After I ''finish'' Skyrim, I am wondering if I should buy Star Wars or not, I keep getting opposite feedback from the game and im still idle in my desicion ...

Do you guys play and enjoy it ?!

If everyone jumped off a bridge...

Take the mechanical blandness and grindiness of vanilla WoW (but not as bad as EQ) and marry it with the dialog and choices of Dragon Age 2 (but not as good as Dragon Age) and that's ToR.

I made it to level 18 and couldn't stand it anymore. I have like 2 more months left to play before I need a new time card. So I have it paid for and could play it and keep all my other games for down the road....keeping me from having to buy any new ones.

But I can't.....it's that boring.

Wow, have you even played it? You clearly have not!

Yes get it, it is a great game and well worth the price.

This. The issue is that people wanted another KotOR game and not an MMO. Those who have tried it and dislike it are not giving it a good enough chance. Playing until level 18 and then stopping isn't giving it enough time to get a REAL taste of the game. And more than likely they still have it in their mind that it isn't KotOR III like they wanted.

That being said, yes, get it. I highly recommend it and can't get enough of it. I've sunk well over 144 hours on just one of my characters, and that's without doing most heroic quests, most flashpoints, and no operations yet.

If you do decide to get it, which you really should, consider joining up on Vulkar Highway. It's a PVP server, but it's my home, and home to a guild from SWG as well.

No. Let EA die.

I didn't want another KOTOR....KOTOR had nothting to do with it for me.

I'm sorry but WOW was very engaging during vanilla at low levels. This one just isn't. Low levels is part of the game and should be just as engaging as the rest.

The worlds I've been to in TOR are all corridor worlds. Not open. I hate to bring up WOW b/c TOR fans hate that so I'll bring up SWG. When I first started SWG there was nothing but open land to explore. Nothing....but.....open land. TOR is not that.....as far as I know.

I agree, playing it until only level 18 is not really fair, but if it's so boring that I have paid for a full 2 more months with no strings attatched and can't bring myself to play it.....then theres something wrong.

I am easy to please in all reality.....this game did something wrong.

I just finished the storyline for the Jedi Knight. Now I'll be doing some Heroics while also giving the Sith Inquisitor a go.

Its a great game. If you go in expecting a carbon copy of KOTOR you wont get it. The game does have some problems, mainly that its quite grindy, but I've had an absolute blast with it.

I'm enjoying it. I got my Sith Sorcerer up to level 50 a couple days ago. I still haven't finished her class quests, and there are dailies and pvp still, plus some hard mode flashpoints to run with people from my guild. I've also got a couple alts I'll be putting time into (a Jedi Shadow and a Bounty Hunter).

It's only my second MMORPG, and I didn't play WoW, so I'm not burnt out on the formula. I can see how derivative it is, with Bioware dialogue and stories added on to WoW gameplay, but I enjoy it for what it is.

Not worth it, IMO. Classic example of a game that everyone is already leaving and is already beginning to die. It feels like a Single Player game up until around level 15 or so, and picks up again around level 40ish, but there's not a lot of content when you get past the plot choices that don't really matter at all (99% of the time).

Why EA? Isn't Activision Blizzard the evil company?

Just because Activision (Now Activion-Blizzard) is evil does not take away EA's corporate agenda. They charge for online passes for used console games, shut down servers for online games frequently and quickly, have horrible support, and have been known to ban people from single player games that they have purchased for themselves because they were banned from EA's website for breaking EA forum rules.

What Orphanix said. Also, they overwork their rank-and-file to the point of overexhaustion and nervous breakdowns. A thoroughly disgusting company. If you have a conscience, you'll not condone their behaviour by refusing to buy any game they make. I suppose you could make a case that where they are just the publisher, and not the actual developer, you can morally and ethically buy that product, but otherwise...

http://ea-spouse.livejournal.com/274.html, a spouse talks about what her husband went through under their employ. Go http://ea-spouse.livejournal.com/ for the update.

umm... sounds normal everyday work for most workers in Hong Kong. We have no life.

