I've never heard of Secret world but ESO? C'mon. Bethesda, until recently, has been extremely weak in the story department. Story is pretty much background in all of their games. As much as I enjoy the ES series it's not where I go when I want good characters and plotlines. As for Final fantasy? Nothing they do is anything but cliche'd garbage for weebz. I'd rather have a story in which my character feels like my character and not like i'm watching some 3d anime crap. Also, now that I've actually played WoW I can say definitively that it STILL has no story unless you're a lore buff (like me and my husband) who are willing to dig for it. Wow is and always will be first and foremost fanboy fodder. Story is not something they focus on. I like SWTOR because it's an RPG first and an MMO second. Story is the main focus (at least for the main game) with characters you can actually give a crud about. I understand that to people who like MMOs it may not be great but for me it's wonderful. The issues for me aren't with story but with the fact that it's so limited by the MMO format and profit desperation. If SWTOR were a single player game I'd be so dang happy because I'm not particularly fond of MMOS in general (Though I play Black Desert, WoW, BnS, and ESO...I also only play solo and they never hold my attention for longer than a few days at a time before I go back to my single player games.) I really wish they could find a balance that would appease the MMO players enough to keep the game alive. I'll be fine as long as I can solo and am not forced into PVP so at this point I'm more hoping for things other people want.

Good luck getting any kind of story out of that. Of all EA's entities, which any new star wars game would have to be, only bioware knows what story is an how to craft one.

Streamlines to the crafting system? (They may well have done that in the years I took a break but back in the day crafting was so overly complicated that I didn't even bother and I still don't. I pick all harvesting specialties and sell stuff to in-game vendors.) New furniture FOR CREDS? Not everyone wants to pay real money for that stuff. Basically anything cool for creds would be nice. I'm on a very small server so the market is practically inactive and almost everything on it is super expensive.

A lot of MMO players don't really care about story and aren't used to voiced dialogue either. In a game with relatively decent acting and a true RPG story it's sad to see. I might do it if I've done the quest a gazillion times (back when I played a lot and had multiple runthroughs at the same time I did it on side quests) Now that I'm back everything is new again so I wouldn't do it.

If you're having to set the graphics to low on that particular Rig you've got issues mate. Sounds to me like something is going wonky in your system. You've either neglected basic computer maintenance, missed driver updates, or have an actual hardware issue. That setup should be able to run SWTOR at max no problemo.

I personally disagree with the idea of making "one time" or "special" items obtainable again. I don't have like...any of those because I was gone for so long and I also don't do PVP. However the people who do deserve those rewards and to just blindly re-release them to those of us who didn't earn them would be wrong.

Promise me that if I sub the game will be around for another year and I won't be wasting my money. I love this game, I played the beta, pre ordered, played for months and then stopped for a couple of years because preferred status was garbage and I had a kid to support. Now that we're more stable I'd like to sub again and have been trying out a 7 day sub to see if it's worth it. I'd say it is, I still love the game and the story and combat still pull me in. I'm not a pvp player by any means and I solo rather than working with others (which is a good thing since I'm on the Bastion and that server averages 7 people per planet). The game is worthwhile to me but with people left and right saying it's dead or dying...I'm a little worried. I don't want to spend the money for a sub just to log in one day and see that it's been taken down. A discount in the cartel market would be nice too because seriously...15 bucks for something in a game? Yikes. I know that's pretty standard in MMOs and if it were all just cosmetic it would be fine but unlocks and stuff shouldn't cost that. OH and unlock all the races for subs. It's ridiculous that they were locked to begin with.

I actually came back because I was afraid it was going to die soon and I hadn't finished all the storylines. My dearest pipe dream is that they turn the game into a single player experience when they finally shut it down and release it that way. I know that probably won't happen but I would hate the story told in this game (the first MMO I've ever seen that really focuses on story and being an RPG first and an MMO second) to just die like that before so many of us have experience it in full. I'm a solo player so unpopulated servers don't bother me but seeing unhappy players does. I hope they do a server merge or something soon just for the sake of those who are quitting the game because of it.

The server does seem pretty dead. Typically 10 players per planet that I'm on. It's really of no concern to me because I'm a solo player. I don't do heroics or operations, I hate pvp, and I really am playing just for the story. That being said, if the server was more populated I wouldn't mind either. Other people would enjoy it more and maybe I would be willing to do heroics once in a while for the XP and loot. In the end I'm gonna stay here till the server dies completely. I've been on this server since launch and even though I took a long break from the game it's just not worth going through the trouble (or money) to move servers to me.

If I want to have all the races unlocked on any server I play on, I should be allowed to without paying that much. I don't mind paying for a sub but paying twice for the same **** is annoying.

The specie unlocks aren't account wide. I unlocked Chiss using cc and they were only available for use on one legacy/server... Personally I don't like that...I don't want to buy races twice just to use them on more than one server...