Alright, to start it off, I'd like to let everyone know that I am a HUGE Star Wars fan so that's partially one of the reasons why I''m on the fence here. The other part is that I despise MMO gameplay. I can't stand it for the life of me. DCUO's gameplay was a little more tolerable because it was action oriented but from what I hear, this is exactly like a standard MMO, which saddens me.

Is there any way this could appeal to me, or should I not even waste my money?

Alright, to start it off, I'd like to let everyone know that I am a HUGE Star Wars fan so that's partially one of the reasons why I''m on the fence here. The other part is that I despise MMO gameplay. I can't stand it for the life of me. DCUO's gameplay was a little more tolerable because it was action oriented but from what I hear, this is exactly like a standard MMO, which saddens me.

Is there any way this could appeal to me, or should I not even waste my money?

@The_Laughing_Man said:

@mcderby4 said:

Alright, to start it off, I'd like to let everyone know that I am a HUGE Star Wars fan so that's partially one of the reasons why I''m on the fence here. The other part is that I despise MMO gameplay. I can't stand it for the life of me. DCUO's gameplay was a little more tolerable because it was action oriented but from what I hear, this is exactly like a standard MMO, which saddens me.

Is there any way this could appeal to me, or should I not even waste my money?

From what I heard you can do ALOT of the game alone. One of the biggest issues people have is with the "MMO" part. Many are saying there is none. Just lots of big open areas with no people. Quests can be done alone. From what Ive seen and heard combat is more or less the same as WOW but set in the Star wars universe. Course you will have to pay 15 bucks a month after your first free month. What "MMO" part is turning you off about it? The combat? The MMO Part (With lots of people) Which part?

I don't mind the MMO portion, but the gameplay turns me off. It's really not all that engaging and bores me since it has little animation and creativity. Just my opinion though.

@The_Laughing_Man said:

@mcderby4 said:

Alright, to start it off, I'd like to let everyone know that I am a HUGE Star Wars fan so that's partially one of the reasons why I''m on the fence here. The other part is that I despise MMO gameplay. I can't stand it for the life of me. DCUO's gameplay was a little more tolerable because it was action oriented but from what I hear, this is exactly like a standard MMO, which saddens me.

Is there any way this could appeal to me, or should I not even waste my money?

From what I heard you can do ALOT of the game alone. One of the biggest issues people have is with the "MMO" part. Many are saying there is none. Just lots of big open areas with no people. Quests can be done alone. From what Ive seen and heard combat is more or less the same as WOW but set in the Star wars universe. Course you will have to pay 15 bucks a month after your first free month. What "MMO" part is turning you off about it? The combat? The MMO Part (With lots of people) Which part?

I don't mind the MMO portion, but the gameplay turns me off. It's really not all that engaging and bores me since it has little animation and creativity. Just my opinion though.

@The_Laughing_Man said:

@mcderby4 said:

@The_Laughing_Man said:

@mcderby4 said:

Alright, to start it off, I'd like to let everyone know that I am a HUGE Star Wars fan so that's partially one of the reasons why I''m on the fence here. The other part is that I despise MMO gameplay. I can't stand it for the life of me. DCUO's gameplay was a little more tolerable because it was action oriented but from what I hear, this is exactly like a standard MMO, which saddens me.

Is there any way this could appeal to me, or should I not even waste my money?

From what I heard you can do ALOT of the game alone. One of the biggest issues people have is with the "MMO" part. Many are saying there is none. Just lots of big open areas with no people. Quests can be done alone. From what Ive seen and heard combat is more or less the same as WOW but set in the Star wars universe. Course you will have to pay 15 bucks a month after your first free month. What "MMO" part is turning you off about it? The combat? The MMO Part (With lots of people) Which part?

I don't mind the MMO portion, but the gameplay turns me off. It's really not all that engaging and bores me since it has little animation and creativity. Just my opinion though.

The story is what people are coming for. But fighting and all the other stuff looks like WoW.

Yeah... I gave WoW a try and I was immersed in the world and the rich backstory, but the gameplay was unbearable. TOR's seems to be more of the same.

@mcderby4: Waste of money. Seriously. You come to MMOs for elaborate teamplay based gameplay of the really complicated sort. IMHO MMOs are purely fun for the "social meta game". You want to be someone that brings something to the table for the progress of everyone. At least I try to play that way and enjoy most hanging out with people of a similar mindset. The part were you play an MMO by yourself as an RPG for the story and the combat is mostly awful. This game is not for you.

@mcderby4 said:

@The_Laughing_Man said:

@mcderby4 said:

@The_Laughing_Man said:

@mcderby4 said:

Alright, to start it off, I'd like to let everyone know that I am a HUGE Star Wars fan so that's partially one of the reasons why I''m on the fence here. The other part is that I despise MMO gameplay. I can't stand it for the life of me. DCUO's gameplay was a little more tolerable because it was action oriented but from what I hear, this is exactly like a standard MMO, which saddens me.

