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Bioware, You Want to Resuscitate This Game? Then Implement The Following.

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Bioware, You Want to Resuscitate This Game? Then Implement The Following.

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McTurbo
01.15.2012 , 07:39 AM | #91
Quote: Originally Posted by Xugos View Post
A lot of the die-hard fan-boys see WoW as a threat, so they deem it necessary to demagogue it at every given opportunity.
i dont hate wow nor feal it as a threat, ive played it for 7 years, im tired of it and the developers decisions that finally drove me off. i bought this game for a different experiance and hopefully a different vision by the developers.

almost 99% of your list is just a request to give you the same functionality that you had in world of warcraft. sure some of it was nice but it wasnt game breaking. i healed every raid in wow except aq40, Naxx 40, and Black Temple, Sunwell (guild wasnt capable of doing it) all while using the default UI. ive had alot of people suggest i use grid, or heal bot or any of the other healing addons.. but i do just fine with mine and normally after 1 raid and im #1 or 2 on healing and last on over healing.. they stop asking and let me do my thing.

addons add quality of life.. but they arnt required or neccesary at this time. im more than happy waiting for them to fix the bugs while adding content to the game. this game is in better shape its first month than wow was in its first 3 months..

now give them a chance to get thier feet wet as its a new genre for the company and they have to have time to learn.

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Affics
01.15.2012 , 07:40 AM | #92
- A customizable UI with third party add-on support. All healers (experienced healers) that I know cringe at the lack of a customizable UI. Click-to-heal made healing fun. Bioware MUST implement this.Ensure mouse-over heal support.
No, thx. Experienced healers can heal without addons.

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Rigota
01.15.2012 , 07:45 AM | #93
It's not true to say with these fixes/features you clone wow. These are basic mmo features where wow had a huge influence on creating them. These are not the main features that make wow boring, rather it was the only good thing about wow. A lot of other reasons do made wow boring. But still with these features swtor will improve a lot. Right now swtor has these issues the TS* said and its true. Swtor simply doesn't have anything for these points the TS said. But i think if they make totally new creative solutions for these problems not seen in wow it will improve the game massively.

I see a good thing besides this, swtor has the potential to be a good flashpoint game maker combined with a lfg tool you can create a very big choice of flashpoints at 50.

This is what was boring in WoW not many heroic dungeons but a good LFG tool, so you quickly became bored of doing heroics. The gear farming+upgrading(enchanting, reforging etc.) in WoW was also boring. Raidcontent was coming in fast. You did for example Bastion of Twilight and Blackwing Decent Heroic mode get gear from them and did major effort for it to get them, then boom there was Firelands with normal gear which was better. (This is where Bioware can learn something from it for the future)
And WoW don't have a good PVE balance(for example 30% dps difference between top and lowest spec while synergy was pulled together in cataclysm) And pvp balance was also lacking. Also theorycrafting was harder/required more time in cataclysm for most classes, where reforging had something to do with this.

* TS = Topic Starter
Mazes and Labyrinths??, this is the opposite http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LibXsQBzY_c. A narrow linear Themepark doesn't fit Star Wars or any mmo

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Rigota
01.15.2012 , 07:48 AM | #94
Quote: Originally Posted by McTurbo View Post
now give them a chance to get thier feet wet as its a new genre for the company and they have to have time to learn.
Agree the game is just born.
Mazes and Labyrinths??, this is the opposite http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LibXsQBzY_c. A narrow linear Themepark doesn't fit Star Wars or any mmo

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Picoom
01.15.2012 , 07:50 AM | #95
Quote: Originally Posted by Xugos View Post
Resuscitate This Game?
Are you for real? The game is dead already?
You need a reality check asap.

Quote: Originally Posted by Xugos View Post
Proof SW:TOR is declining: massively.joystiq.com/2012/01/03/swtor-uk-sales-take-a-dive/
I'm sorry to say this, but you are a joke. This is your proof? Seriously?

Quote: Originally Posted by Xugos View Post
The over-all trend diagram says that SW:TOR's population has been dropping by ~4% every single day since the two days after release.

It also says that 86% of servers are light, and ~13.5% are standard, and ~0.5% are other.
Here's something to think about. At the start the servers were capped 500, let's just work with this figure. Almost every server was filled, thus "Full" and "Heavy" was a common sight.

People didn't like the long queues. So what could BioWare have done? Buy server racks, increase server capacity from 500 to 2000. Now, what previously was "Full" and "High" suddenly is "Light" and "Standard". Even thought about it?

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Naivesteve
01.15.2012 , 08:00 AM | #96
What he said.
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Believe Steve!

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jinxsters
01.15.2012 , 08:04 AM | #97
Proof SW:TOR is declining: massively.joystiq.com/2012/01/03/swtor-uk-sales-take-a-dive/

is not a reliable site as any other site is not reliable to say what the sales are or how many are playen.

i know this everytime i log in i see lik 200 in fleet on my server. when i go questing i see people questing.

anyone that uses a site to determine if the game is failing clearly has a low understanding.

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jinxsters
01.15.2012 , 08:07 AM | #98
all these features are not basic MMO functions they are functions some mmos utilize.

they already said LFG tool on the way/ mods on the way/ macros on the way/ i mean let them fix bugs and add content first.

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SunwindIon
01.15.2012 , 08:10 AM | #99
lol, resuscitate, as if the game is dead. what posseses these raving lunatic doomsayers to take to the forums so much? do they just wet themselves over the attention?

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jeinasindorei
01.15.2012 , 08:11 AM | #100
Quote: Originally Posted by Picoom View Post
Are you for real? The game is dead already?
You need a reality check asap.

I'm sorry to say this, but you are a joke. This is your proof? Seriously?

Here's something to think about. At the start the servers were capped 500, let's just work with this figure. Almost every server was filled, thus "Full" and "Heavy" was a common sight.

People didn't like the long queues. So what could BioWare have done? Buy server racks, increase server capacity from 500 to 2000. Now, what previously was "Full" and "High" suddenly is "Light" and "Standard". Even thought about it?
Not to mention the holidays are over and there are less people online concurrently because of school/work.

Just ignore Xugos. All his posts can be summed up as "This game isn't enough like my all time favorite game in the world, WoW. If they don't make this game exactly like WoW, it will fail."
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