A friend hadn't tried it yet, so we both played together last night.

We both got to about level 7 and logged off, cause we were both falling asleep from boredom.

Questing is so mundane...

And yeah, how this game is winning any awards is beyond me

 

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Seriously? Elwynn forest is so much better..amirite? Given this is the Wow forum, that's what I'd expect the comparison to be made to. Come on, early game Wow game questing doesn't hold a candle to early game SWTOR questing. Not to sound like a fanboi, but people need to manage their expectations or find another genre.

I won't re-link this post a month after release when everyone cancels. It really is boring. There must be some of that honeymoon-pre-release-new-mmo thing going on but that doesn't change much. If the game wasn't something as american as star wars, it would be shrugged off... especially by anyone who played the beta. I won't rub it in any faces down the road though

 

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I don't think anybody here has said whether it will be successful or not. Whether people stay will depend largely on how engaging the end game is--not on how boring questing is while leveling up. Wow's questing is pretty bad, but many have endured that for Wow's end game. All that SWTOR non-haters have said is that low level questing is pretty good relatively speaking. However, that will be moot if end game blows and if the devs are sluggish in delivering new content and addressing issues.

DCUO is a good example of a pretty good leveling up/questing experience (i.e. non-boring) game where it still fails. It's a great distraction--I encourage those you are trying to fill time to try it out since it went F2P recently. The questing leveling up is pretty good (again I say this relatively speaking--the genre itself is getting stale). The problem is you get to max level, and it gets kind of old with the grind, because there isn't a whole lot to do. I hope SWTOR doesn't suffer the same fate, but I can't say it won't yet.

Nah, WoW questing is boring as sin too. TOR questing is pretty much identical, but with cutscene/dialogue. Those are fancy and all, and cool sometimes. But for every little quest and interaction I wanted to kill myself. As a completionist I felt I needed to listen/read and make my choice for every quest too

I'm sure TOR will do ok, but it's honestly not for me. I'd rather play WoW over TOR, which means I will play neither. If I'm bored senseless just trying to get to the point where I choose my main class then I'm not going to suddenly love the game at 10. I played one character to 10 cause I wanted to experience the PvP to see if it was somehow spectacular.

It was not.

 

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BTW -- on the cut scenes. When you're not in the mood for that--especially when it's just an alien spouting gibberish, my advice is to turn on quest captioning. Then you can read the dialogue and hit space bar to skip the dialogue. It speeds things along.

Careful up there. I hear it hurts when someone kicks your moral high-chair out from under you.

 

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That must've been a disappointment for them once they got there.

 

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Been playing my Agent/Sniper and I can say that im not exactly thrilled with the class but the quest line its interesting enough that I want to keep playing.

Actually this is a by product of the pay to play model. The grind and time wasted traveling from to place to place just means the more time it takes to do matters in the gameand thus the longer a person keeps a sub.

 

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