Star Wars: The Old Republic

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  1. seuche
    Dec 24, 2011
    0
    this game is just an overhyped wow clone. the whole design is around 7 years old and because of it lacks of delivering a new game experience, which results in a very low longtime motivation. if you plan to play it like a singleplayer game für a month, it can be fun, but other than that its just a dissapointment and no real mmog (whole game is instanced, no persistant game world).
  2. Corppor
    Dec 24, 2011
    0
    One of the most colossal disappointments in gaming history, but then again it's bioware--I wasn't expecting much. For the amount of money and hype poured into this thing the result is absolutely pathetic. It has all of the innovation and design of an outsourced Chinese mmo but made in north America. All this does differently from wow is a poorly written and poorly presented story.One of the most colossal disappointments in gaming history, but then again it's bioware--I wasn't expecting much. For the amount of money and hype poured into this thing the result is absolutely pathetic. It has all of the innovation and design of an outsourced Chinese mmo but made in north America. All this does differently from wow is a poorly written and poorly presented story. Cutscenes and dialogue wheels actually make me feel less involved with anything going on, not that I care about the story in any capacity. Quite simply this game isn't worth your time any more than a game that you could download for free.… Expand
  3. Avvannosst
    Dec 24, 2011
    0
    It makes absolutely no sense to me that people are calling this game polished. The story is sloppy and poorly written, the graphics are horrible both on a technical and artistic level, suffering from texture pop-in and lighting issues, etc. if this were ANY other game from ANY other company it would be getting slaughtered in reviews. But noooo this is bioware, they can do no wrong. TheIt makes absolutely no sense to me that people are calling this game polished. The story is sloppy and poorly written, the graphics are horrible both on a technical and artistic level, suffering from texture pop-in and lighting issues, etc. if this were ANY other game from ANY other company it would be getting slaughtered in reviews. But noooo this is bioware, they can do no wrong. The game shipped without tons of essential features that an mmo needs, but oh wait, this is basically a single player rpg with an excuse to gouge star wars fans. The hype is not earned. At all.… Expand
  4. some_guy
    Dec 25, 2011
    0
    This game not only was and is awful, but (if you don't like giving websites your credit card info) requires $120 non-refundable before you even start playing. The multi-player interaction is severely limited and, while fully-voiced quest conversations are a new twist, this is very annoying for people who are not interested in what is being said all the time or who don't have the time toThis game not only was and is awful, but (if you don't like giving websites your credit card info) requires $120 non-refundable before you even start playing. The multi-player interaction is severely limited and, while fully-voiced quest conversations are a new twist, this is very annoying for people who are not interested in what is being said all the time or who don't have the time to sit there and wait for the dialogue to play out. The universe itself is very limited and linear and combat is no better than other MMOs. I will not be surprised at all if the User Score for this game continues to decrease rapidly until the game stops requiring a subscription. After years of development, this is a sad excuse for the newest MMO. Personally, I have requested a full refund from the game's costumer service.… Expand
  5. kvonbose
    Dec 25, 2011
    0
    Nothing new in this game. The world feels so lifeless, like a soulless amusement park. Quest after boring quest makes you feel like you aren't playing a game, but doing non-stop chores. The maps are huge and empty. There really isn't much to do in this game. PvP is monotonous and feels like it was put in as an afterthought. After playing the launch of Rifts, (a game I no longer play) thisNothing new in this game. The world feels so lifeless, like a soulless amusement park. Quest after boring quest makes you feel like you aren't playing a game, but doing non-stop chores. The maps are huge and empty. There really isn't much to do in this game. PvP is monotonous and feels like it was put in as an afterthought. After playing the launch of Rifts, (a game I no longer play) this game just feels 2nd rate, boring, and it's just hard to care about it.… Expand
  6. Sokolov
    Dec 26, 2011
    0
    Colossal disappointment. Was released unfinished, very buggy, hardly playable, poor FPS on medium-low end PCs. The combat style is atrocious, skills, attacks, moment are all FUBAR, in need of complete overhaul. Its actually annoying and frustrating when your in combat. To top it off, this is like a single player game, its KOTOR 3 Online! It lacks essential MMO qualities to be called anColossal disappointment. Was released unfinished, very buggy, hardly playable, poor FPS on medium-low end PCs. The combat style is atrocious, skills, attacks, moment are all FUBAR, in need of complete overhaul. Its actually annoying and frustrating when your in combat. To top it off, this is like a single player game, its KOTOR 3 Online! It lacks essential MMO qualities to be called an MMO, definitely not worth a monthly fee.… Expand
  7. spankusmaximus
    Dec 26, 2011
    0
    I was really hoping that this game would live up to the hype but alas it has fallen far short, which is not to say that mmo's do not have a rough birth - i beta tested and then played WoW from vanilla to cata and the first 2 years were the most outrageous including server instability, 3 hr bg waits and 1-2 hr queues just to log, only to have the server crash. But it's been 7 years sinceI was really hoping that this game would live up to the hype but alas it has fallen far short, which is not to say that mmo's do not have a rough birth - i beta tested and then played WoW from vanilla to cata and the first 2 years were the most outrageous including server instability, 3 hr bg waits and 1-2 hr queues just to log, only to have the server crash. But it's been 7 years since WoW hit and anyone paying attention, as Blizzard had obviously been doing to everquest in creating WoW, could make a quick cheat sheet of things to work on that would make an outstanding mmo. Let's begin there. 1. Use the star wars universe. Great idea. I do not know a single person that wouldn't enjoy running around as a han-type, luke-type or vader-type running quests and bgs, killing things w/ a blaster or a lightsaber. not to mention using the star wars universe as a backdrop must have been a relief for bioware knowing that there is no way possible to **** up the star wars anymore than lucas has already.

    2. Take all logical controls and make them exceedingly clunky. I don't know what bioware was thinking but controlling your character is like trying to drive and do your taxes. Super fubar.

    3. Make certain that only nvidia hardware works correctly w/ the game. I built a friend a rig, using my old whs parts, which included a 3 year old nvidia 220, 3 gigs of ram and a duo core and swtor runs like glass on his machine. While i have a ~6 mo old core i7 w/ 8 gigs of ram and a 6880 and certain parts of the game look like a slide show. I still get ~120 fps in WoW on high settings. So chalk that up to a "rough birth" but it would be nice for bioware to at least acknowledge these issues and let people who are paying $ to play their game, that they are working on resolving the fps issues. So far, no dice.

    Thus far, this mmo has gotten 1 out of 3 things right - the backdrop and quest lines. following that it has utterly screwed the pooch. People will tell you that all the cut scenes are voice acted and blah blah blah - you don't play an mmo so that you can get a single player game out of it., so the fact that the cut scenes are voice acted by the second coming of Alec Guinness makes not a lick of difference. Avoid this mmo at all costs, or at least until they release the first few patches. I have no doubt that George Lucas had his hand in this, as this game is nothing more than the return of jar jar.    … Expand
  8. Xuanlong
    Dec 26, 2011
    0
    I can not express how disappointed I am with this game. Normally I like Bioware and their games, I will admit that I wasn't all that upset with DA 2. This however, is a completely different animal, and I wonder who is to blame for this momentous failure. So what is wrong with this game? For starters, its stiff. By that I mean it is no different that any other MMO on the market. When oneI can not express how disappointed I am with this game. Normally I like Bioware and their games, I will admit that I wasn't all that upset with DA 2. This however, is a completely different animal, and I wonder who is to blame for this momentous failure. So what is wrong with this game? For starters, its stiff. By that I mean it is no different that any other MMO on the market. When one mentions star wars, images of epic dynamic flowing duels between Jedi and Sith, images of smooth Han Solo-esq smugglers getting by with wit and charm while quietly taking their blaster out its holster to take out the check-point guards just in case they decide to take a closer look at his cargo, or of massive naval battles between inconceivably large fleets of ships. This game is sadly none of these. Now I understand that this is a MMO and as such it is limited, I can live with such limits. But the game limits its self in just being what every other MMO on the market is, Kill x many of y mob, or gather so many of these items, etc. Nothing that hasn't been done for the past 6+ years.
    Now Bioware did try to do something different with their almost iconic morality system, which would have been something new and engaging if your decisions meant anything.
    The UI is terrible, rigid and uninspired. The user can't move anything, is unaware of what mob is attacking what beyond what is attacking them, and the Pet UI (and yes that is all the companions really are) is beyond atrocious, I cannot count the number of times mine have dropped an AoE on a group of CCed mobs. Speaking of groups of mobs, pretty much everything attacks you groups and are either really weak and die within two attacks or really powerful and the player will barely make it out.
    Furthermore, the combat mechanics are stated earlier are stiff, the same old recycled hotbar stand still and spam your key combat.
    Healing is slow, and awkward, the lack of any sort of macros really brings this home. How hard is it to enable simple mouse over macros?
    Space combat plays like a Star Fox mini game, though not a bad thing if you enjoyed the Star Fox series.
    The crafting system has much that needs to be improved, The characters aren't even the once doing the crafting its the companions, which would be a plus for them as it does make them somewhat useful if it wasn't for the fact that it takes about a minute for each item that one wishes to craft.
    Character customization isn't even there, preset faces, to be mixed with preset bodies, hair, etc.
    Race choices are pretty much human and human with different skin color and choice of horns. Now there are those who say that its early in the game's life, or that I am a "hater" or "troll".
    This game has been in development for almost 4 years with a rumored cost over $135 million. I know Bioware can put out better product than this. I know they can have engaging dynamic combat look at "Jade Empire" they can have tactical combat, DA:origins proved this. It even had decent AI if one knew how to tell the machine what to do.
    In short this is not a next gen mmo, and will never be a next gen mmo. Bioware wasted a lot of time and money to make this, what they should have done instead is make KotOR 3 and gave it a mutiplayer, multistory option. Maybe something PSO like from way back on the Dreamcast, or even Diablo 2, with the different classes but add in the seperate stories that you could share with your friends if you so wished.
    That would have been a much better game. A single player game with 8 story lines that I could play with my friends online.    … Expand
  9. nickiscool
    Jan 21, 2012
    0
    A WoW clone that failed in execution and that forgot to clone the things that made WoW good. Worlds are linear and sharded. This game feels like a single player game when you play it, not an MMO. And the end-game is a joke. You will finish all the raids in about a week or two, they're painfully easy.
  10. CookieMaster444
    Dec 31, 2011
    0
    Currently level 50 with valor rank 40+ on PvP server.

    It's got pretty good PvE even if it does force you to group up in some storyline missions. Decent graphics, love the lightsaber sounds(all sounds actually), great storyline and lots of abilities to play around with. So why the 0 then? Bugs, unbalanced PvP, and terrible customer service. The amount of bugs in this game is just more    Currently level 50 with valor rank 40+ on PvP server.

