SWTOR is less than a month old, wow is 7 years old. Why do people compare?

If things like combat logs and focus targets aren't in the 'mmo template' then something is really messed up with that template.

A lack of content at launch is understandable, even forgivable.

A lack of features such as UI customisability? Unforgivable.

To say 'well it took Blizzard X years to come up with that idea'.... so?

Are Bioware in some sort of quarantine zone? Did they never have access to the internet while coding this game?

It shouldn't be that the feature took X years for Blizzard to come up with, it should be the feature has been out for X years, how come we don't have it?

It's mindboggling that people are still like "STOP COMPARING IT TO WOW" when clearly Bioware could've taken a game that millions of people have already played, paid for, and continue to pay for and used WoW's 7 years of experience to build a game in the Star Wars universe.

SWTOR should've been all of the great things about WoW and been better than WoW and ESPECIALLY better than what we got. When the best and most popular thing is out there for everyone to see, allowing itself to be disseminated, putting its failures and successes on pedestals for everyone to see, then a smart person should take a look and make better decisions.

Let's go the obvious route: It's a PC game. What do people like more than ANYTHING when they play PC games compared to console games? CUSTOMIZATION. MODIFICATIONS. PCs have the wonderful ability for you to make the game your own and Bioware said NO to that model. They made a console game. Your class quests are your campaign and the PVP is obviously the MMO. They played way too close to home and weren't thinking broadly enough.

It really makes me sad that I have no desire at all to resubscribe even though I already threw down my $80 and tax. $15 is better spent on lunch for an hour or a movie or something and how disappointing is that.

I have a 2004 WRX STI with 7 years worth of performance upgrades. You think a 2012 Stock WRX STI would come even close to a machine that has had 7 years to fine tune and upgrade? Not a chance.

People say wow has so many fetures and swtor is bad because it does not have them... wow has had 7 years to improve upon its self. Give Swtor a chance and time to put in the things your ******* complaining about.... ¬.¬

If I am developing a game and another company had a good idea that I am legally allowed to copy I will either copy or try to improve on it.

WoW is 7 years old but Bioware had plenty of time to rip off ideas from them. I do not expect the game to run as flawlessly as WoW or expect balance to be perfect at release. But I would assume that they would implement things before release that made WoW so successful for so long.

Look at the GTN. Have you ever seen an auction house that was so hard to search with? Why not let us list multiple listings with the push of a button (5 auctions for 1 Mandalorian iron, for example)? Why not save the price we listed something at so it makes listing multiple items easier, at the very least? Why not let us sort by cost per item? These are things that should be standard on any MMO auction house. This is just one example of things that really should have been changed before release.

Will they (alone) make me quit the game? No. But they may make others quit. And since I enjoy PvP, I need enemy players to fight against. If I (or my guild) cannot find fights, we will get bored and move on.

In order to stick around as an MMO you either have to do something new and innovative (voice acting is nice, but eventually people will hear it all and skip through it all). Or you need to do something AT LEAST as good as the previous guy. If you cannot do better, than just rip off good ideas from other games. Players understand dealing with some issues at release. But there is a limit to their patience. I think that is why we see so many MMOs struggling a few months after release during the past few years.

Expecting gameplay to be as good as WoW during the release of a new MMO may be unreasonable. But it seems fair for players to ask why certain options are not in game that are so popular in WoW. Customizable UI (not even necessarily talking about addons), a better GTN interface, improved looking for group options, chat bubbles, etc do not seem like they should be that hard to implement. Other games have done it (heck, I could at least customize the appearance of my UI in DAoC 8 or 9 years ago). Why should EA Bioware/Mythic not be able to?

Killer analogy. It's like comparing a rookie racing team to established stables like Hendrick, Ganassi, Penske or Rausch. Unreal how such a simple disparity can baffle so many.