Dev's underestimated importance of 'worthless' features

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Dev's underestimated importance of 'worthless' features

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Darth_Victus

12.07.2012 , 01:53 PM \| #31	Quote
Didn't mean for this to turn into a fight over past and current MMO's. I am just saying that non-combat features to hold players over while waiting for new content has been severely under estimated by the devs, who wanted to focus more on "Heroic" experiences. I would love to see a week Pazaak Tournament on Nar Shaddaa. A monthly Swoop Race on Tatooine and so fourth, It would breath alot of life into the game and gives players a distraction away from the grind.

johnxtreeme

12.07.2012 , 01:55 PM \| #32	Quote
Same. They are not worthless and actually WAY MORE IMPORTANT than boring raids and pvp instances.

Darth_Victus

12.07.2012 , 01:56 PM \| #33	Quote
Quote: Originally Posted by johnxtreeme Same. They are not worthless and actually WAY MORE IMPORTANT than boring raids and pvp instances. Maybe in their own sense, but I wouldn't go that far.

Dyvid

12.07.2012 , 02:40 PM \| #34	Quote
Well with the F2P model this thing could be a money maker. Add pazaak to the game, unlock for 300 coins and let people who want to play it, play it. Same with swoop racing, holo chess, and sabacc.
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Arlon_Nabarlly

12.07.2012 , 02:47 PM \| #35	Quote
Mini-games are nice, but not something that's desperately needed. I would expect these things to be on the priority list but lower. Good news is a lot of the quality of life enhancements people wanted at launch are slowing coming in. Each time one does mini-games get a bit of a bump. They will get their eventually.
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Arlon_Nabarlly

12.07.2012 , 02:49 PM \| #36	Quote
Quote: Originally Posted by johnxtreeme Same. They are not worthless and actually WAY MORE IMPORTANT than boring raids and pvp instances. You're entitled to your opinion I guess. There is a reason mini-games are called mini-games, because they aren't really part of the core game, whereas Operations and PvP are. If you feel there must be mini-games immediately then it seems like the real problem is you don't like the game and want to play a separate game. Just a thought....
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QuiQuaeQuod

12.07.2012 , 02:51 PM \| #37	Quote
Quote: Originally Posted by MarkoJinn I agree with OP and the future of MMOs is a hybrid meaning themepark is fine but you DO need some sandbox features. Imagine if there was a daily reward for being the fastest one in the swoop race or pazaak tournament winner? Wouldn't that be nice? The more things we have to do the better that's for sure... Wisdom in this post. Pure sandbox will fail as hard as pure themepark, but a compromise needs to be found; and SW:ToR is currently far too themepark to have permanent appeal.

Slurmez

12.07.2012 , 02:52 PM \| #38	Quote
Quote: Originally Posted by Wolfninjajedi When did they ever say they are 'worthless' features? They just aren't as important, as to what they have going on right now. Be patient and it will all come eventually. It was worthless to them, like free form space flight, one of the bright devs said "han never said to chewie lets jump in the falcon and just fly around" as a way to belittle the feature, some wag from the community retorted that Luke Skywalker never said "lets go beat up Darth Vader and steal his pants!" either.

Urael

12.07.2012 , 02:52 PM \| #39	Quote
TL;DR Suggestion: Put in mini-games and use the existing casino's as a back drop for the mini-games.

gonzologer

12.07.2012 , 03:49 PM \| #40	Quote
I wanna play those mini games on my ipad when I'm outa town... Weren't we supposed to be able to do that with crew skills?

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