[POLL] Will you continue to subscribe?

[Quind]

Yeah, I'm going to continue subscribing. The game does have a number of issues that I'm hoping to see addressed in the future; however, as an RPG/Star Wars fan, I see no other MMO options that interest me--nor do I see that changing at any time soon.

 

I knew what to expect, mostly, though. I've been following TOR for ages, and I got a glimpse of it during the Game Testing, so I guess I didn't set my expectations too high. I'm looking forward to seeing more convenience features (e.g., UI optimization and improving on the GTN interface) added. As an alt-aholic, I'm looking forward to unlocking the other faction's species, but I'd like to see playable Togruta at some point (one of my personal peeves). A hood toggle would be nice, too. Minor complaints, really, in addition to some of the known and more important issues with the game.

 

Oh, and as someone who is actually a fan of the in-game soundtrack, I'd really like a music looping option. It feels a bit like SWG (in a negative sense) that I only hear the soundtrack loop on most worlds once every ten minutes or so.

Edited March 11, 2012 by Quind

[metalgearyoda]

Yes I will continue to subscribe

 

But I want space pvp. And i want it bad.

[Myshella]

Nope allready unsubscribed maybe i come back in a few months if the game ist still alive then.

[DantenK]

no with everything else coming out i cant see any reason to

[Kaphik]

Yep, I'm having a ton of fun still.

[DantenK]

Three of us - myself, my GF and my best (rl) friend HAVE subscribed.

 

I hope this really IRKS people who claim to hate this game yet contiue to STALK it and hang around the forums despite claiming it's the worst game evah...

 

These people are a perfect psychological case study.

 

no its casue we want the game to kick *** but realize it doesn't

[SandsOfArrakis]

Started just before the game came out with early access. Subbed for 6 months. And I don't see a reason to unsubscribe. Sure the game has bugs. And while some can be quite annoying itś not that bad that it makes me decide to unsub.

 

Also another reason is that I've found an awesome group of people on Imperial side. Joined their guild and it makes me look forward to play. Not just because it's fun, but also because they're very social as well.

[LordOzone]

Hmmmm....when does GW2 come out?

 

If some things arent done to this game by then, I will consider leaving. I currently lead a guild of around 130 people (not characters) and sadly I will hand the reigns of this guild of great people over to one of my qualified officers.

 

There is much that this game needs. I shall post them once more here, and that is the end as I feel out posts and/or tickets really mean nothing to the developers. All we get is copy/paste responses to the tickets and rarely ever get a response in these forums, so, hence I feel that we are ignored. Especially when they dont implement anything we suggest or fix any issues we bring to their attention, as far back as beta.

 

 

A. Bugs

1. DAILY BUGS. There are so many bugs. First thing I do when I get to Ilum to do my dailies? I "/1 is defend the shipment and sabotage broken yet?" Those quests work for about a day and then dont. Since I hit 50 on my main, I have done dailies almost every day for 2 months. So even figuring 45 days, I lost out on a potential 45-90 commendations as well as 450,000 - 900,000 credits. But it isnt just those bugs....

 

2. End game operations bugs. Do I really need to go into details about Soa. Some bugs have been fixed, but just a few days ago, I get grabbed, thrown around the room and land on a non-existant floor only to be stuck on the bottom while the rest of my guild has to 7-man him.

 

3. Open world bugs. I remember one in particular where the goal of the mission was to give this gormak technician a cold by swinging my lightsaber in his face. No, wait! That is what happened, not the mission objective. I was in his face, and it kept saying out of range.

 

4. Graphical bugs. things like riding around on invisible speeder, or standing up on the speeder so it looks like I am running really fast with two cardboard cut outs of the speeder on either side of me. But more annoyingly, how about the BH Double-tap from hell?

 

So to conclude bugs, people say the game is still new. 3 months? No, it is not new. Imagine if a car company pulled this with new cars coming out every year. And besides, they were aware of a lot of these bugs in EARLY beta.

 

Its been said that no MMO comes out bug free. Not true. Guild Wars launched with practically NO bugs because they waited until they were ready with it and not try to get a holiday rush on sales. They wont even give a date for GW2 because they said it will release it when it is ready.

