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chryses Advanced Member Joined: 5/29/07 Posts: 1197	1/26/12 4:40:10 PM#1 Report this post Explain why you are reporting this post: (750 characters max.) I have played SWTOR for about a month now and I am glad that I bought the game. However, I do feel slightly guilty as I am enjoying it a lot as a single player and sometimes I even forget I am in a massive online universe. I will play through a few story lines but there is that nagging thought in my mind about what to do at the end. SWTOR has just been launched, I get that. But for me to keep playing I need to feel that there is something bigger going on and that I can somehow affect the other side. Right now besides the single story line, it doesn't feel like we are playing for a side or that we can really affect our enemies. Looking at Vanguard and the train wreck it was from launch. Friends and I still enjoyed going on a long trip just to run amock in an enemy city and basically feel like we are fighting for something. Even in WAR (I personally hated the game) you know you are in the middel of war and you want to fight. EVE online...enough said. In SWTOR I need to see some reason to fight and feel like I am fighting for a cause. It could be in the form of buffs (imagine logging on as a noob and seeing a small buff because some level 50's had a good day bashing the other side) or battles over resource zones or even control points that allow entry to neutral planets. Something has to be done in this space otherwise it will only be a good single player game online and one that people will leave once finished.
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Warsong Novice Member Joined: 12/03/05 Posts: 581 www.piratelords.com "To err is to invite retribution"	1/28/12 5:05:59 AM#2 Report this post Explain why you are reporting this post: (750 characters max.) The new war is hun ting down the groups standing around naked trading valor while now hiding in caves on Ilum! http://www.mmorpg.com/discussion2.cfm/thread/339372/page/1 PIRATE LORDS
aionix Hard Core Member Joined: 12/14/07 Posts: 190	1/28/12 9:09:14 PM#3 Report this post Explain why you are reporting this post: (750 characters max.) The engine is poorly optimized and can't handle more than 40 people on screen at once. You will never witness epic war battles in this game. I'm sorry.
darwa Hard Core Member Joined: 7/04/04 Posts: 1768	1/28/12 9:12:32 PM#4 Report this post Explain why you are reporting this post: (750 characters max.) The war is on the forums mate. It's a browser-based game. Didn't you get the memo? ;)
drbaltazar Novice Member Joined: 3/28/07 Posts: 7366	1/28/12 9:25:35 PM#5 Report this post Explain why you are reporting this post: (750 characters max.) the area foor war are there in various planet but so far there are no event going on so it is ilum or outlaws den