I wouldnt bother.. trying to explain the difficulties of working on a large piece of software to the average Joe is a waste of time. You'd have it easier teaching your favorite doorknob to do calculus.

What mmo has ever released with more polish than swtor? If you weren't ready to leave wow yet, just say so.

When I want story I read a book, or even watch a movie. Video games absolutely fail to deliver the same experience... Not sure when or why story came into gaming.. to each his own I guess.

This might be the most nonesnsical thing I've ever read.

And the lightbulb doesn't go on?

I played eve for a long time. If you call gate camps and 4 hours of searching for every one good fight good pvp we've got different definitions of good open world pv. Also, eve fights are won in the fitting station, and knowing when to run. Beyond knowing what you're fighting there's very little real time skill involves

If you're in the business of trying to retain as many players as possible to MAKE MONEY, who do you cater to? The LEET(<%10?) Or the average player?? Rocket science, I know...

Open world pvp is a myth. I've played every mmo under the sun for pvp and people just don't do it with any consistency, regardless the size of the carrot. People just don't like losing mmos are, by design, all about getting yourself quantitative advantages. There is a reason people do instances, constrained pvp and call of duty till the cows come home.

You sure about that? So we get one easy kill in, then we're dead assuming the other TEAM is competent. Unless your context is 1v1? Or zerg, mindless pug pvp which is really a bunch of 1v1 in the same area, in which case how can they try and balance against that?

All of you "pvpers" that care so much about the carrotz are coming across as blatant closet carebears..

because games are all about epic lootz?!?!?!?! Don't you people get bored with that paradigm?

If you don't get it me explaining it is not going to help. The introduction of mods and meters into wow was the beginning of the end of quality and challenge Why do you think they took their efforts out of blackwing lair / naxx quality content etc and put them instead into dual specs, gear scores and meters? It's impossible to make a game that is challenges on a team level when most players think it should be about their individual hero status.

This attitude is the very reason themepark mmos are generally crap in terms of complexity and content. How are they supposed to provide anything challenging when players think they should be in competition WITH THEIR OWN TEAMMATES? You guys are the very reason these games can't be even moderately challenging.

I'm happy for you. Playing a video game 7 hours a day is not healthy living.

Scoundrel. 3 seconds after I come out of stealth, everything and everything reasonably played.