Funny you mention it cause I thought Alderaan was one of the uglier planets and I skipped all the quests there other than my class quest. The ground looks as though half the textures and colors are missing.. the trees look like cardboard.. not to mention the generic cut and paste space ports and bases on all the planets..wheres the flavor.. I don't know what hole you've been in the last 5 years to come and say this game has amazing environments. They struck me as mostly plain, boring, and uninspired... well anyway, good that you're really enjoying the game then man.. cheers

So if it's shiny then it's good eh... like all the big budget turds coming out of hollywood.. But that's not even true in this case.. low res textures, no anti aliasing, constant graphical glitches (ie. green lights all over the place), bare lifeless environments, and some minimalist soundtrack that you rarely even hear (aside from the john williams songs they like to play at every cutscene) are all a pretty big deal if you are going for the high production value award... and you know that's not all of it..just look around for all those 5 star threads.. Great that they're adding AA, but it shoulda been there at release.. I'm not tryin to flat out bash the game, it's been fun, and there are strong points... but there are a hell of a lot of bad ones too a lot of people try to pretend don't exist.. anyway, ya I'm no game designer, not a hardcore gamer either.. just yer average joe that knows a shoddy unfinished product when he sees one..

hahah extremely high production values?? where have you been man, this game has been a paid beta the last month..

Don't be so naive pal.. Over the last while I started wondering why almost all AAA titles have been getting such good reviews from the big sites I used to frequent.. Their good points exaggerated.. the bad points often not even mentioned.. Also the growing discrepancy between the reviews of those big guys and indie sites as well as user reviews. You only have to look as far as an inch to the side to see the banners and to understand the answer. I'm not tryin to ring the conspiracy alarms.. but hell open yer eyes.. its just plain politics.. "The game companies are the proverbial golden goose, and the magazines are really at the game companies mercies and must keep good relations. This isn't a Bioware is evil, but more of along the lines if you are a big developer, and you are helping make them money via sneak peeks, content, whispers, rumors, and interviews, along with pre-release screenshots and what have you, they aren't going to lose that by trashing you before shipping and costing your company money and (slightly or more) damaging it's reputation."

Seems a bit fishy that they would pull this 1 day from the free month ending.. I had already cancelled and was lookin forward to this patch to see if they were gonna get serious about addressing the major issues in this game...On top of everything else, I couldn't even continue with my class story past 44 because it got bugged.. Sounds like they're just tryin to string along all the fence sitters to me.. I'd like to see people put their money where their mouths are.. but the sad fact is most will resub neway and continue to complain here for another month+...

I was just watching the trailer for the new rakghoul flashpoint.. nice to see they got their systems running with hi res over there... I can't even stand looking at troopers because of their ugly pixelated armor.. couple that with no aa and i'd swear I'm playing a game thats 10 years old.

Nevermind..... figured it out soon as I posted

damn reading these forums is getting to be more entertaining than playing the game...

Like many have said, this is not a pvp oriented game... anyone buying this game thinking it would have worthwhile pvp has been duped. Well actually not really.. most current problems have been around for a long time before release, but any time someone complained about em, you got the usual "it hasn't even been released yet relax... they'll fix it... it's still in beta" ... Have fun with it for the free month pve'ing with a few pals and move on...

ya, op, doesn't seem like too far fetched an idea does it?

I think you guys are missing the forest for the trees... The main reason I have trouble with sorcs is cause I can't consistently use the tools I got for shutting them down due to the crap responsiveness, targetting, glitching, etc... it has little to do with their class overall. In those rare moments the ui does exactly what I tell it, scoundrels are op.

This issue has made warzones a joke to me and my friends.. that and other mysterious glitches.. trying to do anything more complicated than running around spamming a few damage abilities is a waste of time and a sure welcome to frustration. I can usually stop to scratch my balls before my backblast goes off, if it goes off at all. Hard to believe this has been beta tested for so long...

Even the nodes in world seem to be pulling in less cash... No way in hell I'm going to risk wasting my time on another profession only to have it nerfed into uselessness ... In principle I can understand why some people are quitting over this. One week in and already something a lot of people have spent time and effort on has been wrecked. It's another nail for me.

The shiny is wearing off fast for me too. They did some nice things with this game...but in many important respects it does feel like this game took a few steps back in the genre.. Other than the star wars flair and a few pals, theres little else making it really compelling to play.

I went to a light to avoid queues and just cause I like less populated servers..friday night we had 10-20 people on the fleet.. 2-8 ppl on taris, and just me and my pal on nar shaddar.. i think that stretches the limits of what I was going for just a bit.. it's quite a novelty when I see another random player out questing. I follow them around for a bit and observe them. Hard to imagine they got over 1million signed up from our servers perspective..