LAMO – I am sorry to say this, fellow SW fan, but you are incorrect. SWTOR may be working for total MMORPG n00bs that do not have any expectations at all. But for an experienced MMORPGer since the early days of computer games (C-64) this game has some major flaws. It is almost like movie people made the game because the cinematic and story line ROCKS!!! However, the game mechanics is seriously flawed. It is like the developers made a really good movie and put in a flawed shell to convert it into a game.
The post originator is not the only person that the "sort by usable" function does not work for. He is also not the only person having problems with nodes. I bet if stuff does not work for him, my friends and me that it does not work for the other hundreds of thousand players.
My main issues are;
This game was ridiculously expensive, poorly designed and generally not worth the money we were charged.
LACK of proper documentation that DETAILS important things like crafting, who can use what type of item, what all of the modifications mean, what the PVP rewards are and what different commendations mean & which vendors to use for your level….. There are many other things wrong which can be summed up with under the general detail of LACK OF PROPER INFORMATION AND DOCUMENTATION.
No search feature on the forum.
In game help is broken you can search for anything like PVP and get 10 results MAYBE one of which begins to address the question in a Yoda like way …. “HMMMMM pvp and receive useful rewards get you will, you n00b”. Ninety nine percent of the information returned from a help search is not remotely related to the search subject.
The chat system is bad. You should be able to set a chat tab to type in a specific channel then switch between the tabs to have multiple conversations instead of chatting into the last set chat channel regardless of your tab. The chat windows are difficult to recombine but easy to split.
The vendors are useless when it comes to sorting. For example I sort by “useable items” (like our friend in the first post) and it shows me everything including all of the levels of PVP gear I CAN’T USE. The sort features need to be better such as when you click “usable” as a search criteria you should get results that show what your character can use at his/her level and nothing more.
The space combat is “arcade like” at best with a semi-fixed path and over simplified. Let us fly in real time 3 D space….. Some features that SWG had like the “jump to light speed” should be added with more detailed starship crafting.
No player housing? ***? I know that this is not SWG but they could have used some ideas from SWG such as the free 3 D space housing.
Why good crafted items are BOP? People should be able to sell the cool stuff they can make like speeders (this game fault came from another guy I don’t know for sure if this is entirely correct because of a LACK OF PROPER INFORMATION AND DOCUMENTATION in game).
:mad: Oh did I mention there is an alarming LACK OF PROPER INFORMATION AND DOCUMENTATION?:mad:
Waiting a queue , GET some bandwidth, processing power and balance the server loading....
As I told a friend who was thinking of getting the game “the theatrical part of the game is excellent but the mechanics is a shell at best, very shallow”.
From an experienced gamer that expects good game mechanics and features this product is an EPIC FAIL. As a SW fan this game has a great story line. Am I going to cancel? Not yet, if things do not improve from a mechanics and DOCUMENTATION standpoint I sure will cancel.
