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Is Swtor worth getting into?
Sammybones
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I am curious on whether I want to get into SWTOR or not, is there a good population on there, and if so is there a good roleplay population/community aswell?
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Many will tell this and that,story yada yada,truth is this,be prepared to follow hundreds of linear quests,connect the dots and that is in essence your gaming experience.Some will argue ...oh but wait ,,,wait nothing this is what your going to be doing 99% of the time.
Then the combat you will be doing whilst on these lienear quests is imo very average at best.The first time i played all the classes i remained interested for a full month,now when i go back a few times i just can't fathom the combat system or endless meaningless quests.Oh btw the "meaning" is exactly what i said,meaningless that positive/negative system has so little bearing,so little meaning,might as well not even have it in there.
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Many will tell you that this and that, non-linear, this is this, the story is fantastic. If you're looking for SWG, then this is not the droid you're looking for.
That being said, even those who are detractors have, apparently, played all classes.
In the end, it depends on what you're looking for. If you're looking for a game with good class-specific stories, then it's a lot of fun. I would go as far as to say that it has the best story-telling of any MMO in recent memory.
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The population is more than healthy, there is plenty of people in low lever areas and group content.
To answer the other question; yes, the game does have a healthy RP community. Both on the Progenitor (EU) and on the Ebon Hawk (NA) servers.
If you're looking to get into that, then http://swtor-rp.com/ is a good place to start.
My SWTOR referral link for those wanting to give the game a try. (Newbies get a welcome package while returning players get a few account upgrades to help with their preferred status.)
https://www.ashesofcreation.com/ref/Callaron/
If you like it you might decide to continue up to a certain point; if you don't I suspect you will be able to return to TESO with new enthusiasm.
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Yes, you can purchase these things with a RMT (via the cash shop). But why would you when you have 3,000,000 credits piled up with nothing really to buy, and storage upgrades are reasonably priced.
A far, far better system than a competing game based on another popular futuristic space-themed game, no matter how fascinating you might want it to be.
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Apart from that it is kind of meh. Many game mechanics are clunky though (as in outdated).
I especially hate the world map. In a galaxy full of state of the art computers and holograms, you get this piece of shit fantasy map with old fashioned fog to explore. You can't even access a planet world map if you are not on that planet. The quick travel map is seperate, so you can't see your quest objectives at the same time. It lacks obvious landmarks and locations, even after discovering them like : 'Republic base here, stop running into it!' ' Yes, this scribble looks like a map exit, but you can't travel through anyway'.
Your toon was handed the cheapest map datapad in the galaxy.
Oh and grouping is kind of annoying. If you play the same class as someone, you wont be able to join others in their story instances. You easily end up in seperate instances of the same area. Best experience is just soloing stuff, takes out a lot of group related hassle imo. (which is not a good thing for a MMO imo).
However this only allows to help the other player with killing mobs as you will watch conversations in spectator mode. In order to progres story for both players you still need to do the same instance twice.
Where SWTOR shines is in it's multiplayer storyline mechanics, they're simply better than ESO's as you share the experience with friends, see what they see etc.. less getting split up (turn on access to same class story as the poster above stated)
IN short ESO is the better game, SWTOR is the better cinematic/story experience.
For every minute you are angry , you lose 60 seconds of happiness."-Emerson
I am currently playing through all of the story arcs fro each class to get Legendary status. I am enjoying all of the stories, however, I feel that once I complete them all that I may be bored with the game.
Time will tell.
I know someone mentioned it above but the F2P version limits some things for you such as hotbars, amount of credits(currency) you can carry, number of PvP matches you can do each week, etc.. But if you're playing it for the stories then you don't need to worry about that stuff. Limited # of hotbars isn't a big deal with how easy the game is. And you don't need to invest lots of hours every day to get enjoyment out of the game. You can spend an hour or two each night doing the class storyline and have a satisfying experience. The game caters to casuals.
And I will say this, compared to ESO, SWTOR has better stories, better voice acting and a more enjoyable PvP experience....in my opinion anyways. Don't get me wrong, I love open world PvP with big epic battles but I found Cyrodiil to be just too big of a map and I didn't care for the fact that every class could stealth. I spent more time riding on my horse to get to where the action was than I did actually fighting. And the big fights were nothing but a lag fest.
The early expansion questlines were also really good.
But then came KOTFE expansion late last year and that one blew me away! It's an amazing storyline! Had a blast leveling through it! It's definetely worth it.
I agree that the Group Dungeons are meh, but if you like to play for the story, then it's defintely worth it and really recommend paying for the sub, to remove some ridiculous restrictions.
Seriously people, stop supporting this non MMO. I beg you...