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    Star Wars: The Old Republic

    Game » consists of 5 releases. Released Dec 20, 2011

    Star Wars: The Old Republic is a massively-multiplayer role-playing game set 300 years after the events of BioWare's Knights of the Old Republic series, but still approximately 3,600 years before the events of the films.

    grindedstone's Star Wars: The Old Republic (PC) review

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    SWTOR Remains Dreadful Indeed


    The worst game of all time.  A dreadful MMO indeed.  I played up to level 30 at launch using 14 days of the 90 days I was required to purchase for $90.  The experience was so aweful I didn't use any of the remaining days in fact I un-installed the game at day 14.  Over 5 months later I spent another $30 to see if it was any better on max settings on a new rig.  I played for 14 days with 4 new characters on 2 seperate servers up to level 15.  Nothing changed, still dreadful.

    The main problem is that it was the most boring game I have ever played.  In the old days in MMO it was a very boring grind.  However this was offset by players grouping together which made the grind fun.  In many ways SWTOR for new players is like an offline game.  Nearly everyone doesn't talk at all.  Instead they solo an talk to NPC's instead.  It's built for group play, but 90% of the game ends up being solo because the interface never worked well for talking or meeting people.

    I can not begin to describe how boring this becomes.  The heavy use players have many stated facts of major gameplay flaws.  250,000 of these players canceled because they got tired of waiting with more everyday.  Almost 75% of the players in the United States canceled the game from launch.  The people that play it now only do so because there isn't anything else.  A large amount of these folks play from 5:00 PM to 10:00 PM after work.  Most of them are jerks in the game.

    Not that it matters much after the gaming being so poor.  It's a fugly world graphicly even on max settings.  Poorly created armor.  Clipping armor.  There are no actual worlds, it's all instanced as levels rather than world maps.  Some of them are quite large, but it's not a map, rather they scaled the map to make it look large.  This is obvious, and even though the game area is very small, it's got big holes of emptyness everywhere.  Remember how I said there's only 5 things to do...

    There's a lot more wrong with it, but why bother.  So many people have stated the very same never ending list of flaws it's not worth talking about.  After all this even now you still get to look forward to selective censorship on the forums for anything negitive or unconstructive posted.  For some reason they still cover up any cries for help from the gamers lost in the very worst game of all time.  The game has already failed an yet Bioware continues even now to turn players away.

    Tags  SWTOR, CKS, NOT FUN, FORUM CENSORSHIP, DAMAGE CONTROL, EA, DEAD SERVERS, BORING, OWS, EPIC FAIL, AWFUL, RIP OFF, FOUL, BROKEN

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