Rawr!
So, after having to stop with FFXIV, which, again, was due to finances, and not the game even coming close to sucking, I searched around some, but mostly, one of my brothers begged me to try SWTOR. So I did.
Firstly, the game was fun in the choices during the story, and some of the writing was clever. The housing was very well done, imo.
Other than that... Just liking Star Wars was not enough to make me like the game. The combat was super basic, the content was extremely gated, and the access to even basic things was gated as well. You couldn't hide helmet without paying real life money. You couldn't make a one time purchase and have it be worth the price of buying, say, an expansion, because more content would come out later to pay for, but same thing for a subscription for a month, because as soon as you stop subscribing, and new content comes out, it is gated until you subscribe again. There was a cap on how much currency you could have, and it was a LOW cap, even for a preferred account, which, I stupidly thought would unlock more than it did.
I found out the hard way, that buying something for 4.99 or more, though it does unlock things like, 350,000 currency cap instead of 200,000, or more character slots, despite being a one time spend money and unlock perma these things, it does not unlock anything truly useful. It gives you two action bars more than the two you get free to play, and that is it.
For having to quit a game I actually liked due to money, and going to a 'free to play' to save money, SWTOR ended up costing so much, I quit just because it was so much MORE expensive. Seriously.
And it makes the whole game frustrating to play, to know that if you don't do this, or this, you will get gated. It literally, instead of rewarding you, for paying, punishes you if you don't spend enough, which, seems to never be enough.
The sheer amount of greed I saw revolving around this game made me want to cast away everything I actually like about Star Wars. Most games, either there is a predictable amount of fees, or realistic ones, but this cash model, it was just a total rip off, and that is coming from someone who played Allods Online!
I was very disappointed, and could not enjoy the game, despite a good aspect or two. None of the game was worth the cost or frustration, that even if I subbed forever, if I had the money, I would still have more to buy on top of the subbing even. It was just a lackluster game money sink.
And I guess that is the real thing, that the game was mediocre. They wanted me to spend money, constantly, on a game that wasn't even that great. The graphics were outdated, the combat boring, the dungeons lame, the space missions fun one time only, and the overall pace was crazy out of balance. I was lvl 44 doing lvl 30 story quests, and I was skipping all side quests that I could, and only doing main quests. Everything felt rushed and like you couldn't just stay and explore a planet without running the risk of hitting the max, free to play lvl, of 50. I couldn't take this game seriously, gameplay wise, or cash shop wise.
It was a game with a couple neat ideas, and a well done housing system, and then not a lot else.
Rawr!
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