Perception that the game is dead

You can lead a horse to water but it's up to them to drink. There's a lot to do if you are motivated.

I play on two origin servers and about every 15 minutes I get a reminder that I can transfer across the middle of the screen. Really annoying when I'm in the middle of a space mission

Form your own opinions from your own in game experience.


TL;DR: Negativity about this game is complete BS.

The game is not dead. /sigh

All the complaints would make you think otherwise though. People are level 1000 complainers on the forum or other sites about this game. Anytime they can take a shot at it, they do because it's the cool thing to do.

Why all the hate? SWTOR does a much better job presenting you with the mundane than the other games due to the cutscenes and voice acting. I guess if you are bored with the quests it's because you feel that spacebaring through the dialog is such a chore. Choose a different reply to a quest conversation next time when you have a choice, some of them are pretty entertaining.

The MMO aspects of this game are lacking? There is PVP, PVE (Ops, flashpoints, world bosses, etc) , you can choose to be social and interact with others. When the game came out people were raging that there was no group finder, well it's there now. So many of the complaints are such minor things it's incredible. What in the world did people ever do without group finder? /sarcasm

The biggest and most legitimate complaint (and the one issue that did the most damage to the game) would have been server populations but that is no longer an issue as it's been resolved. The people that had accounts on inactive server got emails to transfer, there is a ton of information out there. Gamers are responsible for keeping up with it.

The point is that if you want to compare this to WoW it's not fair. WoW has 7 years of post release active development and content. SWTOR is a new, interesting game with a ton of potential and it will only improve if gamers will give it a fair chance, which they won't.

There is a large portion of MMO gamers that for whatever reason want this game to fail. They go out of their way to make everything negative and completely !@#$ on this game at every opportunity in forums or word of mouth. Negativity spreads like herpes and it's just as bad. It's undeserved.

The point is that people complain just to complain. I'm convinced that the majority of gamers have no idea whatsoever what they want in a game. They are willing to try the latest thing play the heck out of it for a month or two, declare it sucks (hey that's the cool thing to do) and move on to the next one.

Form your own opinions from your own in game experience.


TL;DR: Negativity about this game is complete BS.

or maybe people have more fun bashing the game then playing it.

Did you even read the OP? Or are you on a general rant?

The OP is in reference to the PERCEPTION that the game is dead because returning players log in to origin servers not realizing they need to transfer off of them.

35 people on Ebon Hawk last night at prime time.

This is actually the real issue for a lot of modern MMO players, IMO. They need the game delivered to them in an IV drip, rather then take any responsibility for their own in game choices and experience.

Not just limited to MMO players ... there is a whole big wide world of potential Soma consumers.