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It had a good run....bored or just not intrested?
Scypheroth
Member Posts: 264
Well guys been playing since the 20th and it has happend...burn out! I have a lvl 25 bonty hunter and well now it just feels liek a huge task to even turn the game on and play it. Today i only played 1hr and it was forced...i donno but ive gotten tot the point where EVERY quest is the same thing...also as far as end game from what i been hearing from lvl 50's in my guild its not the best...only 2 things to do is raid and pvp.
ill playe it till the end of Jan where my paid sub begins but if it dont catch me back in guess it will be thrown in my closet with the rest of my old games...cant wait till D3...played the beta and loved it...seems to have been the only game to hold my intrest in the past year.
When i started SWTOR it was the best game ever...then...the fire went out? Could this be annother RIFT?
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Don't say we dident warn you Bro... Im having a blast reading all they cry babies who bought the game and are now whining like little childrean...
To me personaly I knew what the game was from the get GO.. do your homework before buying a game...
I did not buy it because I knew it was not for me.. took me about 30m of Internet reserch to come to that conclusion...
There looks to be alot of people that are having fun in the game, but Im guessing they got exacly what they expected or Wanted..
Ps the reason you are getting bored is because you done it all before, Swtor plays like every other post 2004 MMO, battlegrounds, instances, solo friendly, Raids, quests, zones and tank and spank.. No big Inovations..
Personaly Im having alot more fun playing Skryim then any Modern MMO, better grafics better story, no level cap stress, no item grind etc etc, world evolves and changes.. And when im bored of that I go back to EvE to only true living Massive MULTIPLAYER game left on the market.. the rest are just solo games disguised as mmos..
maybe my MMORPG fire is just dying also...every MMORPG i play just isnt intresting so far the ONLY one to even remotly intrest me was Darkfall
read my edit it answers your question.. I had exacly the same experince when I started playing Warhammer online a few years back, I had to force myself to log on...
Iv played alot of mmos but since the Deathpenelties dissapeard and it all became about Avrage JOE the fire has die for me a long time ago.. Post 2004 MMOS were about dedication and comitment and about Comunities, Linage2, dark age of camelot comes to mind, EVE also launched pre 2004.. There is no more challenge in modern post 2004 mmos then there is in a game like skyrim.. But in skyrim I can atleast change the difficlultiy level to my liking. Or I play Dark souls to get my fill of challenge. This dumbing down has totaly destroyed the genre if you ask me..
Honestly, I'm enjoying rift myself with the content they added. That being said, considering your tiring out at the leveling aspect with the story suppose to be the games strong points, its not a very great sign. None the less, its to be expected. Many will find this with nearly any game that gets released, simply some games will have this effect more then others.
imma going to have to agree with you...now im not going to say its a wow clone cuz it has alot of diffrences than wow but it is like every mmo that has been released b 4...this MMO catagory has yet to see anythign innovative...i might fire up skyrim again i guess...or go buy halo anaversery edition and play that till D3 comes out.
Nah. This game just doesn't have any lasting power. Bioware developed a Co-Op online RPG, not a true MMORPG - they missed the boat. This game is fun ... for a while. But as an MMO, it won't last. It's too easy. Too shallow. Not immersive enough as a world. Too instanced. Everything's handed to you on a silver platter, from the over-abundance of items to quests. Remember that the heavy hitting MMOs like EQ and WoW lasted way past their prime because the games required people to work for their characters. You started with 1 character and had to work your ass off to get them to the top - and once there, getting good items was a rarity. SWTOR basically functions like WoW 2011, not WoW 2004 - and that is its major mistake.
If you want an MMORPG to last, you either have to make the game last by having large amounts of content, slowing up the leveling, making items hard to obtain or ideally, a combination of all of those. Or you nix levels all together and do a true sandbox MMO ... but that's another topic.
In the end, SWTOR plays like a Co-Op Bioware game and not an MMORPG. It's fun ... for a few days. People are already moving on to other games. The bottom line is that you can't make a subscription based MMO "casual". MMOs by nature are not casual games - they are games that require tons of investment time. WoW was not initially a casual game - it turned into one over the years. SWTOR? WAR? Rift? They all started casual to get a high influx of players (or to cash in on mainstream gamers) but for a subscription based MMO, that doesn't cut it in the long run. And it doesn't help when Bioware makes an MMO play like a single player game.
I havent bought SWTOR either. I personally had a feeling that it was going to be a generic mmo so i knew it wouldnt be for me. I hope you can find something to spark your interest again OP. Im personally hoping that diablo 3 and guildwars 2 will be good.
I do have to say though, as the genre becomes more mainstream and everything starts getting dumbed down into sub human levels its really sapping alot of the fun out of the games. I like challenging community based content. not solo friendly/cleverly disquised single player games.
RIP Massively multiplayer online role playing games. You were dearly loved.
