That's what I was thinking. MMOs are pretty much open by nature and/or design.

@fragger2k8

what do you define as linear? i havent played an mmo yet where youre forced to do any quest, sure there are rewards for doing some quests that most people want to do, but youre never forced into a certain path.

sure you can start at area A and do the quests there, but you can also just skip every quest there and go to are B and do 3 quests, then go back to area A and do 4 quests, then decide that you dont like the area you started in and take a long trip to area Y (another starting location) and do 10 quests there and move to area Z, do 4 quests.

linear means theres only one way to do things, in most mmos youre not forced to do anything. ill give an example from ffxi, three starting locations, three different main quests, already non-linear as you have three paths of progression, but youre never actually forced to do any of them, you can go do any number of random quests from any town in the game at the start. or you can decide that you dont want to fight and go crafting or fishing or do some other minigames. either way, its definitely not linear, and i suspect youre not quite understanding what linear means.

good question, im not sure how linear ever got to be a bad word

The updates felt flimsy to me also. Stopped playing in 2021.

They promoted it as an expansion yet offered like 3-4 hours of content. The game is amazing and easily one of the best Star Wars games ever made but content drops are so few and far between.