SWTOR - Post launch thoughts?

[Xaine]

I really need to rant about this, because i've seen so many posts defending SWTOR, people hailing it as THE WOW KILLER NEXT GEN MMO WITH ALL THESE NEW FEATURES THAT ARE AMAZING AND NEVER BEFORE SEEN AND OH MY GOD I THINK I JUST HAD A SEIZURE BECAUSE ITS SO AMAZING.

No.

I played SWTOR, got my Marauder to level 50. I'm honour rank 37 and i've done most of the instanced hard-modes and Eternity Vault through a few times.

My impression of the game is as follows.

Its so similar to WoW its actually disgusting. It literally makes me want to punch the screen and vomit everywhere in rage.

You get to top level, and what is there to do?

You can run the same three battlegrounds over and over, so you can get points to buy gear, to make you better at running the same three battlegrounds over and over. Sound familiar?

If you do it enough, you get rewarded with a little title so other people can see how much you've done. Sound familiar?

Or, you can run pve. Instances on 'hard-mode' that drop better loot, and items from bosses that you can spend at a vendor to buy the same sort of loot. Sound familiar?

Or you can raid, do EV on normal, or hard and get better loot for killing the boss when it has more health and does more damage. Sound familiar?

Oh yeah, there are also daily and weekly quests - which just screams 'Shit, we don't have any content - so lets make people do the same shit every day and reward them for actually being dull enough to do it'. Sound familiar?

There is also a giant pvp zone with daily and weekly quests, where you get honour points and badges to get more gear. Sound familiar?

There is nothing even vaguely revolutionary about the end game here, at all. Maybe this wouldn't piss me off so much if i didn't see people rabidly defending the game as a next gen MMO. The differences lie in the single player companion story lines, which is actually quite good. But guess what, its better in Mass Effect and Dragon Age.

Its not a bad game, its just WoW with a Star Wars coat of paint over it. So congrats Bioware, you spent fuck knows how much money copying another game down to the last line of code.

No one cares that you spent the gold reserves of a small country on employing the population of a slightly smaller country to do your voice acting. Really, after the first hour you're mashing the space-bar to get through all the dialogue. If i wanted to get engrossed and immersed in a SINGLE PLAYER experience i'd go and play a SINGLE PLAYER GAME. Darksouls, Fallout, Mass Effect, Dragon Age, The Witcher.

If, however, you spent that money developing NEW FEATURES. Or even old ones, like player housing in your ship so you can decorate it with pretty things that you find from your travels. Fantastic. Good feature.

Hold the phone, sounds like an original thought. Fuck that, lets add another six daily quests. Exelent idea, Dev number 4. Have a small carribean Island as your bonus.

All that money, all that effort on the most AVERAGE, MEDICORE, BLAND game i've ever seen.

Rant over. Yes, i'm an angry man.


What did you all think of it?