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CosmicKat
12.07.2012 , 11:18 AM | #31
Having to wait till February for new episodes of Walking Dead and Revolution.

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fuskr
12.07.2012 , 11:20 AM | #32
People like you, annoy me.
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KariTalRathe
12.07.2012 , 11:25 AM | #33
I've thought of a 3rd as it is only recently the penny dropped. The Modification vendors that take commendations as payment never have the mods for my character's main stat at as high a level as they do for other characters

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Urael
12.07.2012 , 11:26 AM | #34
Quote: Originally Posted by BlueArab View Post
So after playing this game for a while now, was sub'd at launch, but didn't actually start playing until about six months after, there have been a lot of changes.

I thought, lets make a collaborative list of things that you don't enjoy in the game, are annoyed by, or anything else. Can be community based, game based, or whatever it is that gets to you.

Get a bit of heated debate going, but try to keep it somewhat respectful.

I'll start it off then:

Flashpoints/Operations
- Tanks who think they are dps
- Tanks who can't hold aggro
- Anyone who breaks cc
- Dps who jump into fights before the tank
- Healers who think they are dps
- Healers who don't heal the tank

PVP
- People who can't defend a node/wall, ie they are right there and have it stealthed from them
- People who don't call attacks
- People who don't react to calls
- Tanks that don't use guard, or don't use it on the right players
- People that have no concept of following the most basic strategies
- Or people that break those strategies on purpose

As you can see, mine are players based, because it seems as though a lot of players go out of their way to do stupid crap.
Examining your list, TBH, they apply to every MMORPG in one way or another (names of abilites not with standing). I would think that anyone who is a long time MMORPG player has encountered these at some point. I agree with your list but, it would be interesting if there were any "unique" annoyances (or strengths) that you encountered with SWTOR. Again, TBH, SWTOR is "just another" MMORPG nothing unique to it as some would like the MMORPGaverse to believe.

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Thehellfire
12.07.2012 , 11:26 AM | #35
Quote: Originally Posted by BlueArab View Post
So after playing this game for a while now, was sub'd at launch, but didn't actually start playing until about six months after, there have been a lot of changes.

I thought, lets make a collaborative list of things that you don't enjoy in the game, are annoyed by, or anything else. Can be community based, game based, or whatever it is that gets to you.

Get a bit of heated debate going, but try to keep it somewhat respectful.

I'll start it off then:

Flashpoints/Operations
- Tanks who think they are dps
- Tanks who can't hold aggro
- Anyone who breaks cc
- Dps who jump into fights before the tank
- Healers who think they are dps
- Healers who don't heal the tank

PVP
- People who can't defend a node/wall, ie they are right there and have it stealthed from them
- People who don't call attacks
- People who don't react to calls
- Tanks that don't use guard, or don't use it on the right players
- People that have no concept of following the most basic strategies
- Or people that break those strategies on purpose

As you can see, mine are players based, because it seems as though a lot of players go out of their way to do stupid crap.
These arent singular to tor these are gripes trhat you can have with ANY MMO. Id add players that run to the forums calling out other players thinking their **** smells like roses.

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Xatasha
12.07.2012 , 11:28 AM | #36
DPS players who think they know how to tank or healer better than tanks and healers. You know the ones that pull aggro and blame everyone and everything else but themselves

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uniz
12.07.2012 , 11:45 AM | #37
short bus drivers parking over mail boxes and gtn

pvpers who purposely try to flag you for pvp on a pve server

players who train a group of mobs to you while you are fighting thinking i will help them. or their mobs will add on to me and i die, not them.

players who only have 15mins to do hour long group content.

mindless general chat dialogues

being in a hm and having the other two players kick the dc tank or healer after 15 secs. then wait several mins only to get the same one back from the queue only now really heated.

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Lium
12.07.2012 , 12:18 PM | #38
Quote: Originally Posted by LordArtemis View Post
I have very few true "annoyances" IMO, but I will list them.

1) Companion lightsaber bug/run with lightsabers bug

2) Some of the pathing on the planets is far too restricted/bad map design


Taris is a good example. Plenty of tunnels and blocked paths, small entryways, entries not listed well on the map, recipe for frustration. Planets should be more open, should have far more paths to make it where you need to go.



