My Thoughts on the SWTOR Hate

So, when the NGE push came along, we were asked to reimagine the game.

Not just small changes, but rebuild it.

And it was needed. When we were asked, we were bleeding subscribers.

If I remember correctly, somewhere around 10k a month. LOSING 10,000
subs a month.
Note – I think our subs were closer to 160-180 than 200k. It was a bad financial situation no matter how you look at it.

It was not idyllic. You can remember it as an amazing game, but it wasn’t.

Hell, all of you who recall the grand ole days of launch seem to
conveniently forget that everyone quit shortly afterwards.



Why would BW want to copy a design that even the designer says is bad. What they did with the NGE was pretty much copy WoW to stabilize the game.

What I'm not quite seeing is why SWG is brought up at all; it's a dead game. If ex SWG players hate on TOR because it's not like SWG (which I contend is an overly simplistic reduction on the motivations of these people), they shouldn't be directing their anger at TOR or BioWare, who made thier own Star Wars game with a different vision, they should be directing their ire at SOE and Lucas, who failed them.

^This right here. Even worse though, some on these forums openly admit to being here to cause grief, in effect taking out their anger at SOE and LA on those who had absolutely nothing to do with any of it, SW:TOR players. Not only is it extremely childish, it is entirely misdirected.

I ask for a responsible reply after you watch this, starting at 2:10, and tell me I should not be "slightly disappointed" about what we got in TOR, eight years later.


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I can enlighten you.

I was a SWG beta tester, and CE holder (gotta love those shades) I still have my lightsaber on my Keychain. I played on SWG/Kettemoor did my holo grind for jedi I left shortly after NGE and came back for a brief time and left again.

Comparatively SWTOR is ten times as fun as SWG ever was; I like the direction the game is going and have no plans to leave any time soon. I also find the jilted SWG fan that purchased TOR just to grief on the forums an embarrassment to one of the few decent things about SWG...the community.

absolutely, and I´ll keep an eye on the development updates, I hope the progress goes well.
I want this game to be great for everyone, and since it is still "fresh" I´m hoping my pessimistic view at the moment will be proven wrong.

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got wow..lol. ***. Just because an online game has hotkeys and took things from the previous game and capitalized on them and made them better doesn't make it a copy...

you want to see a copy of wow? play runes of magic...

btw...swg sucked

Haters gonna hate seems to be a good phrase to say here. They always will. Always. SWTOR is doing great with its subs though, I am not worried at all about it going anywhere anytime soon.

So you felt the need to... share your opinion?