Review Log 03: Star Wars: The Old Republic

This inadequate method of finding a group was something beta testers were complaining about well before launch date. (4-5 months at the very least). I have a feeling nothing has been released yet because Bioware was far too busy improving framerates, fixing broken quests, adjusting crafting, etc to meet their aggressive launch window. Hopefully they will implement something better in a patch soon.

Wait....So you tell us to roll Republic on a pvp server while you are off running around on the Empire side somewhere else? Huh?

*shamelessplugtime*
Oh, and my review has been up on my blog here for almost 2 weeks now. So everyone go read it if you haven't already!

You better! cause i'm about to get over there too... Don't go dark side on us now!

Meh, I'm happy about the grouping functionality. The LFG ability of WoW came after several years, and it ruined World of Warcraft completely.

I was happy playing WoW for years, and I found groups for instances easily, by doing a search for the type of class we needed. It worked then it works now.

Trust me, Daniel, the last thing you want is an LFG system like WoW has. It -will- destroy the community, it destroyed the community on every server. Plus, it grouped you with random folks, 90% of the time, these were ****tards who didn't know **** about ****, or they thought they knew, and were elitist turds about it.

Yeah, that LFG functionality was kind of a mixed blessing. Just to play the devils advocate here though, as someone who isn't very good at putting groups together to go do a dungeon, and isn't always eager to interact with others to the extent required to find that group, the LFG tool actually got me to DO dungeons I never would have done. It lured me into the whole, "let's get our Heroic Gear so we can think about raiding" set of things. Better yet, when I was actually in a nice big guild, if I found 4 people to group with from the guild, we could just randomly pull a 5th in 20 seconds to come with us, and lucky them for getting a solid organized group to go with.

But, I digress, my point is that without the LFG tool I may not have really been into the Heroics as much as I was. And I know a lot of people who were the same way. Though, everything you say is true none the less.

I agree, it does have its good points. I just don't want to see the fledgling server communities destroyed is all. Nice that a feature could get you into a part of the game you previously were not interested in, so I suppose if they did implement it, it could help some... I just have concerns.

I was just disappointed to hear that the zones break off into instances, thus effectively reinforcing the solo experience. Sounds like Guild Wars or DDO, which I thought were both great, but the instancing was what made me stop playing - it was just too lonely.

I don't mind it. When I used to run around in WoW there would be tons of people in Org who would be pretty much all running around doing their own thing and ignoring everyone else anyway. So while they made the place seem more populated the only function they served was to add to the lag and troll each other in trade chat.

I still don't have problems finding groups for things so for now away it seems like the right move even if it does add to the single player feel of the game.

It's not quite like Guild Wars, it's not THAT lonely. We're not talking about the entire zone here. We're talking about a small part of a cave, or something like that. Imagine you have a big quest to go into this area, and kill a boss. So you go into this area, and JUST before you get to the boss, there is a phase change. No waiting for it to spawn, no kill stealing, noone interrupting your dialogue with this NPC before you decide if you're going to kill them. If you're wanting to do it with others great, you can, invite em to a party, and do it together. I find it works very well, and the world is never lonely.