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CorellianWannabe
08.20.2012 , 05:19 PM | #101
Quote: Originally Posted by Evensong View Post
I watched all interview. What he said was that they might sell blue mid level gear to help players leveling.
No nodded gear was mentioned. No end game gear was mentioned.

No big deal.
So they want to help people blow through the stories-the very aspect of the game that was hyped so furiously before launch (and the part that all the forum warriors keep saying is easy-if anything too easy). These people get to 50, find they can't do anything without paying even more, and then what?

They'll all either sub to play time-locked ops (can't have players in there every day-once a week is good enough) and warzones (where they can die in 5 secs from vanguards in top tier gear), pay through the nose for the same privilege, or uninstall. Speeding their journry to the fail endgame doesn't seem like a smart move.

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CKNORTH
08.20.2012 , 06:00 PM | #102
Quote: Originally Posted by CorellianWannabe View Post
So they want to help people blow through the stories-the very aspect of the game that was hyped so furiously before launch (and the part that all the forum warriors keep saying is easy-if anything too easy). These people get to 50, find they can't do anything without paying even more, and then what?

They'll all either sub to play time-locked ops (can't have players in there every day-once a week is good enough) and warzones (where they can die in 5 secs from vanguards in top tier gear), pay through the nose for the same privilege, or uninstall. Speeding their journry to the fail endgame doesn't seem like a smart move.
Maybe there intentions all along was just a money grab with no real plans to continue the product once the resources have been tapped out? In all they are trying to make money off someone else's mental property are they not?
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Andryah
08.20.2012 , 06:03 PM | #103
Quote: Originally Posted by CorellianWannabe View Post
So they want to help people blow through the stories-the very aspect of the game that was hyped so furiously before launch
IMO, you are confusing the gear a character wears with the player hitting the spacebar like a hyperactive gerbil.

Gear does not make you blow through the stories. Impatient spacebar spmammers do that.
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CKNORTH
08.20.2012 , 06:11 PM | #104
Quote: Originally Posted by Andryah View Post
IMO, you are confusing the gear a character wears with the player hitting the spacebar like a hyperactive gerbil.

Gear does not make you blow through the stories. Impatient spacebar spmammers do that.
^this , the quested gear is good enough to get you to fifty half the time it's replaced by the planet gear from the coms and that gear lasts quite a while. If they are intending to sell gear in the shop I would think it would be 1-50 gear that levels with you and is replaced at 50
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CritasStorm
08.20.2012 , 07:22 PM | #105
Discuss all please!

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OMEGAlomaniac
08.20.2012 , 08:06 PM | #106
Well, if it turns out to be true, come F2P I end my subscription and don't give them any more of my money. I'll remain hopefull (I do still love the story, and I still have lots of classes I have to play through), but I won't support it with any more of my money if it becomes P2W or if they start selling individual game updates to us.

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Arkerus
08.20.2012 , 09:33 PM | #107
I am perfectly ok with paying for full expansions. But if they start nickel and dimeing us for minor content patches then I will drop my paid sub and move to another game.

I really, really enjoy this game but if they start fleecing the already paying customer then I am out. No whining, no crying, no 18 page rant on the forums. I'll just cancel my sub and be done.

Full expansion? Fine.
Minor content patch? I better not pay a dime.


As for the gear? I could care less if they sold green gear in the shop below 50. Don't sell high level gear complete with mods. That would be pay to win.
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DragonAgeOrgins
08.20.2012 , 09:53 PM | #108
Let's face it. If someone can buy gear at low level even a high qualify gear. It will give them an edge in PVP and make the game "PAY2WIN" but what can you do at this point. Sadly I hoped they would expand on our companion storyline. They had massive potential since most of them you know are not completed.

It's depressing. It goes from losing subs, to f2p to paying to get gear. This is not the bioware I know.

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Styxx
08.20.2012 , 10:09 PM | #109
Quote: Originally Posted by Andryah View Post
IMO, you are confusing the gear a character wears with the player hitting the spacebar like a hyperactive gerbil.

Gear does not make you blow through the stories. Impatient spacebar spmammers do that.
What stories? The five quests per planet worth of cutscenes? While the VAST majority of a planet is made by the REST of 20-25?

Once you got one side each to 50 you get ONLY the five per planet (sometimes only 4) new quests - and even those only for basic class. The rest is the same old crap repeated ad nauseam. Hardly a reason to spacebar, indeed.

Am I missing some great planet choice here? Is there enough UNIQUE content for EIGHT 1-50 chars? Because all I`m seeing is one each.
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grombrinda
08.20.2012 , 10:14 PM | #110
Hehehe...no moderators to shut this down yet?? I think they leaked this info to gauge our reaction..Please guys when the cartel shop opens up, Don't buy said gear for any reason what so ever (although why sell gear on CS, unless its overpowered, when stuff you get from drops and quest is just as good)...only way to send a message is by not sending money their way. Welp in regards to gear I mean.
I would glady buy vanity items, cusomization gear or fashion I should say, legacy bank!!! (crosses fingers), hell even a potted plant to put in my ship...but never gear.
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