Last night I was running HM Boarding Party and hit what is apparently a pretty common bug on the second boss (Sakan Do'nair), the Jedi with the 2 healers. To make a long story short, basically what it does is making the healers immune to damage completely, making this fight impossible to complete, as you must burn down the healers or they keep healing the boss. This was pretty frustrating. After 5-6 tries, when we realized this is consistent and trying couple of things that didn't work, we gave up. This was really frustrating. Now I've found out later that there are possible, hard to execute, workarounds, but it doesn't change the fact that this bug makes this boss much harder than intended.
Another frustrating bug I've seen is the infamous HK-47 bug, to make a long story short, what basically happens is that when you destroy the 4 panels of his chamber (which you should destroy) too quickly, he enrage too soon, causing an almost sure wipe. Thankfully for us, we learned of the workaround, just don't hit the panels too quickly, after "only" 3 needless wipes.
Many people complain about bugs in SWTOR. Overall, I would say the game is pretty polished, even really polished considering its scope. Small things like an occasional NPC dying standing up, or companion getting the "I want to talk to you" icon when he doesn't really have anything to say, are minor things I don't care too much about. These should be fixed, but it doesn't hurt the gaming experience.
On the other hand, bugs which cause me to spend an hour and fail to complete a FP, or cause repeated unavoidable wipes, can really hurt the gaming experience and fun. These aren't common, true, a complete FP breaking bug happened to me only once in 6 HM runs and even that will probably not repeat itself because now I know the way around it. However these are things Bioware really should focus on fixing ASAP. I'm sure most people out there really don't want to spend time finding workarounds, or even worse, don't realize they are hitting these bugs and thinking the game is just too frustrating and not fun.
I think these things should be at the top of Bioware's priority list. A bit longer between content releases can be easily tolerated, considering the incredible amount of content the game currently has. However issues that cause the existing content to be less fun and more frustrating than it should, can really hurt the game subscription numbers.
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