    It's got pretty good PvE even if it does force you to group up in some storyline missions. Decent graphics, love the lightsaber sounds(all sounds actually), great storyline and lots of abilities to play around with.

    So why the 0 then? Bugs, unbalanced PvP, and terrible customer service. The amount of bugs in this game is just more than any MMO at release that I have ever seen. Everything from broke quests to entire classes unable to attack due to some ability casting bug. If you manage to get stuck into a zone from a bug and your fleet pass isn't up, expect to wait the full cool down of your fleet pass as CS won't come for you. Their response is always usually automated and tells you to use the /stuck command. Gee, thanks.

    Lastly is the PvP which you can clearly see was put in at the last minute. No brackets in Warzones, ranged classes that do more damage than melee and have an array of CCs, stealth classes that can do 6-7k crits several times in a row(you'll only have about 10-12k health at level 50 not geared), and endless CC which never ends. You'd think that classes that gets various CCs wouldn't be too bad as you have this in most MMOs however...you can be CCed so much repeatedly even if you skill to get out of one CC to the point that you can be CCed the second later by another. There is DR but it takes so long to get there with some CC that you'll be dead long before that bar fills up. Plus even if the bar does fill its only DR on that certain type of CC. Various other CCs will still work. So it's not so much the classes in the case for CC as so much as there is no way to get out of it. You can jump out of a warzone spawn just to be CC and dead 5 seconds later and now get the chance to have to wait another 30 seconds before you get into battle. You spend a lot of time waiting behind stupid walls that manage to lock you in. If the enemy team kills you just as the doors blow up on voidstar and you're stuck with a full timer, not only do you have to wait that full timer along with whomever else died with you but now after the spawn wall does go down you have to run and catchup. The problem with this is the fact the enemy can easily blow up the next set of doors before you even get in range of them. Enjoy running to the next point.

    I came for PvP and it was a mess that left me disappointed. There is an endless list of bugs and issues that need to be fixed to make this game stable. However at the rate they are going with patches I don't see this happening within the next 2-3 months so I would suggest looking at the reviews at that time.

    Sigh, hopefully TERA/GW2 will be better. Subscription canceled.    … Expand
  11. lostkoss
    Mar 31, 2012
    0
    Disappointing. I wanted to love this game and I can't even force myself to log in. Worst MMO experience EVER !

    No player economy. No reason to play after seeing the story. Nothing but raid or die.
  12. jamezohlen
    Jan 1, 2012
    0
    It's finally here! The latest, the greatest, from the sweetheart of gaming, Bioware! It seems like so long ago that the SW:TOR hype train first began to chug full steam ahead. Many years and 135+ million dollars later, Bioware has done it again! Yes, they finally managed to do what Korea has been doing on the regular for the last half decade! They have copied WoW! Okay, all jokingIt's finally here! The latest, the greatest, from the sweetheart of gaming, Bioware! It seems like so long ago that the SW:TOR hype train first began to chug full steam ahead. Many years and 135+ million dollars later, Bioware has done it again! Yes, they finally managed to do what Korea has been doing on the regular for the last half decade! They have copied WoW! Okay, all joking aside, this is pathetic. I've been playing MMOs since Ultima Online, and I have to say it is saddening to see what happened to this industry when games like SW:TOR are actually being given high marks for anything. Calling the game a wow clone is actually a compliment this game doesn't deserve, as it falls short in so, so, so many areas I cringe at the thought of where all the money went. You're telling me after all these years and money, Bioware couldn't add anti-aliasing? After all these years and all this money, they couldn't add a LFG tool? Really? Nobody at bioware thought that would be important or high priority? Oh that's right, all they do is add a bunch of pointless dialogue with a point system to appease the plebs. No customizable UI? No mod support? Horrendously unbalanced PVP? You're telling me after all these years and all this money, and all this BETA testing, the game is still riddled with amateurish bugs and glitches? There are free games that were developed with one twentieth of the budget this game had that have all of these features and more, without all of the bugs of glitches. At LAUNCH. YEARS EARLIER. The success of this game will prove that all you need to do is pour money and marketing into a product and it will be successful, no matter if the product has any merit.… Expand
  13. Ionite
    Jan 12, 2012
    0
    SWTOR copies WoW, and fails even at that. What you see in most negative reviews here is entirely true, that includes instancing, awful combat and visuals, horrendous writing and mostly emotionless voice acting. You cannot release a badly done ripoff of a fairly old game and expect it to be successful in the long run. I do not believe for a second those 300 million dollars went into theSWTOR copies WoW, and fails even at that. What you see in most negative reviews here is entirely true, that includes instancing, awful combat and visuals, horrendous writing and mostly emotionless voice acting. You cannot release a badly done ripoff of a fairly old game and expect it to be successful in the long run. I do not believe for a second those 300 million dollars went into the production of this "masterpiece", because there is not a part of it about which it can be said that the developers gave it some attention.

    Avoid playing it at all costs.    … Expand
  14. KETTLECORNASU
    Jan 6, 2012
    0
    This game is an abomination among MMOs. The asinine focus on telling cliched love stories, the broken PVP, the on-rails shooting all comes together as one big cluster of terrible mechanics. The story scenes are so poorly voice acted and animated I could swear they were created by a child using 'The Movies'. The actual stories themselves are so weak and tedious that I ponder their relevanceThis game is an abomination among MMOs. The asinine focus on telling cliched love stories, the broken PVP, the on-rails shooting all comes together as one big cluster of terrible mechanics. The story scenes are so poorly voice acted and animated I could swear they were created by a child using 'The Movies'. The actual stories themselves are so weak and tedious that I ponder their relevance in a WoW clone of all things. PVP - dancing cancels damage, 'nuff said. Now what would have been nice is an open world. Not only are the planets enclosed, but space consists of on-rail shooting sections that have absolutely no place in an MMO, just like the weak exposition. Add to that - the on-rails sections are really boring and repetitive. I hope TOR crashes and burns, it's a mess, it's a joke of an MMO, and it's horrendous.… Expand
  15. RazvanDad
    Jan 7, 2012
    0
    Im very disapointed with this game. I cant bealive a company can pull something like this wich such huge budget. Behind the story/voice acting which i agree is very catchy (at least at begining) hides a lazy developed game, with little to none inovation, boring, dead, full of bugs, way too linear. It has so many wrong things im just puzzled it been launched like this. Ofc it have hugeIm very disapointed with this game. I cant bealive a company can pull something like this wich such huge budget. Behind the story/voice acting which i agree is very catchy (at least at begining) hides a lazy developed game, with little to none inovation, boring, dead, full of bugs, way too linear. It has so many wrong things im just puzzled it been launched like this. Ofc it have huge success at launch because of the big fanbase, but the real question, how long it will take until this game will collapse? Not long, because D3 /GW2 are coming.… Expand
  16. Superhans1800
    Jan 12, 2012
    0
    I can in good conscience give this game 1/10.

    This game was the direct product of copy and paste. They took World of Warcraft circa 2006, and put it in blender with KOTOR. The result is TOR. To boot: it costed them so much money to create the KOTOR aspects of the game, that the combat responsiveness and other standard MMO mechanics are sloppy at best. This is a poor excuse for a game.    I can in good conscience give this game 1/10.

    This game was the direct product of copy and paste.

    They took World of Warcraft circa 2006, and put it in blender with KOTOR. The result is TOR. To boot: it costed them so much money to create the KOTOR aspects of the game, that the combat responsiveness and other standard MMO mechanics are sloppy at best.

    This is a poor excuse for a game.

    I gave it 1 single point because parts of the story, at times, can be engaging. Then they drone on and on and on and on..............    … Expand
  17. dkeppens
    Jan 18, 2012
    0
    Since there is a huge character limit here and TOR deserves all the negative feedback that can possibly be attributed to it, i blogged the review. Here's the link : http://www.bloggen.be/dkeppens/
  18. AzureLos
    Jan 16, 2012
    0
    TORTANIC GENERAL. Another blunder from BioWare. Go Go BioDrones, you will buy anything that has BW's logo on it, won't you? MMO? More like, pay to play single player.
  19. Vamric
    Jan 16, 2012
    0
    I just canceled my sub today. I don't hate this game as much as I'm very disappointed in it. Here's a list of some of the things that I take issue with:

    1) Not enough PVP maps, just 3? even Rift had more when it came out 2) Terrible graphics Lotro's graphics are light years ahead of TOR, and that game came out in 2007 3) Crafting is painful waiting up to 2 1/2 hours to get a mat, only to    I just canceled my sub today. I don't hate this game as much as I'm very disappointed in it. Here's a list of some of the things that I take issue with:

    1) Not enough PVP maps, just 3? even Rift had more when it came out
    2) Terrible graphics Lotro's graphics are light years ahead of TOR, and that game came out in 2007
    3) Crafting is painful waiting up to 2 1/2 hours to get a mat, only to have your companion fail= BORING
    4) Character creator is superficial do you want to play as a human, or a human with red skin?
    5) No guild perk system or guild bank
    6) No dungeon finder for instances
    7) Class quests are fun, but nonclass quests are kill x, pick up y, go to z, rinse and repeat (no innovation)
    8) UI can't be adjusted
    9) Graphics options are extremely limited no AA, really?
    10) Very linear game everyone takes the same path through the worlds
    11) No player housing
    12) Mobs all look the same humanoid, in groups of 3-5 or a single elite, standing still waiting to be killed
    13) Poorly optimized game performance suffers even on high end rigs
    14) No duel spec for talent trees healers are punished when they want to solo to level up
    15) No appearance tab you will find a lot of identical twin brothers and sisters!
    16) Endgame has one raid, and that's it
    17) World feels empty due to sharding
    18) Auction House is annoying to use
    19) Space combat (rail shooter) is a joke
    20) Combat is a matter of button mashing, no skill involved
    21) Companions are complete morons in combat

    Overall, this game feels like a big step backward. It feels more like a single-player game with occasional co-op. There is so little to do in this game compared with other MMOs (and I've played them all). All I can say is, I hope Guild Wars 2 lives up to the hype and is not a colossal disappointment like TOR.    … Expand
  20. HigeNezumi
    Jan 17, 2012
    0
    I will start at the beginning. 4 classes that split into 8 classes at lvl 10. Only 5 races which are all look-alikes with insignificant differences such as horns, facial tatoos, head-tails, eye-wear and hair. Only two starter areas for each faction. If you wish to experience all 8 classes you will have to go through the same places over and over again.

