I have just cancelled my Subscription. I'm sure some of you don't want to hear this, If you don't then stop reading now. However if you are interested in my opinion then feel free to read on. I am and have been a game player for a very long time. I had an Atari 1040STe when they were brand new. I learned a little bit of programming in Basic but never went further than that, I always preferred playing the games to making them. When I was going through High School Games programming and the games industry never had any sort of formal entry system not like today, if it had I may have given it a shot however I became an Architect something else close to my heart. Now over the years I have seen games progress from the simple 2D platform game to the in depth 3D first person game play we get today. Over that progression and perhaps because of it my expectations of a game have risen, so have the number of bugs that I notice in a game. I have for many years tried to get involved in testing for many games and I am now considering switching profession to QA tester. As far as I am concerned a game should never go gold if there are too many game breaking bugs in it. This is the main reason why I'm leaving. I do not enjoy playing SW:TOR because of the amount of annoying bugs there are in the game as well as the amount of game breaking and spoiling bugs there are. Do not get me wrong perhaps if I didn't have such a critical eye I might still be subscribing, the game looks amazing and can at times be fun to play but the issues I see do detract from the game a lot: I have no wish to go through a 2 or 3 hr Flash point, complete it but can not hand it in as the point at the end of the mission isn't active because someone else half way through that mission offered to share another mission with me that just happened to include the mission I was already on! Ending the other mission then cancels off all progress you maid in that mission and makes you totally unable to complete that mission therefore wasting 2 to 3 hrs of your life doing nothing!
I'd rather not be in the middle of a fight and realise that the only buttons I can use are on my keyboard as I am now unable to click any of the ones on the side bars or bottom of the screen meaning that I may not be able to fully respond in that fight. Pressing Ctrl + U to turn of the UI then again to turn it back on fixes the situation but this isn't something you can do easily in the middle of a fight.
I'd rather not buy expensive items from a vendor by mistakenly ctrl + R Clicking the item when I wanted to Ctrl + L Click it to view it! THERE SHOULD BE ONLY ONE PROCESS FOR KEY COMBINATIONS AT A VENDOR!
When in PvP I shouldn't need to re-arrange my side bars to avoid using the top of the sidebars due to poor positioning of the PvP interface.
Why do I have to select sprint? Shouldn't that be something that is passive? my list can go on and on and the ones I've mentioned above are not the biggest but certainly niggle at me every time I play. This along with thousands of environmental glitches and issues that make this game look as though it was never tested at all. Like the Jedi Lvl10 cut scene that doesn't have a Jedi Consoler in it even though she is talking or the invisible mobs on Tatooine. Just exactly what were the closed beta testers testing in the year they had access? I have friends who play and love this game and overlook the bugs that annoy me on a daily basis, I love the Star Wars IP. I hate the fact this it has been sullied by this game. I've played games with a lot more bugs than this but they were never on a subscription basis and thats where this game also burns. Too many bugs for a subscription model on a game that is no where near completion. So I suppose I shall let you all respond with the usual forum response of KTHXBYE! and CAN I HAZ UR STUFF PLZ! Again another flaw of modern day gaming!