Just wanted to respond to this post comparing Beta to final product.
I played for about 2 months in the beta and didn't end up purchasing. Despite the deja-vu I WAS willing to give it a try, but a couple things turned me off too badly:
1) The c1ass stories are really hit and miss. I was intent on playing a Sage healer, but their storyline is ridiculously boring, and their companions are terrible. I played to level 25 and couldn't take it anymore. I love to play healers, but I was either going to have to play a Smuggler, which has a similarly boring story and is a pain to play with cover mechanics, or a Trooper, which has a great story, but is sub-par for healing. My only other option was to play Inq, which has a great storyline, but I didn't want to play Sith (I don't enjoy playing evil). I guess story depends on each player. I'm playing Sith Inq. and the story is great, my GF is playing Jedi Sage and the story is good too which I find myself watching her just to see what happens next.
2) The instancing! I rarely saw people outside of the cities, I can understand instancing some of the quests, but multiple world instance is a real immersion killer for me. Nothing like trying to group with someone who says they are at the right spot, but in a different farking world instance. This combined with the NPC's that just stand around makes the world feel dead. That's probably cause it was Beta. I nearly never have an issue finding a grp for an instance, and if ur on a different instance, it tells you and you can automatically switch in seconds.
3) And maybe the worst offense, lack of character customization. Three body types and a handful of faces with no sliders for features? What is this 2003? I mean at least RIFT had tons of customization and control over character generation. How am I going to become invested in the story, when my character looks like all the other characters with different hair and makeup/tattoos? Don't even get me started on the lack of interesting race choices, it's Star Wars FFS. I agree they could have gone better with this, but with the gear I have on currently, I haven't come across a person that looks the same as me.
I wanted to like the game, but they just cut corners in all the wrong areas IMO. To me at least it feels like they spent so much time on the voice work, but didn't write good stories for half the ****s or give us decent character design options. It also felt to me like the Sith were heavily favored in terms of development, which I knew was going to exacerbate the already skewed faction balance. Those are just my thoughts... didn't intend for the post to be this long, but I was really pulling for this game, now I have to wait for GW2 or WildStar.
SerOlmy
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