Is it me?

Bioware gave the game a bad rep by rushing the release and missing so many key features of a modern MMO. Not to mention the terrible performance that is STILL plaguing the game.

6 months later and they are on the way to making a great game, but its already too late. The bad reputation has already been earned, people have spread stories about how bad the game WAS. This is the same reason other MMOs like Warhammer and Rift have died. People quit due to launch issues and tell all of their friends how bad the game is, and that everyone is quitting. No one wants to play a broken and dead game.

If they want this game to go anywhere they need to fix all of the performance issues and release an expansion along with mass advertisement stating that the game has been improved and many features missing at launch have been added.

The "I quit" people obviously cared enough about the game to buy it and play it. Them complaining is often just a product of hoping the game will 'change' to something they'll enjoy more. It's also why people like me hang around despite my sub is running out in a month or two, and I can't find much desire to log into the game despite doing Black Hole weekly.

The article comments can easily be the same thing; but often just a product of 'defenders' vs. 'dislikers' and the battle between the two.
It's also not always 'the others' that's the problem. Trolls exists on both sides of the fence - and as we can see in just this thread alone - will be rather hostile in their rhetoric against each other. For or against the game.

They are easy to spot actually. The real problem is smoking them out because they will scream 1st ammendment rights, throw up the fanboy rant, then log into another name from another IP and continue their vitriol. Or maybe they get help. It's like watching a youtube of someone getting gang punked on the street. Other punks jump in to get some and score points until the target is unconscious or worse. Would love to go 'Without Remorse' on them but alas, all we can do is have thick skin and hope they get caught.

A much bigger problem (or distraction from a constructive discussion if you will) is those who scream that anything other than blind devotion to developers and the current state of the game is a "rant", or "vitriol". In all MMO forums I have participated in I have always find that the "whiners about the whiners" much more of a distraction that the actual "whiners" themselves.

The only people who can post here are subscribers. If they're griping it's because they're playing the game.

I think I can understand it as a defensive measure. Many people throw a great deal of time and emotion into an MMO often building a large friend list. I don't thinks these folks bounce from title to title, or at least play mostly on their 'main' game and sample the others.

Now, if your game world is invested completely in a MMO like WoW would you want to see it diminish or disappear to SWTOR? They would lose friends, character prestige, bragging rights, and be forced to start over.

People are always afraid of change.

The "I quit" people obviously cared enough about the game to buy it and play it. Them complaining is often just a product of hoping the game will 'change' to something they'll enjoy more. It's also why people like me hang around despite my sub is running out in a month or two, and I can't find much desire to log into the game despite doing Black Hole weekly.

The article comments can easily be the same thing; but often just a product of 'defenders' vs. 'dislikers' and the battle between the two.
It's also not always 'the others' that's the problem. Trolls exists on both sides of the fence - and as we can see in just this thread alone - will be rather hostile in their rhetoric against each other. For or against the game.

The only people who can post here are subscribers. If they're griping it's because they're playing the game.