Thoughts on GameSpy's Article on SWTOR

You're more than welcome to go write an editorial about it.

I'm just looking forward to Star Wars 1313.

What purposes do I have exactly? I always knew what SWTOR was ... I knew id start skipping dialogue sooner or later, I knew the combat was nothing to gawk at, and I always called companions glorified pets (and dislike having to use them to this day). I have no loyalty to Bioware and specially not EA. SWTOR had its beta's as well. Some testers loved it, some didnt ... same as GW2. Bioware may have kept the NDA up for a long time but there were plenty of leaked sites everywhere with literal copies of the beta forums. There is no difference at all, just a different flavor of hype. These writers are writing what will get them the most attention (clicks, hits, whatever) SWTOR is the newest MMO toy out there thats noticeable ... its on the news and still being promoted, GW2 is the next big competitor, you do the math.

Hype doesnt = false. Any writer worth his salt can take any standard feature and hype it up to no end without saying a single lie. This causes excitement to the readers, getting them more attention. Had the writer actually commented truthfully, compared the games strengths to the best out there ... we probably wouldnt even have this thread right now.

And yes, those features are there but now that the hype is gone people are seeing it as just another mediocre feature and hardly care about it anymore. Before the dialogue meant something in TOR, people loved taking part in it, and playing with the different options. Now is just a repetitive pos that leads to nothing and is being overshadowed but the "short/easy end-game," or the "increasingly stale PvP".... take your pick. Same will happen with GW2 and its hyped up features ... hype will fall, the media drones will move on to comparing Secret World or whichever other MMO to GW2 and we all repeat the process again and again.

Aion had its special PvP promises and "aerial combat,"....
WAR had its PvP, its Public Quests....
AoC had its dialogue, its combat ....
SWTOR had its stories, companions, choices ...
WoW? Had nothing ... "easier leveling maybe?" Yet thats the jackpot winner somehow ...... go figure

so beyond apperance gear is nothing ? why not just go buy costumes from the cash shop there, if its detuning you and auto doing your stats when you go lower and thats classed as endgame what is the point of doing top level where its not tunning you.

All that will happen is there is a fav dynamic event for everyone and they all do that and swamp that event on farm status.

This can't be stressed enough, once the newness wears off people tend to not bother.. to be fair, they had to scale back on things and what they had planned because the engine couldn't cope.

Yep. Once the newness wears off, people will just stop caring.

Correct, in games where gear isn't the home of your stats. Your gear gives you bonuses in GW2, like it does in any game, but your basic stats are scaled down in PvE and scaled up in PvP. A guy wearing +10 precision gear who is leveled 10 (5) is going to do better than me, as a level 10 (5) in +5 precision gear.

I think that poster has a good poont and anyone who has been around the MMO block will understand this this... its a decent enought game, largely outdated with poor combat mechaincs and being held together by its VO storyline that grows thin after the 2nd alt... and they think legacy unlocking of playable races is going to appease this... the same tired storylines over and over only serves to accelerat the players desire to space bar through and move on ASAP the next 25% of its player base grows tired of the highly rpetitive worlds they play within... shame really.. decent game that had much potential sadly seems to be facing the big red danger sign by the clifffedge... maybe F2P will be its saviour

Your missing the point, Lets make player A, hello player A what are you doing today, Well there mr shingara today i will mainly be buying a karma buff and farming the hell out of the dynamic event in the starter area, doing this i shall get a shed load of karma, gold and item drops.

Really Player A you can do this.

Of course says player A, there is no reason what so ever for me todo top level, i can just sit here and farm this dynamic event and buy gear from the karma i earned, and sell the drops on the auction house. fun itsn it.

No not really says I.

Then don't do it and play the game the same way everyone else will be.