    Character creation is inferior to    I will start at the beginning. 4 classes that split into 8 classes at lvl 10. Only 5 races which are all look-alikes with insignificant differences such as horns, facial tatoos, head-tails, eye-wear and hair. Only two starter areas for each faction. If you wish to experience all 8 classes you will have to go through the same places over and over again.

    Character creation is inferior to games like wow, aion, rift ever quest and so on. It is completely devoid of imagination, all characters having the same blank, android-like visage, regardless of how hard you try to make them look different.

    And the lack of imagination doesn't stop here. All the caves you go in, follow two, maybe three, patterns. All underground areas, of which the game has an abbundance of, follow the same parameters. The only slightly original area becomes available at level 28 so you will have to grind your way through.

    The quests are a grind, then come the bonus quests of kill so many enemies and so on. And they come over and over again. The areas on the maps are large yet the number of quests in them is very very low. The indoors quests by far outweigh the number of quests you can complete outdoor, adding to the grind feeling of the entire game. One corridor is just like any of the 100 you have been through and just like the next 100 you will go through. Shades might slightly differ, geometry might differ, mob placement might differ but overall it's basically sos all through. Even on planets that are so called 'outdoors' the textures are nothing more than recycled collated backgrounds that fail utterly at giving you something memorable. Without looking at the map over and over, spacial orientation is not possible because everything looks the same. (There is one exception to this: Alderaan. But only between levels 28 to 32, I think)

    Adding to that is the fact that most mobs come in groups ot at least three, with the occasional strong or elite mixed in. This enforces the grind feeling you get throughout the game, making it feel like you are continuously farming the one and the same dungeon over and over again for some obscure gains. Not that this grind is difficult. Far from it, its simplicity being the very thing that makes it so annoying. I'd rather kill one strong mob than a group of so and so manny weaker ones. The amount of green items that drop makes the drops completely worthless, orange items purchased with planet commendations are readily available, adding to the simplicity of the game. There is absolutely no way anyone can fail at this game.

    The galactic trade network is a bad joke at best. It does not offer the possibility to search for a particular item without previous filtering and thus makes random searches a complete pain. It does not offer the possibilty for you to shift click an item and automatically enter it into the search field. It does not offer the possibility of selling for example 10 peices of the same item, all as a separate sale, without having to enter the item 10 times. And lastly you can have only 50 items on sale at any given moment.

    Your inbox will be flodded with messages from NPCs thanking you for help, which would be very nice to keep, if you could at least make a copy of the message and then empty the mailbox.

    Overall a dreary game, displaying absolutely no diversity whatsoever, containing not even one original thought, completely devoid of imagination. The voice-overs are nice, yes, but the choices the game gives you are sometimes far from what you actually think of the situation. The voice-overs are actually the only thing that makes this game slightly different, but, I for one, would gladly give up on the voice overs for some additional content, some actual content, additional quest areas, additional quests and so on.

    Had this game come to us in 2005 I would have applauded it for being innovative. But for winter 2011 it's stillborn. 6 years of development, 300 million dollars later all you get is this?

    I would love to have a word with some of the developers who sat down to come up with this **** but I doubt it would be more than a monologue. I mean, have these developers never played ANY mmos? And if they haven't, they should have done so and found out how to improve.

    This game is a disgrace to the idea of MMOs. It's actually a disgrace to ANY pc game and it might be marginally interesting as a mobile phone game. Move forward mash button 1 mash button two move forward activate pannel, go back report quest. And did I mention that it takes like 10 mins to start, 2 to 5 mins to load a planet and maybe 15 mins to quit the game (at low graphic settings). All this on a PC that runns other games with full graphics...

    It's not worth time and effort.    … Expand
  21. yasger
    Jan 18, 2012
    0
    As a single-player RPG it is downgraded linear clone of KOTOR2 with worse story. As MMO its carbon copy of WoW circa 2007. I wish they`ve found better use for 300 mln budget and Star Wars IP.
  22. Redwyne
    Jan 21, 2012
    0
    Note: any "marketing" ingame screenshots from Bioware/EA have been using HIGH texture/game settings that have been DISABLED and UNAVAILABLE to users in the actual game. Below is the response from BW AFTER several weeks of the community hunting down why the graphics quality ingame have been so poor. Basically, it's "spin" and "excuses" and the idea that users are not smart enough to controlNote: any "marketing" ingame screenshots from Bioware/EA have been using HIGH texture/game settings that have been DISABLED and UNAVAILABLE to users in the actual game. Below is the response from BW AFTER several weeks of the community hunting down why the graphics quality ingame have been so poor. Basically, it's "spin" and "excuses" and the idea that users are not smart enough to control what experience their OWN machines can handle. FAIL… Expand
  23. rayban
    Jan 21, 2012
    0
    Everything about this game is **** and unpolished from the game to the support. Patch 1.1 was a complete disaster and even if you did decide to re-sub you likely weren't able to log in because their terrible service couldn't handle the billing.
  24. AlpsStranger
    Jan 24, 2012
    0
    This game is nothing but a cheap, tacky WoW knockoff propped up by a popular IP.

    -Clunky combat
    -Blurry textures
    -No API for addons
    -Super-super-super casual difficulty
    -Single-player oriented -Hub and instance based to the point of feeling empty
    -Faction population balance is extraordinarily bad
    -Remaining subscribers take "fanboy" to a whole new level

    Save your money.
  25. A_Gamer
    Oct 8, 2014
    0
    This is how you ruin the legacy of two masterpiece classic games (KoTOR and KoTOR 2). Piss-poor, forced appearances of KoTOR characters to lure more fans into paying for this crap. KoTOR 2 was almost totally ignored (Bioware must be jealous because Obsidian can write much more deeper and much more clever stories than they themselves). It's a shame this game came out instead of aThis is how you ruin the legacy of two masterpiece classic games (KoTOR and KoTOR 2). Piss-poor, forced appearances of KoTOR characters to lure more fans into paying for this crap. KoTOR 2 was almost totally ignored (Bioware must be jealous because Obsidian can write much more deeper and much more clever stories than they themselves). It's a shame this game came out instead of a high-quality KoTOR 3, which would have united Exile's (I refuse to use that name given to him/her in that heresy called the Revan novel) and Revan's story.
    Also, the "free to play" marketing is a lie. If you want to play a highly inferior and annoying "pay now and you will be able to use this item" spam infested version of the game, then go and play the "free" version.
    I wish this game never came out...    … Expand
  26. Not_Casual
    Jan 25, 2012
    0
    Different people have different tastes. Some like exotic things such as a very rare stake or sushi. Maybe even something like live squid if your in Asia. However, there's a fine line between having exotic tastes, and eating **** This game would be the eaten **** You can borrow ideas, or improve on ideas, but what was done here was direct theft and copycatting of warcraft. Even the jumpDifferent people have different tastes. Some like exotic things such as a very rare stake or sushi. Maybe even something like live squid if your in Asia. However, there's a fine line between having exotic tastes, and eating **** This game would be the eaten **** You can borrow ideas, or improve on ideas, but what was done here was direct theft and copycatting of warcraft. Even the jump animation is the exact same as warcraft. That should speak volumes of the originality here. The vast majority of these people are casuals. People that never played the old games so they don't know the difference between good food and fecal matter. This is not your fault, but you must look to see that your unfamiliarity with games is being capitalized on by flashy trailers and empty promises of unique game play. Those trailers probably took more time and effort than the game itself. To say this game is original, good, or unlike world of warcraft is a flat lie. And make no mistake those who say otherwise are liars. And this may be the only game I say this about.. As for the game-play. Yes it's like wow, but not as good. In wow, the system fits the setting, here the goofy graphics and abilities have little to no real reflection on star wars. The feel is completely lost and you can't help but feel you've been just suckered into a flop with graphics from gumby online. A zero? Does any game deserve this? No. But this is not a game. This is a texture pack for warcraft.… Expand
  27. chukchuk
    Jan 26, 2012
    0
    SWTOR is by far the worst MMO release by any AAA development outfit in the past several years. I'll just list the game's major flaws that should have been addressed a long time before it ever came to market.

    1) HERO Engine, Bioware choose to go the cheap route instead of developing their own game engine (IE- Blizzard, CCP) when developing the game. The result is that end users are now    SWTOR is by far the worst MMO release by any AAA development outfit in the past several years. I'll just list the game's major flaws that should have been addressed a long time before it ever came to market.

    1) HERO Engine, Bioware choose to go the cheap route instead of developing their own game engine (IE- Blizzard, CCP) when developing the game. The result is that end users are now plauged with terrible lag, unresponsive user interface, delayed abilities, etc, etc. Unfortunately there is no quick fix or simple patch to resolve this without rehauling the entire game which is never going to happen.

    2) PvP is a joke and horrifically unbalanced. Again, Bioware dropped the ball by hiring failed developers from Mythic to handle this aspect of their game. Warzones are totally lag infested, world PvP is non-existant and Bioware made the situation worse by deciding to implement a PvP stat/gear bonus system that has failed in every game that has implemented it before.

    3) PvE is another boring, ill thought out grind fest consisting of killing 10 of this, 20 of that and so on. The difficulty settings are nothing short of a joke as the entire game is easily soloable from 1-50. Bioware included raid content that is nothing more than a joke (difficulty wise) in comparison to other titles out there; within the first month multiple guilds had already beaten every nightmare scenario in the game.

    4) Game Economy/Crafting- Again Bioware completely messed up with their crafting & economic system. To date they have had to implement several knee jerk nerfs to professions because of poor game testing before release. On top of that, there are crafting professions that have absolutely no value in game what-so-ever. I could go on endlessly about how badly Bioware screwed up this aspect of the game, suffice it to say it is the worst system out of any game on the market.

    5) Customer Service, EA/Bioware's customer service is horrifically bad. In fact, it is safe to say that their recent performance in association with the release of SWTOR clearly marks them as the worst in the industry. There is plenty more, however I don't need to keep listing it out here. All one has to do is look at SWTOR's user forums to see how disgruntled the player base is with the product to get an idea.

    I give SWTOR a score of zero and honestly hope the product fails within the next several months. It is time for game developers to stop copying products from several years past, start taking risks and show some innovation.

