I doubt a game with so much voice acting a writing will ever go free to play. The story alone is worth the price.
Pretty much it. I would say "at least we dont have to pay for the update", but then what were the last couple of months of payed BETA testing?
I don't think it will be free to play anytime soon, but look at Age of Conan, DC Universe Online and others. I'm sure it must be worth the money, but since it's a subscription based MMO I would like at least to play it for a while before deciding the purchase.
As for the patch.. Meh.. Seems like very time a download comes across my TOR launcher the game performs less and less optimally on my brand new, I-got-it-to-play-this-game-specifically, PC, no matter what I do with the settings. It kind of pisses me off..
Meet that with the fact that over the last month I've been having terrible latency spikes every time I play(which I found out aren't just me, my roommates co-worker, with a T1 connection, says the game is unplaybale for him, because of these same latency spikes and connection drops) and all I'm getting from the TOR team about these spikes and drops is canned messages about downloading the latest video drivers (which I can't, because there is no newer) and setting my video settings differently (I don't know how much lower I can go then the lowest settings...). Maybe thats another reason why I don't care if I log in at all, because I can't get a lick of support.
Guild bank wouldn't excite me even if I could manage to find a guild, which the game makes next to impossible (mostly because the game seems to have made my entire server anti-social). And I guess the new flashpoint, operation and other social-esque things fall into that same bag of "blech".
And the Legacy system means next to nothing to me if I continue to sit around at 20 not wanting to move forward.
"Because of this odd design choice, fans have been ferociously debating whether or not this is simply an awesome update, or the game was shipped unfinished and this is the "1.0" patch. "
And those same fans either have no clue what they're talking about and like to bitch about things being unfinished, or they've simply forgotten that this is exactly how an MMO plays and they should either shit or get off the pot.
Anyway, for as psyched for this game as I was to go out and put together a whole new system for it, I might just be done with it for unknown reasons. I'll find something else to play on my PC I guess... I hear that Skyrim game is decent.
SWTOR is a clunky mess when it comes to the UI and combat on certain classes (the Cover mechanic is atrocious and some classes seem to have have really awkward "rotations"). Performance is abysmal in the best of circumstances.
That being said, I'm enjoying the storylines. I don't know if I'll play in the end game much, but I've got three characters in the Tatooine-Alderaan bracket and I enjoy it quite a bit (even if I spacebar through the non-unique quests on two of them). This patch gives me some improvements to thinks I dislike and pads the fluff at the end game, which will all be 'fresh' to me at 50.
Also, I still hate Huttball, and when my e-friends were fapping about how great it was none of them told me it was a shitty Bombing Run PvP instance.
I can't say anything about max lvl since I haven't reached it. But I love how the questing system works - it's so much fun and free of grind!
I will probably play the story line of many classes and by then maybe they will add the end game content it needs!

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