MMO Report on "Transfers"

Spell check much?

"You people will always think this game is doing amazingly well" ... "All these people do on here is cry about one thing or another" ... "Tuesday will bring in loads of new cries from these people for who knows what reason" ... Dude, if you're going to bash the community at least pick a side. While you're at it, might consider pulling a supervisor into the edit loop to modify that script because it shoots itself in the foot.

You said people cried but you didn't even bother to read what they said? ok

Well, "you people" will always say this game sucks but will continue to play so no sense in arguing with "you people" LOL

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7reHLIZaxLI

This is a prime example of a 'cry'

The tantrum-throwing that goes on in most MMORPG-related forums annoy me also, but we should acknowledge what causes this phenomenon. MMORPG developers deliberately use sophisticated psychology-driven design techniques that make their games more addicting.

This inevitably results in people continuing to play a game long after they stopped finding it fun to do so. Since these players rarely recognize that they've been sucked in with addictive (not addictive in the fun sense, addictive in the bad sense) game design, they flail around and look for something to blame for the fact that they're playing and paying for something they no longer enjoy. I'm convinced this is why they seem so emotional about trivial design elements and why many of their complaints don't make a lot of sense.

I say this as someone who's been there. It took me longer than it should to figure out that as soon as an MMORPG stops being fun, it's time to cancel the subscription and stop playing.

You are aware that "lol" is not a word, right? There's no need to use it every second sentence in every single post you make.

Look, we get it. You're the even nerdier version of Casey Schreiner. The game didn't live up to your expectations, so you're going to trash it. I remember you from the Darth Hater site. You started off defending the game and Bioware quite vigourously, but then along came the Rakghoul Plague event, and your faith was shaken for some reason. You might have recovered from that, had you not gotten the (apparently) devastating news that TOR lost 400 000 subs. I guess that was the heartbreaker for you, because you immediately pulled a 180 and began bashing the game with every post. And with such interesting language, too. Although, in fairness, you used that interesting language in your initial defence of the game, too.

You don't like the game anymore. Hey, it happens. It's not for everyone. Not everyone is going to like a product, no matter how a company tries. It's unfortunate, but it happens. You grew disillusioned with the company. Whatever. At this point, though, it's pretty obvious that you should probably head off into the sunset and to a game you actually will enjoy. I could write some cutsie tripe here about "hatred leads to the dark side yadda yadda" but I'm not in the mood. What I will say, though, is that hanging around the forum of a game you hate just so that you can live in the illusion that sharing your hate and disillusion with people who do still like the game somehow brings you joy is more than a little pathetic.

The only thing more pathetic, though, is if it brings you genuine joy.

Again venue doesn't not = validation of their opinion.

Another example: http://youtu.be/H9w_XUQyJJQ

Mark Cuban completely tears apart Skip Bayless in the video. By your logic Skip Bayless because he is on ESPN or whatever that must mean his opinion is always right. Again using your argument, he's featured on the number one sports channel. He analyzes Basketball without any bias. Or does he?

Why do people care so much about the opinion of a "reviewer" who may or may not have so-called "credibility"? If you like the game, then keep playing; if you don't like the game, then no one is forcing you to stay. Everyone has an opinion which we're all entitled to.

While I agree with him that Bioware has, in the past, not been very vocal with the community, this was actually one of the few instances where they were very vocal with the community--he picked a really bad example on which to base his point. They had a whole page explaining what was going to happen, how it was going to happen, and when it was going to happen, a week before it happened. I personally, and many others I talked to as well, had a very positive experience with my transfer. That said, I'm sure there were a minority of people who were not happy with the transfers, and someone of a biased opinion, or someone who wants to start drama, is going to focus on that to try and sway opinions--the best form of propaganda is distorted facts. As for balance issues, PvP may be a little harder now, but at least I have PvP queues instead of waiting 30+ minutes for the queue to pop. I'm excited for patch 1.3 and I still enjoy playing this game.

All of the rest of the reviewers points I could not relate to at all.

Maybe I'm biased (I'm sure I am), but I really found that guy's jokes against the game to be unprofessional (the Dagobah joke and the "only 7 people still playing" joke). I get it's an exaggeration, but it's flat out silly. While it may not be statistically relevant, I ran into several re-subscribers on my server that past weekend, so the population can't be too bad (granted I get that it went down by 400,000 over the last 4 months or so). The game's going to get bad PR because people need something to bash; if Bioware continues fixing things and releasing new content, it's going to make it harder to bash this game, especially if subscriber numbers start coming back up.

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