    My prediction for SWTOR? Free to play by the end of 2011, the game simply does not have enough going for it to keep anybody but the most diehard Star Wars fans subscribed long term.    … Expand
  28. Sharpmaxim
    Jan 27, 2012
    0
    First when started the game I was like overwhelmed, surprised in a good way and confident it would keep me. The pluses- story line. I am a PVE and lore nerd, so I have to confess- BW delivered great voice overs, dialogues and story. But after a day or two I started looking at it with more attention, so here is my thought on it: 1) PVE (story, voices etc. and lore) is one of the best in theFirst when started the game I was like overwhelmed, surprised in a good way and confident it would keep me. The pluses- story line. I am a PVE and lore nerd, so I have to confess- BW delivered great voice overs, dialogues and story. But after a day or two I started looking at it with more attention, so here is my thought on it: 1) PVE (story, voices etc. and lore) is one of the best in the market; 2) Design, arts - WORST there ever will be. I mean, if the Jedi Temple - a cornerstone of the whole IP and franchise - looks like a huge 3 stores tent with homogenic textures on its walls and one statue, copy-pasted on each side of this tent like 30 times, WHAT WOULD YOU EXPECT OF IT? It is the fundamental game art!!! Every instance, house, room, anything feels like having copy-pasted floors and walls, sometimes windows. Every city feels so too large and empty. Like they say in my country in general you can not watch this without tears; 3) Graphics. The graphical execution is another disappointment! I mean, WTF!!! The 2012 title is released without DX11 support. Oh, wait, it didn't even have anti-aliasing on launch!!!! Add multiple graphics bugs (like colorful fences on the sky) etc. - and that's just the start! Take a look at fountains, rivers, lakes, water-falls. The water implementation is simply horrible, it looks like transparent slow falling jelly! TES 3 Morrowind (2003 year!!!) had a lot better, realistic and beautiful water implementation with shaders version 1.0!!!; 4) The races - this is to be left with no comments. You have humans with 3 or 4 body types, and 6 different face texture packs. And 6 face texture packs means six different races!!! That's as horrid and pitiful as it takes. 5) Sound. Mixed. Sometimes the ambient are good, sometimes ok. But they are not even close to overly-expressly epic WoW ambient, which in my opinion is pretty average. 6) World. There is no open world. There is just rails and tunnels. You can not climb on that mountain or hill. You can not fly over that tree. In fact, you feel like you are some stool, which BW is taking through straight intestine all the way to the end-game - i.e. the anal orifice. There is no freedom to explore the world. And thats's the biggest minus to me engine-wise. It even overwhelms the graphics, which can be fixed in nearest future, and arts, which can be fixed in long-term (provided that game is still alive, which I doubt). But this closed world is the game engine issue (hello, cheap Hero engine) and can not be fixed. Hey! A 200 million dollars game uses weak, slow and cheap Hero engine! Even CCP, which started with couple of thousand bucks in the basement, developed a beautiful open world game engine, perhaps, because they treat paying customers with more respect. How are people supposed to believe this world is real, when all they see is not a freedom to explore, but straight intestine. I seriously started to feel like I have been turned into the proctologist's office, but not entertained with the game. And lying BW promised it will be open, un-instanced world!!! 7) PVP. Didn't test, as I am a PVE carebear; 8) Customer support. There is nothing to say, really. CS is the final nail in the TOR coffin to me. I opened a ticket by the December 30th and NEVER (!!!) got an answer from the CS. That is zero. And finally, the worst that happened to me - right before the end of "free" 30 days the button unsubscribe disappeared! How very convenient for BW right before re-occuring paying period start!!! and that happened on Google Chrome, IE, Firefox- all 3 major browsers I have!!! So the only option to unsubscribe was to call BW, stay on hold for over an hour, than talk to some Indian rep for 20 minutes so he understands what you want of him??? And on this resource I have also found evidences that BW deleted official forum threads about missing UNSUBSCRIBE button and link to page for subscription cancellation. Never going back - that's for sure. Like they say in Texas- double cross me once and it's a shame on you. Double-cross me twice and it's a shame on me. And I ain't that naive, partner. ;) Oh, about the CS. Like I mentioned if you have an issue don't even hope it will be fixed in reasonable time. BW claims that all the reps are very busy. But all the posts on the official forums are moderated, every inconvenient for BW post (concerning UNSUB, bugs, lack of respect to paying customer) is deleted within a minutes, people are being banned and warned for odd reasons in no time. So BW employees find their time to deal with such matters, which is why there is not enough time to actually solve tickets and help people! P.S. All this is just top of iceberg. Even voice-overs, dialogues and story does not compensate all misses and fails, not even for a story lover such as me! 3 points to the max, but with such CS and attitude towards paying cows - 0!!! WORST DISAPPOINTMENT since Master of Orion 3!!!… Expand
  29. Woooyaaaa
    Jan 26, 2012
    0
    Honestly this game was decent in the first few weeks. But once you hit 50 and there is no more story there really isn't much to the game. You have hardmodes and raiding and broken pvp, if you want all that then why not just stay with a much more polished game like Rift or WoW? This game is not innovative.
  30. WarTornPanda
    Jan 29, 2012
    0
    There are far too many things for me to list. Not only can I not remember everything, but I'm afraid I would exceed the 5,000 character limit. I'll keep this brief and to the point by referencing the major issues.

    PvP - Not horribly imbalanced, but dated. There is an ability delay caused by your characters animations overriding your commands. The system does not prioritize player input.    There are far too many things for me to list. Not only can I not remember everything, but I'm afraid I would exceed the 5,000 character limit. I'll keep this brief and to the point by referencing the major issues.

    PvP - Not horribly imbalanced, but dated. There is an ability delay caused by your characters animations overriding your commands. The system does not prioritize player input. This is terrible design and causes unresponsive play.

    Economy - Totally borked. All professions, but two are completely worthless. Credits (gold/money) are easily exploited by bots camping chests that respawn on a set timer. Bot logs in, loots chest, logs out, waits 7 minutes, repeats. There are also professions that give you credits outright; no item trading or gathering required. This is easily exploited by botting.

    PvE - Nothing innovative here. Just the same as any other MMORPG you've ever played. Insanely buggy max-level "flashpoints" (dungeons). There are bosses that cannot be looted and instances that cannot be completed. Holy trinity (tank/DPS/healer) still intact, but only four players are required for a flashpoint. This puts even more stress on the requirement for healers and tanks. This is only gets worse with...

    Server Population - Most servers are dead/dying now that they free month is finished. In response to launch queues, Bioware decided to open up more servers instead of raising the population caps. People left in droves and many servers are struggling to progress.

    Faction Imbalance - Republic is getting destroyed by Empire players.

    UI - Not customizable. There are so many things wrong with the UI, it's hard to list them all. Your debuffs on your target look the same as other player's debuffs. Not a single thing can be moved aside from the chat window, but there is no where to put that anyways. Your buffs/debuffs are too small. There is no combat log. No macros, which means no mouse-over healing, etc... No target of target. There are many more problems.

    MMO Factor - It's not an MMO. Worth the $60 dollar purchase, but definitely not worth $15 recurring monthly fee.    … Expand
  31. McCochiner
    Jan 30, 2012
    0
    Terrible game that has major bugs, database, game engine and severe performance issues. The bottom line is that SWTOR is nothing more than a cash grab by LA/EA/Bioware under the Star Wars IP.

    People who purchase & subscribe to this game are willingly paying money to beta test a product that was released a good 1 - 1.5 years ahead of schedule. I'm somewhat curious as to the mentality of    Terrible game that has major bugs, database, game engine and severe performance issues. The bottom line is that SWTOR is nothing more than a cash grab by LA/EA/Bioware under the Star Wars IP.

    People who purchase & subscribe to this game are willingly paying money to beta test a product that was released a good 1 - 1.5 years ahead of schedule.

    I'm somewhat curious as to the mentality of people showering this game with accolades. Would you people also tolerate automobile makers, doctors, food producers, etc. releasing half-a**ed, unfinished products on the market and call them excellent as well?    … Expand
  32. Demorase
    Jan 31, 2012
    0
    The game start off great, making your first character is a lot of fun. Unfortunately, things get ugly really fast. There are tons of things wrong with this game: no sense of freedom or exploration and the world feels lifeless, class balance is pretty bad, a lot of bugs (with some affecting responsiveness), horrible optimization (impossible to get more than 30 fps in warzones even withThe game start off great, making your first character is a lot of fun. Unfortunately, things get ugly really fast. There are tons of things wrong with this game: no sense of freedom or exploration and the world feels lifeless, class balance is pretty bad, a lot of bugs (with some affecting responsiveness), horrible optimization (impossible to get more than 30 fps in warzones even with everything on low in 800x600, on a computer that runs Battlefield 3 on ultra in 1600x900). But the biggest problem is how poorly conceived it is as a MMO, it doesn't reinvent itself as you level up (there's no game changing mechanics introduced after the first levels), this is a one-time disposable experience (like you'd expect in a solo game not a paying MMO) and once you reach max level (which doesn't take very long) there's nothing to look forward to aside from doing the exact same thing only with a different character (the story is 90% the same for all classes and you have to explore planets always in the same order while leveling). Voice-overs alone aren't enough to make a good MMO, sorry.… Expand
  33. achaeon
    Feb 1, 2012
    0
    Very boring. Nothing innovative. Yet another clone half produced with empty promises for the future.. I don't want promises for the future when im paying now. Which is why I cancelled.
  34. VasiliiZaytsev
    Feb 3, 2012
    0
    WoW in space. Terribly optimized. Ruins everything great about Knights of the Old Republic, the series it is based on. Generic gameplay and poor graphics and animations that would look out of place five years ago. The art style looks like something from the back of a cereal box and does not fit the universe of the game at all. Abysmal game. Keep your money.
  35. Woody309
    Feb 3, 2012
    0
    I had high hopes for this game. I was severely disappointed. While the class quests were interesting for a while the horrible mechanics completely broke the positive aspect of the story lines. I also had a problem with getting immersed in this game due to the overuse of load screens.
  36. Aquila
    Feb 4, 2012
    0
    It has good Voice Acting but this score is way more important in for example an animated movie/TV show than in a MMORPG. Levelling Until lvl 11 is nice if you go further it becomes very linear in a crappy environment. About end game: My guild stopped operations because of game breaking bugs, and lack off people because they didn't like this game in this state and pvp is very bad andIt has good Voice Acting but this score is way more important in for example an animated movie/TV show than in a MMORPG. Levelling Until lvl 11 is nice if you go further it becomes very linear in a crappy environment. About end game: My guild stopped operations because of game breaking bugs, and lack off people because they didn't like this game in this state and pvp is very bad and unbalanced. Besides PVE/PVP like exploring datacrons(Strange fault in the game is if body type 3 can´t reach them), dailies everything is disappointing. Its a static universe, mobs and NPCs are static, no freedom, to much walls/blockades, linearity, to much is instanced/sharded. You enter a building/cave which mostly all lookalike eachother and are very linear. Lots seems copy pasted. But the worst thing is if your done your looking at a wall and you can better die to turn in your quest instead of running that entire questinstance back same way you came in. The game is claustrophobic, straight edged, much copy pasted elevators and things. Everything but a real planet, a real world, or an MMORPG world can feel like. Feels like you live in a maze, a prison. Hard to imagine flying with your spaceship over the planets because its like the walls in this game want you to keep in the labyrinth. Or even land and take off yourself instead of seeing the same copy pasted video of your ship landing/take off on all locations.
    The engine is horrible, the programming is horrible if you open any tab like inventory, map, character screen you have screen freezes and you can feel this sort of clunkiness throughout the whole game like ability delay and much more. There is no logic in ability rotations and talent trees are copied from WoW.

