A Look At The Old Republic

Also, has anyone else noticed the rather high percentage of bearded men that work for bioware? Every video showing peeps who worked on it have about 95% of beards going on.

So how's that epic PvP slideshow you have in your game working Bioware ?

In my experience GREAT game for 30 days, flawless start but got empty fast and fell off a cliff. I'm browsing for other games and thats when i know its the end.

Except, of course, for the dev tracker, the dev Q&A with 10-15 questions per week, and regular postings from the community team.

I honestly think that it's an awesome game. I played WoW for 7 years. I picked this game up about 2 weeks after it came out; I haven't played WoW since. Now, this isn't just an "I am trying to escape WoW" attempt, it just isn't. I also tried rift, I didn't even make it past level 37 in that game. SWTOR has offered some very new concepts. Such as:

1.) All characters have companions
2.) Class quests
3.) Every quest has a story line, choosing your responses (new to MMOs)
4.) Having your own ship! ( I especially love this, I no longer have to dread 10 minute flights in WoW.)
5.) Choosing your subclass (rift tried at this one, but it was way too complex and all of the sub-classes were similar)
6.) Flashpoints (though similar to dungeons, rolling for team responses to conversations make it a new concept.)
7.) Healing without mana as a resource (I absolutely LOVE healing on my bounty hunter!)
8.) Different group compositions (For instance, instead of needing 5 for a flashpoint, you only need 4.)
9.) The ability to gear out your companions (try giving your boar in WoW a helmet)
10.) Shared quest loot! (I always level with my best friend Colt, it's such a relief that we don't have to farm for the quest loot twice as long!)

I could go on and on about what I love about this game, but in the interest of time and forum space I won't. It's a new game guys, sure it needs some polishing, but it's way better off than WoW was when it first came out! WoW didn't even have battlegrounds when it first came out. So instead of just attacking the game without explaining your reasoning, give their teams some positive criticism and ideas.

That was a nice "Show the world we had a successful launch (2 months ago) video".

I would absolutely love to see a video showing me what your teams are doing RIGHT NOW. Grab that camera and roll through your offices. Show me what your people are doing RIGHT NOW. What's the art team working on? Which bugs are getting some focus? What is the combat system having tweaked? What work is being done to the game engine? What improvements are being gnawed on for the social aspect of the game?

Videos like this can be a powerful tool. Right now I don't feel very connected to the working side of this game - the developers and their teams. Introduce them to us and let us see what they are doing.

CCP's youtube channel is a great example for this. Check it out.

http://www.youtube.com/user/CCPGAMES

No, what I needed was for BioWare to not release a piece of crap, rushed, uninspired game. It's too late for redemption. It's 2012. We don't have years to wait for them to perfect it like we all did with WoW. It should have came out swinging, but instead it came out with voice-acting and very, very little in the way of fun gameplay.

The gaming community in this day-in-age is very unforgiving.

It's 2/21/12

Awesome vid Bioware even those that put the game down all the time can't break their addiction TWO MILLION copies sold and the number just keeps growing.

Yet, even though you think this way .....the game is a whopping success!!


Apparently TONS of people love this game.

Forget all that, I want to see hot teen intern mudwrestling, slave girl modeling contests, etc.

I wouldnt believe anything else they posted at this point, anyway.

You can esit videos, but you cant edit *******!

...well you can, but who cares?