Sometimes they’re droids or flesh raiders or Sith soldiers or mercenaries. Sometimes there are two of them, sometimes five. It’s the famous set up of “enemy clusters” in a given area, where you will run back and forth in “combat zones” where little groups of enemies stand around waiting to be killed. The problem is not unique to SWTOR, but the game does exemplify everything I hate about MMO combat. The problem, however, is that I will have to play SWTOR for an ungodly amount of hours to realize these stories, and unlike other RPGs where that isn’t a problem, I just don’t think I’m going to be able to drag myself through the gameplay itself. You can essentially play SWTOR as a single player RPG now, as nearly all of the group elements have been rendered fully optional. This was the appeal talked about in Kollar’s article. And then do it all seven more times for all the other classes. I’m a bit sad I’m on the verge of abandoning the game entirely, because I really would love to see my Jedi Knight story through and do all these sidequests that are miraculously fully voiced with their own plotlines.

I love the story aspects of SWTOR, and without them, there would be literally nothing pulling me forward in the game. I think MMOs are dying because this style of gameplay is just. Why? Many of my reasons will probably not have to do with SWTOR in and of itself, but the entire aging MMO genre, which is really hard to get into if you haven’t been a devotee of that type of game for the last decade or so.

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