Hello everybody,
I am leaving SWTOR, as I am not happy with the game, but I think developers kinda deserve some constructive feedback. It is based on my subjective experience, you may agree or disagree, but please make it civil and constructive. I will not respond in the thread not to cause any flamewars, still, fell free to voice your opinion. I also try to be as short as possible.
Questing - largest part of the game. Quests are very monotone, actually only 4 types: use item, bring item, kill number of mobs, go and talk. Taking into consideration that the leveling span in this game is fairly long (which is good), the leveling after lvl. 18-20 becomes plain boring and very repetitive.
Personal story - enjoyed very much every bit of it. Only if there were not 2-5 lvl. of grind between each interesting event.
Space combat - I liked it very much, but too few missions and low experience from it make it not an alternative to leveling, which is a bit of pity, as it could help you overcome the 1-2 levels you need for the next planet but you have done all the available quests.
PvP - is a pile of.... joke. Copied WoW PvP along with battlegrounds. There is a reason why WoW PvP is not considered PvP and is shunned by all electronic sports tournament (except the ones Blizz makes for promoting they very bad system). It is unbalanced, NOT skill based, actually a bad copy of a bad game. Even if I won most of my games, always been in the TOP 5, never fell any satisfaction or fun. My biggest problem was Huttball a battleground based on who has the push back spell available. Nuff said.
Legacy - great idea and I loved it. Although I have the feeling, the feature is only partial and not in final state. Which is shame, as it is original and interesting and should be one of the main features of the game.
Crafting - never got any profession on max. Waiting 38 minutes for a mission which fails. Really? Crafting useless items I cant use or sell. Yes, Biochem. Its nice. Also grenades or ship parts. But my time is more precious. I mean 38 minutes!!!
Artistic direction - Mostly I liked it, even when you are on the 7-8th planet and they all look the same, with the same humans and droids running around. Loved the models of Twileks, only non-humans which looked a bit different. Was nice and refreshing.
All in all, I used to like the game, but after digging deeper, the flaws grew more tedious and the fun was lost. It resembles too much of WoW and I am not interested in such a game. To improve the game I think it needs more BIOWARE and less BLIZZARD, as when you left your imagination run wild, you came up with fantastic stuff. But where you tried to emulate WoW, with its decade old gameplay features (taken from AC, EQ, and whatever else) you end up creating a grudgingly boring and frustrating game.
Good luck to you all, especially to people staying here. Hope you will enjoy it as I used to enjoy it. If I was too harsh, I apologize, I was just stating my opinion.
Good luck also to Bioware, played all of your games and enjoyed it to the max. Well... most of them.
May the Force be with you!