To put out storyline for SWTOR?
- have a storyline arc created, and the specific components written.
- get sciptwriter(s) to create the script.
- get that translated, voice-acted and motion captured.
- then do the bits that every other MMO has to do for new content.

It seems to be the most expensive content to produce... and yet this content is likely to be less 'filling' than the content of other MMOs .

I expect to see less content for SWTOR than other MMOs - which is 'awkward'.

I have to agree - although not due to the combat exactly, more the extreme predictability of the missions.

My biggest complaint with the Republic storylines (mostly the Jedi ones) are that it suffers from Bioware's save/brutally murder the baby kitten syndrome (S/BMtKS for short). Even the Jedi have options that are primarily bend-over-backwards-nice or arrogant douche.

As someone who favors story in roleplaying games, this broke immersion for me. Obi Wan was very pragmatic in the original series: he expressed doubts and was humble without being groveling--in SWTOR, I felt the Jedi storylines lacked this nuance.

On the other hand, I thought the dialog options I chose for the Knight sounded just like what Obi-Wan would say.

They come back to the Smuggler. He got game.

I got more of a Qui-Gon Jinn vibe--and by that I mean lack of character development. Whereas Obi Wan (the older) had an air of mystery and wisdom and the younger had brashness and humor, there was very little of that for me.

Admittedly, the storylines may pick up after the first ten or so hours but (this is a big one) most players won't have the patience for it.

Whoa. That description of Obi-Wan actually fits Kira (Jedi Knight companion who is a padawan until the end of Act 1). And Qui-Gon was Obi-Wan's master too as you are to Kira. So many parallels. lol

Qui-Gon is also the worst use of Liam Neeson in film ever.

Yea I know STO cranked out content when it first launched, what I meant as an entirety is that STO "NEEDS" to pull the perverbial finger out its backside and start with new FE's "NOT 2 A YEAR" and end game and much much more to now be more competitive against SWTOR.

Hell in the two years I've played STO I've never rolled a klink due to the sheer off putting by how lame it was to level up and GRIND like im on a uphil excersise bike going nowhere what so ever, F2P has come around and I still have no desire to make one, not even log into my fed, How sad is that cryptic have made me avoid this game for the time being.

It's a major dissapointment to see their No.1 show defect to SWTOR... I sighed at chris's announcement to hiatus stoked, then i thought hang on let me check the other vid's and too my supprise their was a swtor revieew by him, yes he openly mocked it and said he wasnt interested, But to his amazement he actually enjoyed playing it, so to me thats a big sign saying he's lost interest in STO.. Can't say I blame him and the thousands of others now playing it... I'm lucky I enjoy both sides of the coin 80's kid here lol

If something doesn't turn around very soon, this mmo will cease very quickly, which I would hate it to do.

*declares this thread blasphemous for a star trek world*

If the subscription numbers are sufficiently high, the expenses can be paid and they can produce as much or even more content than smaller MMOs.

It's not like they can't put out more Raids and stuff as well. If that worked for WoW, maybe it can work for TOR. If it can't work for TOR because players want only story, and story can't be produced fast enough no matter the budget - then a project like TOR will always be damned - And maybe every new MMO that has a large, story-focused following. Be it Startrek, Star Wars, Stargate, Farscape, Andromeda, Babylon 5...