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.

These games are not meant to be casual but the appeal has gone mainstream. WoW and SWG at release were very difficult to get anywhere if you were a casual player. Just earning your mounts in the early days was a huge accomplishment. These are not the types of games you play for a few hours a week and expect to get anywhere. I played a new toon in WoW casually and it took me 6 months to level out, playing just a couple of hours a week.This meant I actually began having a life between the game and real life. This game is very easy. This should be the best game to play if you are casual.

I have played WoW for about 5 years, cancelled earlier this year. Then tried SWOTOR as I missed the MMO feeling a little bit and then cancelled this too! I have seen soo many friends who have gone downhill because of these games. I look at my self and I wasted most of my best years sitting infront of a screen thinking life will be soo good if I get a drop, in a game from a world that does not exist, just to show off a piece of clothing in a virtual world. People who play these games are generally not casual, we played every damn day, thats is all we did. Now I have a family and I can assure you that when my kids are of age, they will not be allowed to play these games unless it is on an account I can control. Young adults, like I was cant handle these type of games because they have to show off for others so they will stay upp all night, not eat, not sleep just to show a person on a screen what their toon looks like. You guys enjoy, I am heading out to have some fun with real people.

I knew the responses would label me asa hater, no worries forget my post, i wont be reading this again, I love this game, never mind.

I am relly condused about this game. I have played just about all the major MMOs and I dont seem to get a grip on this game. I switched server since mine died out, only been playing to level 20, but I have the same problem: nobody wants to team up. I hate playing solo on a MMO, I have YET to have anyone accept an invitation. After a while I realized that if one does all quests, main and side, you manage to level up enough that you dont need any help to advance in the game. I have never played an MMO where I have managed to play to level 20 solo without a problem. It is too easy, why team up. The first 10 levels where a piece of cake, the next 10 not exactly more difficult. As a tank Jedi I have died 5 times, thats it. The next thing is that this formula is really not interesting anymore. Every MMO since WoW does the "go get that talk to this person" game style. Is this really all there is to MMO? After I have been playing WoW for 5 years I cancelled. Mainly because there is not much to do, what kept me going was the social part that is stellar in WoW. As a single player RPG it is fantastic, but as an MMO its a been that done that. The only thing that made this game survive so far is the SW logo and lore. If it was calles Space Explorer we would have all dissed it. Huge Bioware fan but this simply is not the right approach in my opnion: cut scenes and mix it with WoW. The design is too simplistic and the worlds lack depth. Compare the Senate with the Ironforge for example.

Hi newbie here, I joined a group and when I tried to join them in the game there was a red barrier, it said it was class restricted. Why on earth was I able to join, is there no check for this when one joins a group? Thanks

You know you could create an account long before this game was release right? Purchased the game about a week ago. I have been around, I dont buy MMOs the day they come out....I have learned my lesson...I am a patient ....dont need to buy things the moment they come out....

Thanks everyone for the tip I will look up the link. I am not trolling. The social panel shows one more person except for me, that has been constant since I created the account.

Hello everyone, I am new to this game but long time MMO player. I find it very difficult to continue paying for this game as the whole aspect of MMO is social. At this moment, I have played the first Jedi part completely solo. I hate solo. It has been a complete desert as far as players are concerned. I cant remember a game that had this low population at low level toons. At this point this game plays like any other Bioware game that is an RPG so why should I pay for it when there are no people playing this game? There were two servers with high population count but when I read 45min to 1,5 wait to play, I thought it was a joke. Is that really my option? Play solo instantly or wait for about an hour before I log in? Thanks for reading.