Just Bought Game 2 Days Ago and I'm not Liking it at All/Here is Why

Hello fellow gamers,(if you want to skip to the disgruntled portion go straight to paragraph 3)

I'm a long time gamer from back in Everquest days, and I have played SWG for 6 years, WoW for 5.5 years, and many other MMO's. I had originally pre-ordered this game but had to cancel due to real life circumstances and didn't have time to dedicate to it or the money at the time.

Fast forward to now and I'm finally in a place where i can play it and enjoy it so i bought the game at gamestop on Saturday afternoon. I installed it Sunday and updated everything and then proceeded to play for 9 hours straight. Yesterday I played another 7-8 hours and I just got done playing about 3 hours today. A lot of that time was spent just taking it all in and exploring, doing every quest i could get my hands on and reading about skills and talent points etc.

Here are some problems that I'm already getting tired of and probably will make me not renew my 30 day subscription. I didn't choose a heavily pop server cause i read about the problems fatman was having with que times and whatnot. At the same time I didn't want to choose a low pop server so I chose one in the middle and thought I had made a great choice.
Well for the first 10 levels I saw maybe 15 people at the most and it was next to impossible to find a group to do the 2+ man heroic on the starter planet. So I move on from that area to the next one and I do see a few more people but again can't find anyone to do the 2+ heroics. In fact I watched chat and hardly see anyone talking at all. I've seen maybe 5 people out of the 20 hours I've been playing say anything. One guy asked about when he got his first pet, someone else asked about talent trees, and I saw someone ask about where a particular mission was. That was pretty much it, and I saw no one on trade channel and I got zero responses from anyone when I asked about grouping for the 2+ heroic.

I feel like I bought a solo game and that's not what I paid for. I realize I'm not yet high enough level to have experienced even 10% of the entire game but so far it is boring and I just run around and see no interaction at all.

I will give it a few more levels but honestly if it don't get any better I'll be cancelling my subscription and chalk the whole experience up to I tried it and it wasn't for me. I love Star Wars and I loved SWG pre NGE but I don't feel any epic experience with this game so far.

Hero +2 just slows you down. They are filler content for people who want to do something with a group feel. Like every other MMO you have played the game starts at 50 once the majority of the server population hits cap.

You need to roll a new character on a server marked Heavy, trust me - I've rerolled onto Canderous Odo, never had a queue, and rarely have an issue finding people to do groups and flashpoints (dungeon runs).

Trust me, you will feel like it's a multiplayer game if you roll on Canderous or Fatman

So why don't you roll on a more populated server and see how that goes? You only just started so it's not like you have a ton of time invested.

Bull...

This gane is designed to start at level 1, not max level. This game is all about story - if story and an interactive cinema style doesn't intrigue you, this game isn't for you.

And once you hit 50, you will be done with everything in about 2 weeks

You either spend 30 minutes looking for a group, or you're like me and spend 30 minutes in a queue to log in. it sucks.


I agree with the OP.


I'd love to see them expand the capacity of the servers and lower the number of servers they do have, This would allow them to be more populated. Higher population servers are always better for everyone. the only exception to this is for people who have lower end systems.

So you did nightmare mode 2 weeks after 50? I'm curious how.

He will probably say he hit level 50 last week and is already completely geared in Campaign gear.

Yup, Bioware needs to throw in more incentive to group up. I peronsally think the main problem with groups is no one WANTS to do it. Sure some servers are low pop (which doesnt help) but most are still medium ... it shouldnt be this hard! Specially in this fairly new game

I for one dont even bother unless I just happen to be at the fleet and see an LFG spam. Otherwise why go out of my way traveling, waiting for group, and risk a bad experience when I can just as easily gain xp and decent upgrades by soloing?