User blog comment:Timeoin/TES Online - Payment Style/@comment-76.167.228.144-20130128011351/@comment-2149999-20130128144431

Those "strangers" could potentially become good friends. I've met some pretty friendly and awesome people in my time and experience playing World of Warcraft. MMO's can have great communities and can be a place to meet friends online that can definitely help add to the fun of playing MMO's, or online games in general. Also, not all MMO's have a microcharging system. WoW is a basic MMO where you buy stuff using in-game currency, not from some online store. (They do offer additional things such as promotional in-game pets and such, but those are completely optional and anthestic, and does not contribute to personal character progression in-game.)

Also, the main reason why we haven't seen a KOTOR console game is because BioWare went from working on licensed franchises to their own original franchises, such as Mass Effect and DragonAge. SWTOR had a lot of potential to be an amazing MMO, but it lost its momentum when it lacked in certain amounts of content later on down the line (and lack of an efficient engine that didn't cause as many issues as it has since launch).

So, don't let the fact that TES: Online is an MMO completely ruin your tastes for the game. What you might choose not to play could become one of the best games around come launch and time beyond, and you could end up missing out on what couldbe a great MMO, and perhaps your best expeirence with an MMO. So don't judge it so soon. I never judge something unless I give it a try at least once or twice. I try to approach it the same way I do with reading - if I'm not into the story by the 5 or 6th chapter or 5th or 6th issue in a new comic book series, then I move onto the next. But, usually if you get me past the 4th or so chapter/issue, then I'll keep reading. So, yeah. Don't judge so soon, especially before having fair enough evidence of what it could offer.