The game was launched 6 months early is why. It's a placeholder currently.

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It's obvious the leadership at BW knows how pvp communities work right? No server forums means no pvp rivalry and no ability to coordinate events. More and more this company fails me. I would love to know the actual name of the person who is making these decisions.

nice post. Very well said.

I have a RR 83 White lion named Carnivore. And, yes the game did shrink quickly at first but many players held on like me for a long time. So yeah my RR83 was my highest toon but I had a lvl 40 BW, Ironbreaker and Squigherder.

Rift's launch was 10x's smoother. Just saying. Day one on Rift's forums people were complaining about balance not bugs because the game was very solid on release. I wish I could have Rift's gameplay with SWTOR IP and you would have a great game. Rift just lacks good art and IP but the release was smooth as glass for the vast majority of players. Comparing WOW launch from last century to a modern game is a little disingenuous. The standards for a car in 2012 is much higher than a car from 2000. I expect Skyrim to be better than Oblivion. Rift was launched better than WOW. Gears of WAR 3 is better than Gears of war 1. The Uncharted series is better on launch than previous games. Any game made in 2011 should launch and play better than a game lauched 7 years earlier. It's called evolution and BW/EA failed horribly on fundamental mmo systems that are simply not even in game yet. The game was launched early obviously to catch Xmas sales. The executives are given incentive's to make short term gains to justify their bonuses. The fact that Swtor lauched with so many missing game systems is very detrimental to a mmo's long term viability or at least the game is going to lose any initial momentum it may gain. That being said SWTOR will go on for many years but unless they throw alot of many at the game now the game is going to slowly shrink over the next 2 years just like WAR did. WAR is on 1 server now but it took a long time to shrink that much.

Are you just trolling? Are you 13 years old? How you could say this is mind blowing! EA is notorious for making bad plays and being ran by corporate suits. Blizzard will polish a game till a turd is a diamond. Diablo is going to blow SWTOR away and that's not even really it's competing market. Hell I hate Diablo type clicky games and I don't really like Blizzard but even I'm starting to contemplate playing Diablo since SWTOR is such a let down so far. EA ruined WARHAMMER which I played for 1.5 years. EA rushes all games out and this always hurts them. Personally this is the last mmo I ever try from EA. Between Warhammer and SWTOR they've chosen bad engines on both games. I hope they pull SWTOR together but to say Blizzard is clueless about gaming is so ignorant and childish it goes above and beyond hur dur.

I just had to lol at the title. The "only" mistake? Here let me just LOL again. "only" haha. Too funny.

OH! that totally explains the double .exe running. Thanks for that clarification. It's really a shame because the game had a lot of potential. I'm afraid though much like WARhammer with such a fundamental flaw the game won't hold it popularity. We can already see how much trouble they're having squashing bugs that have been reported for many months now. Some engines are just fundamentally flawed and it appears Hero is one of them. I still don't think WARhammer has fixed pet pathing, they never will either.

I believe the issue is in the fact the Hero engine is single threaded. From what I understand this means that a multithreaded CPU (which they all are now for year and years) won't be able to fully utilize it's potential because the software can only process one action at a time where a multi threaded piece of software could send 2 or 4 actions to the cores of your cpu and each core will work with a thread. I might be wrong about all that but that's my current understanding of it. So basically the Hero engine is 1999 tech. I don't even know if any game int he last 6 years was made that is single threaded software? Multithreaded software has been around for along time. Why you would use a engine that lacks such a fundamental feature is beyond me but I'm sure money has something to do with it. Politics follows economics. Fundamental truth.

I still don't know why a avid pvp'r would roll empire on any server. I'm on prophecy of five which is sith 5v1. All of the empire guilds claim to be hardcore pvp'rs then roll empire so they can faceroll the next two months while republic gears up. Tired of such wimps. I'll repeat myself. Why any real pvp'r would roll empire when the servers are so out of whack is beyond me. I say if you rolled empire then you deserve long que times. You rolled easy mode now enjoy it.

