Is SWTOR the pariah of MMOs?

You do realize this game is a laughing stock to the rest of the MMO community, do you not? Go in GW2 and lots of ppl will talk **** about this game n how it flopped.

It turned into one huge cash grab and went f2p in less than a year. what did you expect? The old BW team is to blame as well. Making an MMO on singleplayer standards was NOT the way to go...

Those are called skirmishes and they do not bolster a level 20 so he can do a level 80 skirmish. There is ten level cap on who you can run with. You can adjust it to a higher level but your level stays the same. There is no bolstering except helms deep in lotro.

I generally enjoy this game, but most of your post is nonsense. This game failed to meet almost every single expectation possible. Most of that was due to bw's failure to listen to those of us who full time tested in regards to almost everything.

- The game was launched far too soon.
- The time between beta server wipes was ridiculously short; and as a result most if the "endgame" remained virtually untested.
- What LITTLE endgame existed was shallow, bug ridden, and extremely laggy.
- The game takes the idea of theme park, which was honed to a science in WoW, and took it to an unhealthy level. As a result every planet just seems like a large dungeon. It makes WoW appear borderline sandbox.
- PvP failed to deliver on every level. It has since been run into the ground, ending up where we are today with garbage arenas; which a vast majority of players were vehemently against both pre and post launch.
- Poor Dev -> player interaction early after launch, setting the tone for future reaction from playerbase.
- The game missing many features which have become expected of a modern, post WoW, theme park mmo.

I could go on, but you get the point. Like I said, I generally enjoy this game. But the bitterness expressed by ex-players and the reputation it has is WELL deserved.

Whereas TOR chat is usually:

Jawa + movie title
people trading, forming ops, or telling people to queue for PvP
Some sexist and political talk, but nothing like in WoW

What server do you play on, because this doesn't sound like Harbinger, unless you have a LOT of people on ignore. :-)

Fine. Skirmishes. And just because it was a lower range doesn't mean it wasn't done there first...it was...or was it actually CoH that did it first with sidekicks? Isn't that the same as "bolstering"?

On Harbinger, you also hear what a skilled healer player X is, some apocalyptic drivel and talk best labeled "burn eyes after reading".

Ok obviously you have no clue what bolstering is. Skirmishes DO NOT bolster you, they are scaled instances that scale to your level. A level 20 can NOT be bolstered and join a group with a higher level you are level 20 until you level up. EXCEPT in helms deep. So no lotro did not bolster first.
I can't comment on CoH never played it.

But yeah, SWTOR does tend to get more hate than other MMO's, at least from what I've seen. Even from talking to people IRL about games, when I bring up that I play TOR, they look at me funny and say something along the lines of " Ugh why? Didn't that game die? "