What were the devs thinking??

Companions are the ones the I love the most in this game or in any Bioware game and I agree that they feel like pets at the moment. I'd love to see more interaction between you and your companions and I'd like to see them talk more often, not just in your class quests but in those normal quests too that are boring as hell. I hate when like 95% of the time your companion just stands behind you like some kind of ghost.. makes them feel really lifeless and dull.

It would be kinda cool if while questing on a planet and entering a specific area, your companion would ask you if you could talk for a moment and then they could tell you about the area or some other stuff they have in their mind.

Oh and I'd love to being able to fully customize my companion's looks like body type, skin color, hairstyle etc. in the future.

The OP left out question 7:
Why are we all clones that look alike, dress alike, and all have the same job? (a Sorc & a Assassin, yet both are on the same council? ..How many of you are the Emperor's Wrath? ...Yeah, thought so...).

I just have to say this: Diablo 3 isn't an MMO; WoW is.

So you see an MMORPG that supports as many individual storylines as there are characters in the game running on laptop HAL9000's in the genre's future? Oh wait - you were talking about today's tech. ... nvm.

It would also be kinda cool if we could get non humanoid characters to create. You are also right about the companions interacting with you more on the mission, because if they are not talking to me or having any purpose, then I would prefer if I could do my tasks alone, it would make me feel more heroic, but unfortunately, even though the combat is said to be "heroic" you have no choices but to use a companion or you will die. If you look at all major Star Wars fights like, Vader vs. Luke, Obi Wan vs. Anakin, Luke vs Vader Pt. 2 and more, you will see that there was no other guy fighting someone, it was one vs one, the way it should be.

In every other MMO it's been everyone being the "one" to save humanity or whatever race of sentient beings that inhabit that planet. Here not everyone is the Emperor's Wrath, and not everyone is Darth Nox. Only the players that play your class and there advance counterpart is. So you're much more unique storywise than any other MMO makes you out to be. Would you rather have it so you end up being a bum on the street? Maybe killed by your master and your character is now perma dead or his/her story just doesn't continue anymore?

This is the self-help section of the thread for those who need advice from the unengaged.

Welcome to MMO's. This is in all mmo's

How would you like it to matter? What you say in the VO's do matter to your story but, there not going to have it matter to othere players. There is just no real way to make it matter to everyone.

So what your looking for is the pick up the quest and more 10 feet and do it there? My fist 50 I did not do 90% of the bonus quest and was far from them out leveling me. You just need to go to all the quest hubs. As for the loot sell what you do not need.

I use my companions all the time on my 50's. Most of there story is done why you level so I do not see what your really looking for in them. Also how did not not get there just Pet's with another name?

How would you think Heroic combat would be in a game? Saber to lock when you block you just have to look for it. Also if your going by PvP people move so your not going to see it. AI in game's is not up to the point where there smart and react to every move.

So what your saying is that they need less quest fills but by going off your #3 they need to add more. so what one is it?

Also when you post threads like this post what you do not like and how you would like it to get better. Also point out how you would fix it. Kind of like all the people that cry out that they do not like the daily quest in game but they never post what would be better to take it's place.

Ironicaly enough, combat is imo one of the things BW did reasonably well. It's about as balanced as you'd expect mmo pvp to be and I dont subscribe to the "its not heroic enough" theory, atleast not in pve. Try masterstriking a trash mob to death and tell me that's not badtooshie. They've also polished the most major animation issues that plagued coreographed combat at launch.

He was the lead combat designer.

And the combat is pretty much the only thing in the game that I am OK with (with some notable exceptions like perma-locking in PvP and the lack of an auto-attack).

Combat is also something that Bioware has experience in. As opposed to all the MMO aspects of the game where they do not have any experience in and where the game fails miserably (like the failed player economy with a GTN that is simply horrible and crafting professions that are made utterly useless, the lack of end-game content, the lack of chat-channels across planets so you can talk to more than 10 people, testing patches so that you don't go live with easyto-see bugs like forcing people to pick an environement, cross-server grouping so you don't have to wait an hour, a LFG tool that doesn't even let you pick lower-level content like Esseless...).

They gave the Star Wars MMO licence to the wrong company, a company with a good single-player reputation but zero experience in MMOs. Let's just hope that Bioware will hire a bunch of MMO veterans and get their act together. Fast!