I check the server status page and it shows they are all up. I log into the game and it takes me to the server select screen and nothing is there.

I'll give you maybe the last 4 years, but during Vanilla and TBC WoW was a really good MMO. People were all over the place doing all sorts of stuff. Since LK and the Dungeon finder tool it's become a chat room basically, and not even really that.

They will fix some of it, some of it is working as intended. You have to remember WoW didn't even have PvP ranks until like the 8 month mark. It didn't even end game either. The end game was 5 man instances tuned for 10-15 people to slow people down so they could get the raids in the game. This was the correct way to do things.

You do understand that this is basically what he's getting at right? People rush up to be elite to get the best stuff, then complain nothing is there for them to do? They are missing the entire point of the game. They are part of the GIVE IT TO ME GENERATION. In one reply that was saying it's TL:DNR. He replied it was by design. The people complaining that it's to long, are the same people he's talking about in this post. They can't even take 5 min to read a post. They feel anything more than needing 1 day played to max out a game is to long. Then they whine there are bugs and there is no content. If Bioware held the game back to fix those bugs and add the content then these would be the same people that are complaning that BW needs to get their crap togethor and launch the game.

I didn't read the whole thing, but I still got what the OP was saying. Mainly cause I was thinking the same type of thing earlier today. I started to realize that one reason so many complain is they are still looking for that same feeling they got when they first left the starting area of WoW (most people in the MMOs today started there). Now I didn't start with WoW, but it was the first one that I really was able to sit down and play and really get into and really enjoy. I even remember my first kill on WoW, it took me 10 minutes to loot the thing, but I remember it. I remember clearing out of the starting Dwarf area and then going through the tunnel. I remember seeing all of Dun Morogh open up in front of me thinking OMG I have to explorer all of that? As you run through the mountains to the first town you catch glimpses of where you are going to be later on. You see Ironforge hidden in the mountains, and catch glimpses of other players already riding off to some place on a gryphon. I remember I found I could make a campfire, and I did right outside the inn. I probably sat there for 40 min just talking to random people that walked by. All the while there was a Night Elf dancing on the steps next to us. The first time you enter IF, or the first time you took Tram, and wondered why am I moving East and West, but on the map I go North and South hmm....Who doesn't remember the first time in Molten Core. You enter and walk around the corner and see two massive Giants. Then take on the Fire Elementals. As you cross that first bridge you stare at the Core Hounds that are pathing around. You just think OMG how are we going to do this. I'm sure people will come and flame this thought of how lame and stupid WoW is. How simple it is, how kiddie it is. These are the same people that are still chasing the high I just described probably from WoW. It is the top dog and people always like it when the top dog goes down. Nobody can argue that WoW is a well designed, and for the most part well coded game. Does it have issues yes, are the bugs yes, are their exploits, of course there. You are going to have those issues with every piece of software it's just going to happen. I watch a good amount of Criminal Minds, and have read some Profiling books. One thing they say quite often in the show is that the serial killer is chasing that feeling they got with their first kill. Perfecting their craft chasing it, but they always know they will never get that feeling quite the same way. I honestly think a lo of the complaining that goes on comes from that same area. Everybody wants that same feeling of grandeur when you first walk up to Orgrimmar, or first time you saw Ragnaros pop from the lava. If just some of the zones were so large and well done. Azshara was probably one of the coolest looking zones. Also not forget that Blizzard behind only maybe SquareEnix has some of the best music in any of their games. Every song fit every zone it was designed for. It really set the mood for the game. So mainly people are chasing those first feelings they had. At this point though it's all old hat, been there done that. It's more or less repackaged goods. Call of Duty is the same way. Lots of people were so enamored with the original. So blown away by the gameplay. Now in the new one one of the biggest complaints is there has been virtually no change in the gameplay. If they do make a drastic change people are going to complain cause they aren't use to it. People enjoy the new one every time it comes out, but I don't think they get same feeling they got when they were finally going up against friends in the original.

Well remember all the actors accept the main characters were British in the movies. In fact the movies almost didn't get made cause they weren't meeting deadlines because the British crews refused to work through tea times and after 6:00 or 7:00 pm. Don't believe me it's part of whole documentary that was put out a few years ago. About the making of the original movies.

Who is to say that the people complaining are American? I don't see them put that on their post anywhere? Also while we do bombard CS with stupid things I'm sure. There are some reports that were written awhile ago that showed Americans actually complained the least about somethings than any other country in the world. One of the lowest was food, we pretty much eat anything you put in front of us . The main point to the report though was Americans want everything perfect, but when it's not very few go out of their way to complain about it to get it fixed.

Just got over it. No matter what time maintenance is somebody is going to get screwed over. The biggest paying customer base is probably in the states so they choose to interupt it less. It would be the samething any of you would do if you running the company. They do it at the time they do cause they might get 50 complainers from EU. You do it primtime for US and they will 1000s probably. It's just better business.

The droid is just trying to please you. My mako doesn't really talk much even when we enter new zones. Though she has told me a few times to many that Braden, Jory and herself would end up in a cantina at the end of a bounty.

I think a lot of it is roleplaying. Who shot first in the cantina, but also why should you be able? It's in every other MMO and even most single player games allow you to do this, so why not SWTOR.

I'll admit did not read the replies but this is why I do not like the Cross Server Option. If the tool is your server only you can still police people. If I go into a group and a total dbag to people. Calling them names rolling need on loot I don't need etc..than I can be put on an ignore list. The tool will no longer put me with those people. You do this enough and you will never be able to use the tool or find a group through chat. It would be your own problem so you need the behave accordingly so people want to be around you. If it's cross server the above is thrown out the window. People join there is no talking, or there is constant berating. GO GO GO GO. Being called all sorts of names. You are already seeing it if people aren't willing to skip cutscenes. The community needs to be able to police itself. Just like back in EQ. You knew who you could group with and trust to get the job done, or who was going to stick around even if you wiped. You also knew those people who had to take the dog out or smoke a cig every 5 min hoping to be pulled through stuff. You stayed away from the people you didn't want to be around. In a cross server LFG tool you go with who the server gives and it gives them the right to be as big of aholes as they want. Just go read some responses on sites like CNN when racism and stuff is brought up. You would think we are back in the early 1800s when slavery was at it's peak. And some comments would even make the slave owners blush. And it's done simply because they can and nothing can be done to them about it.

Bit torrent server running....where?

Ok, first there is a rather embarrassing typo, at least I hope it's a typo in your post. Secondly they are aware of the issue, and are working on it I'm sure. I remember a friend of mine upgraded to a top of line Alienware system in 2005 to be able to play WoW on max settings. Turns out WoW was not very compatible with Alienware. He couldn't get over 5 fps a sec. He returned the computer and got something lower quality from Dell I believe and it played perfectly. Of course blizzard has fixed the issue, but it took awhile. Same thing is going to happen here. You technically only need around 25 fps to play anyway. Your eyes don't register much more than that.

It is the ability to have 2 fully different specs. So I could have Pyrotech (DPS for BH) I can also have Bodyguard (Healing). So I could fill two possible roles for a group. It does make grouping a little quicker, but most believe that if dual spec is in a game everybody that can have a tank or heal spec will, and this just isn't the case. Healing and Tanking are a mindset and only certain types of people do it. So while it does help slightly it isn't normally noticeable.

Yeah but the problem is they are normally vocal enough that Developers make the changes they cry for ruining the experience so many other people that are busy playing enjoyed.