Gamescom Interview with Jeff Hickman about the future of SWTOR

Level cap increase is "I can't talk about that right now?" Yes or no?

Mr. Hickman's interview does not in any way give me a "warm and fuzzy" feeling as to the future of SWTOR. I think we are going to see the slow spiral of this MMO once so-call "f2p" or PYG hits. Too bad, I had high hopes.

If the new planet were the size of an expansion released by the competitor, personally I would have no issue paying for it. However, if the content is small, say a 1/4th the size of an expansion to the competition, then I would expect the price to reflect that. I really guess it is all going to boil down to how much money they are actually going to charge for it.

yes they will be selling probably stuff like legendary barrels and hilts and alike.
Just a tad better than the best you can get ingame.

This event to include a legendary barrel is most likely a tryout of putting such item ingame.

You make numerous false suppositions in these two paragrahps.

1. You only evaluate this from a PVE perspective when that CLEARLY NOT what people are worried about.
2. You fail to take into account any of the relevant arguments about it's effect on the already unbalanced sub pvp bracket.
3. You make the faulty assumption that buying gear for use in pvp is somehow not using gear as a "method to beat another player."
4. You make the failed assumption that only purchasing end game gear would be alter the balance of power.

How does this affect sub 50 pvp?
How does affect open world pvp?
How does this affect leveling on pvp servers?

The answer is quite clearly in all three categories that it offers an advantage to the player spending real money because they can focus their time in game on using their credits buying augments and augment slots instead of gear and becoming more powerful or saving their gear and warzone comms for use ON endgame items as opposed to early game items.

They aren't charging for these, and he said so in the interview. Hence your comment was nothing more then exaggeration and fear mongering. Periodic (ie: the regular interval patches, which they now name the 6 week content patches) patches at no charge to subscribers.

The only door he left open is whether large content updates like Makeb would be free content patches, or a paid expansion. He's the business guy for the game, and he is saying we have not yet decided if we give Makeb to players for free, or treat it as a point of sale expansion.

IRONY.


Fear based speculation, falsely presented as objective fact.

Please demonstrate how what they say they will do imbalances the game. Be objective for one post, instead of all the hyperbole.

See you even quoted me and STILL haven't read what I actually posted. Go listen to his interview as you are so apt to recommend others to do and then come back.

He at no point makes a definitive answer. He flat out SAYS they haven't come to a conclusion on what subbed players will or will not be paying for. That is what he says, that he doesn't know because they haven't decided yet.

What I said was "IF" see that word right there, it completely changes the entire meaning of what you're trying to twist my statement to mean. "IF" they charge for regular content patches, which they HAVE NOT DECIDED IF THEY WILL DO YET, it will be a game breaking moment for me personally and for many other players who have shared this exact same sentiment in literally thousands of forum posts and hundreds of threads.

"IF" they decide to charge subbed players for content that I otherwise believe should have been included in my sub, I will be leaving and not looking back.

"IF" where they draw that line is not in the consumers' best interest it will cause very serious problems.

"IF" these incredibly vague terms like "chunky hunk of content" turn out to just be more misleading marketing hype, then it will have a very serious backlash.

"IF"

"IF"

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That sounds pretty standard for MMOs these days actually..

Yeah, well the problem is in lotro, the stat gear in the store is far better than anything in the game that drops or can be crafted for almost 10 levels. So it is clearly an advantage item and not a convenience one. It gives the buyer an advantage over a non buyer in all areas. They will have an easier time leveling, doing instances, and duels if they so choose.

Here we have a vague statement of mid level blues but you don't know if it will be far and away the best thing you can have at that level range or if you will even be able to acquire it in-game. Looks like they paid good attention to turbine on how to do sneaky speak and do whatever they want.

Remember the phrase "Convenience, not advantage." when lotro launched their cash shop? Try and find that phrase on their site now. Oh, that's right, you can't because they scrubbed all evidence of it from their site but luckily people saved it. The line between the two is pretty thin and once you cross it, everything is fair game.