SWTOR. Too much theme park?

Thanks, good talk. /pats shoulder

I feel better already

Which SWG?

The orginal? Certainly.

The one that closed down as SWTOR opened up? I dunno SWTOR is rather like a really stripped down and linear version of that (but with added story and voice acting) at the moment.

^^
this
sums it up

I am a SWG vet (Pre-CU and Pre-NGE). In fact, it was my first MMO and i still think that it's by far the best sandbox MMO that i have ever played. Well, until SOE decided to ruin it. Anyway. Comparing this game to SWG is just silly. I never expected this game to be anything like it, let alone be a sandbox MMO. I expected this to be KOTOR with a big emphasis on socializing and co-op oriented gameplay. Instead, i got a singleplayer game with a chat window. I told them numerous times during the beta tests that the lack of grouping incentives would be an issue but those complaints clearly fell on deaf ears.

BioWare seems to be more worried about "balancing" and pleasing the PvP crowd than anything else. Even with the upcoming patch, i just don't see a point in resubscribing to it for now. Managing to find a group for one specific Heroic alone is just a big pain in the *** for me even though i am on one of the more populated servers. Mainly, because of class discrimination but the lack of players doesn't help either. This is why they need to add dual specs to the game. Restrictions aren't fun. Freedom and convenience is. BioWare just doesn't get it.

I hope for 1.3 they focus on making the worlds more believable, minigames and add social activites besides mob killing. My game time is running out shortly after 1.2 release and I won´t renew it until the game changes drastically. Might take a year or longer, we´ll see.

The whole PvP/balancing focus is just way too much in favor of one specific fraction of players.

The game is dead, or at least dying a slow death.

according to my server, yes

you mean a game that is designed to be theme park, is too theme park?

that is like saying tekken has too much fighting

or

grand turismo has too much driving.

if this game feels too theme park-y, i would say the devs have done the job they set out to do

Too much Themepark. No Creativity. Unsubbed anyway

can't argue with this: They did what they did
basically what you said.