what's your swtor score?

I give it a 7.5 out of 10, slightly above-average.

I doubt it will hold my interest over the long term.

Which is an important distinction because there are a million professional critics out there who will keep this game afloat financially, therefore it is only their opinion that matters.

And if/when the professional critics aren't giving the game glowing reviews (and no, an 80 is not "glowing," it just means it's a solid game) people will be saying critics scores don't matter, and that it's only the players who matter.

7.5/10 so far. Good, but needing more love in key areas.

I don't understand why people bother with Metacritic. Anybody giving 0-3 on a typical game is deluded (because very few games are truly that bad, I've played some that deserved that score), and 9-10 is pushing the bar pretty damned high too.

It's more like a popularity contest of who can write the most scripts to bombard Metacritic with scores.

Oh well, welcome to human gullibility.

I was about to post the same thing. The user reviews are so biased it's untrue, if you click on a few usernames and check out other reviews for Bioware games you'll kinda notice that some people have a vendetta against BW. But saying that, some of the good reviews can be considered biased too in that respect.

I personally think the game is a solid 8/10 and I can't wait to see it improved.

I find that fact that Star Trek Online (terrible, just terrible) has a rating of 66/100... so yeah, I think BW did a lot better job than Craptic.

I'd give a 9.8. This is the best mmo I've ever played. Perfectly balanced pvp and Bioware was absolutely brilliant in mirroring classes so that if someone cries nerf, they will have to face the ire of members of their own guild/faction lol. BRILLIANT balance strategy.

The voice acting and story are the best of any mmo by leaps and bounds. I would even say up there with the best single player. The writers they have are brilliant, and please don't bring up how awful Dragon Age 2 was as story goes (we know). I would say TOR story is right up there with first Dragon Age.

Space combat is fun and probably going to see more evolution in this aspect, not that I'd expect an EVE type space experience in TOR.

I'm very excited to see how this game continues to evolve and become even more addicting and epic as the years go by.

http://www.swtor.com/media/trailers/...ch-documentary watch the video, very interesting at the end the reference to other things to be coming in-gamevery soon

I think the gameplay is pretty solid, looking past all the bugs that should be worked out fairly quickly.

A couple things they need to do in pretty short order, as in the next month. They need to fix the UI, while I don't think it's terrible, it takes up so much space, it would be really nice to resize this. Customizable UI is something they said they were working on.

They also need to fix the galactic market, as it is it's not very functional, I've said in another post that I'm not expecting anything along the lines of eve, though it would be cool, but the search doesn't work well, if at all, and the categories aren't very well thought out. Crafting materials shouldn't be sorted by how they are found. Other changes I would like to see in the next little while would be an improved group finding system, I like the one wow had for dungeons that grouped people automatically, made a lot of good players to group with that way, far easier than sitting in chat LFGing.

The next couple of months they need to begin adding a whole lot more pvp content. Seems like they just have scratched the surface with PVP.

Star Wars has a great deal of potential, the space combat right now is keeping me amused, reminds me of the arcade game from the 1980s and I think thats what they were going for, I think if they can focus their first expansion around taking it off rails and developing it into something that more closely resembles an open galaxy system that exists in Star Wars it would really give a whole new depth to the game.

With those changes implemented I could easily see revising my score to an 8.5 or a 9.

I've played a lot of MMOs in the past, and had some good experiences, Eve was fun and super sandboxy, though a little on the intimidating side, also had the best market system. Wow I played for many years, but lost interest after Cataclysm. Star Trek had a great space combat system, but the away missions seemed like an after thought and thus the whole game got old really quick. Fallen Earth was lots of fun, but was buggy for the longest time, had always meant to return to it. Thought Perpetuum was an interesting idea. There were a couple others I can't think of off hand.

My god, leave this game please!

I like the travelling, I feel like im in a fricking big galaxy and im glad for that! Sod your silly desires to be spoon fed everything in your computer chair, go work for it.

I agree with this sentiment, Every MMORPG I have played, and even the best RPGs I've played have had large worlds that involve a great deal of travelling. It really makes the games so immersive and so different from other types of games. I remember when I first started playing fallen earth I had to go back to help a friend and it took me nearly an hour to reach his location they hadn't implemented fast travel yet. The journey was part of the experience. I find Swtor in that regard has a fairly happy medium, I find travel to be fairly easy, and can get around quickly if I need to.

New to MMO's huh?