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I don't think we are in Warhammer situation.

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Goretzu
04.13.2012 , 07:16 AM | #81
Quote: Originally Posted by Gorrdan View Post
For a while if you mean first two months i agree. AOC and WAR are known for the fastest decline in player base after release for a reason.
WAR had an initial decline which levelled off, then another after a bad patch, which again levelled off, with slow declines in-between.

1.4 was that last big decline and really finished off the game.


The problem was there was very little speed of improvement or listening to players (Bioware are doing a much better job so far), in fairness though WAR development staff was destroyed in late beta, so it's no real surprise it was so slow after Live.

I think if WAR had had SWTOR current Dev budget things might have been very different indeed.
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04.13.2012 , 07:17 AM | #82
Quote: Originally Posted by DSPD View Post
I have to disagree with you on this one. While I'm not a huge Tera fan or supporter, I did just play the Closed Beta weekend and I have to say, the Unreal engine works flawlessly. It looks beautiful and runs smooth on max settings, something this game has serious trouble with. I'm not bashing ToR here but even the devs have said that 'chat bubbles' (just using this as an example) had to be pulled for the instability it caused with the engine. The other thing that was refressing with Tera was that it felt like an MMO. Was it a bit grindy? Sure, but it was open world, it wasn't lifeless, and it had most, if not all of the features that people come to expect of an mmo.

Again, don't get me wrong. I'm not leaving to play Tera anytime soon but I would imagine that there are a good few that will. It's not a bad game. That's not saying that ToR is, it's just that they're 2 different types of games. Honestly I wouldn't classify ToR as an mmo.
Also tried the CBT and I will echo what this guy is saying. The engine was awesome. The game was far from perfect but it looked very promising and interesting.

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RachelAnne
04.13.2012 , 07:17 AM | #83
Warhammer was unplayable at release and months after, to do pvp was impossible because of an engine bug that caused every player to lag horrible.

The community had to fix this by releasing an addon called "Buff throttle" so that you could play atleast a bit more fluent.


SWTOR was playable from day 1, no major lagspikes steady 100 fps on modern pc´s.


Warhammer did also close servers, forced you to rename your chars on a strange server where you didnt want to be at all. At this point I stopped playing, months wasted and still no fix for the engine bug was in place by the puplisher.



SWTOR has some issues, like the grass pop up, tiny draw distance and high rez textures that still dont seem to work properly. But atleast you can log in and play the game

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Shingara
04.13.2012 , 07:17 AM | #84
Quote: Originally Posted by Gorrdan View Post
You keep changing the goal post bro.
what are you on about, i said that the rvr system in warhammer was a great concept but the servers were trash, so which goal posts are you on about exactly.

Look back over the full topic and tell me i said something different, i dare you.
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savagepotato
04.13.2012 , 07:19 AM | #85
Quote: Originally Posted by RachelAnne View Post
Warhammer was unplayable at release and months after, to do pvp was impossible because of an engine bug that caused every player to lag horrible.

The community had to fix this by releasing an addon called "Buff throttle" so that you could play atleast a bit more fluent.


SWTOR was playable from day 1, no major lagspikes steady 100 fps on modern pc´s.


Warhammer did also close servers, forced you to rename your chars on a strange server where you didnt want to be at all. At this point I stopped playing, months wasted and still no fix for the engine bug was in place by the puplisher.



SWTOR has some issues, like the grass pop up, tiny draw distance and high rez textures that still dont seem to work properly. But atleast you can log in and play the game
Your memory is a bit selective.

Tor had months of complaining and threads outlining ability delay, with arguing back and forth. People getting horrid performance even with good pc's only to be dismissed. And ultimately they removed ilum pvp from the game because they couldn't rectify the performance issues.

SLI still doesn't work right with Antialiasing turned on. If I enable it I still get the corrupted load screens and crashes, so I have to run on just one card if I want AA.

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Dawgtide
04.13.2012 , 07:20 AM | #86
Quote: Originally Posted by DalrisThane View Post
If you were serious, I'd get behind that.

I'm here for KOTOR 3. It seems the devs took KOTOR 3, tried to mash in enough to call it an MMO so they could get subs...

I'm no MMO fan... like at all... but by reading posts, it seems they failed.

EA is also alienating people like me, who wanted a single player game all along, and the only topics I hear about is... PVP... raids... and not one damn word about chapters 4+

I was a big defender of the game, but it's gone now. I’m guess EA is backpeddling and trying to put in more MMO stuff in TOR at the last minute.

