That was a different time, there is less and less tolerance (or excuses) these days for games being released in a half assed fashion. Saying a game released in 2004 when the mmo industry was still small and unpopular "had a worse launch" means nothing, especially when industry standards have risen with the times in the 8 years since wow and its rocky start.

^ 5chr

you say it like f2p is a poor option for gaming companies, honestly I'm surprised more games don't launch directly into that model seeing how much money there is to be made through microtransaction stores. Many players like it as well, and they usually wind up paying alot more then 15$ a money to the game company.

statements like that make me think that you're probably a kid yourself.

Intelligent people judge a game based on it's quality, not based on how many mindless lemmings who got told by a friend of a friend of a friend to buy it jumped on board for a month, or two, or three. Swtor is definitely not a horrible game, but it's missing alot of very BASIC features which have become a standard in the mmo community as quality of life improvements, also there's very few ways to play through the game as far as avenues of leveling go, you pretty much have to play through all the same crap and break your spacebar doing so for any characters past the first on all but the class story missions. pvp isn't a viable alternative way to level space combat isn't a viable alternative way to level (since they nerfed the **** out of its xp yields in beta outside of daily quests).

Troopers get that pretty ****** giant robot.... Although mercs do get the awsome jawa pet

A smart game company would just hardcode out the ability for players to be able to even go to the planet before they wanted them, via a quest that requires a certain level (like on... oh I don't know QUESH mayhaps ). I mean we found out the other day if you're powering someone through their main story line with the help of a high lvl you get stopped at quesh because of a lvl dependent quest, so.... how hard would it be to put a block like that onto illum if this is SUCH a big *********** deal.

Yea, this has to be the stupidest thing I've ever seen any mmo company ever do. This would be like blizzard handing out suspensions and bans for level 1's wandering out into icecrown

the problem is less the brackets, and more the fact that only lvl 50 pvp gear has exp on it, which is a big problem, aside from being lvl 50 and having a huge basic numbers advantage over all the buffed up noobs.

It's not a surprise that the best trade in the game is something that produces an item that's consumed on use for others, keeps a constant supply for the product. The other posters however are correct, the problem isn't biochem, it's the other tradeskills being sub par.

yea, like new 50's coming into pvp and getting completely obliderated solely because of gear .... like in rift.

Invalid argument is invalid.

Exploits go in the ingame bug report, posting it here's just gonna get more people using it.

Actually the primary stats for all dps classes are crit/surge/power, while healing favors alacrity instead of surge. Also there are different sets, and you can change out mods and what not to tweak the gear into what you'd like. The only problem with pvp gear is that you have to rely on RNG to attain it, which can be very fast or horrendously slow.

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10% more speed is hardly a luxury, especially for the price, it's more like a slap in the face.

Yea... because the VIP room and mounts are in the same ballpark, oh wait they're not even remotely close.

Because the pvp servers in this game actually have more open world pvp then the non pvp servers.... lol what a joke, although perhaps once in a while when you come across that rare creature that is an enemy player out in the "open world" you'd want the extra speed to chase them down should they try and flee The price simply put is far to much of a jump (affordable or not) for the very VERY marginal boost in speed.

This right here is what would keep my interest in the game for a much longer period of time, because id want to play through 8 different unique class quests for each faction that make up the entire game, rather then just 8 different class quests that make up a small portion of the content.

EVE also has a pretty sizable subscriber base, which has grown in overall size from year to year.

Nowadays that maybe true, but before WoW made it mainstream, money wasn't the main driving force in mmo development and creation.

maybe on your server, not having those issues on mine.

Definitely a good one, I remember finding a spider mob back in the LoTRO beta with the name "Delete me" which will forever stick in my mind.

It's possible, but not very viable as you'll level much faster through questing after you reach your mid - late teens.

Yea if by completely unfinished after lvl 20 you mean 50, where the raids were bugged and the castle siege system wasn't in place.... up till 50 things were fine, after well.. snooze fest.