There's no way this game WON'T be around after a year. If Final Fantasy XIV could have the train wreck that its launch was and still be running, SWTOR will easily be around a year from now. I also agree that this game will only get better if you give it time.

I've played plenty of other MMOs. They weren't HARD to get to max level, they were TIME CONSUMING. Big difference. All that endless grinding was set up so you would play longer and keep paying that monthly fee. SWTOR is exactly what I've been looking for in an MMO. I can have great adventures with my friends, but I don't feel that I need to say goodbye to my wife and kids (and other games!) to make any meaningful progress to do it.

1000 credits to the first who survives the hits from not one, but two walls of text.

You do realize you can flag yourself as LFG which comes up in a /who search, right? I've gotten groups together before with people who've been flagged. Most seem to forget that you can do this.

If one bug is too many for you, you might want to strongly consider another genre of gaming.

Bioware, how DARE you make an MMO that's not exactly like every other MMO out there! Seriously, I'm tired of this "single player game" talk. I group up plenty in this game. What other MMO released in the last several years forces you into group content all the time? I can't think of one since Final Fantasy XI, and that was all groups all the time in the beginning. Guess what? People *****ed about that too!

lol at "if it's still here". I love the talking point about this being a single player game. I don't find this any less multi-player than the last several MMOs I've played. (WoW, Warhammer, LotR, Rift) I've actually found myself grouping up with random people way more often than I did in those other games I've mentioned. I don't know where you've been, but I haven't played an MMO since Final Fantasy XI that hasn't had tons of single player content available.