The #1 thing I take from this is that I really belive that Bioware had the best chance to put the mmo industry back on track and get it out of the hole its been in the last 8 years.
I do wish mmo's would stop going for the casual cash grab style of money making. If you make a challenging game that really is indepth and doesnt compromise for people that want instant gratification it will sustain for a long time. Like someone posted above. Back in the day in vanilla WoW it took minimum of 6 monthes to max a character. To me it just seems like a bad idea to make a shallow mmo. Whats 5 million subscribers going to do for you if they all leave after 1 or 2 monthes? I rather have a steady mmo like EVE that may not have as many subscribers but the ones that are there, are there for years.
I personally did a lot of homework as well and was on the pre-order page at least 5 times and this is what it came down to and why I didn't order:
1 - tried the weekend beta and it just didn't hold my attention or didn't give me this "holy cow" feeling like the other games that I paid for did. For example, when I was in Asheron's Call beta, I stayed up night after night playing. With SWTOR, even though it was a weekend, after 3 hours of casual playing I decided I was going to watch a movie instead.
2 - for a game that's just been released and a game that was supposed to be amazing, it had way too many negative reviews, even from the critics. most games usually have negative reviews, but in case of SWTOR, it seems that the "whines" were quite legitimate
3 - the price...somehow it was just slightly more epensive that I was ready to invest for a generic mmorpg.
Eve - only costs 19$ to buy
Wow - about the same, plus it's free until lvl 20
LOTRO - free until 20ish with optional expansion, at most may cost 20$ at most if played right
Even Rift was cheaper
SWTOR came out with a pricey tag, required you to purchase subscription right away and basically wanted my 120$ upfront and I didn't feel like parting with it
All in all, the CONs definitely outweighed the very few PROs for me and once I tried the beta, I decided that it just wasn't worth it.
I'll wait for a free trial to maybe give it one more go, but other than that, I'm glad I'll be using those 120$ where they really belong (probably Eve and booze hehehe)
I review lots of indie games and MMORPGs
Shrugs seems I am oppisite I didn't play alot when I first got it played it sparringly and last few days my play time has increased more and more. Oddly enough when I picked up WoW I recall going through what your talking about I just didn't like it and literally had to force myself to log on got to around 18-19 and was still not liking it.switched up classes and I started enjoying it.Not saying that is the case for you it could just be your burned out on mmogs in general and need to take a break from all mmogs.People who have played em for awhile usually tend to need a break period or they all begin to feel boring.
Also last week or so after seeing alot of negative on forums I have been keeping ny eye on servers and zone populations still having queue at night and not noticed any real pop dropped not saying it isnt diff on other servers but atm seems to be steady if npt increasing.
I was so unimpressed by SWTOR when i first read about it way back when. And right up through early launch I was one of the haters, then I saw a video of the gameplay and it looked really fun! So i said "What the heck? I'm kinda bored" and I bought it.
Wow, I am impressed! what a great game, to me its a breath of fresh air playing an MMO that feels like it could be fun as a single player game. I always felt like most MMOs relied to heavy on the "getting a new shiny" as entertainment. Where the gameplay wasnt actually fun, but the grind was supposed to feel rewarding. Anyone remember being a Warrior in EQ1? You could go make a sandwich during a fight. Ultima Online I literally stuck a paper weight on my keyboard and went to work while my magic skill leveled up.
SWTOR is the first MMO where I actually enjoy playing it, just for the sake of playing it. I get excited with the story line (God i want to kill Overseer Harkum so bad), I have fun with the combat and I barely think about how much exp i need to level.
I would prefer a more open, non instanced world, and the epic storyline thing does kind of feel weird sometimes as an MMO. Especially as an RPer its like "well my character obviously isnt the chosen one meant to save the universe" but i'm learning to live with it and accept it for what it is.
FUN!
SO I guess I had the opposite experience.
I'd suggest you try the following - install any other MMO that you happen to own already (ideally one that you can also create a free trial account) and play it for a week (at the same pace you've been playing SW:TOR). Then see if you feel differently about any of those games.
You may just be tired of MMO's. I know that when I feel the way that you do right now, it usually just means I'm burned out on the genre completely. I go play FPS's for a few weeks/months, or my Xbox, or quit gaming altogether. Then I come back.
You are not burned out, this is just what happends when you let fuck ups who have no interest or ambition run a game company. It really is a blatant WoW copy, I'm not just hating. I've been extremely negative to the game but I did pick it up knowing it would suck, since I had nothing else to play I thought I'd give it a chance.
TSW, GW2 and Planetside 2, if all those fail you can say goodbye to the MMO industry. Well atleast until Blizzard show their next MMO and renew their dreadful cycle of raping greedy developers. And then everyone will be copying that instead. Fuck me, game devs are fucking worse than hollywood.