 

And SquareEnix knows what happens with a game that is bugged to hell. FF14 has been out a while now, but is free to play CURRENTLY because of all the bug issues in their engine and have stated it will remain free to play until they do get it working as intended.

 

So, IMHO (Flame away if you want, its still legal to have opinions in this country, I think) these issues alone are inexcusable and reason enough to not continue playing.

 

 

PVP

1. It seems to me that the development teams are uneven. PVP receives MORE attention than any other issues which should not be the case. More fixes get released for PvP than they do for bugs.

2. I play on a PvE server. I think MOST of the servers are PvE. The focus should be more on PvE issues than PvP.

3. Warzones are a complete joke. They are either unbalanced or bugged. I cant count the times I was stuck in a room and get kicked to fleet or unable to get on a non-existant speeder and kicked to fleet. Oh, and how about the kicks to character select screen?

4. "Any Ops Groups?" - GOD! I am SICK of seeing that on Ilum constantly. Put in a damn auto join feature at one of the bases!

5. If Bioware wants to focus so much on PvP, then sell the damn game to the Koreans as they are PvP game specialist

 

Again, in conclusion, these are my honest opinions. Flame away and show your inability to respect a persons opinions.

 

 

Datacrons

1. Sure, they can be difficult, I have no problem with that. But some of them, the slightest lag and you cant make that jump right.

2. How about those datacrons that wont work? Like the yellow shard on Ilum that is bugged, or the one on Nar where you have to ride the kiosk, get there and NO datacron there???

3. More MMO-like and Less Prince of Persia-like. If I want to jump around on the screen all day, then can I at least get a night elf skin?

 

A minor reason, but a reason none the less.

 

 

Story Faults

1. BH - Republics Most Wanted. Yet there is a quest on Voss where someone honestly believes I am trying to defect?

2. SI - Thanaton. I have to kill him where? Why cant I just aim my "Silencer" weapon on one of my destroyers at the building and destroy it? I win the Kaggath. Or what about all the allies I gathered? He can have his allies attack me but I cant send mine after him?

3. Quinn - A betrayer. Would a dark side sith REALLY keep this guy around?

 

Its things like this that make me stop reading a novel. It just doesnt make any sense!

 

 

Quest Balance

1. Sith Inquisitor - How many of these class quests have I or other guild members begged for help. They are not Heroic 2. They are solo missions. Even in the Thanaton fights, I was 50, geared to holy high hell with daily stuff earned from Belsavis and I still cant beat him solo? If it cant be solo'd then it needs to be marked as a group quest! And a lot of the SI quests are this way.

2. Avatar of Sal Macor - Done this on several toons now, and EACH one needed help. Everyone in my guild has needed help and everyone in /1 seems to need help. Yet this is not a Heroic 2? I cant count the number of times I have helped people with this one. I have also put in tickets about the balance of this one EACH time. I guess THEY refuse to check into it, otherwise people wouldnt beg for help every time.

3. Heroics after belsavis, most people skip em. Why? Cant find a group. No one wants to do them as they get harder and harder and all you get is a lousy t-shirt reward for all the effort.

 

 

Economy

1. Every time someone finds a way to make a decent amount of credits for the effort put forth, Bioware nips it in the bud. And I am not talking about exploits, but legitimate ways to get these credits using what THEY placed in game. I am just waiting for them to figure out how to shut down those 30-min BP runs that net 65K credits.

2. Money Sinks? What joke. Those that have millions wont blink an eye. Those that are broke are being forced to work even harder to get those new fancy things on sale! really makes RMT tempting to some people. I think I got a mail in-game today on a place that sells credits cheap.

3. Future Economy Issue - I have run into many people waiting to be able to extract base mods from tier gear. What are they doing? Saving every credit they can and spending very little. It will cost 70-100K an item to extract all the mods and put into the gear you want. So there is a bunch of credits collecting dust and not being used to fund crafters. Maybe if those tables actually reduced costs of moving mods??? Check it out, they dont do anything your ctrl+click doesnt do.

4. How much money is sunk into repairs? I have to do dailies, as do many people, every day in order to pay for Op and HM repairs.

 

 

Grind

1. I miss DAoC. After you get a maxed level character, your alts all started off at level 20. Made the grind to where it wasnt so bad. After you hit 50 and make a new toon, you are everyone's errand boy again. Do I really want to do all of taris again? I am working on my 3rd toon and I am sick of the same things over and over. At least with the other game you had 3 different parts of the world to level up in.