    The main thing to play MMORPG's are about dynamical content not static content (story). Here it goes wrong in the first place. But to be short every department in this game has shortcomings, flaws, bugs and illogical things. From the character selection screen to endgame.

    They say SWTOR has potential but seeing the list of issues... Also since the beta practically nothing changed and they did 1 year!! over a flashpoint (Kaon Under Siege) i can't really say it has potential although I hope it.



    Lucas should have done a SWG 2 with good pve/pvp and gameplay.    … Expand
  37. Akuta
    Feb 4, 2012
    0
    The worst MMO experience I've had. It doesn't even feel like an MMO... maybe a single player game with a shared city. The PvE is boring, there's massive amounts of bugs, the PvP servers have absolutely no PvP--there's 3 warzones you queue for 5000 times--literally--for the same gear. I'm extremely disappointed by this game.
  38. Navyseal
    Feb 7, 2012
    0
    I would Rather Play SWG then this dreadful thing they call an MMO. All Biware can do is story tell not make an mmo Galaxies was way better then this . Really need to stick to RPG's not doing big game like this what a disappointment and a waste of money
  39. wxgreg
    Feb 11, 2012
    0
    This was a very fun game, having played for almost 2 months and max leveling two characters. The problem is not just the bugs at higher levels (which believe me are plenty), Its not just the incompatibility of logitech mice (I have contacted logitech and there is nothing they can do) it is the worst, lack of, if any customer service at all. The always have the same canned responses, ifThis was a very fun game, having played for almost 2 months and max leveling two characters. The problem is not just the bugs at higher levels (which believe me are plenty), Its not just the incompatibility of logitech mice (I have contacted logitech and there is nothing they can do) it is the worst, lack of, if any customer service at all. The always have the same canned responses, if they respond at all. And the issues you have, detailing the bugs etc are not addressed in any patches. So... SWTOR, you get a big goose egg.… Expand
  40. EasilyAnnoyed
    Feb 16, 2012
    0
    When I started playing this game, I loved it. The stories were great and entertaining. Nice visuals, interesting classes and such. That didn't last long. The bugs started in soon after the starting areas. Broken quests and performance problems galore. I have a pretty decent system and this game runs like a turtle taking a dump. Each patch has made the problem even worse. It's now to theWhen I started playing this game, I loved it. The stories were great and entertaining. Nice visuals, interesting classes and such. That didn't last long. The bugs started in soon after the starting areas. Broken quests and performance problems galore. I have a pretty decent system and this game runs like a turtle taking a dump. Each patch has made the problem even worse. It's now to the point that it's just no fun. Support is atrocious. They blame their users instead of communicating and addressing these flaws. It's all spelled out in this thread. http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=249030

    Over 70,000 views, a userbase doing their jobs for them to figure the problems out, and not one reply from a CM. What happened, Bioware? I used to love everything you did. Now I'm not sure I'll ever buy another one of your products again.    … Expand
  41. Harower
    Feb 17, 2012
    0
    If you are reading these review you will note that people who dislike the game discuss exactly what is wrong with the game. Why they feel the way they do about the game and all the aspects involved and the experience they had with it.

    While on the other hand Reviewers who give the game a good score tend to spend a majority attacking the character of those giving it a bad score and very    If you are reading these review you will note that people who dislike the game discuss exactly what is wrong with the game. Why they feel the way they do about the game and all the aspects involved and the experience they had with it.

    While on the other hand

    Reviewers who give the game a good score tend to spend a majority attacking the character of those giving it a bad score and very little time actually discussing the game beyond "omg this game is amazing"


    Really says it all about which kind of person you should be listening too.

    It is to be expected, starwars fans are pretty fanatical. Fanatical mentality leads to zealtry which leads to blind love. But good for them though, they get to enjoy something long-term otherwise impossible.    … Expand
  42. ExceptionThrown
    Feb 18, 2012
    0
    I decided to play this game because I am a long term fan of Bioware. When I think back to neverwinter nights and Mass Effect 1 and Dragon age 1, I can say I am an avid Bioware fan. However, this game disappointed me to the point that I occasionally wonder why I like Bioware games. What is absolutely unacceptable is the customer service. When I asked for help regarding having lost myI decided to play this game because I am a long term fan of Bioware. When I think back to neverwinter nights and Mass Effect 1 and Dragon age 1, I can say I am an avid Bioware fan. However, this game disappointed me to the point that I occasionally wonder why I like Bioware games. What is absolutely unacceptable is the customer service. When I asked for help regarding having lost my security and therefore being unable to enter the game, they did not do anything. In fact, there is a fairly well known pattern that the customer service tickets are neither closed nor kept open but rather simply deleted without even so much professionalism as a form letter.

    This would not be such a big problem if there were not so many bugs and balance issues. In terms of balance issues, the players on the sith side in the game tend to be so devoted to the game that in most pvp fights there is no chance for republic to win unless you outnumber the sith. Unfortunately, since republic players seem to quit the game when they get to level 50, this does not happen much, making the Level 50 planet pretty much a dead zone, while the Sith wait around to kill any republic players who come. This provides no enjoyable experience for either side.

    It may be a lesser problem is the servers are populated well, but the player numbers has substantially dwindled since opening and you would be lucky to find 20 people on your entire PLANET.
    There is a pvp warzone area that automatically gathers people to play pvp, but you'll find that there are so many hackers and speed boosters that the games are plainly unfair. Any of my customer service tickets regarding hacking in the game have, or course, simply been deleted without result. I would say that you can even things out by hacking and boosting yourself and using exploits (such as the /stuck exploit that returns full health to you in pvp) also, but what I want from the game is not to see who can hack better.

    Remaining to do in the game is the standard item farming grindfest at level 50, where drops have recently been decreased in frequency so that your daily grinding quests require more time.

    The one redeeming quality is that the beautiful graphics are absolutely stunning, and the sound is gorgeous. But I'm definitely a gameplay person, and I would rather play something that gives me a sense of accomplishment and fun as opposed to play a beautifully rendered variant of complicated game of pong.    … Expand
  43. boomer0901
    Feb 28, 2012
    0
    The scores you see from the users vs critics should tell you all you need to know about this game.

    First off I'm a star wars fans, have been for a long time since the originals came out originally. Now I must say I was a bioware fan until they joined with EA, I just started playing Mass effect, coulnd't stomach Dragon Age, and I've only played a few minutes of Kotor. As soon as I    The scores you see from the users vs critics should tell you all you need to know about this game.

    First off I'm a star wars fans, have been for a long time since the originals came out originally. Now I must say I was a bioware fan until they joined with EA, I just started playing Mass effect, coulnd't stomach Dragon Age, and I've only played a few minutes of Kotor. As soon as I started playing Mass Effect, I'm like ohhhh this is where SWTOR got all their crap from. So bioware really took no iniative in anything in this game, it's a slice and patch job and it shows in so many ways in this game. I could care less about graphics and character creature, so I won't give my opinions on those, but I will say I'm running a high end system and this game set on the lowest overall setting possible is trying to burn out my video card with 70+ C temps. The rest of my box and CPU run well below 40C but for some reason this game is very GPU heavy. Bugs and stuff like that are pretty common on release so I have no problems with bugs on a new release, they are fixing the bugs which is nice, but while they are doing that, they've left the game and things like balancing toons in pvp, and open world pvp or lack there of kicked it to the curb with small fixes that literally have done nothing to improve the game. What I do have a problem with in this game is the overall direction they took with it, instances single player RPG that you are paying for. At least GW was free for the same cocept and sadly I'd put GW1 ahead of this game still and problem still is innovation wise.

    Boy do I have to shake my head at the ppl who give this a 10 saying this is the best MMO out there and how much better than wow it is, it is wow with companions, blasters=bows, lightsabers=axes/swords. Other thans putting a new face on something, giving you ships, with lack luster space missions that are all completely and totally linear. And being able to travel to different planets, which if they really wanted too, could have just put them all on one planet anyway, they did a lot to try and do the "hey look shiny objective" But came up very, very short. This game is a huge grind, I've 10 total toons on 2 servers and I've done the same missions 10 times on about 5 different planets, what happened to playing all these different toons with different experiences, about the only difference is your unique quest, and playing light or dark, which on the imperial side is a joke btw, since half the fricking companions hate light side choices, republic side I'm finding is a cake walk, light side choices equals instant win with companion.

