fantanel :
swtor is less mmorpg and more of a single player experience.
I have to agree with this as well. I quit the game when the most recent patch came out, so all my comments are up until then. When I first started playing the game I was blown away. The graphics were pretty good and the full voice acting for the quests was amazing. Plus who doesn't love running around swinging a lightsaber and using the force. I started off playing an assassin to level 50 and had a lot of fun playing through all the quests and planets. I also played a sniper to level 50 and a bounty hunter to 40. The class quests are pretty good for their storylines. The planet quests are alright the first time through but after that you space bar (skip) them as fast as possible. Leveling takes a long time and some classes have it a little harder than others, but the companions make you able to do most things.
PvE:
Finding a group is surprisingly hard from the group areas to the flashpoints(dungeons). It just seemed no one was really interested. The first dungeon was fun and then some of the hard modes had some really cool fights but for the most part it just felt like too much trash for what it was. You have cc's that you never get to use or if you do people break it (I love ccing in dungeons). You can also do most of them with little to no gear and then there is no point to keep doing them. The operations(raids) weren't too difficult either, my group of friends downed both of them on hard mode relatively early and then it just seemed like I was doing the same thing over and over again but it wasn't fun like it had been to do in WoW so many times (maybe the thrill of MMORPGs are finally wearing off on me?). I found gear too easy to get and then the fights weren't thrilling / challenging enough to make you want to come back for more. There were tons of bugs that were annoying but most of them got worked out.
PvP:
Some people hate it but I loved huttball. It was one of the best battlegrounds crafted in any mmo I have played. I find the other ones in star wars to be very boring and just waiting on a timer. World PvP is virtually non existent. They had a zone called Illum which was an planet for open world PvP, which I had some of the funnest PvP battles (massive 120v120 fights, where both sides would wipe come back and attack again) but Bioware decided that they didn't feel like it was going right and basically got rid of the reason to be out there so people quit going. The brackets are 1-49 and then 50 which makes for an interesting matchup as it normalizes everyone. This seemed to work out fine without too much problems. At 50 you get a stat called expertise(its like resilience in WoW). I've always hated "PvP" stats but it has it. At first you walk in and will get repeatedly destroyed until you get enough gear to have some attack / defense. There is a ton of cc's / slows which can get annoying but I found it to be okay. I think you can buy yourself a set now. Also I grinded with my friend to battlemaster (a PvP rank for exclusive gear) and then when we finally became badasses they switched it so everyone could get that gear relatively easy (ARGH!). Once you do get the gear and are on a level playing field I didn't feel like anything was ridiculously unbalanced and I could have fun as a stealth melee class and a ranged.
They way I look at is if you like Star Wars and/or KotoR then you might as well get this game. You pay $60 for the game which is standard for most games, many with just single player. If you do nothing but play the story lines for the classes I think you will be pretty satisfied, enough to get your moneys worth, you just have to do it in a months time. If you end up enjoying it you can always pay $15 and keep playing it, if not you still had some good gaming hours. I personally felt like the end game PvE and PvP was not enough to keep a player base but I see a lot of potential for the future, there was not stuff to continuously waste your time on like WoW. No game starts off great and when they get some sweet content / work out some of the things they are missing, the game might prosper.
SWToR has been offering quite a few free weekends also. This would be a great time to test it out to see if its worth the $60.
If you are looking for a really cool MMO that has some fun PvE and PvP you should try Tera. I've only gotten to level 30 but so far the world PvP is awesome and the dungeons are fun. It is a different experience than any MMO that I've played and takes some getting used to but I like it.
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