Since Class stories are "over" why not try this?

Class stories are NOT over and are NOT too expensive. Your assumptions are wrong. This game will not be able to keep people interested with mere faction based storylines. Makeb is proof that such stories are not sustainable. Many people are not going to revisit the planet with all their alts, I sure as hell will not. Class stories will continue with true expansions. Little dlc expansions will focus on the factions.

Do not assume BW has given up on class story continuation, they have not. Not once have they ever mentioned that class stories will never continue.

Any replay of the class story you finished will only work as long as every decision and conversation choice you made is locked. You do not get to change the story in any way, shape or form. You made those decisions, you live with them. Being allowed to go back and change things just makes the story pointless. I, for one, hope they never allow us to replay through the storylines we completed.

They said voice acting was some of the lowest costs of the game. However, they will need to find a replacement for Tanno Vik as his VA is dead.

I think making the class story quests repeatable is a horrible idea. It's bad enough that many of the repeatable missions don't really seem like they should be, from a story perspective (like getting a mission from malgus, for example). If I make an opposite decision on the replay, how does that make any sense for my back story? And there would likely be some sort of incentive to replaying it, essentially making it something players would need to do to advance, even if they have problems with the story conflict.

If you want to play the story again, start a new character?

Bioware has already admitted that class stories are a thing of the past. Hoping for something as developed and catered to your individual character is going to leave you with a sad face. As folks have already cited, Hickman made these statements for the recent expansion to the game.

So no big deal... each faction now gets one basic story line in which they have to link all classes to.

What I'd like to see, is Bioware take advantage of the differences in each classes story line and then create their basic faction quest line off of details from those original stories. To give an example, instead of walking onto Makeb and getting into the first quests of the main story line where the conversation by the NPC and your dialoge choices are virtually the same, I'd like to see different conversations than end with each class having to accomplish the same thing.

The biggest complaint I had with Makeb is while Bioware folks said that while the story line was the same, it "felt" as if each class experienced the story differently, I felt otherwise. The story was the same, the outcomes were the same, the experience was the same.

I don't think we need whole individual class storylines, but different conversations, and options in them coupled goes a long way to improving the experience.

And if we're really feeling frisky, adding in one or two deviations in the quests themselves based on conversation choices or based on each class would promote more of that unique and individualized experience that this game was supposedly going to bring.

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They can't please everybody... but small compromises would help. They have a story based, casual player community to look towards, a raiding community, and a pvp community... all of which are begging for new content. I don't envy them and the position they're in, but I would love for Bioware to do better than they did with Makeb. I hope they will... after all, they installed a unique series of weekly quests on Makeb that required a progression through the quests in certain orders doing certain things to unlock other quests. Perhaps this is some foreshadowing to a different approach to the game.

Regardless of future class story content, having the ability to replay Chapters 1-3 would be great in itself.

That being said, recent leaks show that despite what we thought, Bioware actually IS going to continue class stories. I for one am shocked, very positively though. Simply cannot wait.