Unsubscriber's Thread: Tell us a few things

Really is that the deal. The fact that I have crafted my own 156 gear for 22 chrs that must be it. That is everything. Ips,barrels,hilts mods,enchants,armor,augs and ear. That doesn't include their gear as they level up. Just a note. Link where I said I expected high end resources every time.

Yup, a new guild saved the game for me. It's about the people you share the game with.

Why I've been sticking around for this long
I really enjoyed the game the first year or so but after that I've felt that things have gone downhill. The thing that has kept me around is my wonky nightshift schedule. I have a bunch of time off when there's no one to do stuff with and since I don't enjoy tele and can't work out all the time I'm spending some of that time on games. Or make that game, because I'm almost never keeping more than one game in rotation. So why not simply switch to another game? That's the thing, I've been looking forward to Destiny for years now but the launch, this September, came latter than I initially expected. There's been nothing els on my radar and with all the time I've invested in this game already I havent been prepared to move on to another game that may or may not be of my liking.

Why I am leaving
As mentioned above, I'm leaving for another game, a game I've been looking forward to for a long time and one that currently has an on-going Beta that I enjoy. This is not just a "wildstar" hype kind of thing. I have one of the oldest accounts on B.net and I've been an avid Halo player for almost a decade. Hence, I'm going back to where I belong and want to be. Swtor was just something I spent time on between Halo Reach and Destiny.

You can't have my stuff!

Bought the game at launch. Then was bored to tears and left for a year or so. New WZ's and Makeb story quest was added so i came back. I should add that Makeb was nicely done. 2nd best environment imo. Anyhow, I experienced frequent pc restart/shutdown while playing(Happens anywhere, fleet, Wz's) so I just unsubbed with about 2 weeks left on sub and before completing Makeb. Keep the change.

I cant even properly run this software now. No idea whats happened to this game since. And no, its not my pc. No other software does this. Not GW2, not Terra, not Crysis, not Skyrim. Will i be back? who knows. If both I and TOR are still around in a year and the problem is fixed, perhaps. Bye.

I unsubbed for a few months. Did end up coming back, but might unsub again.

When I did unsub, I went preferred and unlocked a bunch to play for free, but spent far less time with the game.

My Top 5 Reasons for leaving the game:

1) Far and away, the sheer lack of new story content released. Hasn't been a decent story since Makeb. That's not to say a decent story needs to be tied to a new planet or a level increase - even just a quest line that's faction based and updated every 2 months with a new leg to serve as a bridge between planet expansions and story content would be appreciated. And No, I don't consider Operations or Flashpoints story content, because that is end game raiding content with story elements - story content reflects the class stories and Makeb.

2) HORRIBLE release schedules. No consistency, and when something is released, its released over a 3 month span, making it feel like they are trying to fill in the gaps and seem busier than they are - would much prefer to wait until everything is done, and release it all at once. Related, the 3 month at a time for major releases gets so overhyped that by the third month, it wears thin. The point of hype is to build to a singular release. Dragging it out feels forced and pathetic.

3) Incomplete Operation Releases. Building off of point 2, it is idiotic to release just the story mode and hard mode of an operation, and then release the nightmare mode at a later date while hawking that as deserving of its own update. Overselling things that should have just been included with the original release of said item is just pathetic.

4) Communication. If I could sum up Bioware's Communication in a sentence, it would be this: "Worst communication out of every major and most minor MMOs." The communication is terrible. The lack of belief and lack of hype in Bioware's own product is discouraging, and it is especially discouraging when it seems like its done partially to avoid being criticized by the forum goers. Bioware's marketing Dpts needs to man up.

5) See Point 1. Can't stress enough how much the lack of revisiting what made the journey from 1-50 so much fun impacts my sub. Its the #1 key.

Terribly sorry, but dedicated crafters don't play TOR. Anyone calling themselves a 'dedicated crafter' on TOR is living a magnificent delusion, and look to real dedicated crafters like autistics with tricycles peddling their little hearts out in circles, thinking they're NASCAR champions.

