Not only is SWTOR too fast leveling (I casually reached level 50 cap in less then 3 weeks, and many reached it in less time even), but there's not even anything to do at 50. Except daily quests to get some better gear.

What else?

- legacy leveling? I suspect it will only get me cosmetic gear, as it's cross character.

- datacron hunting? I got all I wanted, anyway it's a joke, something for solo games, not mmo.

- pvp or raids? I'm not at all into it. Anyway, it's again to get gear, which I already have.

I can remember my fist MMO, Endless Ages. Skill cap was only 18, but reaching it was an ... endless goal. But motivating to reach it.

The only good part of swtor is the voice over. The problem is that Bioware has probably put too much money and effort into it, and not into the rest of the game.

And while I like voice over, I'm on my 2nd character now, and I now tend to skip the non-class quest conversation. The other quests are just repeats.

The reason why I stay playing, is because it's a star war game.  Most part are pretty basics:

- quests are simple: kill x or collect x.

- space combat is a mini solo game.

- crafting is way too simple

- many many many bugs. None of the bugs I reported during beta are yet to be fixed.

- graphics are basics

- no long term end game

- ... and many more, the list is simple too long

It's nice to see new content, again and again in LoTRO.

I haven't been playing that much the last few years. But as a lifetime membership from day 1, I keep coming back to try the new content. LoTRO is a robust and stable game, I really like the quests, some of them are more than original then just kill x or pickup x items.

Anyway keep up with the good work Turbine.

I will play Jedi Consular at launch, so I tried it just a bit to level 6 to avoid getting too spoiled. I found it not easy at all, being melee and not really good tank and dps. But I guess it improves at higher level, and with the tank companion.

I also tried a little bit of Jedi knight, to level 7. It's a pure melee Jedi. It looked nice and strong tank.

But I spent most time on a trooper, then went commando. Ended up lvl 19. It's a pure range dps. Female look is awesome, specially around lvl 10-12, I was all in white sexy moulded outfit. It didn't feel too much army-like then. 

Tanking is not really good, the heavy armor is the only defense. Basically it's all about killing fast before getting too much hit.

I played other classes during this beta week-end, then the one I'll play at launch. So I'm not getting too spoiled.

It gives at least a good feeling of the game, how companions are, their crafting/gathering skills, light/dark side, and many more... It's just like an introduction.

It also showed me I need a new PC, or at least upgrade it. 2Gig memory on XP is not enough. Memory was over 2.5Gig with only swtor running, so I was lagging badly probably due to that. I got 4 crashes to desktop too, but maybe due to my lagging too.

This game looks more and more interesting. Might even end up a WoW killer

I hope end game is not just about PvP or raiding. I hate either two.

I'm playing for a week now. The game is meh-meh. Past level 20, the game becomes a grind fest: kill hundreds or thousands to level up.

Combat battle-ground: if I'm not kicked 5-10 times in  a row, then I lagg so insane. For what? a huge repair bill, and some lame xp. Unless our side wins, then xp is acceptable. Often happened to be 1 shot killed. PvP damage is not well scaled.

Quests: daily quest boring. Main quest... boring too.

No crafting. No auction house. No pet. Only 3 classes. Specialization at level 49 only (I will die of boredom before).

Basically I'm staying ingame until I'm really *really* bored to death, which might happen real soon.

I would like to give it a try, I like the mythological aspect.

Being F2P, nothing is lost to just try it. But what I'm afraid about F2P game with PvP, is the cash shop. If players can buy stuff to enhance them, it really ruins the game. Having played Voyage Century Online, I know what I'm saying, the whole game becomes useless for "normal" players.

Shutting down is unfortunatelly for SWG the best thing to do. The patient was brain dead years ago already.

So many things has been said about NGE and CU. But my opinion is that SOE should have allowed different servers with both versions. Like EQ and EQ2. But SOE never wanted to maintain a pre-CU server. Too bad for them. And I feel sorry for all players.

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This game is more and more reaching my top list.

It looks like it's a real WOW killer

It was saying Pending, indeed.

I logged yesterday in SWG (after 6 years!) without doing anything, and now it says it expires 18/09. So it activated itselfs on login.

Thanks

Yes, I know it's shutting down. That's why I wanted to re-activate my old account to have a last glimpse.

What I didn't know is that there was 45 days free. I'm just not sure exactly yet how that promotion works.

Anyone knows when does it start, when does it ends, and how to see if it's activated and counting already?

I changed my station password last week-end (30th July), and I accessed the launchpad. But I didn't try yet to click the Play button.

But I'm just afraid the 45 days are already running, which would be a shame, it would end on 13th/14th September, not a good thing :(

Originally posted by aktalat

Originally posted by denshing

I want to login one last time to take some screenies of my character before he gets nuked and blow some fireworks ingame. But I don't have the disks and there's no online DL, plus they are still forcing you to pay $$$ and subscribe for the last days. Sucks but it's going to have to sink without me.

I direct an amazing ammount of profane words towards Lucas Arts for being the [Profane female item name] of the galaxy.

They say for the last month or so billing will be turned off and everyone can login and go hog-wild. I will try and get screenshots and whatever else from it. There is a digital download though, it's on the front page of the Star Wars Galaxies site. But again it's going to open-up in a few months for anyone to login and play for the last while, which should be interesting....

Read the article carefully. You won't be able to create a new account or re-activate an old account after 15th September. So unless your account is active on that date with an active billing for a month, you won't be able to log in later on when free to play is activated.

I will be there. I will also probably need to re-activate my account before 15th September if I read it well. Havent logged since a few weeks after NGE. But I want to taste the last moment of swg before it dies. And enjoy JTL for a few moments.

Pre-order +1 from me. 

Space combat suxx, plain simple.

Call it minigame, or whatever people like. It's just an addition so Bioware can say that space combat is also released with the game.

One thing I've learned about free Korean games with open pvp, is that it's not free at all.

The only way to survive is Pay2Win. And the more other players pay, the more you have to pay to be beter.

No thanks

It's good to hear about the storyline of the upcoming expansion... but what about added stuff. The level cap is increased to lvl 75. What about:

- crafting: any new tier crafting?

- any new classes, like we had runekeeper and warden added with Moria?

- how are the legendary items going to keep up with the level cap increase?

For 50$, I expect to have more then just a new region and a level cap increase.