    I can't believe bioware had the balls to make ppl pay for this game, don't be fooled by the 10's ppl, if you hated wow, I don't care how much you like starwars this game will not satisfy you. After disappointing runs by Mortal online, xyson and now Swtor, hears hoping Guild wars 2 can actually pull of some of that innovation they are talking about. Keeping my fingers crossed for something that isn't a wow clone    … Expand
  44. sympathy4saren2
    Mar 18, 2012
    0
    WoW, The Old Republic is bad. The only thing redeemable with this game is the fact that it isn't as bad as the end of ME3. It's uninspired, rushed, buggy and boring. Stay away from this game at all costs!!!!
  45. christianwins
    Mar 21, 2012
    0
    Created an account on here just to review this steaming pile of garbage. After the initial cinematic the entire thing is boring, slow and a waste. If you buy the $60 game you'd think they'd give you more than 7 days to play it before they try to scrape more dollars from your wallet. DO NOT GO NEAR. They give star wars a bad name.
  46. LoneDutyer
    Apr 17, 2012
    0
    EA's customer service and management of this game has been spectacularly awful. In too many ways to go into here, this has been a disaster thus far, and it's no wonder EA is laying off employees and their stock is plummeting even more. Just google 'Tortanic'.
  47. Last_Timelord
    Apr 21, 2012
    0
    I am horribly disappointed in this game. I had been looking forward to this game for a long, long time. Ever since it was announced. I preordered and joined up at early release and out the gate I loved the game. I thought the design of it was innovative and different. I went world to world every time enjoying the content, racing against my guild mates to level 50, excited to be among theI am horribly disappointed in this game. I had been looking forward to this game for a long, long time. Ever since it was announced. I preordered and joined up at early release and out the gate I loved the game. I thought the design of it was innovative and different. I went world to world every time enjoying the content, racing against my guild mates to level 50, excited to be among the first to master the end game content. Then I hit 50 and hit the great big emptiness. Yes there are dailies and there are raids. Thats it, the pvp is a joke. Suppose for a moment, you push yourself through the boring grind, the over sided power of the Sith or worse than that the over sided power of Battlemaster Armor with the expertise on it, what are you rewarded with? I'll tell you, on my Sent it was a horrific looking set of armor. It looked like a 5 year old made a cross of anime and iron man armor. Really, its not hard to design a bad ass looking Knights of the Old Republic armor, heres the equation Robes+Storm Trooper Armor = Utterly Bad Ass Jedi Armor. Who doesn't think the armor Obi Won and Anikan rock in the Clone Wars cartoon is awesome looking? I know, only some many variations and such but come on, you can't work with that really? Even if you want something different, what they put out was not it. The craziest part is the armor right before level cap, at like 45-50 was pretty sweet looking... This is not to mention the numerous bugs and glitches. I think that something as simple as the armor designs looking like junk shows just how lazy they got at the end of designing the game. To be honest, for the past couple weeks I have been telling myself, I gotta log on this week, I gotta get on this week. Yesterday I asked myself why I have to log on and renewed my Rift account. Hopefully Bioware will pull its head out of its arse and address the problems quick but sadly I doubt it. Heres a drink to another lost Star Wars MMO...… Expand
  48. Draig
    May 16, 2012
    0
    Boring graphics, S.O.S. quests, its every mmo created in the last 5 years with a new splash of paint and a Star Wars logo. Pathetic excuse for time wasting. Pray there is another free trial weekend so you don't have to waste your money on trying out this ludicrous venture into the Star Wars franchise.
  49. VeNaH
    Aug 25, 2013
    0
    This game suffers from a gamebreaking issue the Free 2 Play model it uses.
    Now, the game can be easily dismissed as a WoW clone (which it is) with some Star Wars twists thrown into the mix.
    I got to play the game for about 2 days and all I can say is this: it is boring as hell and it is frustrating as well. Why is it frustrating? Well, where do I start: - Do you want to do anything    This game suffers from a gamebreaking issue the Free 2 Play model it uses.
    Now, the game can be easily dismissed as a WoW clone (which it is) with some Star Wars twists thrown into the mix.
    I got to play the game for about 2 days and all I can say is this: it is boring as hell and it is frustrating as well.
    Why is it frustrating?
    Well, where do I start:
    - Do you want to do anything in this game beyond running around like a fool? Pay us money.
    - Do you want to display a useless title near your name? Pay us money.
    - Do you want to play certain instances more than once every 100 years? Pay us money.

    EA wants your money for basically everything you do. Today I received an item in a quest which was, I kid you not, just something that said "Become a subscriber today!" and then disappeared. What the hell EA? You money-hungering, greedy bastards. Why can't you follow a successful model like the one League of Legends, World of Tanks, Guild Wars 2 (and many others) use? There are only 2 big MMOs that still use the subscription model WoW and EVE Online (where you can actually extend your subscription using the in-game currency).
    I got news for you, EA: your MMO is never going to succeed.
    Instead of delivering on their promised KOTOR3 or maybe an actual fun, interesting MMO that doesn't try to rip you off every time you open your inventory, they made this Silly BioWare and EA.

    After all, you can't spell "Steal" without EA.    … Expand
  50. gamer187
    May 26, 2012
    0
    Fails on every level to move the MMO genre forward its a step backwards from Wow and come 7 years later which is a real shame its just bland boring and low tech sub par basic and just not very good really.
  51. tjohobbit
    May 19, 2017
    0
    You must be paying to use the forums.
    Says it needs 25 gig but I am failing installation and then the folder is 61 gig.
    Tried to contact support but of course as a former player I still dont get any help if I dont start up a subscription.

    EA get father and father away from what it once stood for. RIP EA.
  52. X0R
    Jun 11, 2012
    0
    For spending so much money & time to develop, this game was really disappointing. I played the beta and knew it was going to be a 50/50 chance at washing out, but had hopes that it would develop & improve over time. Well, it improved a little... unfortunately not enough for me to stay subscribed after two-months, of which I probably only played for 15-hours total. Not sandbox in any way,For spending so much money & time to develop, this game was really disappointing. I played the beta and knew it was going to be a 50/50 chance at washing out, but had hopes that it would develop & improve over time. Well, it improved a little... unfortunately not enough for me to stay subscribed after two-months, of which I probably only played for 15-hours total. Not sandbox in any way, which is something that really made this game a dull grind.

    I'm a Star Wars fan, and willing to endure imperfections, however of all of the servers I had characters on - most were barren within 6-weeks. This might be fun for some people, but was really boring in my experience. Another lame MMO, or single player MMO.    … Expand
  53. alanj95
    Jul 4, 2012
    0
    While TOR does have some interesting moments and some minor innovations, it is simply not worth the money. It was severely unoptimized, the voice-acting was stiff, the animations and variety in models were minimal, the gameplay is equivalent to early WoW minus auto-attack, and much of the game was broken and still hasn't been fixed.
    Do not purchase this game, whatever you do. It is not    While TOR does have some interesting moments and some minor innovations, it is simply not worth the money. It was severely unoptimized, the voice-acting was stiff, the animations and variety in models were minimal, the gameplay is equivalent to early WoW minus auto-attack, and much of the game was broken and still hasn't been fixed.
    Do not purchase this game, whatever you do. It is not worth the money.    … Expand
  54. scorched595
    Aug 22, 2012
    0
    I waited for this game ever since I beat kotor 2 after it first game around and there were rumors of a kotor mmo in the works, for anyone keeping count, that's about 6 years. Now, I know you can't expect a game to live up to such legendary hype as this game had, but this game pulled a Duke Nukem Forever and gave us a game that was not even half decent. This game is going free to play inI waited for this game ever since I beat kotor 2 after it first game around and there were rumors of a kotor mmo in the works, for anyone keeping count, that's about 6 years. Now, I know you can't expect a game to live up to such legendary hype as this game had, but this game pulled a Duke Nukem Forever and gave us a game that was not even half decent. This game is going free to play in september for a reason, bioware is losing subscribers and is trying to save the ship from sinking, but alas, it won't work, mainly because this game sucks balls. This game fails right off the bat for one reason, it focuses mainly on story, so it's basically a single player rpg with multiplayer added on, The genre is called Massively Multiplayer Online Roleplaying Game for a reason people, because it's a MULTIPLAYER rpg focused mainly on MULTIPLAYER. This game couldn't have been saved even if it was a different company for that reason alone. But aside from that, there are quite a few reasons this game is bad. Let's get to the biggest problem with this game first, which is that Most of the class stories just plain suck, especially on the republic side. The republic stories are that of a cliche mary sue character (The jedi knight), a guy who has no real motive to be helping the republic (smuggler), a badly written martyr character who's quests are similar to the jedi knight's (the jedi consular), and a generic, cliche special ops character (The trooper). So, republic stories fail right off the bat. Sith empire only has 2 good stories as well (The bounty hunter and the Agent), Both of which are sort of cliche, but are still fun, the bounty hunters story being one of betrayal and the imperial agent's story being one much like James Bond's . The other two classes are just generic mustache twirling villain stories (Sith warrior and Inquisitor). The next reason that this game fails right off the bat is that the way this game is structured makes it feel so empty and yet so claustrophobic, every zone has invisble walls you can't pass, restricting exploration, you also have to take a speeder bike everywhere almost every time to get to the next zone. The third reason that this game fails is that the community is non existent, probably due to the lack of players. The nail that seals the coffin on this game is that the flashpoints and pvp just suck ass, the flashpoints are mainly generic imperial/ republic space ships or space stations, and the pvp is just so unbalanced it's not even funny, atleast with wow it's a 50/50 split on who wins, but with swtor, it's usually imperials who win. TL;DR version: **** game, end of story… Expand
  55. nightshark
    Oct 25, 2012
    0
    The reason I gave this game a 0 is because I did not enjoy it in the slightest. It plays like WoW because it is WoW, with a different skin. But rather than improving on WoW (which I have never been too fond of), it fills the game with boring quest dialogues which are voice acted. Even worse: when you are grouped, you can not cancel these voice dialogues without possibly annoying your otherThe reason I gave this game a 0 is because I did not enjoy it in the slightest. It plays like WoW because it is WoW, with a different skin. But rather than improving on WoW (which I have never been too fond of), it fills the game with boring quest dialogues which are voice acted. Even worse: when you are grouped, you can not cancel these voice dialogues without possibly annoying your other group members. You have to sit and watch something you weren't interested in, in the first place. You feel a lot like you are just playing a minor part in watching a story, rather than being free to create your character for what it is. The story "choices" do not affect this feeling with me. It's just a pre-written story.

    Repetition: This game has lots of it. No matter which kind of mob you are fighting, no matter which area you are in, you are essentially just hitting the same keys and watching a long boring fight. The area looks a little different, the mob looks a little different, but the gameplay is exactly the same. After around level 24, I couldn't stomach it anymore. My mind was made up: this game is awful.    … Expand
  56. Jintoss
    Nov 16, 2012
    0
    So I jumped on board after SWTOR went F2P, thinking that I only ever wanted to know the story and wasn't interested in WoW gameplay, so it should be great right? I might even buy a few things right? After a day, I can conclude that the game feels like a typical Korean f2p rpg. Que generic spells, grind, collect item quests, etc. etc. The story is not that interesting, mostly genericSo I jumped on board after SWTOR went F2P, thinking that I only ever wanted to know the story and wasn't interested in WoW gameplay, so it should be great right? I might even buy a few things right? After a day, I can conclude that the game feels like a typical Korean f2p rpg. Que generic spells, grind, collect item quests, etc. etc. The story is not that interesting, mostly generic rubbish. The voice acting is passable, but the characters are ALL forgettable. You end up skipping dialogue just to see what they want - unthinkable in other BioWare games. I couldn't care less about what happens to my level 8 trooper or whether the Imperials are involved in the Ord Mantell rebellion. You are constantly reminded of the little things you have to pay for, either subscription or one off (no difference in my mind - you basically pay). And these are the most petty small things, like having the right to display titles. Is it so much to ask to have 'Sergeant' in front of my name? Since you know.. I'm supposed to be an elite badass spec ops ninja, running around collecting meds for the refugees? Oh and you have to pay to sprint as well. Funniest **** I've ever heard.

