To the Anonymous Insider

Good old anonymous insiders, got about as much credibility as my pet dog. Wouldn't surprise me if it's some imbecile from 4chan.

Nice to know we've got people taking it seriously though.

Never trust a person who posts their computer specs in their signature.

This as I stated earlier. That article the OP is posting about has as much credibility as a "two dollar ****** trying to convince me she's still a virgin". Even the "So-called" source link is bogus as it isn't even the source.

I live near Marshall Space Flight Center, and interact on a weekly basis with NASA engineers. What this person is not telling you is that the person he's referring to has been eaten by a species of intergalactic beetles from Sagittarius-Beta-5, and that the International Space Station is overrun by these beetles.

The beetles are sentient, and have established a colony inside Nancy Pelosi's head (which came perilously close to being exposed during the debate over ObamaCare, when Ms. Pelosi insisted, "We have to pass the bill to know what's in the bill," causing observers to wonder whether she'd lost her mind) and are planning to use her private 747 to seed Australia in January 2013. From there, they plan to island-hop across New Guinea and Indonesia, and make landfall in Vietnam, then track north to reunite with a sleeper colony inside the corpse of Kim-Il Sung. (The Dear Leader was killed by the establishent of this colony.) From there, they plan to tunnel their way into the Marianas Trench and trigger a massive tectonic shift that will unleash a 950-mile-long plume of magma that will vaporize the Pacific Ocean and convert the Earth's atmosphere to a permanent 98% humidity level, allowing them to relocate their entire planetary population from Sagittarius-Beta-5 to Earth and live in comfort, with an abundant supply of Democrats for dietary protein.

All of this information has been given to me by sources within NASA that wish to remain anonymous, but are utterly reliable. I could identify them to assuage the inevitable skeptics, but then I'd have to protect the secrecy of the mission by feeding you to the beetles. As it stands, the secrecy of the mission remains intact, because no one will believe you.

I would rather have a long grind with no actual levels. Like SWG leveling system.

I would also like all the endgame content to actually be hard and not made so everyone can complete it before the next content comes out. If you want to do something then you have to work on it and be better than it.

Now I am not saying that if you cant do something you shouldnt have anything to do. Even someone who just wants to log into the game should have something to do. Just not the same stuff as someone who has been playing this game since launch etc.

From what I read, he isnt anonymous but would rather not have his name mentioned.

They did a face to face talk with him where he would have to show somehow how he worked for Bioware. It wasnt some mailed letter with no signiture on it. I find it hard to believe that they would do an interview with someone without knowing who they were or not providing proof.

Strange interview of anonymous person who failed to say anything a ranting fan couldnt have said. Why did they not try to ask him(?) something that atleast tries to prove that he actually has some inside info. Now its up to the reader to decide if he wants to trust some neverheard journalist in some neverheard blog.

please for the love of god. don't blame leveling up. if you don't like leveling toons tsw is for you (it's the reason I will not play it.)

ontopic: every mmo in the past (including wow) copied aspects of other mmo's before and added own stuff or improved.

pre wow you could not level up solo and never ran out of quests to do while doing so. people calling post wow mmo's a grind don't even know what that really is. killing 15-30 mobs isnt much compared to the hundreds you needed to kill (without a quest tied to it, just go to the spot and kill kill kill)

so what did I expect from swtor ?

1. copy all good things from other mmo's (not just one = wow) and evaluate what you copy.
adding group finder while not making it x-server is the way to go, because people who misbehave need to consider that they are building a bad reputation.
but I am missing things like the skill chains from aion especially with the skill bloat some classes have in swtor. I can't even imagine a jedi guarding getting cool new abilities in expansion because the bars are already full. I wanted to see things from swg that worked, never played it but coming from years of wow and tired of it, I wanted to see things other mmo's I missed did well.

2. Innovation & new stuff: it came to short. while it is there, there's not enough of it. I mean copy things from other mmo's you build the foundation of the game, but you need to add fresh things, because people coming from other games WANT a different game than they came from otherwise why leave ?

3. pvp the ex mythic staff had it's own reputation in being the best in the market since daoc and WAR, where is that here ? the only thing they really did well was low level pvp.
since, open world pvp does not exist, because ilum turned out to be a (maybe the biggest) failure, zones while questing are not deisgned to put the opposing factions together. pvp is = 4 battlegrounds.
pvp in an mmo should always be about massive amounts of players getting together ? where is that ? juts because wow did that wrong it didn't need to have to be that way in swtor.

4. misc stuff:
-levelpath planet1->planet2->planet3 etc etc rift is the same with its zones and its bad. when leveling up a new toon I might want to go a different path.
-mmo's were always a believable simulation of the world it's set to. you have npc's that sleep at night and go about their business (of course it stops at day/night cycles, so there you go)
- things copied from wow that totally backfired:
4.1 fleet: omg everyone counted people on the fleet and asked where the thousands of players were ? even if a lot of them were with twinks on other worlds, they expected them to be on the fleet.
4.2 the mentality to have the casual player pay but not actually log on, you can only do that if you have built up some kind of addiction over the years first. it turned out, that an mmo without people on the servers is no mmo at all, even if they are paying. right now the strategy must be to have everyone who pays a subscription want to log in as often as possible.

5. endgame after all the mmo's that bled subscribers due to this I never expected bioware to do that newbie mistake. this mistake is totally enhanced by the fact that leveling goes to fast (the beta players warned you here) leveling up is the buffer-time developers need to come up with new endgame content if players reach max level fast, they will get bored fast (simple eh ? yet too complicated to understand for BW). said it often and will say it again and again and again. sandbox elements will help the devs buy time, because that will occupie the player in between content updates. a themepark only mmo needs a lot of content in very short cycles and I cannot imagine any developer in the world to deliver the content as fast as it is consumed by todays players.

And yet how much "WoW has this and SWTOR doesn't!" do we see around here?

I leveled a monk solo in EQ1 and even a Warrior solo up to L50 odd (he had a fungi tunic for L30 to L50-odd though - the monk didn't), it was possible, just hard and time consuming (even with solo classes like Necro or the later Beastlord).