Gamasutra: The Burning of Star Wars - The Old Republic

I am glad there are more people playing and that the worlds are more lively. People complain about "competition" with the full servers. They just need to tweek the spawn rate of mobs and clickables and there wouldn't be as many complaints.

We just need the game to be optimized for the latest drivers for the more popular video cards and bugs fixed and I know I would be happier.

It might be, I just know that even the gameplay was better. I know alot of us that still post were in beta.

It just seemed like it was good. Like what you were doing mattered.

It's not rose tinted glasses either as some might point out. I have seen alot say the same thing, now I wish I had taped some of it to let people see what I'm talking about.

Actually it is. I've seen it work firsthand. People think '$X a month is too much!' but will nickel and dime themselves into the poor house. Do you have any idea how many people eat fast food, complain they're broke, then when someone with sense forces them to sit down and add all those fast food outing up the whiner all but falls over at the total they spent? On-Demand movies work in a similar way. Make something cheap and easy to obtain and people will spend ridiculous amounts on it.

SWTOR has it's issues, but some of us are happy with it overall. but then again, some of us have realistic expectations while others expect perfection for free.

Okay, was hoping someone would post another one of these reviews.

Here's a review of SWTOR from MMORPG.com, one of the worst anti-EA and anti-SWTOR communities out there. It's dated 1/6/2012.

Video Review

Full Text Review, which the video abridges


Some interesting snippets of their review:

So, I ask you: what has changed? What's been added, and not removed? The only reason any people are going back to re-review the free to play SWTOR version, is so they arn't caught going against the bandwagon of hating SWTOR. Nothing fundamental has changed this game, and most of the categories, SWTOR scores 8's and 9's in.

It's hip to hate. But the facts are: the game is great!

Folks will tell you that EA bought the initial review score or that MMORPG.com was scared to anger EA. Of course, that would carry forward to today if true, but that doesn't fit the narrative.

SWTOR is not "great". It has "potential" but, in it's current incarnation SWTOR is lackluster, middle of the road and far too easy an MMORPG. SWTOR is a good "training" MMORPG for those that have never played. They are strong in teaching you the basics of MMORPG game play. They have an awsome story. They game is very buggy and not all popular video drivers are supported. Is SWTOR saveable? I hope so.

This is an opinion, not a fact. Your opinion is that the game is great, which is perfectly valid. But it's not a fact. Carry on.

Sounds like more hating to me, but there is some points to it.

The end-game does need more tuning, but its in no way anemic. What this game has is in essence the same thing WoW end-game has, so lets call WoW anemic aswell then, and that its not worth the subcription. Just cause WoW's questing system is crap and makes the end-game look better it doesnt mean the endgame in SWTOR is bad in any way. Ops are alot more fun to play than WoW raids, mostly because the game is simply better balanced and more fun to play. The difficulty of the content and the structure of the end-game is what needs optimising.

People that left, left mainly because of lack of new content. Every other argument is basically trying to take advantage of that fact to pull through. Like with every MMO it needs optimising, but it is true that the leveling experience is more rewarding than the end-game at this time. They need to streamline/make simpler the gearing up system. They need to add content at a good pace (wich seems to be happening now) and they need to tune the difficulty curve.

Also above 600k stayed subbed even through the drought months, so theres alot to enjoy in this game aswell. Not everyone goes and comes with the wind.

The author has a conflict of interests here. He is a former EA employee who seems to be a bit bias against EA games. He didn't do much research and may have an agenda. If he was a professional he would of had someone else do the review and done his research

Because, all former EA employee's must write glowing reviews of EA products to be taken seriously. Rubbish.