All the Star Wars movies are being re-released this year in 3D. Talk about a massive marketing campaign for this game. This game will overtake WOW once a couple of large scale content updates are released, and most of the bugs are gone, because its STAR WARS!

Don't the RP-PvE servers fulfill this purpose? Maybe somebody who plays on one can chime in.

I can't believe the game doesn't do everything for me, so I can just watch.

Unless you know what a pointer is in C/C++, you're a complete newbie/pawn/lvl1, and your opinion about fixing bugs means zero. so don't waste your breath posting about things your clueless and ignorant about. BW is working their tails off getting this game in tip top form, while you sit on your rear and whine about a button that didn't work quite right. Give me a break!

All I know is when I am tired I lose a lot more than when I am focused and alert. It also doesn't hurt to have a good group with you. After that, I guess nerfs can make a difference, but each class should have strengths and weaknesses the other classes don't have, so you have to adjust your strategy accordingly. I don't want classes to all have the same abilities with just different colored wrapping paper. Balance is fine as long as each class has a different path to achieving it. Thats what makes this game good, each classes uniqueness in story, style, and fighting abilities.

Somebody needs to give you a shuttle pass. Since I havn't played this class, not sure where to look.

I would say being able to buy other ships will be coming at some point in the game. Its such an obvious content addon they may even having it waiting in the wings when they do the first big expansion in the next year or two.

For all the whiners, WOW is waiting.

The goal of this game is not to reach end game, it is to see how your class character's story unfolds and where it ends up. Once that happens, you roll another class and follow their story. If that does not sound fun or entertaining, I don't think you will like this game. If your mindset is not RPG centric you will not enjoy this game for what it is, a story telling game Bioware and Bethesda do better than anyone else. Long term they probably will get more into end game content, or maybe just add a whole different era of stories and characters from the Star Wars universe. From my POV, good stories and characters trump PvP and end game content hands down, regardless of my character's level.

Your post pretty much sums up my opinion of this game.

Marlaine, you can actually buy the whole or parts of the Sand People outfit from the social vendor in the Anchorhead Cantina. Humor must have a grain of truth.

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To me the best approach to this game is play a class from 1 - 50. Do the heroics, flashpoints, warzones, and space battles to take a break from the story, and get some nice goodies. Once you reach the end of the class story, take time off until you get a strong urge to play again. Choose another class, rinse and repeat. The story and RPG aspect of this game is what it is all about right now. The FPS/PvP aspect is something to look forward to in a year or two. If your primary purpose is as a FPS/PvP, better to spend time in a different game and check back periodically. You will also enjoy the game a lot more if your focus on what the game is good at, story and RPG. At this point the end game is almost an afterthought. That will eventually change, but I would say there is a good six months to a year of non-stop game play with leveling the eight classes with their unique stories, abilities, and companions. That is what the game is all about for the immediate future, and saying you don't like it because you wanted something else, friend, you just picked the wrong game to play.

I originally chose Biochem, but making stims, picking plants, and mucking around with green goo just wasn't my cup of tea. I retrained Cybertech. I like the idea of being a tech nerd a lot more than a botanist. All I really care about as far as crafting is making things that appeal to my esoteric nature, not how much profit I can make. But that’s just me.

My idea is to have an option to start as a classless character, only choosing race and gender. You play through a special heavily scripted starter planet, with lots of options to chose light or dark, and assist either the Republic or the Empire in battling over the planet. Based on your light/dark choice, you are automatically assigned Republic/Empire, and your only choice now is the class to play. Then the planet you battled over now becomes accessible after lvl 50 as your home planet where you are treated as a hero, controlled by the side you assisted, with a bunch of content revolving around your hero status, including your own super cool house and spaceport garage. Pretty much the game otherwise stays as is, so BW doesn't have to write a ton of code that might break the existing system. This would be all new code that would be attached to both ends to the current game. Call it the prequel/sequel pack.

The Phantom Menace looks like Best Picture of the Year compared to the last Indiana Jones movie. Aliens and UFO's, seriously?

The problem is too many kids today were not taught right by their parents because of broken families, cultural norms, peer pressure, etc. You are doing them a big favor by standing up to their nonsense. Best way to disarm them is by being friendly but firm about their behavior. It may even help them to think about "do unto others as you would have them do unto you". Removing the idea of consequences for bad behavior has done tremendous damage to society and individual lives. You reap what you sow. And the pain you reap is much greater than any thrill you may have got sowing it. As the saying goes "All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing."

Good suggestion. Like Mass Effect, we need to have more than one companion for flashpoints or heroics, where we need to fill the other three slots if no humans with us. Open areas better to keep it to one. Too much of a performance hit I would guess.

Another idea is to only have specific places in the game where chat bubbles can be seen, like the Cantinas. The last thing I want as a gamer is a big performace hit because people want to blabber with bubbles over their head.

If you have Chat Bubbles, make sure they can be turned off. Then you will need an icon of some type over the player to let other players know if it is on or off, so they don't think someone is ignoring them when they don't respond to their chat bubble, because they can't see it.

For all the bug bashers, why are you running such a buggy OS as Windows to play this game. And how many so called bugs might have more to do with some buggy driver than the game. If you can't handle bugs and figure out workarounds (alter your game play in this case) until their is a patch, TOSS your computer, because bugs and software are like the light and dark side, they will always co-exist in any complex system.

Did I mention $529.00

You can't touch this anywhere for price/performance. Run SWTOR on high. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834230098&cm_sp=Tab_PCs_%26%2338%3b_Laptops-_-Featured_Brand-_-34-230-098

Price range?

If your waiting for perfection, you better look to Jesus, not SWTOR.