Why are so many people saying this game is bad?

I stopped reading after that. How can you expect to not be called a brat, when you post statements like these which are blatently untrue to prove you are right?

I remember Wow classic's release. I think the first patch took them three days to recover from. Three days in which I could not play.. They also had much more bugs and crashes and unexpected downtime than this game.

Level 35 now. I feel if I have to kill one more droid, make my way through one more imperial camp or warehouse, I may scream! OMG, did the designers have no imagination so that every small, cramped world had to be so much like the ones before. I feel the gameplay started off great, but after Tatooine, the repetition is wearing me down. I just started on Hoth. Again more warehouses and imps standing around and tons more droids. I hope this isn't all I have to look forward to.

vast majority likes the game vast minority trolls the forums.

Not equating successful with profit. All I am saying is if you look at the current MMO market today the popular games: WOW, Rift, GW, EvE, EQ/EQII, LOTRO, etc all focus on gameplay after leveling. The endgame. If TOR is attempting to change this dynamic, then I am interested to see how they proceed. Even DAOC focused on endgame. It was more PVP/RVR (Trials was ehh to most. I liked it) but it was still after leveling.

EvE has no levels or endgame.

You can be involved in corp vs corp battles immediately in EvE upon making a new character.

Hell, Goon Fleet took over entire swaths of space when they first entered the game just with massive blobs of players with low skill numbers.

Now EvE is a game with the perfect infrastructure. I dislike the gameplay itself, personally, but all the "metagame" of how EvE works is flawless.

No endgame, no levels, just a world that you do what you want in.

If an MMO developer could combine EvE's infrastructure with a more exciting combat system, it would be the MMO to end all MMOs.

I know that on my commando I was given a quest by my companion of all people. So, a friend and I go to do this companion quest...... We unlocked a whole area of nar Shaddaa that we didn't even know existed. it took us on a whole different journey and all because of my trooper companion. None of his Sage companions had him go back to nar Shadaa 5 or so levels after we were supposed to be done with that planet. The odd thing is that the mobs were our level when we went back.

Now sure, you could've stumbled onto the area and remembered to go back 5 or so levels after the fact, but we hadn't, and probably never would've.

BioWare and Electronic Arts have spent somewhere between $125 million and $200

That's not "$200 million to $300 million"

Why do so many people say the game is bad?

Because, for many people, it is bad.

I am honestly shocked that people that stand behind/love this game are trying to trash wow and paint swtor as something different. What from this game other than voiceovers is any different from wow? And even in that department wow has been adding a lot of voice overs in cata.

1) crafting is a facebook version of wow crafting dumbed down and not balanced.
2) raiding is a broken version of wow raiding
3) combat is less fluid and character responsiveness is horrendous, the fact that I cannot use an instant skill that causes no gcd and a trinket at the same time because animation has to play through is seriously gamebreaking.
4) phasing is done far superior in wow and actually created a much bigger variety of quests than the doors they have in swtor, imagine if you could see a republic camp that you just "took over" by completing the quest actually being taken over by imperials and seeing them there if you run by in the future, wow has that.
5) PVP, they gave every single class an interrupt, a snare, 1 single target short duration cc, 1 aoe short duration cc etc you get my point every class is the same all that differs is that some are a bit more broken than others, but don't worry they ll fix it and every class will be the same
6) Lvling that is so praised has no replaybility value, in wow you have a choice of up to 3 zones/planets to go to at each lvl range, here you have 1. Just imagine if they doubled the number of planets and made the dark/light choices in the story send you to different planet of the two and how much replayability it would ve created, but I guess they didn't have enough budget...
7) Speaking of voiceover budget why is it that half the quests are either picked up from terminals/not voice overed or picked up when you enter the zone and then you have all the droid quests they are voice overed by a beep sound... not enough budget?
8) I do not even want to go into the the pve bugs and that it took 2 hours just to figure out how to get into the hardmode raid for us because of broken lockouts(had to create an alt and use him as raid leader for that in the end...)

My point is that this game is as close of a wow copy as you can get, don't worry wow will add "pseudo" starship/housing system and pets/companions which btw are useless at 50 other than for doing boring dailies, you can enjoy looking at them at your house/starship and click on the facebook style dollar sign for the rest of your game time to collect your slicing reward.

And for the record i prefer sandbox games such as Darkfall or EVE anyway, but to see people trash wow in a closest wow copy I've seen to date is as hypocritical as it can get.

Don't even want to mention ui, terrain, texture, performance bugs etc, the list goes on, but this game doesn't even have the such simple feature as summon based classes or mobs that fly in the air and can be attacked from the ground and well I better stop...

You are right about LOTRO. It's why I barely play it now. In SoA I enjoyed alting, as there were many places to level. From level 50 onwards there is just one route, with no extra levelling content added since, so more than one character is no longer fun.

If you have to spend months (for me, weeks for some) getting to level cap in order to start having fun, then you are designing it wrong. I don't care how many other games are also doing it wrong. It's true that it's what most MMOs do, personally I wish they didn't. I'm time poor but have a decent job, I'm the mass market and can afford to pay for the subscription without noticing. If you cater for end game only you are catering for a particular part of your market that everyone else is going for too. It's not normally good for business to concentrate on the piece of the market which is most competed for and least profitable.

DAoC was different. It was unashamedly about PvP/RvR as the primary activity, levelling was just a way to get you to feel invested in the characters. Very few games are designed so clearly with one playstyle in mind. It truely was about endgame (though for many endgame was Thidranki not 50).

Focus on endgame is mostly what happens in established games which are no longer generating new subs in significant numbers, so are focusing instead on player retention, though it's always amazed me that they don't invest in content for alts as well, especially as that also adds people to lower level zones to increase new player retention.