Why are people telling me to give this game more time?

The game is broken in many places. Stop playing. Hide under a rock until Guild Wars 2 is out. Play GW2. Come back to SW:TOR and realise nothings changed. Back to GW2. +500 light side points.

I understand the idea of giving a game more time. I don't understand the idea that you have to stay subscribed to a game while you give it more time.

I paid 60 dollars for this video game (a finished product) and found that it was riddled with bugs and stuttering PvP (I play as a 30 sniper and many times my abilities cancel for no reason, causing me to die and evently /ragequit). I get irritated when I get sold something thats not functional. Don't stop reading there please. I know how many of you like to stop reading negative opinions early.

I come on these forums to trying to find a reason why the game was released like this; no devs respond and people just tell me to "give it time"? According to some scholarly gentlemen on these forums, apparently MMOs are always released in a crappy state. Why not complain to the companies so that they stop being released in a crappy state? Wouldn't that make sense for our futures as gamers?

Maybe BioWare/EA does not have any interest in their customers and they made a Star Wars MMO because they knew it would sell even if it was a flop?

Maybe they are releasing a bunch of new content (e.g. http://www.swtor.com/blog/sneak-peek-james-ohlen) just as everyone's free month that came with their SWTOR Christmas present runs out in an attempt to catch a few of them for another month or two?

Maybe they added Starfox style "space combat" for a little extra PR?

I feel like BioWare/EA is doing just enough to slip by and make a profit. Hell, even when getting personal with a BioWare representative (see: http://www.reddit.com/r/swtor/commen...ager_for_star/) we still can't get a straight answer. It seems eventually is a popular word around here. What people need to understand is that "eventually" fixing a product is not going to cut it in a competitive market. I'm also reading that there are a number of fixes were stated in beta testing that were not fixed upon release. That is the most disappointing issue for me that leads me to believe BioWare/EA just used the beta as advertising and hoping to get people hooked before release. If bugs aren't fixed in beta, then when are they fixed? In engineering, you know what happens when mistakes are not found in beta stages of development and a product is released? PEOPLE DIE. (See: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35110966...erators-stick/)

Ok, well people may not die from this video game. They could waste $60, $80, $150, which is close.... I guess??.. No. Anyways.

So were my expectations too high when I expecting a video game on the shelf to be fully functional? Or should I always just wait a year after the release of an MMO to buy it? I want to know your guys opinions on this. I feel like companies should be held responsible when they rush products out the door like this and the customers are the ones that suffer.



(Also releasing a game without high textures??? I want what ever they were smoking.)

Not everything is a troll BTW.

And to answer your signature. SWTOR isn't as open as WoW, and yet still has the worst aspects of WoW (Macro combat, tank and spank bosses, and even EASIER end game content)

Wow show's how much you know about Lucas Arts. They will not take this game Free to play, it will be shutdown before that happens. Bio-ware some time ago put out there that if they had 300k subs that game is doing good and if they had 500k there doing fantastic. An with them having over one million people playing right now odds are they well have no problem hitting that 300-500k mark. I my self do not see them keeping a million but, more odd things have happen.

I paid 60 dollars for this video game (a finished product)

The game is broken in many places. Stop playing. Hide under a rock until Guild Wars 2 is out. Play GW2. Come back to SW:TOR and realise nothings changed. Back to GW2. +500 light side points.