SWTOR is less than a month old, wow is 7 years old. Why do people compare?

yes please

Atleast the grinds have backstory and you can change the story line of your character. On WoW its basically "Kill these kill that collect these now go on your wyvern and do an end line quest".

Ditto. I don't understand how such a simple feature, one that has been in MMO since UO, is completely absent from a game released in 2011.

Even though I agree with this, i don't feel like I am grinding so much in this game as WOW. I think maybe because you have the companion to help you out, or, you kill 3-5 enemies in one shot in this game compared to WOW. Either way, it is at least tolerable. Still...the whole "kill this many of this" type of questing needs to be extinguished from gaming.

I am really hoping that this game can blossom into a real, healthy MMO because we need more of those and not less.

But I am afraid that these obvious, glaring, basic functionality issues will cause people to lose their patience very soon (when they realise how they affect PvE and PvP at 50) and then it will be downhill from there.

Bioware should have made a better job with the UI, AH and certain other things before release - period.

This isnt 2006. What the vast majority of the potential customer base demands from a new MMO was there to see all along during development.

Failing to deliver on the crucial stuff might break SWTOR before it even takes off. But I hope I am wrong.

Have fun playing by yourself, then?

The two games are in entirely different genres. Apples to oranges, let's agree to coexist because anything but the most general comparison is...well, silly.

There is no comparison!

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What? Out of all of the ridiculous crap I have seen on these forums white-knighting this game over the years, this is probably the crowning achievement. They are both MMOs. They both have paid subscription plans in line with the MMO genre. It has instancing and zones, (bad) combat, simple questing, a game-wide general chat system, multitudes of different servers for play, and an (utterly broken) auction house; these are all genre standards.

Just because Morgan Freeman is narrating a book for me with his incredibly amazing voice doesn't mean it is no longer a book that I am "reading".

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People expect a game that was released to uphold to WoW's standards, despite the fact that it may have been just released. It's stupid, ignorant and impatient. Of course, what do you expect from a society that's abandoned responsibility, grown incredibly impatient, and just continually sought after it's 15 minutes of fame.