Originally Posted by
Cellery
I don't know when the last time you played through the starting area was, but the travel & convenience this past beta weekend seemed significantly better than the beta weekend the weekend before that. It IS kind of slow to get around at first, but that's okay to me. I got to about level 10 and was like, "Wow that went fast." And then I looked at the clock and realized I had been sitting here for 6 hours. To ME, it's a breath of fresh air to be so immersed in the game that I don't notice the time going by.
If you don't like the dialogue, there's an option in the interface options to disable them. You can spacebar through the dialogue as a manual thing for each one. Bioware has made it very possible to play how you like. You just aren't spoonfed as much as some are accustomed to.