2. PvP grinding? ROFL! Yeah, if you can win, or if you can get something other than huttball.

3. Space grinding? Yeah, when they work. This week the timing on them have been off. Like the shuttle spawning 30 sec into the mission and then you can shoot? How about flying right through a Republic battle ship or an asteroid? Yeah, my truck has better timing and it is 21 years old!

4. Needs to have a system implemented where if you make an alt, all you need to do is you class missions and maybe the planets MAIN mission. All this side quest stuff needs to be side quests. You cannot level my class mission alone.

 

 

End Game

1. What am I to do each day? Dailies and hope they work. I tell you, Unintended Consequences is Cursed, but the devs wont listen. How boring is it to do the SAME quests every single day because I NEED those credits to raid and pay for repairs?

2. Hard Modes are getting boring. How many times do I have to run BT until I can finally get my bracers? Even when I am the only one of my class, it drops for other classes. Guess I gotta wait another day! I ran Foundry around 20 times and never get my columi piece, had to use comms to do it. And how many times did that damn IA item drop and there wasnt one in the group? Its insane. Perhaps allow us to run it more than once a day, or how about a token ANYONE can use? Gratz to the high roller!

3. Ops. Destined Loot? Really? Know how many times our new 50s could've used a piece that someone who already has them has gotten?

4. Hmmm...what to do.......hmmm............

 

 

Customer Service

1. Dont know the number of times I get a copy/pasted response to a ticket that is irrelevant to the issue at hand!

2. How about tickets where they close them saying I didnt provide enough info? Report a Soa bug and I get asked things like, What companion did I have out? Seriously? Or, What planet were you on? Again....Soa was the issue, what planet do you THINK I am on? Anyone with an IQ over 60? How about people who PLAY the game? is that possible?

3. Response times. A simple issue just a week ago took them over 48 hours to respond to! What??? Are so many people quitting the game that you cant get enough CSR to handle issues.

4. CSR apparently have no power. Because of a bug, a guildie was unable to get his FE HM loot, his chest piece. I grabbed the item and we both put in tickets to get the item transfered to him as he earned it. The CSR said they were unable to transfer the item from my bag to his bag. Seriously? The CSR in that other game do it all the time. How about just delete mine and give him one? Nope, not within their ability. So, what CAN you do?

 

 

 

There are things I love about the game, and quite a few of them. Are they enough to make me keep paying $15 a month? Unfortunately, no. What is my alternative? Pokemon and Pandas? I will pass and hope I can wait this out.

 

SO, there are my reasons to quit. I am waiting for GW2 to come out and will try it for a bit before I make my final decisions. I am not sure when that will be, so I am not sure when I will quit this game. But the Devs have until then to improve this game experience before they lose not only my subscription, but that of my wife and several other friends both IRL and In-game.

 

And now everyone can flame away and not respect a persons opinion. The Mods can lock or delete this, but I think Obama has yet to take away our right to speak. All I know is I am done putting in tickets and done putting up posts. They do no good. The devs dont read them and if they do, they never respond. I love Bioware games, but this experience has been a big let-down.

[VincentWolf]

I'll sub for 2 months more soon. We'll see after that...

[Mephismo]

Its a good job the other game has no new content:D

Just taking it month by month:)

[KayneUK]

Im here for another while although the server population issue worries me..

 

that needs to be addressed - its getting harder and harder to get a group for anything on sith'ari EU PVE server.

 

Ive enjoyed the game so far and i dont mind doing daily quests to pass the time in. More rewards could be added im sure for this kinda grinding.

 

I like the LOTRO idea of killing a 100 of a certain mob will earn you something - it makes grinding a bit more worthwhile. Something like that would be good.

[Rzacron]

Yes because its Star Wars, the end-game will come.

[Dandune]

Subbed since the beggining and still see no real reason to unsub.

 

Most who unsubbed are just game hoppers, trying plenty of new games coming out each year and mostly quitting and then returning to some of their previous games for a while before something new comes out.

 

I am happy to see many familiar names on the Fleet or in warzones everyday. These are the people who enjoy the game for what it is.

