Congratulations EA, everything you touch from Westwood Studios to Bioware turns in to ...you know what.

The fact is that this is a single player game with a monthly fee. When I saw the huttball in a gamespy video prior to release I knew they had lost it. Is SW really about sports? It is so far beyond SW that including it must have come from a former Madden employee. I knew this game was going to be anything but what I expected. As soon as hutball comes on at random PvP people drop out, happens every time for me.

We have kung fu panda coming out for WoW, definetly not getting that , well I am not 10 years old and I have been loyal to Blizz but that is utterly absurd. 1.4 needs to come out when it is done. GW2 will appeal to PvP players of SWOTOR. In GW2 you are full level at PvP, skill is the only thing that matters. In SWOTOR you jump in to PvP and get spanked as a low level player, contributions are minimal, 3 blows and you are down. If you dont have patience to levell up you will get your hands on GW2. PvP players loved original GW, even a PvE guy like me thought it was super fun.

Well I unsubbed to not to say I wont come back but it all builds on momentum when it comes to MMO. EA sank millions in to an MMO that they shut down after 3 months. Now they poured in well over 200m on a SW so they wont exactly shut it down, it will exist for several years. Imagine the licensing costs etc...they will probably get their money back no doubt. SW is a strong franchise, we all remember the first SW arcade game, it sucked but is SW. They will be able to maintain enough players to make it a viable business.

Yeah, I mean, tweaks are really usefull when you are hovering at minimum specs. In this case, my personal opinion, the game has a feel of cheapness. The colors are bland and the overall visual is not particularly appealing. Hence my surprise to why the performance is so poor on a laptop that as well above avarage laptops. It is after all a I7 and a 900mhz cards in it, so it is not that bad like a built in Intel card.

Well, then it is obviously that my specs are below what this game needs. Time to move on to other games like Skyrim on all settings high 1920x1080!

It is a mattter of taste. In my world, if I can see patterns of textures that do not appear seamless then it is not all that great. Nothing worse than seeing tiles of textures on a field.

If it is my computer then so be it! Not all games will run ok, that is PC gaming for you. But this is just strange becuse on plain sight the game is not exactly visually stunning.

Hi My sub expires on the 27th and I simply cant enjoy this game due to the sluggish performance. Even on low settings it runs poorly on my laptop. I have a I7 @ 2.2 ghz, 8gb ram, ATI 7690 2gb card and it just runs like crap. I have games line Alan Wake, MP3 and BF3 on max settings with AA 8x and they look and play spectacularly. Ok so I can put up with poor graphics, it is SW after all but it runs bad on low settings too! Tried pvp and it was just awful performance. I mean the graphics are not exactly amazing so there should not be a problem to run on my laptop. The main problem is in PVP, it becomes so sluggish that I have no idea what is going on. Custumer service is non existent in this game, I post in tech support and no reponse. I guess this game was simply not meant for my computer or my laptop was not meant for this game.

This topic is pointless. The engine is what it is, no need to debate the choice 9 months down the road. The light and shadows are very banal and althoug a matter of taste I find the graphics poor in this game. This looks like a game from early 2005. Look at Aion, it is probably one of the best looking MMOs, if I am going to stare at a screen for years to co e it might as well be a nice sight.

The latest content is a companion....good job that will make people subscribe to this game in droves , that is exactly what people have been asking for....yep this game is definetly heading in the right direction.

The problem is that companies that make these games are plain clueless. The current MMO modell is dead. People are tired of this type of gameplay since most people who play these games have been around since EQ. So here comes TOR and is basically EQ and WoW in a Star Wars cloak...duuhh! People are tired of this, come up with something new! If anyone makes a new MMO with the same gameplay and expect to replicate the succes of WoW then there is something wrong with those people. Stop copying each other and come up with something new. Here is a world in space and a million things in creativity to go by and yet its a EQ clone. Lazy! Most people that I have played with are Bioware fans, we love a good story. Paying to play a singleplayer game every month does not compute. This game is trying to be everything. Bioware fans are line trekkies or SW fans, like myself, we will defend our fanboism to death. This game should have been a single player game with an optional online element.

GW have a dedicated fanbase. At no point did I have a problem finding people to play with and the expansions where successful. It got boring after a year but only cost me the box price. The point is that there is no need for fees if you add a design that still allows people to interact just like an mmo then that is enough for a lot of people. The only time most people interact is at meeting points and inGW people went to social hubs to interact. What is the point in seeing a person in the middle of a forest? It is not like my experience in MMO is built upon random strangers in obscure locations. It is at social hubs it happens and GW made those interactive and the rest of the game static except for instances.

Now this is false, I have been playing WoW on and off since launch day. WoW horrid reviews? Do a search on metacritic and you will see who is lying. WoW did recieve a lot flack for technical issues but not for the game itself just check gamespy and gamespot reviews. They added more servers, upped customer service and added content. Like magic it picked up, at no point did guilds flee WoW. The game was more or less unplayable the first two months due to unable to log in, server crashes and other technical issues. The celebrity endorsement came much later.

OK, lets get this straight because some people here are just not facing the facts. WoW at its hight was boasting several millions of players on a made up IP that is not exactly universal. It was built on a RTS game played by nerds and people who never touched a person of opposite sex since...no body knows. Here we have a Star Wars MMO, a well liked IP that has millions of fans yet these are the numbers this game will ever get? Cmon guys, it was not done right. This game should be having the same amount of subscribers as WoW. It is Star Wars not Battle Star Galactica. This shows, that you cant just copy WoW and put on "add-your-IP" here and ship it out as an MMO. We have done this type of game design to death. There is nothing wrong with SWTOR but it is just something people have done now for 10 years, is it really equally fun as when I played EQ? No, it is becoming boring with the quest that, talk to this, kill X number of this monster for advancing the game. It is over done. The design choices for this game is simply overused, like Autotune in songs, or a fishlens in a rap video.