http://www.swtor.com/community/forumdisplay.php?f=349 Dear SWTOR crew,
Congrats on a very fun game and bringing back a continuation of the KOTOR saga. I do have some major issues with this game that my entire guild agrees with. Please take this to heart as I want this game to be the most popular MMO on planet earth. My first major issue was this game is very hard to interact with other players in the game. Finding groups is the most frustrating thing about this game. I understand this will be fixed in 1.3, but I would like you to add the ability to use group finders for heroic missions as well (which I did not see as a feature in the upcoming patch). The next issue I have with interacting with other players is there is absolutely no incentive for higher level players to help low level players unless they are incredibly nice. A simple fix for this is to allow the higher level player to receive some type of commendation or perk. This makes it more likely to receive help from random people or more rewarding for your friends to take time away from their endgame to help a lower level character. This leads me to my next point; the endgame content is the biggest flaw in this game. Once you hit level 50, finish your storyline, and gear out your toon there is absolutely no reason to continue using that toon. There needs to either be some advanced story, fun content, or a final ending to put that character to rest. Otherwise we are only left to doing Dailey’s, which are the biggest annoyance in the game. They are repetitive and boring and to be honest is not fun. It almost feels like a part time job just to do them. My next issue is with the story line. While I think each class’s story line is a great start, it has nothing to do with the major story that the world is set in. I think that once you finish your level 50 story line you should continue your story and play a bigger part in the battle against the republic or empire. Right now you do not affect the outcome of the cold war and I do not feel like I accomplished anything but my own goals to finish my very personalized goals/story. I want to know my character was important in the overall conflict. In addition to the story mechanics the light/dark points do literally nothing. I thought that they would negatively or positively affect what happens to my toon and the people around him. If I choose to kill someone are they no longer around to help me later on? Or if I save someone do they want to stab me in the back later? That is how I thought it would pan out; instead the story stays on the same track and your actions have no real meaning to it. Finally, the best improvement that could be made (to the story and improving in game player to player interaction) is to take on an apprentice, or being a higher ranking agent that is mentoring a new recruit. And when I say take on an apprentice I mean your endgame level 50 can open a whole unique 2 player story mode by taking on a low level fellow player as the apprentice. It would be awesome to take on the galaxy with a real person as a companion. In my opinion you need to keep peoples interest and not just leave things ambiguously open ended or unfinished. You have to continue adding story content to the endgame and make it possible you’re your actions to twist how your story comes out. You also need to keep increasing player to player interaction to keep things fun, exciting, and new. as of now all of my clan is basically tired of the game because they have literally nothing left to do and no story progression available. They have played through all the classes on both sides and are left with boring daley tasks and repetitive gameplay. I am begging you guys to take some of this to heart and hopefully build upon a great game and starting point.
I know I am only one person and my comments will probably have no effect, but please take it to heart and see if we can build this game to be what it should be. Thank you very much for taking time out of your day to read my concerns and listen to us—The Fans.
Respectfully,
-Adam
