Broken Promises or Unrealistic Expectations?

That's how it is may be on GW2, that a player may hybrid or specialize. All I'm saying is that the non-trinity model represents teamwork in sports as well.

Well Terry is playing for money and if that is what the manager thought was necessary than he'd better do it. I'm sure he would have rather preferred to play his natural position though.

I just don't see how it can be a bad thing. Especially if the explorable dungeons are challenging no matter the group.

How did this turn into a GW2 discussion? That game is niche MMO. For esporters and fps players.

Let's stop talking about GW2 so the mods can't lock this by saying this is a discussion about another game, I lose nearly all of my favorite threads that way.

This game is fast becoming a niche MMO

Unrealistic expectations. Endgame bosses aren't just a bunch of players beating on one giant mob. There's tactics involved, there's required rotations, etc. The way it is handled now, is exactly as to what I was expecting. I never understoord why some people were expecting something magical, but let's put it this way; what were they even expecting? Realistically speaking, what alternative is there to bringing a boss down asides from throwing in some tactics here and there?

There is no happy medium, there is no such thing as sandbox in terms of MMO's. The fun of playing in a sandbox is that with little tools, you can build so much. Made it awesome as a kid. Within single player RPG's, that works fine too. However, a major element of sandbox gameplay, consists of access to modding ulities. In MMO's though, sandbox basically became a term for lack of endgame content. An MMO has none? Let's dub it a sandbox game!

So once again, if you ask me, unrealistic expectations, and a bit of a broken promise considering as to how imo sandbox doesn't exist in MMO's.

The game isn't overly instanced, all planets are non instanced and open. Sure each planet is its own instance, but.... unrealistic expectations much? What other way would there be? Even World of Warcraft needed a loading screen to pass an ocean, imagine passing through space.

Unrealistic expectations, once again. Character customization comes with 2 genders, 4 bodies, and various other features. Let's say 5 of 7 each (I'm not exactly sure). That makes 2 * 4 * 7 * 7 * 7 * 7 * 7 = 134.456 different potential combinations. Then there are clothing pieces to pick from, helmet, chest, legs, boots, gloves, waist. Let's say 50 of each. That makes 134.456 * 50 * 50 * 50 * 50 * 50 * 50 = 2.10088e15 (in other words, about 2100000000000000 if I counted the zeros right) combinations. That's billions of different customizations.

There's no broken promise there. People were simply expecting too much. I've said this to people during beta frequently, read what the devs write, don't read in between the lines.

And this is a bit of a broken promise, but stems forth out of player feedback during beta. The community couldn't handle the fact that one wrong decisions could suddenly cost them their companion for example. I don't think it's fair to blame BioWare over the community begging them to nerf something.

They also stated that each planet was roughly the size of 4 times the average zone in WoW. Even during beta people were already terrible in math and interpreted that as 4x the width and 4x the height, making it 16 times the size of the average WoW zone.

And they didn't quite lie, considering as to how the dark/light side adds very little to the game .

Did they? If you ask me, I've seen very little things which were false or deceptive in those examples you mentioned above. So were they false or deceptive? Or is it perhaps that too many players of the community got dragged on by the hype and started reading into things too much rather than just reading things?

And yet with every character I have created I see an exact clone running around at least once.

That's because gear comes in tiers, most of the body is hidden behind the helmet, etc. You get the point. Companies selling a product, and way too many people buying into it.

It's basic tell-sell principle, it's sometimes astounding how gullible people can be.

And yet when you tell them it's not going to become like that during beta, they always keep on telling you that 'this game' is going to be different .

I've been following this game since they announced it. At that time I played SWG and loved it, this game doesn't make me feel like they broke any promises or had Unrealistic expectations.

The combat animations are still 100x better than WoWs auto-attack swing sticks, the story is still 1000x better than any MMO that came before it, the graphics are better than WoWs imho and comparable to a CGI Animated Film. The classes are all unique, even if they technically only have 8 they made graphics for 16. All in All I would have to say SWTOR lived up to my expectations.

Lets ask ourselves, Who had the Unrealistic Expectations? The Devs? Or Us the greedy stingy players who want 100% Innovation and when we only recieve 85% innovation we whine?

It is pretty different.

Most MMOs I have played it is very difficult to run into a copy of myself. Yet in SWTOR they have made it a lot more easier. So yeah, this game was different.

/hide helmet

Fix'd, you can even /buy some orange moddable gear.

I personally run around in a completely unique outfit without sacrificing gear scores in any form on all of my characters.