this is a complicated issue, but yeah, given a choice of playing by themselves or with one or two people they know IRL, people will always do that over grouping. Grouping and raiding just suck. You are forced to play at the pace of the slowest group member you are at their whims of bathroom breaks, child interruptions or mom telling them to finish their homework etc. It's been shown time and time again that as hard as developers try and force grouping, because they know your less likely to cancel a game if you've made friends, the harder players will come up with creative ways to NOT group. EQ was a forced grouping game and i, like many others, met lots of really good friends in that game and we're all nostalgic about it. But i also remember logging in and my regular group isn't on or our healer was gone that night and we couldn't do anything unless we got some random dude to heal and then they would try and be part of the regular group which caused drama. Would i wanna go back to all that? Nope, while it was fun at the time, it was more headache than it was worth. So as for the no grouping and lack of "community" (whatever that is in a video game), i say good riddance. WoW really was the culprit that changed things. It started with cross server BG's. No longer did you have huge rivalries with the alliance on your server, now it was just a bunch of faceless alliance. Then it was dungeon finder and now it's raid finder. They need to just take the final step and eliminate raiding and let you hire npc's instead of humans.

You realize EVERY mmo has this kind of drop off the first month right? God i'm getting tired of these gloom and doom posts. You people that don't like the game need to just leave, i dunno why the mods don't start banning you, you add nothing to the forum at all. Do i think the game is the best ever? Nope, i'm going to do what i always do, play till i get bored and then go find something else. That will likely be by the end of the 2nd month as i absolutely refuse to do the same raids over and over again, i find that boring as hell so games like wow that depend on you doing that just lose my interest quickly.

That's how i'd categorize the BH story as well to be honest. Nothing really happens just one bounty after another with really not much overarching connection. After your last run in with Blood, the story just loses all connection and just becomes one bounty after another and i never felt like i was part of a story just some missions. With BH i'm at level 41. The trooper story isn't that great either, but at least it all connects together so far. Trooper i'm only 28 so far. Both stories are very bleh in my opinion, just depends if you like the merc aspect better or the soldier aspect going after traitors better. BH has more interesting companions overall and soldier comes off a tad too "goody goody".

The problem from a common sense point of view is that you have a society that's technologically capable of cloning human beings, a society that advanced should easily be able to genetically engineer humans with incredible midi chlorian counts, but that would flat out ruin the story so then they go and do the mystical explanation of "we just can't clone force users for some reason" which is a BS excuse. When you come up with something like midi chlorians you have to look at all angles because if you explain something that should remain mystical it has to make sense in the setting you've created, which in this case it does not. It's almost a ret-con in some ways as if there was a simple way to just test people for force sensitivity like that then once vader and palpatine had taken over they would have likely spent the next years testing everyone and wiping out everyone that was force sensitive or converting them. Basically explaining the force scientifically breaks the entire story to the point it no longer makes any sense. It should have absolutely have stayed as a mysterious religion type thing by lucas in his stupidity and obstinance of having to have things his way even if they don't make sense needed a way to say that anakin was even stronger than yoda, and needed a way of quantifying that so he came up with this stupid explanation. Now if you look not only are midichlorians cells but they are a symbiote and intelligent which makes things even stupider. Now of course lucas then goes off his rocker completely and has anakin be conceived BY the midichlorians, which goes far beyond idiotic into "just take his typewriter, pencil, pen and computer away so he never writes again" territory.

Yup this is driving me nuts. I was hammering on a button trying to figure out why it wouldn't cast. once i figured out what was going on i was pissed. Not happy one bit about this, especially in PVP, i need to be able to tell at a glance what ability is ready to go and what isn't and not have to waste a motion to press something that isn't up. This is one of the most infuriating changes i've ever seen in a MMO.

That's what i do. i'm convinced people are stupid or just bad. I can easily get people to beat on me while the ball goes right past them and they'll stay on me until i'm dead meanwhile we've scored and allready have the ball again. The funny part is when you kill one of them they'll then ignore the ball completely and run straight across the field just to get to you to try and kill you. the vast majority of people are really really bad at objective based PVP, i could care less if i lose a fight if i win the game as that's where the points are.

It's not an exploit it's there on purpose to keep opposing teams from camping spawn points. Sometimes it works out well in huttball that the other teams about to score right as your coming off a death. It's also good for those teams that use the strategy of always keeping someone at the score area to pass to. there's absolutely nothing exploitative about it, it was designed that way as an anti camp measure.

From the movies Just from Empire strikes back. IG-88 Rifle Dengar Rifle Bossk Rifle Zuckuss rifle 4LOM Rifle Boba Fett Rifle Examples of bounty hunters with pistols? Jango fett Hmmm which seems more iconic with bounty hunters then, rifle or pistol? Frankly being restricted to a single weapon type is absolutely ridiculous in the first place but if we have to it should have been rifle just based on a lore standpoint.

Blame the players for flocking to the imperial side. 50's needed their own bracket. THe population imbalance is a huge problem in any game, more so this one and it needs to be addressed. The players could fix it right now by rerolling republic though.

meters aren't needed what's need is more duo encounters and less raids. If you avoid playing with a ton of other people then it makes it easy to figure out who isn't pulling their weight. I'm so tired of raids anyhow i could just puke, they are long drawn out boring experiences much akin to herding cats. It's just not fun. Keep these games around small groups/duo's and put raiding in it's grave where it belongs. These games are supposed to be fun, not about gating the game to only people that do 1000DPS or better. Recount and gearscore made WoW the cesspool that it is.

I've tried numerous times to play republic but the armor and the classes and the storylines just suck. Tried consular first. Boring story, you throw dirt at people to fight and your high level armor looks absolutely ridiculous. Smuggler. There's some weird animation ability lag. The story is boring, some annoying guy steals your ship and always seems to just get away. lame. Trooper is the only one i've been playing for awhile but the whole good soldier routine gets old. Haven't really tried jedi knight yet. The republic is just way way way way too goody goody and the armor on most repub classes is fugly.

they can't get the 50 bracket in soon enough. it's pretty much pointless to try and pvp now unless your 50 as 50's in pvp gear will destroy anyone else and it's just not fun.

you aren't easy to kill as a sorc, you are just focus fired as everyones tired of being hit by lighting and stunned now. Your class is heinously overplayed and the rest of us are sick of being lightninged so we make you first target. Lately the same has been happening to me as a powertech, people are coming across the map specifically to take me out.

i'm the opposite on the BH story i guess. it's been actually pretty dull. All the planets so far after DK are just one bounty a planet and it takes forever and nothing really happens. There really isn't a story of any kind so far other than the fact that tarro blood is messing with you, which he even kinda stops or slows down on that after awhile and you spending long amounts of time going after the great hunt bounties which require you to do alot of stupid stuff to get to them. BH and smuggler so far seem to be the most dull stories. With bounty hunter i'm sitting here going "when the heck is something actually going to happen?" Sith warrior is interesting, IA looks good. Consular i'm on the fence about so far.

The books and star wars games have done more for star wars lore than the prequels ever did. The prequels are badly written shallow michael bay type disasters that don't even feel like star wars. Anyone that can possibly defend the prequels needs to rethink their tastes.