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Heimskringla
10.26.2012 , 09:40 AM | #111
The game might survive. They need to focus on making MMO elements "best stuff" instead of focusing on alts via Legacy, because repeating the same world content 4 times per side is not fun.

If they focus on expanding the existing story, repeatable content, alternative advancement for alts, and a robust end-game experience for both PvE and PvP players, I think they will survive. If they don't start doing some of this, I don't think that even f2p will give this game a long future.
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Mindfulpizza
10.26.2012 , 09:58 AM | #112
Simple part would be for EA just to sell out to perfectworld and take there offer and let them run the game and have at least 5 years set. At least we would get a road map and more community involvement and more updates and a bigger game community. down fall is a ton of micro transactions.

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HammersteinSW
10.26.2012 , 10:31 AM | #113
Quote: Originally Posted by Mindfulpizza View Post
Simple part would be for EA just to sell out to perfectworld and take there offer and let them run the game and have at least 5 years set. At least we would get a road map and more community involvement and more updates and a bigger game community. down fall is a ton of micro transactions.
EA might not be perfect, but at least they understand some of the basic demands of a Western audience. If they let a Korean publisher run this game then it would be doomed within a few months. I can't even think of a single Korean mmo which has a healthy subscriber base in Europe and the US.

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Andryah
10.26.2012 , 10:38 AM | #114
Quote: Originally Posted by HammersteinSW View Post
EA might not be perfect, but at least they understand some of the basic demands of a Western audience. If they let a Korean publisher run this game then it would be doomed within a few months. I can't even think of a single Korean mmo which has a healthy subscriber base in Europe and the US.
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Nemmar
10.26.2012 , 10:53 AM | #115
Quote: Originally Posted by HammersteinSW View Post
A direct question - what is EA's roadmap for this game ?

I really want to enjoy the class stories and invest the majority of my game time into Swtor. But EA does so little to make me trust in the future of this game. There is no real communication with the playerbase, the Q&A panels only focus on silly stuff like "Can we marry Wookies ?" while I am more concerned if I will still get to enjoy Swtor next year.

I don't want to pour money for Cartel Points and the little game time I have into a game which might already be doomed. The weird f2p decisions (paying for an extra hotbar), the fresh bugs introduced with every patch and the dwindling subscriber numbers often make me wonder if sometime next year they will just close it down because it does not create enough cash to pay for the Star Wars license and the running costs.
While i dont share the catastrofic view, i do agree that a roadmap is something every MMO should share with their players. That is something WoW has always done right. We know that with every expnasion we would have 3 more raid dungeons to look forward to until the next expansion hits.

At the moment we have no idea whats in store for SWTOR. We know that makeb is coming, a warzone and that another new raid is already beeing worked on but we know nothing about.
I would like to know that for next year we have X raids coming out X warzone, X dungeons, X story chapters and when we can expect a full fledged expansion to come out.

At the moment were playing blind wich is always bad and difficult to commit to.

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Mindfulpizza
10.26.2012 , 11:07 AM | #116
Quote: Originally Posted by HammersteinSW View Post
EA might not be perfect, but at least they understand some of the basic demands of a Western audience. If they let a Korean publisher run this game then it would be doomed within a few months. I can't even think of a single Korean mmo which has a healthy subscriber base in Europe and the US.
They bought out star trek and that game got better. They even added voice acting. Fixed it so that more pc can run the game. and fixed it a ton. I would never say they suck they got some the best western devs over at perfectworld now that they been paying them a ton. Just sucks that years ago they seen something we did not in the states. There taking the money there making and put it to the gamers plus can go any 7-11 and get game cards. If look at guild wars 2 that not theres but they fixed a lot of the issues with perfectworlds mmos in last few yrs because of perfectworld games. competion brings out the best in people.

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Anastasius
10.26.2012 , 11:21 AM | #117
If this lasts past 2013 I will be shocked.

The game is terrible.

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Mindfulpizza
10.26.2012 , 11:23 AM | #118
This game to me feels like final fantasy 11, will last for awhile but no consoles fall back, keep the hardcore for awhile. lame communications untilled they fired there boss in final fantasy 11, only thing i see on this game is it a cpu game and people will leave faster then hell in the year and kotor, do not got a console to fall back on to. Game will be dead in a year or two they need to get the game on a console and play to there liking to save the game imo. final fantasy 11 still going after 10 yrs 13$ with 200k active accounts 60% on consoles.

The New mmos coming out are going destroy this game, guild wars 2 amazing, got two japanes games that will surprise alot of people. and a few others and perfectworld games free to play just growing. i even think wow time as king will get cut in half in next 2 years.

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Urael
10.26.2012 , 11:25 AM | #119
Quote: Originally Posted by Mindfulpizza View Post
This game to me feels like final fantasy 11, will last for awhile but no consoles fall back, keep the hardcore for awhile. lame communications untilled they fired there boss in final fantasy 11, only thing i see on this game is it a cpu game and people will leave faster then hell in the year and kotor, do not got a console to fall back on to. Game will be dead in a year or two they need to get the game on a console and play to there liking to save the game imo. final fantasy 11 still going after 10 yrs 13$ with 200k active accounts 60% on consoles.

The New mmos coming out are going destroy this game, guild wars 2 amazing, got two japanes games that will surprise alot of people. and a few others and perfectworld games free to play just growing. i even think wow time as king will get cut in half in next 2 years.
TBH, GW2 seems to be trending as FOM.

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Phenyr
10.26.2012 , 11:33 AM | #120
Quote: Originally Posted by HammersteinSW View Post
A direct question - what is EA's roadmap for this game ?

I really want to enjoy the class stories and invest the majority of my game time into Swtor. But EA does so little to make me trust in the future of this game. There is no real communication with the playerbase, the Q&A panels only focus on silly stuff like "Can we marry Wookies ?" while I am more concerned if I will still get to enjoy Swtor next year.

I don't want to pour money for Cartel Points and the little game time I have into a game which might already be doomed. The weird f2p decisions (paying for an extra hotbar), the fresh bugs introduced with every patch and the dwindling subscriber numbers often make me wonder if sometime next year they will just close it down because it does not create enough cash to pay for the Star Wars license and the running costs.
No. the game is in clinical death and both parents EA&BW need to admit that sometimes the harsh decisions are for the best and ask the doctor LA to pull the plug.

This is answer you wanted to hear or something else? The game will be up as long as some one out there from who ever is in charge of it is happy. In the moment that will change the guy with the plug will have green light to pull it out.
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