 

Still playing and looking forward to new stuff in the future.

[cheesyhulk]

i'll continue playing because the game rocks!

[SNEAKYSIX]

Sadly not,,,,,,,,,

 

Today I unsubscribed my monthly payment and I have 6 days left until end. I will remove game once I know my sub has truly ended by testing if I can access on day 7. Hopefully it will say I must pay then i can uninstall knowing all is well..

 

GAME:

Game is beautiful looking, the detail is brilliant. The Star Wars music is and voice acting i enjoy. I really love the fact people speak the quest instead of (WOW) reading long data on what is the quest.

 

REASON FOR LEAVING:

Main reason is Im bored and Ive not got an ALT higher than level 22. I cant see me level grinding anymore. I find the leveling dull for an MMO, the solo'esque community and only grouping for HEROS and if Im lucky a flashpoint. I find running everywhere dull and going to same planets over and other with alts with only class storyline separation. When doing missions there is an element of fun thats missing, I cant even fully put my finger on it. Its not captivating me to keep playing at all.

RP on my server doesnt exist even though its RP which is why i joined.

I played GW for many years and love the quests, the toughness and grind. That was so much running yet I loved it. i guess we all play MMOs and some leave a benchmark of expectation. This doesnt deliver for me on that front. The final straw came when trying to do HERO 4 and the team GREED roll for every item even though some items were not for their alt. I expressed a democratic system for loot and they laughed.

[Nemeses]

no

 

1) No server merges, well not in time anyway

2) No open world pvp left

3) cant have premade PvP arenas, and when we can will be to late

4) No social feel to the game what so ever

5) bit like 4 no decent guild management tools what-so-ever

6) Dev's as thick as sh**

7) Game still has same issue it had 9/10 moths before release, bugs and problems we brought up in beta are still there today and still been complained about

8) from 7 a Dev team who will not listen to what the players want.

 

thats enough for now

[Tatumsa]

Yes. 10char

[Azzras]

I'll continue my sub until it is no longer fun.

 

That day has yet to come.

 

[Stathor]

Not sure, I have been a bit bored lately, leveling up was fun, atleast the first time, then all the planet quests are the same. Going to see what 1.2 has to offer.

Anyone check out TERA mmo looks nice, may try that when it comes out in May.

[Azzras]

Not sure, I have been a bit bored lately, leveling up was fun, atleast the first time, then all the planet quests are the same. Going to see what 1.2 has to offer.

Anyone check out TERA mmo looks nice, may try that when it comes out in May.

 

Korean grind fest.

[Rudrash]

yes

 

I am not bored ,brw most time runing pvp,havent done any pve raid yet,lol

[Jmannseelo]

Emphatically yes. I will continue to subscribe because I am really enjoying this game and can't wait to see what the future holds.

[RepublicChicken]

I'm left back in early February after having played since 2:13pm Dec 17th (more or less) and returned last week. I know the game is still young, but I was hoping we could see a few changes here and there. Mainly to make the game fun, but as usual, BioWare let me down again, for the xxxxth time the last few years. In fact, I lost access to my old account, and yet I had to argue with them for a long time before they finally gave up and closed it for me. If they had let it stay open, I would have had to keep paying for an account I can't use. Thanks, BioWare.

 

Anyway, yes, I'll subscribe for now, but not sure for how long. And after the disastrous Mass Effect 3, don't expect to find me in other BioWare games either any time soon.

[Azzras]

Anyway, yes, I'll subscribe for now, but not sure for how long. And after the disastrous Mass Effect 3, don't expect to find me in other BioWare games either any time soon.

 

What's wrong with ME3?

 

I heard good things about it thus far.

Edited March 12, 2012 by Azzras

[Aikez]

Yes i will keep subbing, but only until guild wars 2. Star Wars has kept too closely to wow and hasn't tried to be much different imo. Campanions are great but, we needed more differences.

 

I fear once ive done most of the awesome stories i'll be bored. Instead they should have taken the best of the features from other mmos as well and expanded on more of there own ideas too:

 

World Events from Rift etc ( Could have turned this into pvp and pve events and enable the players capture all faction outposts except the main to unlock quests etc)

Public questing from warhammer and loot system. (hate wows system)

 

Just some ideas.