SWTOR - Post launch thoughts?

[Warborn]

Originally Posted by Ragefighter

'The Secret World' looks promising as a fresh-er take on mmo. it's skill based not class based. meaning you can make your own class (just hope there are lots of viable choices.)

It being skill based isn't a good thing. Everytime you have a skill system you just make it really easy for new players to screw themselves by picking the wrong stuff. Very quickly the community figures out what the best combination for every particular role is, and then that becomes the unofficial "class" for that role, and if you want to be the best at DPS or whatever you have to pick whichever set of abilities gives you the best DPS ability.

Skill systems are just an illusion. You wind up with far fewer interesting roles overall, little sense of identity (as in, players don't identify with their character as much), and you're left with much less interesting gameplay on account of how similar everyone is and how boring the gameplay mechanics necessarily are. Rather than having classes with defined playstyles and class mechanics, it's all generic crap.

Classless systems suck.