4) The amount of loading screens/transitions when traveling long distances


This has been a real annoyance for a LONG time. I'm not going to list all of the steps...some are loading screens, others are animations, but overall it just seems to be tedious. Too many starts and stops.

5) In order to land my ship I have to use my exit door...in space

6) No chat bubbles

This is really obnoxious to me. Especially when in group. It's difficult for me to see who is saying what and where they are in front of me, especially when the map is full of mobs. It should at least be an option for groups, only for group member eyes.

9) Group finder is counter intuitive...no list of players qued, what they have chosen as role and what they are looking for. No way to know what people want and whether or not there are lots of people waiting or if it's empty. You just que and wait and hope.

10) Lack of appearance customization

This is really quite a few things that compile into one irritation. Lack of personal customization in appearance options (both toon appearance and armor), only color match, no way to change appearance after creation, lack of races to choose from, lack of variety and uniqueness/flexibility in spec builds, no spec swap or dual spec option.

11) Lots and LOTS of armor in the game that is not available to players.

Thats all I can think of at the moment.
I agree with everything here and just took out the ones that are not a big deal to me. I would also add to the above list:

Over-moderation of the forums. This has been my biggest pet peeve lately. So much so that I'm actually writing an article about it for the digital social media agency I work for as an example of precisely what not to do to help your brand/product.

BioWare goes out of their way to consistently lock, delete and move threads to lesser forums that don't get read that much. While I agree that many threads are redundant and that it's good to cut down on clutter, there are many threads that have good discussion going on that are locked or moved.

This instantly stifles community engagement and creates a rather sterile environment on the official forums. Check out the WoW forums (which also had a real problem with trolls) as a good example of some of the funny banter that is allowed to go on there.

Threads on here like that are moved or locked because they "violate rule 2.45678 which stipulates posting on the third week of the Mayan apocalypse after the planetary alignment of the Egyptian pyramids is prohibited . Thanks for understanding!"

Wut?

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Urael
12.07.2012 , 12:29 PM | #39
Quote: Originally Posted by Lium View Post
Threads on here like that are moved or locked because they "violate rule 2.45678 which stipulates posting on the third week of the Mayan apocalypse after the planetary alignment of the Egyptian pyramids is prohibited . Thanks for understanding!"

Wut?
Don't you know? If a thread is moved to a place that no one sees it or is deleted, the problem goes away.

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Starcrosser
12.07.2012 , 01:06 PM | #40
What annoys me?

1) Hooded robes (At least the inability for me lower the hood)
2) Armors with silly doodads that jut out so much that one can't step through a 1 meter wide door without turning sideways.
3) The lack of Sandbox style play (limited replayability). The story based content was great. I've done it. Now what? I knew this would happen when it was declared that everything would be voiced. Have you noticed that much of the new content uses canned responses from your character, alien fake langauge, or text only cut-scenes? This is because Actors cost money.
4) Crafting mission Time Sinks.
5) The pressure to group with others. All story-based content should be soloable and increase in difficulty as the party size increases. I'm a casual gamer. I like to solo. I like to take my time. Having to group up with someone who has done the mission 40 times and gets irritated when my gear is sub-par or that I don't know the optimal way to go through a specific mission is frustrating. I just want to play the game and take part in Star Wars.
6) The space combat missions. The ability to destroy 100 starfighters in 10 minutes while on rails is not Star Wars. It should be about dog fights and maneuvering.
7) Lack of Customization in all portions of the game.
8) Known Bugs that have been around for the life of the game.
9) The removal of the weekly answers from the devs posts. (I grant most questions can be answered with "we can't do that because the profitability factor is too low to spend resources on it", but I am truly interested in the health of this game)

What I love?

1) Having a companion character
2) It's Star Wars! I can play a Jedi! I saved the galaxy!
3) The ability to craft useful items for my characters without depending on other players.
4) The ability to have my own ship.

Wish I had more Loves but I will say the Loves I have keep me coming back .