Great post.

Unfortunately, for me, these little things are big things so I don't share your affection for the game. That said, it's nice to see someone who enjoys the game but has the same concerns as I do.

Makes me feel validated :]

Nice post and it's all true.Seems like mmo developers never played mmos or their beta testers are crap kid testers with zero knowledge

The game was clearly designed by focus groups with clipboards.

They have taken every safe step and all the guaranteed working components from other MMOs and bolted them together.

I have got to level 27 since early access, playing just one character. I'm a Guildmaster and try not to skip much of the cutscenes. I check out all the content that's available to me.

I see so many level 50s though, which is odd as after playing over 3 hours last night i gained one level - with fully rested xp - and questing non stop. Some mad grinders come over from WoW here i think, all of them. And that's just fact, there was nothing available to me to gain faster levels other than maybe grinding elites, which i am sure everyone else does.

But then all i see is 50's in warzones and driving round the space station, with nothing to do. All in the highest tear PvP gear, fully kitted out. The armount of warzones they must do. Soon the wall will hit.

More to the point, agree with OP there, lifeless, i can't find a group for anything, there is no need to group for anything, over 90% of the guild have stopped logging on, no chat, no trade, mindless and complete FPS style PvP.

Single Player RPG with group zones. They made that other game like that, can't remember name. Anyway, unless they churn out new and unique content like drones, there's no community here to keep anyone playing past 6 months, shoot me down if i'm proven wrong, but i'm seeing boredom already in everyone i speak to.

Well after a game launches the dev team usually splits up. Some works on the live game with bugfixes, some works with adding features and content, and some are working on the next expansion. Since i have experienced very little bugs in this game. I sure hope they are working hard to add features and content to the live game.

The game is great and i enjoy it very much. But that fourth pillar, the story. Needs to take a backseat for a while. Now they need to build and add to the other aspects of an MMORPG. And i feel that exploring and random grouping in the wilderness is severly lacking. I just love to go to a unknown place, hunting, gathering, killing rare creatures or beeings. And if i can make a few credits and/or deal a blow to enemy in the prosess, even better.....

I might buy this game, just to make a video of how bad it is hahaha.

First minut, me walking around in a empty world. Sad music.

Then change to action pumped music, but vid clips of me killing silly worms with my The Incredibles looking Sith!

Going to be the best SWTOR movie ever made!

Hitting 50 tomorrow...........couldnt agree more with the op.

The game is literally lacking soul. It's almost as if none of the leadership at BW is inspired anymore. It's really obvious in DA2 but even more so in SWTOR. Sad I really like some of BW games.

Originally posted by Littlebomb

Hitting 50 tomorrow...........couldnt agree more with the op.

 

The game is literally lacking soul. It's almost as if none of the leadership at BW is inspired anymore. It's really obvious in DA2 but even more so in SWTOR. Sad I really like some of BW games.

To be fair to BW, the SW franchise is "mostly that way".  The Jedi polish halos for a living.  The Sith eat kittens for breakfast.

The first 3 SW movies weren't really about Jedi/Sith so much as the characters.  The prequels were about Jedi/Sith and were rather more boring - "I'm good, you're evil, lets fight!", and the worlds were also rather more bland :(.

Anyway, to make SWTOR "more amusing", seriously consider picking the 'bottom option' in conversations, some of those are amusing (not the "I'm sith" one at the end though - they usually aren't funny!).

Some very valid points and observations, Eiikal.

I share most of them and couldn't agree more on most aspects.

Though recently I'm having a lot of fun by "playing outside of the box"; soloing flashpoints, getting to datacrons, killing rare world bosses, looking for and engaging enemy players, etc. Leveling goes a lot slower due to that but I'm having fun with it.