Ur post is kinda all over the place and a huge wall of text.
But were a clubhouse and not a guild, somewhere to vent some qualms with the game without the trolls at the swtor forums to worry about. I'm going to ask to have the first post switched over to me and get this organized a bit.
And you like many sound like you came over expecting WoW 2.0 which SWTOR is not.. It has alot of WoW elements and will likely add a few more, but its also less then a month released while wow is 4(?) expansions and numerous content patches in. The game has alot of promise, and nearly endless room for expansion thanks to the fact that space is massive. It lacks endgame due too the fact that most players r just now getting 50, anyone before this is not a casual gamer and is the loud minority. That being said, my next post will be version 1.1 details, which include a new OP (Raid), level 50 brackets, and numerous bug fixes.
If this is an actual clubhouse, it's not very active - and largely in part because people already have others to talk to about the game..called their GUILD - which exist in MMOs.
I think you've taken my comment as hostile, which it was not.
My post isn't all over the place with intent, but it does cover several issues - which of course you are suggesting is the reason this thread exists "somewhere to vent some qualms with the game without the trolls at the swtor forums to worry about."
As for Warcraft..no I never played Warcraft to the end of my days like the others. EverQuest>Warcraft in fact Most MMos >Warcraft and WoW1 2.0 = Aion
Your defense of the game is futile and stale if I may say so.
We've heard it all before 'the game just launched,' 'it's early days.'
That's fine, we accept that, but when you produce a game that's the SAME in so many aspects as it's predecessors, then how can you also have the same age old mistakes when the game launches? Do they not learn anything from others?
And that's excluding the fact that many STANDARDIZED features are missing entirely..like a guild bank ..I won't carry on the long list of other expected aspects.
The game doesn't have much room to expand for two solid reasons :
A) The content is licensed, much like LOTRO - there's an extremely fine line of allowance with the lore.
B) The single player-esque storylines are very definitive and quite often include irreversable absolutes.
C) People hitting 50 just now are the minority, not the other way around. You can't expect people not to play because developers couldn't prepare working material for them at the end. And mind you we're saying 'WORKING' material, i.e. to be void of bugs that completely stop you from engaging an activity - not even completing it, but simply starting it.
The old trinity of 'raid, roll an alt, or wait three months' is still 100% relevant to this title, and it won't change no matter how long the game goes on - it's the mechanics, it's how it's designed and intended.
Why people defend it is curious. It benefits no one to continously support developers who abuse the generalizations of the MMO market. Equally it benefits no one to never be constructive. Unfortunately the former seems to go unchecked, while the latter is always noticed. You have to look through the flame storm and find the oasis. Apparently MMO developers are too stupid, moronic, under-educated, unconcerned, uninterested or not allowed to make any head-way in MMO development.
I like it, I play it, but I don't live it.
MMo players tend to have that habit and it's more glaring when the game(s) not even worthy to begin with.
