The inner workings of the game and the lack of effort put into the classes and the combat system that is the downfall. This game becomes very boring very fast. Good flash up front. There is a 4 cylinder under the hood and it is missing badly.

How did MMORPG come up with that rating. Someone much of made a lot of money or cashed in a favor.

Originally posted by Isasis

WoW was my first MMO and only one I ever actually played. I tried a lot of others but they all sucked compared to WoW. I even tried EVE, but the community was horrible compared to WoW's community.

 

I avoided playing SWTOR because of all the hate it gets, but yesterday I bought it and played all day. And wow! This just overtook WoW for me. The world (on origin world, and it only gets bigger) is huge. Graphics are top notch, in terms of art style and the customization for characters is amazing. But what really stands this MMO apart from the others is the amazing voice acting. It is better than Tortage in AoC, the only good part of that MMO. I just love going through this huge story that other MMOs just don't have.

 

I mentioned graphics, which are amazing and some of the best of any MMO. But the animations and cut scenes really make it. I've played SWTOR for about 10 hours now and having the most fun I've had in an MMO. My guy is a Sith Sorceror and its amazing going pewpewpew.

 

Also, the community is actually better than WoW's, which a lot of MMOs fail in that regard. There are people all over the place going about their business, chat isn't full of trolls complaining about WoW and getting groups is incredibly easy. This is probably a better grouping game than WoW, which already was good for groups.

 

Anyway I'll end this year as I know a lot are like "tldr"...so to sum it up: Best MMO since WoW, maybe the best MMO ever and everything about SWTOR is amazing. Never have I been so into a story in a game, MMO or not. Will definitely easily have 10 million subscribers or more if they keep coming out with updates.

I can save you the trouble. Start playing another game now. This game starts off good, from that point on it is straight down hill. The longer you play it the worse the game gets. If you like PVP leave now. You will be very disapointed. PVP is Really boring. I came to this game from LOTRO with 7 others. 2 of us left. Joined with another group from LOTRO we knew. Most of them then left for diablo. WE are all going to meet up again in GW2. The people running this game are Clueless. They just merged servers and started free to play for those under lvl 15. The server lag on our server makes the game very hard to play now. I was doing just fine on my old server with no lag. Totally Clueless.

Originally posted by Fadedbomb

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I barely have words for this. I've never EVER seen a game launch with such large numbers only to go as far as reducing their total server count to a small fraction of its original count. 10 or 20 servers sure, but 100s?! 

 

 

Simply, wow...... O_o;

Merged Servers, Now the lag is increasing to the point PVP instances are like reading a comic book. Last night we had to quit doing them because of the lag. You could not get targetting and attack skills to work do to the lag. We were getting messages we typed to each other in PVP instance 7 mnutes after the PVP match ended. Every time I think this game can't get any worse I am wrong.

They need to sell it to a company with a clue. The PVP is so non competitive that is boring at best. Win or lose its not much fun. You either stand there and crush your opponents or you get crushed and run back over and over. No real stategy, just a slaughterfest. So many bugs and inconsistancies it is hard to figure out what is happening at times. Never played a game were targetting is so problematic. Very frustrating to say the least. ALL in ALL really bad class design and game play. It needs a lot of work and looking at the updates so far the devs are even trying.

As people get a couple toons to 50 they will be moving on to other games. Eventually the new stream of players will dry up and this game will die just like Galaxies.

It is so much like Galaxies NGE version when it comes to combat that it is scary. Did they hire Smeadly as a consultant?

They must of hired a bunch of politicians to spend their money. They sure did not get bang for thier buck.

Its a waist of 7 days. Take from someone that had played for 5 months, its an average PvE game at best and the worst PvP game I have played to date. I've played pong.

Swtor is pretty graphics and some good story lines on top of a crappy gaming engine and class design. It looks to me like if they had 40 people developing this game 38 of them were artist and 2 were programmers. Only pay for one month then Do some low lvl pvp instances. You will see how bad the game was put together. Poorly designed game.