Much like my life at the moment, too. It's not healthy. (Also, I really should not post before at least the third coffee. "Employee" instead of "employ"? )

The company makes a lot of money. There's no reason they couldn't hire more people or lengthen their development schedules. They just refuse to do so.

And now Bioware is part of that.

I'd wait a year or two. Let them iron out the teething issues it has, optimize the game's graphics, netcode, interface.

My opinion is that, aside from the brand, it really isn't anything new. Same quests, character progression and pvp you'll find in any other MMO, there's just lightsabers.

EA? Evil? Lets step back here.

Bethesda is also Evil in my book, just look at em.

Blizzard.

Saying EA is 'evil' is just wrong because every company with a corporate 'agenda' is evil than? Just because all they want is money... You're all jealous

after reading the (Now outdated) EA essay, I am certain that Mass Effect 3 will be my last EA purchase... Its a shame too, because I love Bioware. I even wanted to work for them. I guess I'll just shoot for Beth or Valve.

@GNRfan

Beth doesn't do that to their people though.

Meh, having to manage and equip companions in an MMO is annoying. Everyone is a [censored] pet class. I hate pet classes.

No, I don't think its worth it.
Here is what may or may not make my opinion count.

I followed the game from about 2009 and prepaid 6 months before launch. I also got a 60 day GTC and paid for a month out of my bank account. (GTC was a gift).

I played until the following.
45 commando.
25 Shadow.
15 scoundrel (ugh).
20 powertech
15 jugg.

The game does nothing new or exciting. For a game with such a huge budget the bugs are plenty. High resolution textures got removed from the beta. I played beta and know the difference, some people have screen caps.

The game launched with missing or broken (basic) graphic features and still has not fixed or added them.
PvP was a joke when it was 10-50 in one bracket, now its 10-49 and 50's. The PVP world was a joke. All the worlds are on rails with little to no exploration. Tat and the others offer little exploration. Exhaustion zones svck.

Crafting is a failure and waste of time.
Companions are worthless besides one or two for each class.

Give the game 6 to 12 months and then check it out, personally I recommend you try the following F2P mmos.
Star trek online impressed me.
LOTR online was fairly good back when it was pay to play, and I hear it has improved.
World of tanks is neat.
DDO was pretty good fun when I played it.
Age of Conan was pretty good too IMO.
Everquest 2, I am going to check that out.
All points bullion (APB) is a pretty good PVP game.
Trooper (may have been fixed) and some other classes have broken ability delay on channeled ability's.

You clearly did not read the link I posted.

Let's see, it's Star Wars. So, that makes it pretty badass. BUT WAIT, it's an MMO which means you need an internet connection and, if your like me, you dislike people then being that it's and MMO probably makes it pretty bad. But the MMO, side is forgivable and since it is Star Wars I'd probably still enjoy it. If it weren't for this, one, small, detail. It's published by EA, and will more than likely require ORIGIN, so by those two facts and components by default make the decision to buy and play SW: ToR a very bad idea.

So, in summary:

SW: TOR = AWESOME
MMO = FORGIVABLE (NOT MY CUP OF TEA)
EA = BAD
ORIGIN = BAD

Should you buy it? [Censored] NO!

It's a pretty fun single-player MMO experience. I stopped leveling my Jedi Consular around level 18, and have been leveling a Gunslinger Smuggler, now in the mid-twenties. But the game simply has not gripped me. Part of it is probably that I simply find the IP rather boring. To give you a contrast though, my boyfriend is a complete Star Wars geek and he is enjoying the game immensely, has a trooper up to level 48, doing tons of PvP, etc., and says he would never go back to WoW.

The VO, the amount of instancing, how they handle group convos is all interesting. The "orange" items that can be modded and used for really long times was an interesting choice. The attention to individual class story liness was good - something Bioware does well.

I get bored with the giant boring spaces that I have to run through a lot. (The person who designed Coruscant should be slapped for putting miles of extra hallways in both combat and non-combat place used at a level where people do not even have their running speedboost yet.) I don't find the art design to my taste, though people who like star wars in general seem to like it a lot.

The game was meh.