Story-based themepark MMO can only fail

So far there are 8 separate stories in the game, for most people that is going to take a while to go through. The current content is going to last a while, BW has stated that they have content ready, as in written, for a long time to come and I'm fairly sure they've already started work on that in terms of VO etc.

I'm willing to sub to this game, I love the stories I've experienced so far. Besides $15/month (less the longer period you subscribe for) is really not that much, especially seeing as I've paid such sums for other mmos before on a monthly basis for years.

Answer me this, did Kotor 1 or 2 have any kind of mmo/multiplayer component?
No?
Then your argument is void simply on that fact.

Why do you assume that MMO players want to play reroll after reroll? Quite a lot of MMO players live by the "Main". If BW is hoping that players are going to keep occupied by rerolling over and over they might have flawed business plan.

I never play alts, so they need to do something to keep those like me interested. I have subbed for 3 months because I like to take time and smell the roses (even cultivate a few). Adding a player mission creator would help, both SWG and STO have these. I even liked the random dungeons in DAoC Catacombs, that could work as well, or something like the skirmishes in LOTRO. The space portion could also be developed.

And people also need to learn the difference between "their" and "there".
In regards to your argument, I believe there is such a MMO. It begins with W and ends with "orld of Warcraft". It kept a LOT of people entertained for seven years.

My point, which you seemed to have missed, was that you cannot copy this magic formula and beat the company who invented this formula. I believe you can't even sort-of copy it, like a college student under deadline trying to cover up his plagiarism. The sort-of copy is the Story, one of the five pillars that TOR is built on. But, as I argue in my OP, Story can't hold up in endgame.

We gamers are a crafty lot. We can smell a WOW-clone a mile away.

it fails on a fundamental level because meaningful story cannot be generated by developers faster than users consume it.

What goes into a good story? Plot. Memorable characters. Conflict. Change. Interesting environments. Realistic dialogue. I shudder to think of the army of people that it took to give us such 8 wonderful, moving class stories in swtor.

1-49 had all this. I loved it, every minute of it.

Level 50 has none of this. My companions won't interject dialogue anymore. My character doesn't grow anymore. When i log in these days, i wonder, "why am i doing this?" and i don't want that answer to be, "because the best-in-slot gear is this way". That is the losing answer, because of this other game on the market that will provide more than the good people at bioware ever can in that particular arena.

Your executive and design meetings should turn its efforts on turning swtor into a sandbox game. Let players write their own stories. You've shown me where my character comes from -- now give me the tools to play out the rest of his career.

And for heaven sakes, don't ask me to roll an alt. Your mission worked, bioware. Your story connected me with my character. I made the choices that defined him. I want to play him, not some new random person who happens to share a last name. Don't make me turn him into some mindless raider or pvp commendation grinder.

Sun tzu wrote, "you can be sure of succeeding in your attacks if you only attack places which are undefended." raiding bosses, dungeon finder, daily quests, commendation vendors, and all that jazz -- those are the enemy's heavily defended bastions. I beg you bioware. Do not waste your resources assaulting those positions. You cannot hope to win.

Oh, and paying $15/month? It'll be the same with single-player games now. It's called DLC

It fails on a fundamental level because meaningful story cannot be generated by developers faster than users consume it.

What goes into a good story? Plot. Memorable characters. Conflict. Change. Interesting environments. Realistic dialogue. I shudder to think of the army of people that it took to give us such 8 wonderful, moving class stories in SWTOR.

1-49 had all this. I loved it, every minute of it.

Level 50 has none of this. My companions won't interject dialogue anymore. My character doesn't grow anymore. When I log in these days, I wonder, "Why am I doing this?" And I don't want that answer to be, "because the best-in-slot gear is this way". That is the losing answer, because of this other game on the market that will provide more than the good people at Bioware ever can in that particular arena.

Your executive and design meetings should turn its efforts on turning SWTOR into a sandbox game. Let players write their own stories. You've shown me where my character comes from -- now give me the tools to play out the rest of his career.

And for heaven sakes, don't ask me to roll an alt. Your mission worked, Bioware. Your story connected me with my character. I made the choices that defined him. I want to play him, not some new random person who happens to share a last name. Don't make me turn him into some mindless raider or pvp commendation grinder.

Sun Tzu wrote, "You can be sure of succeeding in your attacks if you only attack places which are undefended." Raiding bosses, dungeon finder, daily quests, commendation vendors, and all that jazz -- those are the enemy's heavily defended bastions. I beg you Bioware. Do not waste your resources assaulting those positions. You cannot hope to win.