umm all those links are talking about questing and story... we are talking about the map and worlds. ill agree the story lines in wow was liner BUT if you wanted to get off the path and run to the left you could and you could continue to do so for a long time, you could explore and see all kinds of things. you cant do that in this game. that is what we are talking about in this thread. yea it shows yall don't read what people are posting. you see one word and jump to conclusions umm this for me so far feels nothing like an MMO...at all!! I havnt had to interact with a single person so far. I dont think anyone has said anything about cutting the story, BUT i have said in other threads that the stories have sucked so far and that the voice acting is atrocious so if stories are what Bioware dos best then *** mate?? why/how did they fail so horribly with this game?? (im talking about their stories right here) well in SWG we had player cities and it was amazing!!! you also had points of interest. in wow you had nifty lil things to find and if you were a hunter you had rare pets to collect. for explorers its all about nifty lil things like a statue of some great worrier that is tucked away in the side of a cliff that no one would normally see or finding a rare pet in an isolated lil grove. some people don't really care about power leveling and getting to the top level as fast as you can, some people like to deviate from the path and see what else the world has to offer. i have no clue what this person is saying...its not making any since at all to me B^( from what i can tell they are saying that since this game is story based it has to go somewhere and that somewhere is a strait line.. so im asking this....... WHY?? why must i follow a line?? why cant i deviate from the path?? how would that hurt the story??

i agree with you on the crafting part but not with the rest.. the planets were huge in SWG and they werent empty before NGE hit but they were after because all the player cities went away. there was also a lot of really cool places to find on every planet. also even on a speeder it would take up to 15 min to get from one corner of the map to the opposite corner. now i havnt been to alderaan yet in this game so it may be as big as you are saying but so far every planet ive been on has been tiny and very limited in exploration, the only MMO i know of that is like this one is D&D online and that game was horrible but it had even less exploration.

just out of curiosity how is this game a breath of fresh air?? its just a restricted version of wow in space...very restricted!! the things that set it apart from other MMOs is very lame, the story driven game play, and not to mention the horrible voice acting.

i have to agree with the OP the planets are very linear and don't allow you to explore much at all. i also agree this game feels like a single player game more than an MMO

awww i miss my Ithorian!!!! B^( kinda miss my Rodian too but mostly my Ithorian, I was soooooo happy when they added that race!!!

but this game really isn't free to play.. if you hadn't bought the game when it came out and already played it you would be screwed. there are way to many disadvantages for being a new "free" player. i subbed for this one month and im already canceling my sub. its just not worth paying for and with all the disadvantages its not even worth messing with. they really need to make this like other free to play MMOs, cut all subscription options and expand the market. yea you may get a lot of new people at first if this went to steam but most wouldn't stay long at all

and killed the game!!! wow and swg wer fighting for subs and they were both close. then nge hit and everyone left and went to wow. LA is the one to blame. them and good ole george.

Kel Dor, ithorian, and wookiee for me please!!!! though i would like more that are not so human looking. biowares reasons are stupid and raciest if you ask me

ill tell you right now if the NGE never hit SWG i would still be there playing and the game would have never died!!! and most likely we wouldn't have had TOR. if they would have just worked on debugging SWG it would have been a great game instead lukasarts came in and made it more "star warsy!" and killed the game!

technically ill be here till the 22nd but actually i left a few weeks ago B^( i quit playing WoW kuz it got boring and this game is just WoW in space, but with less options. i got bored quick with this game and was upset with the options im given when in quests. i choose one option and my toon says something totally different. the voice acting is also just horrible!!! crafting in this game is a joke!!! you don't do anything other than say hey slave go make this or go gather that!!! what fun is there in that??? no options for the look of the item or color? im so dun with this game, i may come back if/when they release a expansion.

No.... its boring and its basically WOW in space. no creativity on the players part.