I don't know who here has played Guild Wars, but I really enjoyed their concept. No subscription, low level cap, play the campaign, buy the occasional add-on. Above all, no grinding, fantastic PvP and state of the art customer support. The problem I'm having with ToR is the grind philosophy that, even with limited content as there is, I just find not right. Getting gear, to get more gear, to be able to get more gear...what's the point? It's a personal preference i guess. Probably the majority of players will disagree with me (given that 90% of them probably played WoW). Most of all however, the game lacks flexibility. It is clear that when you design a game you want to cater for the occasional gamer and the hard-core gamer as that will get you the most amount of money - Guild Wars achieved that through the brilliant and challenging PvP alongside the low level cap and no-grind philosophy. ToR's concept is clearly not working. It is a great singleplayer game with co-op feel, but frankly, there's no motivation to stick around. With PvP being a mess, the limited endgame content and occasional gamers not feeling the grinding, post-level 50 will result in a lot of cancelled subscriptions. That's my opinion.

If you use metaphors like that you should get it right. If you LEASE a car for specific periods of time and expect you can use it only to find out you can't, that would present a successful analogy. According to you, I BOUGHT a server...

Great, thanks a lot for clearing that up

Hello guys, I have a possibly stupid question, but after quite some research I still haven't found a satisfying answer to this question. After a lot of RE'ing colour crystals I have come as far as an artifact crystal with +31 crit/end. However I am unsure if you can increase that stat further by RE'ing that artifact crystal. I was unsure because it doesn't show the [superior] prefix as it does for most other craftable artifacts. Am I wasting my money and time in trying to obtain a better colour crystal?

I agree with the OP, the penalties seem a bit high for my liking as well. Playing MMO's does eat a lot of time in the first place, therefore it seems silly to artificially lengthen in-game time by making you grind credits (which frankly you should receive raiding - at least so many that you can pay the repairs). In any case, my best solution is: wipe less often

Oh man, your ignorance is off the scales (and yes it is both hilarious and sad ) Tell me, if there are two DPS trees and one defence tree, is a class "designed" to be anything? I specced into DPS because the guild needed it and there are no issues. At the end if you're having fun, your DPS is roughly equal with the other classes, why get stuck in narrow single-minded gameplay and be unable to help the guild because you have too many tanks?

I'm specced into vigilance as well and have no noticeable issues with my dps. As long as you figure out a good rotation that works for you you'll be on par with a sentinel - at least my output is about as high as my guildmate's sentinel (based on the time it takes to down the same type of mob). I can't understand why so many people have such a limited horizon of the guardian as dps as opposed to the tank.

I'm no lawyer, but isn't Bioware providing a service that is available in Europe, and since they are selling this "product" (service) in Europe, it does fall under the same category as a physical product, aka the box.

Why is it always that someone in the forum tells someone else how to live their lives, that they don't have a live or are just plain idiots for wanting something that other people can't understand. I see you viewpoint and agree that it is good to be a working citizen, contributing to society and whatnot, but I think that it is always unacceptable to lecture people on how to live a life. Mind your own business sir.

You still haven't understood the point. The point is that we have a right to complain if maintenance fell on a prime time in Europe (as we're already hit by maintenance time worse than in the US). It does not matter if it was once. If you don't complain it will happen again, and a lot of people don't want to see that come to pass. It is hard to defend the stance that maintenance hours are equally affecting both continents when they are so blatantly not.

I can imagine a whole bunch less people are playing then than on a saturday morning in Europe.

And we have a right to complain, even if it was once, so BW knows "emergency" maintenance, fixing a problem barely anyone knew about on a saturday is just taking the piss. But then I don't know whether its worth dealing with all the childish hate this seems to attract.

All hate on this thread aside, isn't the issue that as a paying customer one has the right to expect access to reasonable playing times? The point is, that a Saturday during day-time is not reasonable. Whether or not one "has a life" or "can not do without MMOs" is totally irrelevant.

Maybe it's because some of them are too lazy for two extra keystrokes to spell "hate". Just saying...

Not well thought through, and I'll tell you why. You are assuming that SWTOR is using, or should have used, WOW as a perfect standard. Many people would have loved this to be the case, and many would have hated it. I am personally happy they did not use WOW as the "perfect standard" and tried to create something different. What you define as learning from "do's and don'ts" other people see as a form of bias that is better not included within the game to ensure a game that is concentrating on its own strength's, rather than copy-pasting other games. This is my view, because to create something good and new and therefore exciting, you have to go out of the "treaded paths" of something we all experienced already. It is therefore not a moot point, but it is a question of ideology. Copy-pasting from WOW will never create things that are new and exciting, you can't deny that. Even though it means taking hits in usability in its first phases, I gladly wait to see what it comes up with to solve its own problems.

First of all, fine it IS an MMO. I didn't say at one point that it is unique. What my point was however, is MMO's are not clones from each other and that is a GOOD thing. So this endless comparing seems very silly. SWtOR lacks features which improve the usability, and it can be argued they are currently reinventing the wheel. However, it is obvious that the story and voice acting IS the main focus of the game at its current state. This is new, not necessarily very innovative, but it hasn't been done before. Offering constructive criticism is one thing, but the WoW vs TOR-fest is getting old very quickly. Just take both games for what they are, and enjoy them for the features that they offer. If people on this forum would look at things for what they are instead of how they could be, or better what they want them to be, they would realise that what SWTOR offers is not as bad as it is made here. It is not perfect by a loooong shot, but very enjoyable nonetheless. It is rather sad a lot of people are ruining their game experience themselves, rather than the game doing it for them. Criticisms are only productive if they serve to improve the game experience. At the moment of what we are experiencing on the forums, the constant comparisons create criticisms that are achieving the exact opposite. Why waste the energy then? That is my point.

I can't understand why people have to constantly compare TOR with other MMO's. It offers a completely different focus on what is important, and what is not. I could complain that WoW doesn't offer voice acting and complain my heart out on the forums and say "OMG Blizzard doesn't listen this is never going to change!!1!" I don't because it is a different game, with different priorities. Just take it as it is, offer constructive criticism and see what happens. It might improve soon, then it might not either. If you don't have faith things will change, do by any means go back to WoW, or for god's sake just enjoy it as it is and don't despair about why things don't change fast enough. End of Story.

I can't understand why people have to constantly compare TOR with other MMO's. It offers a completely different focus on what is important, and what is not. I could complain that WoW doesn't offer voice acting and complain my heart out on the forums and say "OMG Blizzard doesn't listen this is never going to change!!1!" I don't because it is a different game, with different priorities. Just take it as it is, offer constructive criticism and see what happens. It might improve soon, then it might not either. If you don't have faith things will change, do by any means go back to WoW, or for god's sake just enjoy it as it is and don't despair about why things don't change fast enough. End of Story.

To be honest I think its good if Bioware doesn't listen to this Slicing-nerf-is-unfair madness, if that is even the case. Not only because I think that it actually was a good decision because it makes credits more valuable in the game, but also because they can concentrate on issues that are more important than this slicing thing which is REALLY trivial. Seriously, MMO launches are so dramatic I'm waiting for Soap Operas being written about them...

I don't understand how people can get so worked up about this. Give someone endless cookies and then take them away --> watch how the OMG GONNA CANCEL SUB rage fest begins. Just play the game, gives you more than enough credits. It's quite pathetic!