Did this game deliver on the hype?

Having fun? Yup, it delivered for me.

I love this game 95% of the time!

the 5% i dont love is how bioware gives zero S**** about operative and merc healers

Protip for kids new to life: Marketing, advertising and hype exist because NOTHING lives up to the hype and products would not sell if people knew exactly what they were in for before purchasing them.

This isnt' true.

Sometimes things live up to the hype.

For example, I kept hearing over and over how awesome the movie Titanic was. How it was making more money than any other movie in history. All of the critics were raving.

I /yawned however. I saw decrapio was in it. Not one of my favorite actors. I didn't buy the hype, thought it was exagerated and refused to watch it. Finally my brother convinced me to watch it.

Billy Zane was awesome. I got to see Kate Winslet naked. The whole sinking of the titanic and the build up to it was incredibly well done. Decrapio dies. It was just an great movie and surprised me big time and absolutely lived up to the hype.

So don't say things never live up to the hype. Sometimes they do.

I'm still playing through my main, but so far it's delivered.

TOR was meant to put the RPG back into MMORPG. It's done that. It's very story driven.
I do agree with others that it'd have been nice if your choices made more impact. A storyline with multiple branches would be very cool, but would be more difficult to design for, but would be very worth it.

I'd have liked to have seen the kind of phasing WoW has been using lately, in that you actually can change areas. Rid imperials or republics from an outpost and take it over.

I'm tired of seeing pvp in mmorpgs. They need to make some games solely devoted to it. MMOPVP. RPGs are supposed to be story focused. If you're sad about endgame content, then you got there too fast. The way I'd like to see TOR go for endgame, would be additional story arcs added weekly/monthly. They could be single player or multi or both. Maybe an option that if you go on the story arc with other players it just adjusts difficulty by however many players. Flashpoints that are very heavily story driven would be great for this.

I constantly see people complaining about pvp never being balanced. Here, on wow, and I'd imagine it's the same way on other games. I think the way the games always go about pvp makes it very difficult to come to any sort of balance. What really needs to be done is level everything out and make it purely about skill and co-op. Same health, same damage, gear is nothing but looks. Then you'd get a lot closer to balance. I find little interest in pvp for this reason. If I decide to go pvp I don't usually stand much of a chance without equivalent gear.

I can agree the higher res textures need to be enabled. It should be up to the end user to pick their settings.

I'd loved to have seen more companion interaction.

The game was fun when I started didn't have any expectations, then I hit 50 ....

Then I started thinking about the other mmo's I played before (T4C, FFXI) and I realised how boring and dead this game is.

Never have I cleared any Raid or HC Raid 1st try without even reading on it. Never have I leveled to max level so easily in a game. Never have I seen such a failed crafting system in any MMO. Never have I seen something that easy. The cooldowns are totally messed up there are no strategies, no combos (if you call ae cc+ ae combo .... wow)

I really would love to hear a technical argument of why this game should be good. I always here bla bla this game is fun and so awesome but nobody can actually provide any reason why besides voice acting which doesn't have to do anything with the gameplay and gets boring after you've seen all the quests anyways.

The graphics sucks, ability delay sucks, bugs suck big time, PVP sucks and is not rewarding skill. Seriously what is good about this game and please support it with anargument.

The sadest thing is that you compare it with WoW which is a ****** MMO anyways (I don't care how much it sold, Justin Bieber is crap as well just because people buy this **** doesn'T make it any better)

I'd really like to like the game, I'm bored because I can't play, I just think if I keep up supporting games like this then we will be doomed soon. WOW was allready one hell of a crap MMO, never would I have imagined that SWTOR actually will be worse

The irony there is that the ones making the movie were completely expecting it to bomb horribly. They said they were making a huge disaster/chick flick where everyone dies.

Cameron has even said the stress was getting to him so bad that he kept a razor blade on the editing room table with a note reminding him to use it if the movie tanked. =P

Not only no but HELLLLLLLLL NO

lol I did not know that. I had heard Cameron was under a lot of stress during the making of it but had no idea it was that serious O.o

It's just a good game, not the second coming of MMORPGs. So ... No, it didn't live up to the hype. I am not surprised. I was almost convinced it would suck, until I tried the Beta.