SWTOR: Will I resub?

zytin

WARNING:  I have no desire to proof read my post.  Suffer my bad grummor and spulink!!*

After reading the back and forth banter on this forum, I decided to purchase SWTOR on their website, then paid for a one month subscription.  I jumped around on different servers, creacting different characters.  My first impression of the game was that it was awe inspiring.  I have never played an MMORPG (key term RPG) where you can play a story line so epic, leading up to and including the first multi-player experience of when you go onto a shp with a group to take down some grand scheme.

As I continued to play, I was completely entrhalled by the story of my character.  I would shock Vette every chance that I got.  I would choose the dark side path every time the option presented itself.  I was unforgiving, providing a one eye troll with sith flesh (in the hopes that one day I could return and add him to my party, or destroy him if he refused).  

I ignored the many buggs in the quests, and submitted a ticket when my bank roll went from 50k to 10k for no reason.  I continued to play, and even didn't bother at all the many side quests, as at least they were rather interesting....

But then I began to notice the flaws.  It was very difficult to find groups to take on the heoric X+ missions.  Many of them I had to skip, or stand at the entrance for hours or even go back to day after day to find a team.  I read on these forums that having the ability to queue a group for these quests was somehow unwanted, or how instant-portal to flashpoint starts would be undesireable.  I still dont' understand why that is.  The bugs that forced me to wait for 30 minues for cooldowns to run out began to annoy me.  The lack of the ability to find anyone who could help out on heroics became frustration.  The fact that you couldn't run storyline quests with people in your same faction was frustrating.  The glitches where the bosses would reset in the middle of a fight, after the third time I died became so much that I ranted about it on the channel.  The crappy unbalanced PVP system drove me away from it.  The lack of basic features on the auction house inconvenienced me.  The refusal by BioBEWARE to allow modders to make features that they can't (Such as UI functionality, and their lame resizing video they made with no promise of ability to freform the UI) did not  put into my mind that I did not want to pay for another month.  None of that was enough to make me throw my hands up in frustration.

None of that would have made me quit the game.  It wasn't until I typed out my frustration for lack of response to a ticket that I had submitted three weeks ago, and the major bugs I kept comming accross in the basic storyline quests that I kept running into, that I decided to not resub.  When I voiced my frustration, I was met by a wall of accusation.  A flood of what has been labeled on these forums as 'fanbois' (and fangirls) came out of the woodwork, telling me to quit and telling me that I was a troll and telling me (or were they telling everyone else) that I was just unreasonable and trolling and trolling and trolling and trolling.  It was almost as if I was reading an android app review where there were twenty five star reviews and three one star reviews, and after paying for the app, it turns out the three one star reviews were right.  When I suggested that this is what the accusations against me seemed like, I was then called paranoid.  I was told that I was just looking to fight and argue because I didn't want to listen to anything good they had to say about the game (everything they were claiming was in contrast to my experience).  They soon were forced to rever back to how good the story was, which I have to agree with.  Even the 'go kill X amount of Y' quests are fun because of how they are presented to the player.  But, in the end, this game is bugged to the point of utter frustration, and lacks basic MMO features. 

In either case, for those who are looking for an honest opinion, SWTOR is a GREAT game when it comes to the individual story (not RPG, but story, damn that I can't break vette, which I should be able to do) but it is hardly an MMO.  It is a single player game that needs many bug fixes, with co-op options.  It would be best if you had friends to play with (but not as the same thing, since you won't be able to share the same story dungeons, apparently).  I would suggest wiating a year or at least six months before buying this game...Though I'd wait to see what the current reviews are like at that point.  in either case, I will NOT be resubbing.

*Grummor=grammar.  Spulink=Spelling.  Dry humor, me.  All other errors unintentional but present.