    Just by glancing at the forums, it seems they haven't yet polished the game for subscribers and they are already trying to export it F2P style to the cash cow masses. Seriously feels like StarWoW with a LucasArts skin and some token voice acting. A meager game that's been sacrificed to try and milk a little bit more money before the end of its run.    … Expand
  57. Serwar
    Nov 18, 2012
    0
    Awful F2P mode. Before F2P, the performance of the game was bad, but you still could play and enjoy it somehow. Now, they only try to cash you for money ... even for running or showing titles you must pay with real money! Even some interesting and different mechanics like the crafting system, now is worthless and useless if you are a free player. You are basically "filling the space" soAwful F2P mode. Before F2P, the performance of the game was bad, but you still could play and enjoy it somehow. Now, they only try to cash you for money ... even for running or showing titles you must pay with real money! Even some interesting and different mechanics like the crafting system, now is worthless and useless if you are a free player. You are basically "filling the space" so paying customers can feel that their game is full of people. And today I found something funny. If after completing a mission you close the rewards window with the "X" in the top right corner ... you lose the experience, the money and the item from the reward! WTF!?… Expand
  58. calxllum
    Dec 26, 2012
    0
    Personally I haven't been able to play the game, why? Because of the security system. So far I have attempted at around 9 different accounts with different emails. I have had so much trouble because their system is stupid, and once I didn't even get the code I need. I have a text file on my desktop with the security questions and answers. Game looks good, probably is OK if you can getPersonally I haven't been able to play the game, why? Because of the security system. So far I have attempted at around 9 different accounts with different emails. I have had so much trouble because their system is stupid, and once I didn't even get the code I need. I have a text file on my desktop with the security questions and answers. Game looks good, probably is OK if you can get around the silly system. Oh, and I forgot I also have to put a capital letter in my password. Lately I have tried again but the website has decided my display name isn't allowed to be correct no matter what I do.
    0 out of 10, probably will go to a 4-6 if they change the stupid security.    … Expand
  59. Hendrixius
    Dec 6, 2012
    0
    The sad death of my respect for BioWare as a company is now complete. They have committed the most fatal blow to an RPG I can imagine by destroying the role-playing aspect of the game for a large part of the existing community.

    I was an original subscriber to SW:TOR at launch - my characters have the "Founder" title - and I was on an original server called Fa'athra. I moved across the    The sad death of my respect for BioWare as a company is now complete. They have committed the most fatal blow to an RPG I can imagine by destroying the role-playing aspect of the game for a large part of the existing community.

    I was an original subscriber to SW:TOR at launch - my characters have the "Founder" title - and I was on an original server called Fa'athra. I moved across the country this summer and cancelled my sub while I resettled financially. Last week I decided to get back to playing my Sith and discovered (thankfully, due to the F2P model, without paying for a month's game time) that Bioware MOVED ALL OF MY CHARACTERS TO A NEW HIGH POPULATION SERVER WITHOUT MY CONSENT AND THEREFORE CAUSED ME TO LOSE ALL OF THE NAMES THAT I WORKED SO HARD TO GET BY BEING A DAY ONE SUPPORTER.

    So, there it is. The game was pretty fun for a while - had interesting combat, the best gathering/crafting system I have seen to date (your crew does it for you), had pretty good scaled PVP battles and decent graphics despite what people say - but this is just unforgivable.

    The heart of an RPG is the role-playing - many of us have built characters and become quite attached to names over the years in various MMOs and offline RPGs - and to take your base community (the people who got you off the ground to start with) and slap them in the face like this is entirely unforgivable.

    I will NEVER play this game again and i will have to think long and hard about whether or not to ever play a BioWare or LA title - especially online - ever again.

    My the farce be with you...always.    … Expand
  60. Socratease
    Jan 23, 2013
    0
    My hatred of TOR does not stem from the fact that it was a bad WOW clone, or even that it was so repetative and boring.

    No, my hatred of TOR stems from the fact that bioware turned KOTOR, perhaps the most classic star wars series ever, into A **** MMO!! Instead of just giving us KOTOR3 like they SHOULD have, bioware instead opted for the crowd that would give them the most money.    My hatred of TOR does not stem from the fact that it was a bad WOW clone, or even that it was so repetative and boring.

    No, my hatred of TOR stems from the fact that bioware turned KOTOR, perhaps the most classic star wars series ever, into A **** MMO!!

    Instead of just giving us KOTOR3 like they SHOULD have, bioware instead opted for the crowd that would give them the most money.

    Bioware has no artistic integrity left. They sacrificed it on the alter of greed.

    Expect more TORs and ME3s from now on.

    The days of Baldurs gate, KOTOR1, and Dragon age: origins are over.    … Expand
  61. glam
    Dec 13, 2013
    0
    Another mindless WOW clone wannabe. instead of sticking to their strong sides like KOTOR1 and such they go on and copy whatever is goes on the market right now throwing all their integrity for quick buck, well guess what lucas, your clone sucks, all you ever had was the old games which were quality made and you trying to take a market with whole new audiance just puts you in a lameAnother mindless WOW clone wannabe. instead of sticking to their strong sides like KOTOR1 and such they go on and copy whatever is goes on the market right now throwing all their integrity for quick buck, well guess what lucas, your clone sucks, all you ever had was the old games which were quality made and you trying to take a market with whole new audiance just puts you in a lame position. im sure you can see how this game fails in sales maybe it will teach you a lesson.… Expand
  62. dougal83
    May 26, 2014
    0
    Summary... OK as an MMO. Diabolical support from staff that don't care. I pre ordered Collectors edition to support the game and still had to beg on twitter to get early access(that was advertised). Now everyone can get the "exclusive" in game items for £3. DO NOT BUY CARTEL COIN CURRENCY. I bought some cartel coins to support the game thinking I would not be shafted twice but I wasSummary... OK as an MMO. Diabolical support from staff that don't care. I pre ordered Collectors edition to support the game and still had to beg on twitter to get early access(that was advertised). Now everyone can get the "exclusive" in game items for £3. DO NOT BUY CARTEL COIN CURRENCY. I bought some cartel coins to support the game thinking I would not be shafted twice but I was wrong. Broken item was not refunded as expected and so I cancelled subscription. They just don't want my money and ignored me until my subscription expired. Currently unable to talk to them so will have to pay £8 for 30 days of being ignored or just go directly to my bank for refund. DO NOT SPEND ANY MONEY ON THIS GAME. I'm bitter so I will go around review sites repeating do not buy into the Free-To-Play model that destroyed a semi decent MMO.… Expand
  63. Trent28
    Aug 25, 2015
    0
    Was about to subscribe again after playing at launch. I log in to find that my characters were on lightly populated servers. No problem because everyone gets a free character transfer, right?

    Log into the transfer webpage, initiate the transfer. It times out, failing to complete. I log in again to try restarting the transfer. Oh, it costs money now. How cute. I do some searching    Was about to subscribe again after playing at launch. I log in to find that my characters were on lightly populated servers. No problem because everyone gets a free character transfer, right?

    Log into the transfer webpage, initiate the transfer. It times out, failing to complete. I log in again to try restarting the transfer. Oh, it costs money now.

    How cute.

    I do some searching on their website for a support ticket system, but that's only for subscribers. The customer support forum? Only for subscribers. I guess coming back wasn't really worth it after all. At least I saved $15.    … Expand
  64. Bubbet
    Aug 8, 2013
    0
    Awful game and a genuine insult to the Star Wars franchise. Generic, flawed game play. Walled environments. Bland missions. Non-challenging engagements. Now with added "Pay To Play". It's not a "WoW Clone" as some have suggested, this is an insult to the tired old World of Warcraft MMO. It's a game that had VAST amounts of potential, squandered away by greed and complacency.
  65. JordanKing
    Aug 30, 2013
    0
    The worst of all games. I have played too many games in my life but this one was the worst game I've ever played. The Star Wars movies though are very good and epic but this game is a big CRAP!!!!!!
  66. Coeurdacier
    Sep 5, 2013
    0
    That's not star wars...
    It's just a rpg with laser sabre.
    Very very boring...
    I had the courage to level up to lvl 50 and hop bye bye the poorly crapy cartoony game.
  67. Tekhiun
    Oct 2, 2013
    0
    I played the game from launch until the release of the hutt cartel. At the point that the hutt cartel was released I managed to get all classes to 50 4 on republic and 4 on the imperial side. This game promised a lot of great things a story driven mmo, the greatest pvp experience ever made by the"greatest pvp team". Needless to say what we got was nothing more than pureI played the game from launch until the release of the hutt cartel. At the point that the hutt cartel was released I managed to get all classes to 50 4 on republic and 4 on the imperial side. This game promised a lot of great things a story driven mmo, the greatest pvp experience ever made by the"greatest pvp team". Needless to say what we got was nothing more than pure disappointment. The game was clearly rushed, it was visible by the quality and extensiveness of the content we had. I wont touch on bugs as it is something which is common the launch of many mmos, the only critique on that part is that there were bugs and balance issues which were pointed out during open beta that still carried over and remained in the live game for over an year.

    On the PVE front we only had 2 end game operations with a unfair and bad designed loot drop system where many times a group would get useless drops which could not be used at all by any member of the raid. This was the case for the first 3 months and it was improved upon very on the course of a year.

    On the PVP side of the game, the open pvp area had to be shutdown after being redesigned not even a month after release, due to a system which was unprepared to deal with unbalaced numbers of players on each side. What remained of pvp was the so called war zones only 3 for over 6 months, which had no match making system and constatly put premade groups over pug groups which be a source of great frustration for everyone, premades wouldnt get the challenge they wanted and ppugs would never have a chance of winning a match. They tried to remedy this issue with a ranked match system, which completely falied as the rewards were not substantial enough to keep premade groups interested in it.

    The most frustrating thing about the PVP aspect of this game though, is class balance. Not because there is no balance, but due to the lack of active develop spent on it, at some point the game remained broken for over 7 months without a fix to the balance issue, which was basically that a class could take over 50% to up to 5 players with 1 move, in some cases depending on the gear and class difference and that would go upwards to 90-100% of damage. Needless to say pvp in this game was unplayable and frustrating for this period of time.

    This lack of balance was only addressed on the release of the hutt cartel, which still did very little to remedy the situation and that class still remains the top damage dealing class on pvp on the game.

    The only reason left to play the game was the personal story arc for each main class of the game, which ranked from ok, to quite intesting.

    However after the game went into free to play mode, the focus on the game changed from a story driven mmo to a mini market driven one. The worst kind of market in fact, where many items that should have been unlocked by completing story arcs in the game were moved to lottery boxes, which in some case you had to buy quite a lot of in order to get the item you wanted, EVEN if you had an active subscription.

    Needless to say that at this point it was obvious that the mistakes made during launch and development were too great to be remedy as for example using an unfinished version of the 3rd party engine and this game became a cash-in game for EA.