Is there any way this could appeal to me, or should I not even waste my money?

From what I heard you can do ALOT of the game alone. One of the biggest issues people have is with the "MMO" part. Many are saying there is none. Just lots of big open areas with no people. Quests can be done alone. From what Ive seen and heard combat is more or less the same as WOW but set in the Star wars universe. Course you will have to pay 15 bucks a month after your first free month. What "MMO" part is turning you off about it? The combat? The MMO Part (With lots of people) Which part?

I don't mind the MMO portion, but the gameplay turns me off. It's really not all that engaging and bores me since it has little animation and creativity. Just my opinion though.

The story is what people are coming for. But fighting and all the other stuff looks like WoW.

Yeah... I gave WoW a try and I was immersed in the world and the rich backstory, but the gameplay was unbearable. TOR's seems to be more of the same.

sounds to me like you would absolutely hate TOR as it has MMO gameplay and that should be the end of it

@Wuddel: @jetsetwillie: Well that's a bummer, I was really looking forward to playing something after this semester was over.

@mcderby4: Not my job to convince anyone to do anything. I leave that to the date rapers.

@mcderby4: It's really bad MMO gameplay as well. I mean, take WoW, but make it bad, add Star Wars and voice-overs, voila, TOR.

@Hosstile17: Lol thanks for the input

@Ertard: Well I love the Star Wars aspect of it and I hear the story and quests are top notch, but that gameplay is killer...

@mcderby4: If you're interested give it a go. No one else can tell if you will like it or not.

I went into TOR as a huge SWTOR 1 & 2 fan.

I don't like using my credit card for MMOs, so I bought a 60-day game card when I picked up the game. That means I spent ~$100 on this game at the store and had 90 days of credit to my account.

I got to about level 30 on both a Republic Trooper and a Imperial Agent.

I quit playing before the first 30 days were up. There's still time left on the account right now, time I paid a sizable amount of money on, but I haven't so much as logged on. And I have no desire to. I should probably just uninstall it.

The storylines are passable, but weren't enough to keep me playing. It takes far too long for something to happen, and when it does it usually ends up being irrelevant. The writing is very...well, not even hit-or-miss. It's more bunt-or-miss.

Combat gets old quick. Very quick. This game made me realize that I'm done with any MMO featuring tab-targetting.

I wouldn't recommend getting it.

It's the best MMO I've played in years, maybe ever.

Keep in mind that's like Jeff saying "This is the best JRPG I've played" because I'm not an MMO fan. I like it, but it suffers from being an MMO since everything is so tedious. I wish I could just play the class story and skip everything else, but you need to do a bunch of PvP or side quests to level.

It feels like playing a Bioware single player game whish is good, but it's a 40 hour single player game stretched out into 200 hours which is bad.

I really want to like I really do! I played a lot in the first weeks, but not so much anymore =( There's still a great game there if you can deal with the grind.

If you are that much on the fence about it wait. In theory MMO's are supposed to get better in time and with new features and stuff that's been fixed. They will eventually have a trial period or even free to play in time. No idea how long it will take to get those but you aren't losing out by not playing now.

That said I'm really enjoying my time with it. Me and the GF play together and we get to see each others story quests and having a lot of fun playing.

Don't.

Wait until it goes free to play. And if it never goes free to play then it's not worth your time. It's arrogant to think an MMO is worth 15 dollars a month. Only a small fraction of the 15 dollars a month is actually needed to keep the servers running, studies showed this with WoW. I have a hard time thinking it's any different with TOR. It's just another giant EA money scam.

The biggest problem with The Old Repbulic is they didn't copy WoW enough.
 
If I could just be a Tauren with a lightsaber I would have been on this day one.

I too love Star Wars. It's what got me to start playing The Old Republic; the first MMO I've ever played. Unfortunately, after 20 or so hours of slogging through fetch quests and "go kill x number of y" quests, I realized that I was spending more time being bored than enjoying myself. Maybe if you have a big group of friends to play with, that sort of thing won't bother you, but if you're a single player gamer like me who happens to love Star Wars, the MMO nature of The Old Republic will wear thin very fast. I cancelled my account a week into my second month of play.

The gameplay is exactly as bad as you think it's going to be. Don't bother.

i you like star wars you will like this but it is kinda generic MMO gameplay.

@connerthekewlkid: Yeah I despise the classic MMO gameplay. So I'll think I'll just wait for the next Star Wars game.

@mcderby4 said:

@connerthekewlkid: Yeah I despise the classic MMO gameplay. So I'll think I'll just wait for the next Star Wars game.

End of discussion.

@mcderby4: i sure hope that next game is battlefront 3

Since you love Star Wars you would love the story stuff this game has, and they did an excellent job creating the world and the characters. The thing is, the mmo combat you hate is the combat of this game. If you hate WoW style combat then I don't think you will enjoy TOR no matter how much Star Wars story stuff there is. And it takes a lot of play time to see all the current story content, so I'd say you shouldn't get this game unless you love Star Wars so much it will make the mmo gameplay style seem fun to you.