I've got to agree with the OP here. I'm a pretty good pvp'r but after hitting 50 I just spent the last few days hunting datacrons instead of grinding pvp gear like my guildies did. Last night I did a set of Warfronts that fit the picture of what the op describes. We got spawn camped over and over again to the point I didn't want to leave spawn but guess what? You have to. Even Rift would let the losing team hang out in spawn as long they're moving around and not afkiing. Being forced to run to your slaughter is no fun.

Nice job! Half of those links are empty and broken. This guide is missing illum and voss entirely. this goes to show you how much thought some of these posters use. trust me. the youtube guide I linked you is very organized and well thought out. He also shows you and talks you through finding the locations which is very helpful. http://www.youtube.com/user/yoshihumpjon

Out of date^ doesn't even have corelia or a few on voss much less the 10 to all stats on the fleet. http://www.youtube.com/user/yoshihumpjon That's the best one ive' found. i just finished them all except for the +10. I just need to get 3 other guildies together.

GW2 has done away with the traditional mastery tree. It's much closer to WAR's tactic system but much more expansive. GW2 designers have already said they've ran dungeons only with elementalist's in different specs. Gw2 will allow you to spec any class into a variety of roles quickly and easily but Arenanet is also a super hip company who knows what the modern mmo gamer wants. We want fun gameplay.

So that your deal huh? Anyone who calls you out on your horrible ideas played WOW? I did play WOW once when BC was around. I liked BC but quit because of pvp gear and not wanting to grind two sets of gear to compete in pvp. so yes, I did play WOW 5 years ago. Since then I played WAR 1.5 years and Rift for 6 months. You can even throw a Tabula Rasa in there as well with some City of Hero as well. The problem you seem to be facing is stating dumb things on the internet and being called on it. Why you would want to dictate how others play is beyond me. Why someone cares how other people play is beyond me. I can totally understand having laws telling people not to harm each other, but to tell others they should enjoy a video game in the same way you do is childish. If you don't like changing specs so be it, but that is half the fun for me and many others.

I hate using the companions personally. I look forward to the day I'm geared enough to just solo level 50 packs by myself. it's incredible they let the companions be CC'able. I ganked dozens of people leveling by just cc'ing their pet. I got ganked once while leveling. Blows my mind they didnt think about this. I only gank people in hopes enough complain about how broken it is they fix it.

Answer: because I enjoy playing mulitple roles in a mmo and I don't roll alts. It's fun for me. It's fun for me. It's fun for me. It's fun for me. since it's not fun for you don't respec. There you go.

This is the second dumbest thing I've ever read on a mmo forums next to the other guy who said........................DUUUURRRRR?

6/10 It's decent but release 6 months early.

All the other races are ugly. The spiky headed sith look horrible combined with the clone wars aesthetic. Evil doesn't look good cartoony.

You're crazy! They should INCREASE the CD time on it to 7 days. You want easy mode? Why do all these blizzard posters (paid for by Blizzard) have to water the game down with fun? You can have your fun. We play SWTOR, we want tedium and boredom in our game ty very much. SWTOR's would be perfect if they would just implement my idea to make space travel between planets in real time. I think going from the fleet to Tatooine should take 6 hours of real time. Oh and please no dual spec and can you please add more load screens? Pretty please Bioware?

Are there memory leaks? Is the sky blue? Is Snooki the foulest woman ever? Does America spend too much money on military spending to benefit a few wealthy elites? Will they keep pumping out Batman movies? Etc... All signs point to yes.

Same people to claim they love freedom then turn around and attack abortion rights. Same people who claim to love freedom then send our troops to foreign lands to squash freedom. Same people who claim to love the constitution but want religion in public schools. It's always the same people. If you told them you wanted the freedom to shave your face and they thought it would alleviate their personal boredom they would argue about it. Dual speccing so the op can enjoy his game. I'll roll the specs i roll and he can do the same.

It's not standard anymore too anyone who has been playing modern games. Rift sqaushed the idea of expensive respecs and I'm glad. There is no reason to punish the players like the OP. If you want to commit to your spec then fine do it but don't tell others how to play. Meta game changes and players should be encouraged to experiment with spec.