    I finally decided to leave the game after the disappointment that The hutt cartel was, which created artificial caps on how much you could progress on the game, no matter how many characters you had.

    In short, this game is nothing more than pure disappointment for me I saw it deforming from what could be a AAA story driven mmo into a cash-in theme park mmo with an unreasonable market place system that seriously injured the game.

    It baffles me that anyone could give this game a score of over 50%.    … Expand
  68. MrJurgens
    Nov 13, 2013
    0
    Worst MMORPG in existence. I love Star Wars, but for the sake of your wallet do NOT buy this game. If you're a hardcore player, whether you PvP, PvE or both, just do NOT buy this game. It's the worst.
  69. MaestroVolpe
    Dec 29, 2013
    0
    I've never seen a company take such an amazing game and run it straight into the ground so quickly.

    When the game was purely subscription based it was great. Now it's unplayable. You can't take five steps without running into some cheap attempt at getting the player to buy "Cartel Coins". I'm talking about basic functionality, like hiding your character's helmet. Anything you may have    I've never seen a company take such an amazing game and run it straight into the ground so quickly.

    When the game was purely subscription based it was great. Now it's unplayable. You can't take five steps without running into some cheap attempt at getting the player to buy "Cartel Coins". I'm talking about basic functionality, like hiding your character's helmet. Anything you may have earned beforehand is now held from you and unavailable unless you unlock specifically that one thing with "Cartel Coins"

    Way to kill a great thing, guys.    … Expand
  70. SirMarty
    Apr 16, 2014
    0
    Worst MMORPG in existence. I love Star Wars, but for the sake of your wallet do not buy this game. If you're a hardcore/competitive player – whether you PvP, PvE, or both – just do not buy this game. It's the worst.
  71. KaienShiba
    Sep 16, 2014
    0
    Play this game if you agitation in your life, for the most part your companions are only good to get them and you killed, because after almost 4 years your companion has a tendency to do a disappearing act which leaves you unable to heal them and there is no indication that this serious bug is going to be fixed, and forget about teaming up with only 35-40 players on a planet, you unlikelyPlay this game if you agitation in your life, for the most part your companions are only good to get them and you killed, because after almost 4 years your companion has a tendency to do a disappearing act which leaves you unable to heal them and there is no indication that this serious bug is going to be fixed, and forget about teaming up with only 35-40 players on a planet, you unlikely to get help which also means you are unlikely to be invited to join a guild. In short they seem to be adding content to a dying game instead of fixing the glitches and bugs to save it… Expand
  72. Harbyinger
    Aug 4, 2014
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. this game is absolutely atrocius,the gameplay is repetitive,it gets too long to level up you have to kill thousands of roaming dudes to have a single level up after level 30,,that doesn't get any part done well,except in very few parts of class storylines,the npcs are too aggressive and spawn in the same place over and over,without even changing positions ,otherwise the missions are bland,boring and shallow 'kill x dudes' 'destroy x things' 'kill boss y' turn in,the game gets a annoying freemium that blocks everything,you have to pay the ingame currency (which has to be bought),or be a subscriber,for an additional inventory line,you have to pay,to have an extra cargo hold slot guess what?you have to pay,to have normal XP gain after level 10?you have to pay or buy the xp boosters,the medical probes?you have to pay,to equip rare items you gained legitemely in the game?you have to purchase an 'authorization'
    but the worst part is that this game ruined the kotor series to be able to be 'alive' ,for a MMO that went F2P after a year
    those who knew Kotor know what i'm talking about.
    Revan and The Exile from Kotor 2
    i was there for 6 months since day 1,and they didn't nothing,just gave you a worthless title that cannot be used if you are preferred or F2P
    you are heavily limited even if you're preferred(ex-subber).they just try to throw at you worthless junk to make you subscribe
    a friendly advise,don't subscribe to this game
    EA and bioware really f*cked it up this time    … Expand
  73. drumsfield
    Mar 17, 2015
    0
    I quit this game because of the Cartel market. It killed crafting and basically made the game pay to win. Yea it puts more money in the coffers of EA and Bioware, but at what costs. It waters down the came removing the essential elements of crafting from the MMO. Basically the Cartel Market IS the defacto crafters. They provide everything from Armor, Weapons, Mounts, Color Crystals, Pets,I quit this game because of the Cartel market. It killed crafting and basically made the game pay to win. Yea it puts more money in the coffers of EA and Bioware, but at what costs. It waters down the came removing the essential elements of crafting from the MMO. Basically the Cartel Market IS the defacto crafters. They provide everything from Armor, Weapons, Mounts, Color Crystals, Pets, Furnishings, and Ships. There's nothing left for crafters to craft except a few meaningless trinkets and Augments and MK kits. If you are a MMO fan I suggest you look elsewhere. The only thing this game has going for it is the Star Wars name.… Expand
  74. Tinyfangs
    Nov 20, 2015
    0
    Content great, stories are fantastic, but do not trust this company with your money. I have played many games, but never have I felt this down trodden as a customer paying wages of people who care nothing. Customer care none existing. Huge patch issues, can take ages to patch, patching can burn through huge amounts of allowance, and when you file a ticket, you will be ignored. The companyContent great, stories are fantastic, but do not trust this company with your money. I have played many games, but never have I felt this down trodden as a customer paying wages of people who care nothing. Customer care none existing. Huge patch issues, can take ages to patch, patching can burn through huge amounts of allowance, and when you file a ticket, you will be ignored. The company knows about problems, but does not fix them - a true shame, this game could be outstanding, but with a company in charge which treats their customers like dirt, it is not a place to carry one's wallet to.… Expand
  75. AmmoClip
    Jul 4, 2016
    0
    I paid for the Star Wars: The Old Republic Collector`s Edition few years ago what i disappointment not only did i waste 5 hrs trying to get it to work on windows 10 i never saw past the login screen i wish i never brought this pill of crap.
  76. Blackblade34
    May 11, 2017
    0
    Well what can i say BIOWARE and EA ? WORST combination EVER!! the game clearly wants to take your wallet and empty it like you didn't even work for that money, the game always FORCES you to subscribe(no pun intended) and pay a **** of money i mean you can't even send mails, F***ing MAILS which is something ESSENTIAL to exist in a MMO game but NO you have to pay even for the mail, eventWell what can i say BIOWARE and EA ? WORST combination EVER!! the game clearly wants to take your wallet and empty it like you didn't even work for that money, the game always FORCES you to subscribe(no pun intended) and pay a **** of money i mean you can't even send mails, F***ing MAILS which is something ESSENTIAL to exist in a MMO game but NO you have to pay even for the mail, event items are useless you have to pay for FREE ITEMS too, CLEARLY YOU CAN'T ENJOY THE GAME UNLESS YOU ARE A BILLIONAIRE.… Expand
  77. HammerofDusk
    Aug 31, 2017
    0
    Boring, repetitive gameplay, at least 40% of the game is you walking from point A to point B with absolutely nothing happening in-between. Major paywall, they restrict you from talking to other players, completely block use of the forums, some mission rewards are locked, and they even block you from customer support unless you dish out some dough, end game content is also locked. This isBoring, repetitive gameplay, at least 40% of the game is you walking from point A to point B with absolutely nothing happening in-between. Major paywall, they restrict you from talking to other players, completely block use of the forums, some mission rewards are locked, and they even block you from customer support unless you dish out some dough, end game content is also locked. This is only a portion of what's locked behind a paywall, as well. Playerbase is extremely toxic, you speak out about the paywall, or anything even remotely negative about the game, and you'll get lynched immediately, because a good portion of the playerbase is self-entitled. Just avoid this game to save your sanity.… Expand
  78. Svennyy
    Nov 24, 2017
    0
    Нету русского языка и вымогательсто денег на подписку. А так играть хороша но без подписки играть не приятно, а она стоит денег. Не советую игру пока пока не добавят языки помимо английского и не утихомирят свой пыл с подпиской.Нету русского языка и вымогательсто денег на подписку. А так играть хороша но без подписки играть не приятно, а она стоит денег. Не советую игру пока пока не добавят языки помимо английского и не утихомирят свой пыл с подпиской.
  79. Tezoi
    Jul 6, 2018
    0
    Tried installing the game and it stuck on "installing", guess i'll just play a game that works.
  80. Ordnik
    Aug 26, 2021
    0
    Money hungry company. .
  81. As4ss123
    Jan 7, 2020
    0
    This is absolutely not Star Wars. Some kind of nonsense in the worst traditions. Disney must have been inspired by this swelling.
  82. Buna
    Apr 3, 2021
    0
    Govno tesko bolje ubit se nego igrat ovo Florensia je za ovo bog i batina!
    Da je stuc glavu autoru spasija bi se
  83. cuki3r7
    Feb 18, 2022
    0
    Legacy of the sith...bug bug bug bug bug bug bug bug bug bug bug bug bug bug
  84. macedonia4ever
    Mar 18, 2022
    0
    If you want to play a sci-fi game that's actually good and incorporates every genre of video gaming, then steer clear from this hefty monthly subscription of a game or Disney (yes you're playing a Disney game designed for your daughter who plays with The Little Mermaid). Instead of spending all this money every month on a game that barely has anything to offer, instead opt to play theIf you want to play a sci-fi game that's actually good and incorporates every genre of video gaming, then steer clear from this hefty monthly subscription of a game or Disney (yes you're playing a Disney game designed for your daughter who plays with The Little Mermaid). Instead of spending all this money every month on a game that barely has anything to offer, instead opt to play the Free-To-Play Star Trek Online game - basically this game, but on steroids and free!… Expand
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#19 Best PC Game of 2011
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#8 Most Discussed PC Game of 2011
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#9 Most Shared PC Game of 2011

Critic Reviews

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Metascore
85

Generally favorable reviews - based on 73 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 68 out of 73
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 73
  3. Negative: 0 out of 73
  1. RPGamer
    Apr 23, 2012
    80
    LucasArts generally exercised greater quality control of Star Wars games than most licensed properties receive, though that didn't necessarily translate into titles that were actually good. I've played a few other Star Wars games in the past, and while the SNES platformers were pretty good, this one is even better. Knights of the Old Republic may just be the best game in the franchise, and succeeds at being a top-tier RPG even if one has no interest in Star Wars. BioWare did the license proud.
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  2. GameCritics
    Mar 31, 2012
    70
    I wound up bailing out on Star Wars: The Old Republic well before hitting the level cap, but not before digging into it more so than any other MMO I've played. Even if it is an unhappy marriage between two wildly different game types, the fact that it kept me hooked for so long at least counts for something.
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  3. NZGamer
    Mar 5, 2012
    83
    A good game. It pays excellent homage to the film series (even though it's set before the movies), and is a really solid MMO.
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