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lklinga
09.14.2012 , 08:42 AM | #61
Quote: Originally Posted by Urael View Post
Allison,

Respectfully you dodged the question. We are fully confident that we will see "story". Makeb will have story. The major concern is "personal story". I for one am not looking forward to a "dry spell" of 5 levels with no story if Makeb is designed for 5 levels of play ( the prposed range of level cap increase ) and no continuation of my Imperial Agents story (as an example). That is the question to take back to Mr. Schubert for which we need an answer.

When will we see "chapter 4", "chapter 5", etc ...?

Make sense?
Pretty much this.
This game is never going to be a PVP oriented and just adding new raids or whatever is not really what plays to the strength of the game as very nicely done rpg.

If a new planet is done and it is going to continue the level cap all the classes have to have separate story lines.
The general planetary quests are fine and all but it has to have class stories. Lets face it this is the major reaon people still play the game.
For other things there are other games that do it better.
Personally for me the story is keeping me here and after I do 4 - 5 classes all the heroic missions and once for all the other flash points operation and then probably go f2p

For pvp there are better games to play out there and with the problems of the engine I do not see it changing .

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ZionHalcyon
09.14.2012 , 08:42 AM | #62
Quote: Originally Posted by Estelindis View Post
Oh, I missed that. I feel... saddened by this.

I wonder when we will get to advance our class stories further. They interest me more than pretty much anything else in the game.
I missed where this was said, so I'd like a link to where it was said before I wholeheartedly buy into it.

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Insomnio
09.14.2012 , 08:43 AM | #63
Quote: Originally Posted by Jarlgon View Post
The reshuffle hasn't changed the fact that Makeb will not have Class Stories.
Exactly. Why would losing the people that knew what was going on with the game and how to program it make additional unplanned content suddenly viable?

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Rayla_Felana
09.14.2012 , 08:44 AM | #64
Quote: Originally Posted by Jarlgon View Post
The reshuffle hasn't changed the fact that Makeb will not have Class Stories.
The Bioware developers have suggested, not once, but twice, that you are wrong.

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Urael
09.14.2012 , 08:49 AM | #65
Quote: Originally Posted by Rayla_Felana View Post
The Bioware developers have suggested, not once, but twice, that you are wrong.
That's just it. EA/BW is not all on the same page. They are in effect giving out "disinformation" with their conflicting stories. Which is why I asked Allison the pointed question I did in this thread.

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Insomnio
09.14.2012 , 08:50 AM | #66
Quote: Originally Posted by Rayla_Felana View Post
The Bioware developers have suggested, not once, but twice, that you are wrong.
To to contrary, they stated that there will not be CLASS story continuation. We will not be finding out what happens to our Troopers/Jedis/Smugglers/Sith/BountyHunters after they beat the last chapter of their storyline.

What we will likely see, is some limited conversations, where your responses are "now ill show you what a bounty hunter does best" or whatever repetitious cut scene catch-all phrase your class used.

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Insomnio
09.14.2012 , 08:59 AM | #67
Quote: Originally Posted by AllisonBerryman View Post
I talked to Principal Lead Systems Designer Damion Schubert about the concern being expressed in this thread that story will not be important in our future Game Updates. He wanted to reassure everyone that story will continue to be an important part of Star Wars: The Old Republic in any efforts that we make going forward. Bioware is built upon making the best story-based gameplay we possibly can, and that philosophy has always been a cornerstone of SWTOR's design - that won't be changing. We'll have more details as we're able to share them.
This answer was not an answer. It is appreciated that she took the time to respond, but no answer from the devs indicating that personal story will be continuing in Makeb.

Its understandable that you could read it either way, and someone looking forward to new personal story content will read the part saying that "the story will continue" portion of that message and see it in their mind as "my story is continuing in Makeb!"

Based on the customer service response, yes BW will be continuing the stories, but that will be in the future at some unclear date. I notice that they did not use the word "soon", which has come to mean in a few months, but rather they used "in future updates" which could only mean that it is far out on the content release schedule.

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Rayla_Felana
09.14.2012 , 09:09 AM | #68
Quote: Originally Posted by Insomnio View Post
This answer was not an answer. It is appreciated that she took the time to respond, but no answer from the devs indicating that personal story will be continuing in Makeb.

Its understandable that you could read it either way, and someone looking forward to new personal story content will read the part saying that "the story will continue" portion of that message and see it in their mind as "my story is continuing in Makeb!"

Based on the customer service response, yes BW will be continuing the stories, but that will be in the future at some unclear date. I notice that they did not use the word "soon", which has come to mean in a few months, but rather they used "in future updates" which could only mean that it is far out on the content release schedule.
It's clear you didn't see Gabe or Hood's recent interviews that both suggested that the class story would be continued and that SGRA content would be included in Makeb.

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Insomnio
09.14.2012 , 09:14 AM | #69
Quote: Originally Posted by Rayla_Felana View Post
It's clear you didn't see Gabe or Hood's recent interviews that both suggested that the class story would be continued and that SGRA content would be included in Makeb.
No I guess I have not, it blew past really quickly. Link?

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Urael
09.14.2012 , 09:15 AM | #70
Quote: Originally Posted by Rayla_Felana View Post
It's clear you didn't see Gabe or Hood's recent interviews that both suggested that the class story would be continued and that SGRA content would be included in Makeb.
I'd be careful about quoting anything from GA. TBH, I don't believe anything that comes out of his mouth. He is often wrong.