Patience wearing thin

I wondered how long it would take before the --- hey look WoW this and WoW that... you forget this game was'nt planned, designed and released in a day its had many years to get to where it is today.. a sub-par game with as much direction as a donkey with only 2 left legs.. yep its going round in circles administering band aids to cover all the self harm it keeps doing to itself rather than implementing viable content which hooks players in and draws others back.

Year 1 is not about standing still and seeing what unfolds it should be about all guns blazing to move the game on, attracting players, hooking them in and evolving the game ready for the next installment of exitemnt... sadly SWTOR has failed to hook, its failed to immerse, its failed to deliver on time, it failed to communicate effectively and it fails to even fix the issues that are dragging in further down the sinkhole.

Bury your head in the sand if you like... sure WoW wasn't built in a day nor any other MMO but any half-decent MMO doesn't allow itself to stand still and stagnate, but SWTOR has and the players have responded in the only way that really makes a difference, with their wallets and purse... and even now they are unwilling to communicate what really is going to happen with future content, heck they have backpeddled on pretty much every "we hear ya" statement or "this is coming soon"... heck even the level cap rise is in question as is what the Makeb "expansion" will actually be including now that F2P is coming "soon"

So your damn right SWTOR should of been releasing content before its a year old otherwise.. look what happens - this is 2012 not 2007 as another poster has correctly pointed out.. the competition has moved on... what BW released wasn't even 2007 standards it was about as fun and feature packed as something released in 2002 and they knew it was lacking and unpolished but 2011 christmas sales simply had to be met or it was likely gunna have a double barrel pointed between its eyes, never to see the stars!

Ok I posted the WoW patch timeline yesterday. Wow launched with FAR less content than TOR did. Community expectations of content updates are unrealistic.

An the reason game developers don't do this is they have learned the hard way how unreasonable gaming "communities" can be when plans (inevitably) change.

One difference however is, WoW launched with a larger game world which also was more alive and things to do than TOR had at launch. I can remember when TBC came out, there was still some places in Vanilla I had not been to yet. Sure fishing and underwater environments, night/day cycles mean nothing to some. But for many, those are small, but important additions to a game world to give it life.

I agree

It depends on what you mean by "content."

Also, comparing something that came out in 2011 to something that came out in 2004 is already a losing argument.

I mostly expect developers to stick as closely to what they say as possible, which probably helps to explain why BW is so tight-lipped.

(I'm relatively new to the game and am enjoying myself so far.)

Here is part of the problem, the bosses, know nothing about customer service or about gaming, I am sure they have at the least a bachelor's degeee in some kind of business, does not mean they know how to handle the payer base, they can crunch numbers. I would like to see a something about what they are working on, I don't want details or even a time line, just something to boost the morale in this game, taking care of your customers needs should be the number one thing in any service based company. I was glad to know that the space project is still being worked on have no idea when it will hit the game might be 3 months might be a year, but at least I know it is coming sometime.
One thing they are really quiet about is the open world pvp one feature this game needs badly. Yes you are right they most likely will never do this, thats where they fail us the customer, not just with this but in many ways.

My thoughts are that BW should have never committed to new content every 6 weeks. One guy makes one statement and when it doesnt happen the community gets upset. Understandably so but the expectation of new content every month is unrealistic IN MY OPINION. Im not saying other opinions are wrong, I just dont share them.

I'm pretty sure five years hasn't changed that adding stuff to an MMO is a complicated deal that takes a good bit of time.

Haven't they postponed WoW expansion pack, i don't see that game doing regular updates either. Infact I think Bioware is doing a better job at communicating than Blizzard. And sinced you played since BETA, we can safely say you enjoy this game alot.