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Originally Posted by keg in kc
I think most of the negatives you'd read about TOR at this point come either from the no-lifers (like myself, I should point out) who played the game for 14-hours a day for two months and are now grumbling, or from the PvP-heavy players. The game's really designed for the casual, I think more adult, bioware RPG fan market, and I think that audience (which includes me) loves it. It's exactly what they've always said that it was going to be, which is a story-focused game, soloable from 0 to the cap, with lots of opportunity to group on the way up and at 50.
For me, it's the best MMO I've ever played (and I've played a number of them). It's by far the best storytelling I've ever seen in an MMO. I have, to this point, mostly played it as a single-player experience because my guild is made up of older players with families and responsibilities, I'm way ahead of them all (about to hit my second 50; nobody else is even 45 yet) and I will not PUG. But when I have grouped, I've enjoyed that quite a bit as well.
They're on a pretty serious content schedule, they regularly patch, and to date, speaking only for myself, I've experienced zero meaningful game-breaking issues, stretching back all the way to my first beta weekend in September. So while I do understand that some people have had issues, I have no qualms at all about paying for the game in the state that it is right now.
I think people looking for a revolutionary game may have been disappointed. I think people - specifically people who like RPGs - looking for storytelling in an MMO have found this to be a revolutionary game in that regard. But at its core it's very much a traditional RPG. So I think people who've been playing WoW for 6 years, and who don't really in the end care all that much about stories or how they're told - may not fall in love with it, because it may seem too familiar. It all basically goes back to turn-based RPGs.
That's my take. I purchased the CE and signed up for a 6-month sub and I have zero regrets so far for either.
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Great, fair review and I appreciate it.
By the sounds of it I'll likely stick with WoW until at least TOR develops a great PvP system.
I played DAoC because of the PvP and I play WoW for the PvP.
I've never really been a console RPG guy and have played only a small handful of PC RPG's. So stories, while entertaining when questing, aren't the reason I play MMO's.