To quote the emperoer "Everything is proceding as I have foreseen it"
i played beta and i really enjoyed it.but there was something missing that i could'nt put my finger on until you guys just said it all perfectly...have to say i wont buy it..maybe if it goes f2p or a free trial..but i certainly aint gonna spend £45 on a game that imo aint worth that much..i think they put the price tag that high just because it was star wars.and to get has much money back as possible because of the costs to make the game,which i do find incredibly expensive.i do hope it succeeds but i have my doubts wether or not peeps will stick around in this game..especially with 2 big games due out this year.
TOR just happens to be the new kid on the block, and many people will have something negative to say about it.
It's always the same when a major release hits the market. In a few months, there will be lots of threads like this with people talking about how disappointing GW2 is, or TSW, or Planetside 2, etc.
Every game has strengths and weaknesses, TOR is no exception. As some other poster said before in this thread, some people are loving the game because they knew exactly what to expect from the game, and that's what they got. I purchased the game looking for a story driven experience, and in that area, I must say I'm impressed, and Bioware did not disappoint me one bit.
I think this particular aspect of the game (story) is also what sets TOR miles apart from WoW, and gives the game its own identity. Blatant WoW copy ? No offense, but Blizzard has yet to prove me they can even come close to reaching Bioware's story telling expertise.
In short, TOR will not live up to everyone's expectations, and that's ok. It doesn't have to. No game will ever accomplish that.
But in my case, I have to say that I am very pleased with the finished product.
Looking at pre-release videos of Star Wars Galaxies in comparison to SW:TOR.. Its just sickening.
My SW:TOR account is cancelled. Its just a cartoon themepark. No thanks. Does that mean I regret the money spent to play it? Nah. I do tip my hat for the worker's efforts put into the game, its just that the people at the tippy-top level failed to create a real idea for an MMO World.
Its time to go back to the original vision for MMORPGs.
I don't buy the argument that people are just burned out on MMORPGs and need to take a break--I took a huge break...I never played WoW or any of it's "clones". The last MMO I played was SWG, and it was the first. I couldn't care less if a game was catagorized as a themepark or sandbox, I just want it to be fun. There were times when SWG wasn't fun, but it did have a certain something I think can only be provided by the community...times have changed, community in this game is not the same.
As for the decisions made in developing this game, I really don't know what happened. When they decided to use their conversation mechanic in an MMO, I thought they'd at least adapt the story telling to reflect that it was an MMO, and wouldn't be one-character-centric...afterall we can't all be the hero of the story, it's a team effort. That was very off-putting for me, because it pretty much validated the whole single-player argument. And why did they make it so you pretty much had to exhaust all the content of a planet before moving to the next? I was so tired of those planets by the time I finished questing on them, I never wanted to go back. They could've easily had us going from starter planet to starter planet, helping each other out at low levels, if they'd included the other classes in our story lines. "We have a situation on Ord Mantell, we're stretched thin at the moment, so we're asking our padawans to step up...can you help us out? Good, we have a number of smuggler allies there that can get you in so that you can achieve your objectives...good luck and may the force be with you"--it's that simple, we achieve our mission objectives and report back to Tython. Then came the world of nothingmovesexceptonenpcthatpatrols...that was a little shocking. Honestly, some of those areas should've been like Assassin's Creed where you have to wade through crowds of citizens to get to your destination. I don't know, people kept using phrases like "it's polished" but to me it's the little things that make a game polished.
Ultimately, the game just wasn't fun for me--and I'm sorry for taking up queue space, because many times I'd log in and just stand there not motivated to do anything until the game booted me off. I had 2.5 weeks of free time to play, and had planned on hitting max level before having to go back to work...never in a million years did I think I'd stop playing and cancel my subscription at level 34, but there you have it. I'll keep an eye out to see if something comes up that makes me want to log in and try it out again, but otherwise I have no intention of continuing the grind.
This was one of the killers for me. I only played in the last beta weekend but it was immediately obvious that the planets were totally static. Nothing moved. Even groups of mobs just waited for you to kill them.
In fact if that guard from Skyrim had walked past me and complained about his poor knee that would have been a bit more interesting.
All the quests seemed the same. Ok they had a nice story but usually it just meant killing a bunch of static mobs in an instance then returning.
Why? Because they make good single player games? I never had the confidence some people did in them to get it out of the so-called hole. People I know are solo'ing the content upwards of level 40 now. It's not an MMO in my opinion, but it seems to make a great... well, whatever it is.
I hear ya.
Lets just wait until D3 is released and the next big MMO that will make us all forget time and space will be Blizzards Titan.
In Blizzard we trust, all other just copy and fail.
Im enjoying the hell out of this game. So good.
And I say that as a SWG pre CU sandbox fan. It's really well made if you take it for what it is. It's a launch product.
I'm sorry for your loss. Are you the same person that yesterday posted that SWTOR beats GW2 hands down and that GW2 is an epic fail?
http://www.mmorpg.com/discussion2.cfm/post/4653806#4653806
And now, one day later you're burnt out on SWTOR? Are you being serious?