I’m not saying everyone, but, from my impression…

MMO fans are upset, because any semblance to MMO content and features is being added at a “too little too late” pace.

RP / Story fans like myself are upset because there is barely a mention about new chapters, new planets with new stories, etc… now all advertising is about WZ, and ranked PVP (pulled), and new raids, and… argh…

(It bears repeating = Legacy has nothing to do with Story. It’s a treadmill. MMO fans can speak for themselves. But this RP / Story player isn’t happy with Legacy. That money should have gone to getting chapters / levels / planets in sooner… at least IMO)

EA managed to upset both sides of the playerbase… at once.

Maybe I’m having a bad day, but I’m really REALLY sick the whole thing. Spacebar people that talk loud enough that EA / BW is now focusing on PVP / Raids. EA / BW not even saying squat about future story plans.

Was a big defender of TOR… but now… EA / BW should have done an either / or.

Made TOR pure MMO, no story to keep the spacebar people happy, and just do a great MMO, and I wouldn’t have wasted my money here.

or Made TOR an SPOG, no raids / no PVP to keep people like me happy, and do a great online single player game (to BLANK pirates), and MMO people wouldn’t have wasted their money here.

But story / MMO… it’s chocolate and tuna fish. Doesn’t go together. Because, just as I’m sure some people don’t want to hear about “new stupid story they’d have to spacebar through”, I don’t want to hear about “new stupid PVP / raids that I’ll never play in”.

Oh well. My guess is, that by the time I’ve done all 8 character arcs, the re-focus on PVP / Raids will have chased off most of the KOTOR-3 fans… but, since the MMO part feels like an “add on” to a single player game, it’ll be “too little to late” for the MMO crowd.

I’d love to be wrong.
I play like you do, but I have to disagree. When I saw MMO, I knew going in that the story wouln't progress much if any until the first expansion. I mean there are 8 stories to continue and that takes time. I am just enjoying each of the 8 stories now.

You have the right to your opinion, but this was advertised as an MMO and we should know that things like raiding are going to get priorities too. Considering, we have 8 stories we can do as soloers and they only have a couple of operations and 11ish flashpoints, (And we can do the flashpoints solo above level I might add) I don't see the problem with this patch for one more operation and flashpoint. Same thing for PVP and warzones.

Bioware will continue the story, but it may be 6 more months away. Honestly, that is what I expected knowing it said MMO. I want to assure the developers that not all soloers are upset. Heck, we got 8 Mass Effects or Dragon Ages already. Although I will say none of the 8 stories are as long as the great one, Dragon Age Origins.

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LordRaeth
04.13.2012 , 07:21 AM | #87
WaR died because of lack of funding, funding which was stripped when EA took over Mythic.

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Holden_Dissent
04.13.2012 , 07:21 AM | #88
Quote: Originally Posted by savagepotato View Post
Your memory is a bit selective.

Tor had months of complaining and threads outlining ability delay, with arguing back and forth. People getting horrid performance even with good pc's only to be dismissed. And ultimately they removed ilum pvp from the game because they couldn't rectify the performance issues.
FPS and ability delay were argued extensively. That leads me to believe it didn't affect everyone.

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Gorrdan
04.13.2012 , 07:22 AM | #89
Quote: Originally Posted by Shingara View Post
what are you on about, i said that the rvr system in warhammer was a great concept but the servers were trash, so which goal posts are you on about exactly.

Look back over the full topic and tell me i said something different, i dare you.
Sigh..the guy i originally quoted was talking about 100 vs 100 battles without lagging. I called bull on that so you jump in to his defense saying he is talking about system and not server play ability. Even though he mentioned 'lag free'.

But in order to have a 100 vs 100 player battle you do need as good server stabillity as much as you need a good system. Both are related to each other.

You are just trying to mind f*** me right now on purpose.

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Goretzu
04.13.2012 , 07:22 AM | #90
Quote: Originally Posted by savagepotato View Post
Your memory is a bit selective.

Tor had months of complaining and threads outlining ability delay, with arguing back and forth. People getting horrid performance even with good pc's only to be dismissed. And ultimately they removed ilum pvp from the game because they couldn't rectify the performance issues.

SLI still doesn't work right with Antialiasing turned on. If I enable it I still get the corrupted load screens and crashes, so I have to run on just one card if I want AA.


Warhammer Online at Live played better than Ilum at Live, that is for sure.
Real Star Wars space combat please, not Star Wars Fox! Maybe some PvP and flight too?
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