Quick thoughts on BioWare's direction with this game.

This is me in a nutshell.

Story is my only attraction to this game, if that content is going to cease and I don't see any information in the next few weeks, I doubt I'll even acknowledge this game till about December and check in again.

enough of the PVP/PVE updates, over half a year has been dedicated to that

Because people "like different things"....

There was suppose to be a PvP planet with objectives, and faction fighting and questing. Folks mentioned how they were going to "live" on that planet.

Or just looking forward to playing iconic Star Wars characters, or "living" in a start wars universe.

Amongst other things I'm sure...

Problem with that is that like the OP said they've pretty much lost that audience, and I'm not sure I see it coming back any time soon.

I personaly think that GW2 is being hyped up so much that it will never survive it just like the over hyping of swtor did it harm by gaining way over the odds playerbase and then losing a bulk because people expected the hype to be reality, the pvp in swtor is good, the bolster system is good and once you get geared for lvl 50 pvp thats also good.

GW2 is trading on the strength of dynamic events and level dropping but really when you think about it, people sometimes just wanna face stomp old areas for things like mats and helping others when someone you know low level cant find anyone for an heroic mission, in gw2 you wont have any of that and even top levels dropping back to help out will end up being the same level as the person there helping thus your still going to need others and at 3 in the morning runs that aint going to happen.

Then you have the dynamic events, ye they are cool but they are landlocked, how many times are yoiu gonna enjoy putting fires out and chasing the same npcs up and down the map. Ive not heard alot about gw2's endgame but the game does trade on pvp and open world pvp, so how many warzones does gw2 have because wow survived years on just 3 warzones and swtor gets its head caved in for having 4 and one gametype never seen before in an mmo.

And im not attacking GW2, im just being a realist, nothing can live upto the hype that gw2 is getting and swtor recieved prior to launch.

If i thought the PvP here was "good", I would probably stay and keep a sub. But in my opinion it is so average, its really not even fun, its just PvPing, if that makes any sense?

Guard the nodes or door, capture the hutball. get a new piece of gear.

yay.

Is GW2 going to be the bee's knees?

dunno.

But i'm certainly willing to give it a shot. WvWvW appeals to me greatly.

I personaly think that GW2 is being hyped up so much that it will never survive it just like the over hyping of swtor did it harm by gaining way over the odds playerbase and then losing a bulk because people expected the hype to be reality, the pvp in swtor is good, the bolster system is good and once you get geared for lvl 50 pvp thats also good.

GW2 is trading on the strength of dynamic events and level dropping but really when you think about it, people sometimes just wanna face stomp old areas for things like mats and helping others when someone you know low level cant find anyone for an heroic mission, in gw2 you wont have any of that and even top levels dropping back to help out will end up being the same level as the person there helping thus your still going to need others and at 3 in the morning runs that aint going to happen.

Then you have the dynamic events, ye they are cool but they are landlocked, how many times are yoiu gonna enjoy putting fires out and chasing the same npcs up and down the map. Ive not heard alot about gw2's endgame but the game does trade on pvp and open world pvp, so how many warzones does gw2 have because wow survived years on just 3 warzones and swtor gets its head caved in for having 4 and one gametype never seen before in an mmo.

And im not attacking GW2, im just being a realist, nothing can live upto the hype that gw2 is getting and swtor recieved prior to launch.

If i thought the PvP here was "good", I would probably stay and keep a sub. But in my opinion it is so average, its really not even fun, its just PvPing, if that makes any sense?

Guard the nodes or door, capture the hutball. get a new piece of gear.

yay.

Is GW2 going to be the bee's knees?

dunno.

But i'm certainly willing to give it a shot. WvWvW appeals to me greatly.

I don't think you understood what I said about GW2. I just meant that GW2 is going to make a huge dent in the game. It may be overhyped, that's for sure, but it's clearly a bigger threat than Diablo 3 and it's mainly going to affect SWTOR's PvPers even more.

That's going to ruin this game for me even further because I'm apart of the PvP niche. I did hear, though, in terms of (O)PvP, GW2 has it in the bag.

I get what you're saying about GW2, though. It'll possibly be just as overhyped as this game, but in terms of PvP this game pales in comparison with that game's PvP. Heck, if I was into the whole wizardry/medieval-type crap, I'd definitely flock over there because this game is a stunfest in PvP.