Anyone who is planning on playing this game at/after launch, save up 48K for when you hit level 25(training+speeder)- the planets start expanding quite a bit after Dromund Kass, but Tatooine is absolutely *huge* in comparison and from what I have seen, the worlds don't get smaller after that.
The character customization wasn't anything special and the character movements just weren't as fluid as they are in WoW. I guess I just didn't really like the feel of the game. Graphics didn't do it for me either really for some reason. I'm sad since I've been waiting a long, long time for this game to finally come out.
Uhm, huh, those are interesting things to look for in a MMO. I'd suggest Aion to you, in those areas that you bring up none of the other ones can come remotely close that I have seen. WoW's character creation, animations and textures are all blown out of the water by Aion.
Does this game support crossfire? I've read conflicting reports. If it doesn't, that would be an incredibly bad decision on their part since other recent games Bioware has put out have supported that along with SLI.
The game does not support Crossfire or SLI atm. Even when it does, it may take AMD a few years to get drivers out that support it. Had a 1800xt for over a year, never did get a set of drivers that would work with everything in WoW(ToR it seems to be very comparable, noone with nV seems to be having any trouble, everyone that hasn't updated to the latest 11.11b drivers seem to be having all sorts of issues with AMD atm unforunately).
but a phenom 2.3 ghz should be able to handle this. It is not that complex, really.
MMOs are significantly more demanding on the CPU then normal games, by a large amount. That said, was dropping your graphics settings having no impact? That is the tell tale sign you are CPU limited in the game. Phenom class CPU can run this game fine for normal questing and such, I'm sure raid content is going to change the picture in dramatic fashion.
I totally can't stand that, but somehow, someway my brain is processing this experience differently. The 'quest givers' with their regal voices and options sets they offer is what SETS it apart from WoW, EQ2, etc. Sure in the end I'm playing it just like you do WoW & EQ2, but it doesn't feel like work.
The questing setup is rather brilliant in this aspect. The actual quest will be to go disable these three devices, but you'll get a bonus if you kill these mobs although you don't have to. Once given the option in that context, I pretty much always kill the mobs anyway. For the record- I AoE grind to max level for every dps toon and instance grind for every healer I have ever rolled in every MMO I have ever played, SWTOR is the first where I honestly wouldn't even consider doing it that way.