Slave to your companion

Just thought I'd share this. My BF, when he saw my Consular with Qyzen, hated the idea of pets and was reluctant to play. Then he created a Jedi Knight and got T7. Instant reversal of opinion!

A robot companion saved my marriage! (or merely being able to play SWTOR together )

I personally love Corso, Qyzen, and MQ. I certainly cant imagine this game without them.

I'm surprised you even notice your companion, I barely notice they are even there. I know they are there helping me, but they never get in the way. /shrug

Exactly Amonet! Lol And I'm not attacking companions. People are getting on here and defending them as greatest thing ever...great!! All I'm saying is I want the option to play solo without having to use them,

There is a guy on Hoth who you fight, and in the dialogue he talks about it being 1 on 1. You know what I did? I dismissed my companion and beat him by myself, just to play along.

You just want something to ***** about. Go play another game if companions really bother you so much. This is not the game for you.

You work for Bioware? lol Hey you an admin?

maybe for some classes the Companion is not so needed but like i said i leveled a sith mara and i have no doubt that they would have to turn up my dps or reduce my damage taken by alot to do the class quests. and i know for a fact at this point in time there will be some people leveling a sith mara with a healer and cant do the class quest because the fight has to go good rt from the start

For starters, don't lump responses together; you act like I started this thread, or that I've even made a complaint on the order of "whaaawhaa I'm a slave to my AI driven companion whaa."

All I've said is that it's a great single-player mechanic, but so out of place in an MMO that it shouldn't have even made it off the concept board (much like BW's implementation of space combat, but for different reasons).

If this is a feature that subsequent MMOs copy and use as blindly as BW copied and used ezmode quest trackers or heavy instancing, then it's a terrible omen for future MMO development.

You know where companions would be right at home? Post-BC WoW. I hear hand holding is all the rage in Azeroth.

I get your point that they can't be removed from this game. They're as ingrained as the incredibly linear, and therefore incredibly boring, story line. But developers have proven time and again that they'll mindlessly copy features from other games if those features are received successfully in other games.

Companions in this game, as great as they are in a single-player RPG such as KotoR, as ingrained as they are into this game, are tied directly into the linear, hand-held storybook feel of this game, the same impression that you'll see repeated time and again over the next few months as this MMO experiences the same population swings every other major MMO since WoW has experienced.

While you may not measure this game's success on the basis of how many millions of active subscribers it can maintain, BW probably factors that more heavily, and EA measures success entirely by that single metric. So even if you're content to watch me leave for D3, you'll be upset when BW pushes patch 1.X off because EA started cutting back on their budget. I watched it happen with WAR, and there's no reason at all to think it won't happen here.

Even if you think companions are a good feature, as I do, you should be fighting tirelessly to let BW and the industry know that it's not a good feature for the genre.

Your companion is not a pet! THEY'RE REAL PEOPLE.


Except for Vette... lol slave.

Whaaaaa companion AI?

I said I simply want the choice to have a class that isn't reliant on pets! Lots of games have pets classes and classes without pets and seem to be able to manage.

i believe that the companion in the game is their simply to mask a design flaw in the game most people like them because its a type of game advantage to have them up but some will totaly hate the Companion as i do