Actually, the story isn't bad. But, it's one story per faction (there are 3) and one for everyone. The original 8 class stories here are probably the best in any MMO. The combat is a LOT different, so that can take some getting used to (took me 6 months to get out of SWTOR habits in it.) There is a huge amount of content and they keep adding more. (If you like large group PVP, stay out of faction locked Cyrodil, that tends to be a slide show.) It's built on the Hero Engine (although that is seldom admitted after SWTOR destroyed the reputation of the engine.) Ilum had all sorts of lag issues, too, so I expect it really is an engine issue, but they're trying to improve it and the no CP and Standard Cyrodil instances are a lot better. Population there is Huge. They've had over 18 million accounts created and the last report I saw said they had 3 million active accounts. That is split about evenly between PC, XBox and Play Station. Sad thing is SWTOR could have been that popular if management at EA had actually worried about quality control and maintained the original quality and class stories through the expansions. Of course, it would have helped if they'd launched with an end game in place so the majority of players didn't leave after 2 months. It never recovered and has slid downhill a bit more with each expansion. ;(

I came back to play some of the base story (starter planet to Corellia, by far the best story content in the game) and clicked a referral link (which are going away tomorrow.) If I know someone really likes SW, I will recommend subbing for 30-60 days and playing the 8 original class stories and all the planets arcs. Beyond that, it isn't really worth playing. And even the original story is now so easy it isn't even funny. As preferred I was level 22 leaving Tython. But, the original stories are pretty good and can be played for nothing in whatever gear you pick up. I can not in good conscience recommend the newer content at all (KOTFE and newer.) KotFE, like Last Jedi, destroyed characters and story and there's just no going back from that. So, now I play ESO, which uses Hero Engine and shows what you can do with the engine with a few clue cards (they don't tend to admit it's Hero anymore, but it is.) If you want to see what the engine is capable of, that's worth looking at (lots of gameplay videos on Youtube that show teh environment and gameplay.) So, I'll play through one or two characters up to Corellia and then leave again. The rest of you have fun and do what you prefer, but SWTOR isn't worth spending actual money on from where I'm standing.

Play the story (the original is still by far the best.) But the rest of it isn't worth it to me.

The system is stupids in the extreme. But, it won't be my problem. I am not going to do the same flash point over and over to get gear, it's not worth it. I am finishing my second character through the story and then I'm done. I'll play games that out out more content and pay more attention to their players. This expansion barely makes a DLC other places. So, I';m out in about 2 weeks.

MM = Master Mode. The hard version.

I'd suggest finding the instructions to disable bitraider, let the game redownload and try again. I expect you have a corrupted file from the update install. Getting rid of bitraider will reinstall some stuff (and makes the game more stable doing updates anyway.) If that doesn't solve it, copy your game folder to another location, delete the game and reinstall from scratch (overnight and hope you have a good internet connection.)

Well, you can always do what I'm doing. Play the story a couple times, get to 270-272 or so, remove your payment info and go do something else for however long it takes them to come out with something else that might be worth paying for again. They might actually get the hint (although I'm not betting on it.)

For the parts I've played, I have to agree. I haven't bothered with the dailies. I came back to see what they'd done and how the story went. I'm gong to try it on one more character to see if the companion return is decent. Gearing is absolute insanity. The total content is well below what I'd expect from a game expansion. For comparison it's similar to or a bit less than the last ESO DLC other than the operation (which I won't get a chance to try since my raid team is long gone.) All in all, it doesn't look worth continuing a sub to play. Quality is ok, but there are some odd bugs. Amount of content is low for an expansion (OK for a quarterly DLC.) Basic gameplay is ok but gearing is stupid and crafting doesn't look to be even worth the effort to do any of.

Give me a server just pre-Ziost and I'm good to go. Everything since has been anywhere from terrible to horrible. I'm here to try thew new story and have already removed my payment info again.

Well, that's a pretty long list for something that was supposedly tested. Glad IO read it since the character I subbed to play through is a Telekinetics Sage and their loot is f'd up. *sigh* Well, I gave them money for 30 days and removed the payment info. Not an auspicious start, but we'll see. If gearing isn't a mess and the story is ok, I might come back for a while (although my raid team is long gone). If gearing is a totally random disaster, I'll play the story and call it done.

I've unsubbed as well. However, my reasons are a bit different. The game has sucked since KotFE, both content and story. Due to that my guild went from 14 raid groups to 2 then 1. That 1 is now down to 2 of us who were logging in on raid nights. That was all the kept me here since KotFE. I may come back to play through the expansion, but might not. We'll see how it looks when it actually shows up.

Please tell me you're fixing the lag spikes. Tonight I am having spikes over 2 minutes as well as DCs. Makes the game totally unplayable.

That is, of course, assuming they make it worth playing alts again. They killed that with KotFE. And they'll have to have a path to level all the toons that I will NEVER do KoFUBAR with in order to be able to play them in the new content. And, I don't see myself sticking around if I have to grind to get back to doing content I can do now. It's not worth it. In the last 3 months my raid team went from 8 to 6 to 4 and now 3 tonight. Not much point in sticking around anyway.

It's still happening. Took me two tries to log on tonight and a guildie hasn't been able to log on since last week. But, since he can't log on, he can't report it.

Will you be streaming the cantina this time?