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Bioware needs a new philosophy

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Bioware needs a new philosophy

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Theodwulf
12.31.2011 , 03:24 AM | #71
You are right OP....Game design starts on a notpad with a pen and paper and they obviously didn't do that. This game has serious design flaws, when and if they decide to adress these issues, it will be difficult because of the way the game was designed.


Add Planets ...more tiny "planets" that you go to once? ( larger planents with layered content so people return)
Add Space...What happens to old space and the players who loved it? (should have saved the resources wasted on an arcade game)
Redo classes... That always goes over well! (more incentives NOT to have a lightsaber)
Is a story entertaining....If you presented it to a PnP D+D group, would they laugh you out of the room? (your grand stories are weak and shallow)

The issues at hand are not those brought on by lack of time and money BUT lack of foresight and common sense. No One appearently thought this game out to it's logical conclusion. A failure this game will share with WAR.

Whoever made the "command decisions" at BW/EA doesn't know what they are doing. Voice acting is polish...You can't shine sh*t!

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Blackwater
12.31.2011 , 03:25 AM | #72
Quote: Originally Posted by ascendic View Post
no you are not because you would clearly have no idea what good food would taste like.
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SaltAU
12.31.2011 , 03:25 AM | #73
Quote: Originally Posted by Blackwater View Post
Did you miss the part where I said I'm no longer playing their game?
Did you miss the part where he said you are posting on their forums?

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SaltAU
12.31.2011 , 03:27 AM | #74
Why do you go to the extra effort of posting your posts in grey? Are you a special snowflake?

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Arkerus
12.31.2011 , 03:27 AM | #75
Quote: Originally Posted by Theodwulf View Post
You are right OP....Game design starts on a notpad with a pen and paper and they obviously didn't do that. This game has serious design flaws, when and if they decide to adress these issues, it will be difficult because of the way the game was designed.


Add Planets ...more tiny "planets" that you go to once? ( larger planents with layered content so people return)
Add Space...What happens to old space and the players who loved it? (should have saved the resources wasted on an arcade game)
Redo classes... That always goes over well! (more incentives NOT to have a lightsaber)
Is a story entertaining....If you presented it to a PnP D+D group, would they laugh you out of the room? (your grand stories are weak and shallow)

The issues at hand are not those brought on by lack of time and money BUT lack of foresight and common sense. No One appearently thought this game out to it's logical conclusion. A failure this game will share with WAR.

Whoever made the "command decisions" at BW/EA doesn't know what they are doing. Voice acting is polish...You can't shine sh*t!
Seriously. What are you going on about? As a long time player of MMOs I think bioware is very strong out of the gate.

The primary concern should be fixing the bugs. The overall design philosophy seems standard to me and I am ok with that.

They are already working on more raids and more content. If you wanted something ground breaking and non-standard in MMO design you won't find it here.

This game however is best in its class next to WoW. I do not agree with anything you posted.

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songofprecept
12.31.2011 , 03:27 AM | #76
Quote: Originally Posted by Blackwater View Post
Catering to the people that continue to pay the monthly fee after the first month is bad business?

Wow, thanks for clearing that up for me. I wish you were in congress when the housing market collapsed, we could have been out of that crisis in no time!
So you quit playing? Thats at least 8 ppls whines I wont have to read now, thanks for rushing....i mean playing.
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darthdoll
12.31.2011 , 03:28 AM | #77
Quote: Originally Posted by Blackwater View Post
Oooo this is a logically fallacy I haven't seen in a while!

Let me ask you this. Am I not allowed to say that food tastes bad just because I'm not a chef?
Never thought I had to go in depth but here we go...

This does not relate to what I was actually saying.

You do not know about design, you have not designed, you were not on a dev team. You do not know what has conspired behind the scenes to make it this way, nor should you have the right to say its bad design because you think its wrong.

You say food tastes bad to YOU, I could love pizza with mustard and ketchup, doesnt mean it was a pizza flaw.

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Blackwater
12.31.2011 , 03:29 AM | #78
Quote: Originally Posted by SaltAU View Post
Did you miss the part where he said you are posting on their forums?
Therefore I'm a hypocrite.

This is a getting really pathetic. Quit trying to grasp at straws and contribute to the thread instead of trying to use some convoluted logic to try and make me out as a hypocrite. Just stop it.

I'm using government roads, that doesn't mean I love everything they do

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Ascendic
12.31.2011 , 03:29 AM | #79
Quote: Originally Posted by Arkerus View Post
What the hell are you talking about? I just made a comment on SOPA because I saw it mentioned earlier. Pull the stick out of your rear side.
He seems to think that companies part of ESA can not declare their own opinion and in fact should instead be pulling out of ESA because they support a specific bill being passed in congress.

Or in other words,

DERP.

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Blackwater
12.31.2011 , 03:30 AM | #80
Quote: Originally Posted by darthdoll View Post
Never thought I had to go in depth but here we go...

This does not relate to what I was actually saying.

You do not know about design, you have not designed, you were not on a dev team. You do not know what has conspired behind the scenes to make it this way, nor should you have the right to say its bad design because you think its wrong.

You say food tastes bad to YOU, I could love pizza with mustard and ketchup, doesnt mean it was a pizza flaw.

I don't have to know EVERY SINGLE intricate detail that went into creating something in order for me to criticize it.

Your logic SUCKS. Knock it off