@Mordukai said:

@mcderby4 said:

@connerthekewlkid: Yeah I despise the classic MMO gameplay. So I'll think I'll just wait for the next Star Wars game.

End of discussion.

I guess so lol

@connerthekewlkid said:

@mcderby4: i sure hope that next game is battlefront 3

Oh dude, I frickin hope so...

@mcderby4: Some really bad convincing here :P As said, SWTOR is really a poorly-done wow clone. MMO creators should probably start realizing this formula doesn't work anymore, after 6+ years. I find questing in general to be an absolutely terrible and boring aspect; I wish EverQuest's original style of grinding would come back, for monsters to actually take planning and skill to take down, as opposed to pressing a few buttons for 12-16 seconds, repeat 20,000 times.

Sorry, rant over. Mass Effect 3 comes out next month if you like BioWare games, and even if you don't, it has a very sci-fi "star wars-esque" feel to it.

@Ulain said:

@mcderby4: Some really bad convincing here :P As said, SWTOR is really a poorly-done wow clone. MMO creators should probably start realizing this formula doesn't work anymore, after 6+ years. I find questing in general to be an absolutely terrible and boring aspect; I wish EverQuest's original style of grinding would come back, for monsters to actually take planning and skill to take down, as opposed to pressing a few buttons for 12-16 seconds, repeat 20,000 times.

Sorry, rant over. Mass Effect 3 comes out next month if you like BioWare games, and even if you don't, it has a very sci-fi "star wars-esque" feel to it.

Oh trust me, I'll be playing Mass Effect 3 for weeks to come. I absolutely love the series.

I'm a Star Wars fan and was very skeptical since WoW didn't really capture my interest. I really like this game and still do.

@mcderby4

I actually won't tell you to play this game. Playing an MMO solo, with monthly fees, is a bit counter-productive to me. Sure, you can solo the whole thing together, but voice acting only adds so much. To tell the truth, you will find yourself skipping all the dialog, except those of your main story for the sake of non-replayability.

While the game's combat is certainly cool and the equipment pretty decent-looking, it's still very early in its life cycle and there's little to be seen there that you haven't seen before.

Everybody I know quit the game after the first recurring month. That's about eighteen people.

I'd play it if it was a Jade Empire or Mass Effect MMO.  The older I get the more I realize that I kinda hate Star Wars.

@Ulain: Never played Everquest, I have to admit. But nowadays the leveling is (rightfully?) degraded to a long-ass tutorial, when you start playing the game at max level. I start having fun when I put on my headset and enter an unconquered (raid) instance.

@Wuddel: And that's perfectly fine; it's your right to choose what you want to play or do within a game. Me? After playing MMOs for a good 12 years now, I just can't stand the "make it to this part of the game and you'll be well-rewarded". Then again, I've always been one of those people.

I don't mind a good challenge, but I have to have fun accomplishing it. Getting a high-score just for the sake of it (and useless achievement points may as well be the same thing) has never appealed to me.

Edit: Was looking at your other post, and I think you're right that it basically becomes fun when playing with people you'd hang out with outside the game. I had the most fun in wow back in wrath when I had RL friends from work introduce me to a guild of really awesome people, whom I talk to on a regular basis even now. And now I'm playing League of Legends with one of those guildies and having a much better time than I was a few weeks ago.

@Rohok I think they may need the money at the beginning since they sank around 200 million into this game, supposedly. I want them to make their money back because, whether you like this game or not (I happen to like it), it took a lot of courage to spend so much on another SWTOR, even if it wasn't exactly the SWTOR everyone wanted.

you should at least take part in a free trial and see if you like it. im not a huge MMO person but i have played 2-3 of them and enjoy the PVE experience and the rich storylines. I found TOR to be very fun and FULL of lore and awesomeness. There is no auto attack so that makes the game feel more action oriented to me. i even like the animations and the attacks. during lightsaber battles it feels like the movements match up very well. you see parry and blocks happen often and deflect blaster bolts and all that.

play a trial before you rule it out completely. i think you might be surprised

@fleshribbon: Same, I'm a light Star Wars fan and hated WoW but love swtor and still having a ton of fun!

No. There's better ways to waste money other then MMOs.

I think you ought to just play the two Knights of the Old Republic games again and avoid this MMO like the plague.* 
 
 
 
*Poster is staunchly anti-MMO. Some bias included.

@JasonR86 said:

No. There's better ways to waste money other then MMOs.

I disagree, playing wow meant I stopped playing other games for me, so it saved me a huge load of cash. Keep in mind some people play 5-6 games a month(2-3 for me).

I don't feel a need to convince you to do play as I am neither an employee of Bioware and EA or a stakeholder.