I'm feeling extremely bipolar about this game. On one hand, I LOVE IT!!! On the other hand.. I have serious issues with it that bother me so much I feel like quitting and never playing again.
The story is great and fantastically done. Voice acting is superb. Gameplay starts off extremely boring but gets a bit more interesting later on.
One of the things I hate most about this game is the trading system. People can specialize in 3 of 18 skills (i think it's 18) and they get different items depending on what skills they use. Unfortunately, certain skills are used extremely extensively in the armor/weapon/part making process, and those who don't use this skill are severely punished.
I do cybertech, underworld trading, and slicing. I need lots of scavenging materials for my cybertech stuff, but literally NO ONE sells anything on the trade network. They're getting their own supplies and using them themselves. They level up fast enough that they never get an excess amount of crafting items. It makes them completely self-sufficient and in need of no one's help. But then, at the same time, it leaves me stranded. There are over a million players, yet only one person has been selling "phobium" (a low level material) on the trade network the past 24 hours. He's been pricing them outrageously high and there's no other way for me to buy the material. No one else really cares to sell or buy it, because they're doing scavenging and getting it themselves.
It sucks. This game is FAR too self-sufficient for players. Every 10 minutes you get a new gun, new armor, new everything, just by going through the story. Why would you buy special made armor and weapons from other people? You don't. You just go through your story and keep getting better equips every few minutes. It's too self-sufficient.
I'm used to playing MMOs where there are LOTS of skills and everyone pitches in to buy/sell items. Star Wars is not an MMO. The most people you ever see by you is like 5... and the most on your entire planet seems to be a tiiiny bit over a hundred, even when the server is full. Yeah there are multiple worlds, and I'm sure there's over a thousand people logged into the server, but i still feel isolated and not in an MMO working with other players. I feel more like I'm in a single player game that's self-sufficient and there happen to be other people playing this single player game along with me.
I'm not saying all of this from the view of a noob. I'm already level 32.
