Played WoW after SWTOR: My Reactions

actually the fact of the matter is,weve got burnt out on WoW,i played for 4 years and didnt like the direction it took after cata. i am enjoying TOR,but there is nothing i get here that i cant get in WoW,and WoW does it 10x better.

I donot hate you. I agree with you. I still play WoW and will continue to do so for a long time to come. Some reasons are the same as you just mentioned. Plus I prefer how the combat and skills work in WoW. I do enjoy TOR however and am waiting to see what they can do to improve it in the future to decide if I will continue to sub to it. Graphics are not the number one reason why I would pay to play a game. Rift has gorgeous graphics, but I would'nt pay to play it.

TOR's graphics are better than WoW's for sure. But the char's armor up close actually looks better in WoW. The faces of course are a lot better in TOR. WoW also has transmorging now, which allows me to pick armor and weapons to use which I find to look the best. TOR's unify armor colors to the chest is pretty poor. Events in WoW are fun and totally a option for the player. Unlike TOR's most recent event.

TOR's customize the UI is a great feature and I wish WoW had it. TOR's story line and voice over's is great and much better than what WoW has to offer. But the number one thing WoW has which TOR serously lacks is a great looking for group feature. The addtion of the Looking for Raid which is also cross server, allows my friends and I to do the end game content in WoW on our time schedules. And no matter how some may hate it...90%+ of the runs I do using the cross server LFG tool are successful.

And lastly...I really think the crafting in WoW is better. With a lot more useful stuff to craft than TOR has to offer. Esp in the early few months when a new expansion is released. I never thought I would feel that way about the crafting, as I allways thought WoW's was not that great. But TOR's is worse.

The companion system in TOR rocks. I wish WOW had that for it. They are a lot more useful than say pets in WOW.
I hope they expand the companion system even more. With say kits you can buy which can alter thier primary roles.

Anyway, this is how I feel about the two games and I am sure many will not agree with this. But that is ok.

I can see why the moderator is thinking about closing this post. As about half the posts are offtopic.

While I personally would enjoy an environment like this; players like myself are sadly in the minority. The combat can't be to difficult or too 'skill' involved or its going to scare the 'casuals' away. Some may say that is a good thing. Realistically; the casuals are numerous, and hungry for games. They will flock to things that are simple yet enjoyable; and thus what ever is able to accommodate them will flourish infinitely better then any type of 'hardcore' game.

Sadly, I was not able to get into TERA to test it out. However from what little I've been able to see: I don't think I'll be able to convince friends to move over, so there is no point to perusing playing. When mentioned to my group; its met with complaints against its art style: to "anime-ish", a lack of apparent role-play tools (honestly SWTOR is lacking here to), and finally; the slightly smaller segment of female members of my group point to the ... [expletive] outfits the game calls 'armor' and won't touch it with a ten foot pole. I wish it the best of luck; but it just doesn't appear to be the game I'm looking for.

dont know why all the hate about Tera unique combat mechanics aside it also has another thing no other game on the market has(aside from some older games like eve,and lineage 2) fully open world pvp, guild vs guild attack anyone at anytime regardless of their level. all you do is roll up to someone and start attacking..no asking permission, no dueling. no factions. walking around in the game world just trying to get stuff done is a dangerous experience and keeps you on your toes. ive never been more alert in an MMO. and even during combat you have to time your dodges and blocks its a very satisfying system for combat. and guild vs guild means lots of server drama and rivalries something which SWTOR is lacking,(even on The Fatman its most populated server) since you only ever see the other side in instanced warzones and you cant communicate openly. not even Guid wars 2 has a pvp system like this. its all instances. Tera keeps things out in the open so if you are doing a raid boss you might have another guild show up and then you gotta fight them off too. I dont know why most MMO's choose the faction route when Guild v Guild is so much better a system like this for star wars would have been ideal but the way they have made the game world all split up and instanced makes it impossible to achieve this.

gotta disagree, tried it, it wasn't even able to keep me for an hour. I've never regretted downloading a beta more in my life...

Once Tera goes F2P I'm sure it will be immensely popular.

So like i said there in is the flaw, if its 10x better why are you here.

Then I imagine TERA will be dead within the first four months.

Seriously, they made an MMO that requires players to pay attention? Do they realize who their audience is anymore?

I logged in to wow the other day and my guildmates were like "Hey man where u been"

I said SWTOR and they were like "lol, I heard that game had no content" Thats when I pointed out that they have all been grinding out the same easy mode dungeon for 5 months with ZERO changes in game... They got quiet.

WoW is dead... To me.

SWTOR is not.

Stop worrying about how many people are playing a game and worry about how you think of it. If you like it, you like it. If you don't, you don't. Some people love olives, I hate them, that doesn't make them bad or good. I just dont like them.

because, like he said, he's burnt out.

People who go back to WoW, don't go back to level up a new toon, like the OP did. They go back to their old Guild, their old friends and their 2-8 toons they have leveled out. WoW is an end-game game.

It's kinda funny when WoW loses subs, people immediatly cry "it's dieing!" Not really, how can anyone distinguish which players left for good and which players left to take a break? What, MoP won't bring back one single sub?

Also, when did MMO's become a pro sport and when did we become fans? It's ok to play multiple MMO's and like them.