Does an MMO need a story?

This would be a Star Wars game if every NPC talked Basic though.. I have to admit I do notice it being much more present in some areas of the game like dailies.

Normally though, it is a good excuse to spacebar through them especially if they are those dailies. You are not missing anything in the voice acting department then.

Man that's not fair, now you've made me wanna go milk some cupas.

What I do find a bit puzzling in Star Wars is why one guy talks in a strange language that that the other obviously understands but then answers in their native tongue and the other guy who obviously understands then talks again in his native tongue. Now either they physically can't speak English or they all are oblivious to language differences. The ones I hate the most are the pig people.. I keep thinking the things going to be sick.

PS In Star Trek they get by cus the badge is a translator. My guess is this must work the same. ... Personally I would prefer no subtitles... I don't think the garbled nonsense has any real purpose. Saying that I do know a smattering of Klingon. Not sure Star Wars uses an actual alien dictionary for their words. Puzzling.

PPS This is a Droid thing I guess given that everyone can understand the R2 units. Why they didn't program them to speak English I will never know. ...

I would much more prefer the dailies to be 'terminal missions' since its annoying to hear the same dialogue over and over or spacebar through it.

It was probably done to 'easy mode' your affection up on companions but then what's the point of gifts?

None-- and that's annoying.

Who cares! Why is this even a topic! And OP, I thought you un-subbed way back in January, don't you have a life outside of being a Debbie Downer to the SWTOR community?

I have been playing since the 1st Day of Early access and yesterday I just hit L50 for the first time and I am still having a blast and this is just my first character! I still have at least 3 more characters planned! Then there is 1.2 and the future updates.

Who cares what you think, but I cannot wait to see what else Bioware adds to SWTOR in the future.

Oh and yeah, I LOVE the story and it is the ONLY reason why I plan on creating 3-4 new characters because without story, I would not be hyped up to go back and do other classes. I'll just stick with my lone L50 character and continue to do Warzones and craft and endlessly become bored waiting for the next expansion to add more story and levels.

An MMo dosnt need a story no. TOR does because it isnt an MMo its an rpg multiplayer game.

An MMo has to give you a reason to interact with other players and make it meen something. TOR does not offer that mechanic. Players do not depend on other players for anything unless you want to do a hard mode flashpoint.

True MMo's let the player base use the tools of the game to create an eviroment that is unique to that server/world . It may be slightly differnt on another server where different rules apply due to player story lines.

EVE is the only true MMo left . You live and die by your actions towards others . You need other people to progress and get involved in the EVE universe.

To even call TOR, WOW or any of those games MMO's in the true sense of the word is just insulting to true MMo's. This is no more an MMo than call of duty is , Its a multiplayer game nothing more .

Not saying that I dont mind loggin in running a couple hard modes and logging off with my mates of course just saying dont confuse this game with an MMo . The again lots of you have never played a real MMo of course so I guess you wouldnt know. Hopefully one day someone will be brave enough to make one.

It's a great game, but its important that players express their dissatisfaction with elements of the game they aren't happy with. In this way, the development staff can get a feel for what players want or don't want and balance that against what is good for the game and what isn't.

My aunt used to have a saying-- when you get offered food at a relative's house, and it's lousy, you should always say so. Otherwise you'll just get it served to you again.

I think that MMO's need a story, I loathe and the detest the ignorant "Shut up and kill stuff" attitude that many of the hardcores have. MMO's have turned into vending machine games and I'm glad BioWare is doing something different.

Does a MMO need a story? Depends on the MMO. In a sandbox MMO the answer would probably be no it would not, or very little. In a themepark yes. Just because you didn't pay attention to the storylines in WOW doesn't mean it wasn't there.

If you want a sci-fi sandbox game go play EVE. It has no story to speak of. You should be quite happy there.

I for one like the story in this game. I also didn't think this would launch and be awesome out of the box, so very few MMO's are. I have this thing called patience and a life both help me understand why the game is the way it is. People whined and complained fro BW to release this. So they did probably before it was ready, but they did a year of beta testing and none of the beta testers complained nearly as much as i see on these forums nowadays.

i dont see how the game has failed.