If you like slot machines, TOR crafting is for you. Pull the lever, see if your 20% or 10% RE chance pops! Pull the lever, see if your companions bring you the crap you need!

Oh, so sorry, contestant! Better luck on your next spin!

Dedicated crafters. Lawl. Just lawl.

Anyway, crafting on here is at least two of the arbitrary five reasons I've left for months before.

What TOR does well, it does very well, and it does story well. They're not always the greatest stories, but they're generally done to my idea of pretty well. That keeps TOR on my 'I'll be back, eventually' list when I do wander off.

That's about it though. Raiding? I've been down that alley before in other games and I've strolled down it some on this one. There's never anything new down that alley, and the mugging never changes. I don't care for raiding or the raid scene or much of anything to do with it anymore, and I probably never will again.

Groupfinder's good. It'd probably be better if they cross-server'd it, because its really just no fun putzing for an entire evening waiting for a queue to pop on a dps char and never having one pop. I don't have that problem so much on my tanks or healer, but since nothing's account bound to speak of, tokens I want to collect on my DPS chars, I kinda can't most of the time, because the queues never pop.

They make lots of chores, and I can't even do them half the time no matter how willing I might be because of reasons. So there's strike the third for why I often wander off to other games.

Honestly, I'm running out of class stories to plink through too. I have smuggler and agent left.

There will be absolutely no reason for me to play this game ever again when I'm done with those, I suspect. Not unless housing turns out amazing and 3.0 revolutionizes many things.

Oh well.

My 5 reasons may be reduced to just 1:

I find the game great as it is now. It has space missions, it has PvP, it has Warzones, it has Galactic Starfighter, it has lost of PvE content, and it seems we are gonna get housing and guild flagships. Totally loving that.
But I won't be returning as a subscriber due to the lack of storyline class missions. I purchased RotHC hoping the "main" mission will continue and would bring more cutscenes, more companion dialogues, unique storyline class missions for every different class... and I was totally dissapointed, finding a generic story mission, no companions stuff, no dialogues. Just more and more dailies from a terminal. THAT killed the game for me. I'm not returning and paying anything on SWTOR as long as this kind of content is coming up. Remove companion interactions and story missions and this game is absolutely pointless for me.

It really comes down to the lack of content.

I know that there is no way the development team can keep up with the demand for content. Basic business model would have this as a good thing people want content we provide content and charge then 15 bucks a month which they are happy to pay cause we are supplying something they want. Additional content we can sell in the CC market which those that want more will also be happy to pay for.

Instead its hard to see much new content coming to ToR. It doesn't have to be new planets, it doesn't even have to be new NPCs. A few new quests a few new lines of VO and people are happy till the next big expansion. But instead it seem very very little is added and often with such a massive gap between additional content that should there be a story its hard to remember what it was or know why you should care.

As for what we can look forward to well for the last few months Galactic Strong Holds has been hyped to hell. Maybe not intentionally but when its the only thing worth talking about (lets face it 2.8 was a joke as far as updates go a slot machine really) it gets hyped. And when it arrives and turns out to be 36 rooms you can drop things in as the new content its not really much for furthering the galactic war or personal story or offers much for people other than the interior designers among us. Its not even as if we can build communities aka SWG. They are instanced flats and to add to this Guild Strong Holds are a flat on a planet. I hope the Star Ships will be far far better but even so after months of waiting will it be enough. From what we have seen no. Content will be redoing things you have already done multiple times to unlock chairs to put round a table. I just don't see it as creating a compelling reason to log in.

So in short BW need to start with content updates that aren't nightmare modes of content that has already been played to death or furniture that requires you to play through content played to death.

I've unsubbed twice due to the Tracer Missile animation change, though I keep coming back in the hope that it will be changed back.

So you unsubbed because BW changed an animation that had you spending half your time looking like you were suffering from severe intestinal distress.

And then resubbed to see if it had changed back instead of just, you know, logging in?

Stay awesome man.