Why are so many people saying this game is bad?

There a few more, but i think this is enough of an example to get to the point. Many might not believe any of the stuff i listed is considered game breaking. But let me be specific everything is in the eye of the beholder. And these issues many people even the most loyal of fans of an MMO have stated as being game breaking. So let the replies commence, but you ask for a list and a list was provided!

That's a list of bugs and problems only one or two of which could be considered "game breaking".

Ability delay is the only serious problem the game has at the moment, and even then my impression from the forums is that it's only an occasional annoyance for most players, and only "game-breaking" for some competitive PvE-ers and serious PvP-ers. There are also a few vocal people who want the combat to be more like WoW combat in design, but they can be disregarded entirely.

Next most serious is the fps problem with high end systems.

But everything else on your list is par for the course for MMOs, the sort of things that are usually sorted out after a month or two.

sorry 3 weeks, how long has SW;TOR been in production? the game was first announced on October 21, 2008 thats 3 years and two months to launch date... AN whatever do not under any circumstances go down the "All MMO's need time" THIS IS NOT AN MMO it is a sharded, instanced, single player game with quest hubs.... PERIOD!!!

A more straight answer to the question... because its not very good for the very reasons a previous poster correctly stated...

the only game breaking bug ive experienced so far was the Taris bug- thnat got adressed as good as instantly. I have to say that yes there are some min or bugs, some affect gameplay but not in a gamebreaking way. Bioware updates about once a week to adress the issues- as any mmo company have done. Including wow.

Personally this game is what i aexpected, and a few things seems a bit rushed, but thats what patches and expansions are for

+10000

Real gamers received these faulty game mechanics as slaps in the face. Super scrub weekend gamers don't even know what we are talking about.

As we don't know the realy active player base we can't say "MANY" .

But some points are common:
- player who like the game PLAY and don't post at forums
- player who don't like the game do not play but post at forums
-> this leads to more whine posts then like posts

In addition it has happened, that concurent publisher "hired" players to spam negativ posts (Chinas 1 cent army). They paid 1 cent for every anti-post. Maybe it happens here too

PS: this is very common for hotel rankings!!