your story and everyday in Ultima Online was different.

Those times are gone. Now its theme park raid or die for gear and thats it, sad indeed.

Don't use "the majority" please. You have no idea if you speak for the majority or not. Unless a poll is taken of every single player in the game nobody knows what the majority think.





Anyhoo..........yes, for me this game does need one. I'd have been bored rigid ages ago and probably unsubbed by now without it.

That is such a load of bullcrap. There is no way you can do that unless you play this game to the point of where it no longer healthy. Judging by your attitude you have surpased that point many moons ago.

wow feels dead and still has 5x more subs during a downtime in an expanion.. what does that say?