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If this game was not Star Wars would you still play?
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Lord_of_Stone
03.15.2012 , 01:36 AM | #151
Quote: Originally Posted by lokivoid View Post
Its in all reality not a true bioware game. bioware from pre-2006 no longer exists, most of their talent pool IE upper level development staff that created the old bioware titles such as Boulders gate series up to DA:O and ME1. All have resigned from bioware to join smaller studios. Majority of them all sharing the comment of "they did not like the direction the studio was heading" (funny enough this all started right after the EA buyout)

So in reality your not playing a Bioware title, you are playing a EA title sold under the bioware name.



Ah yes the casual gamer stereotype. The "new and shiny" crowd are about as stable as paper kite in a hurricane when it comes to MMO subscription demographics.
Citation needed please. Just spent about 10 mins googling the best I can and I cant find anything about developers leaving Bioware.

In fact, the same three people have been in charge of the creative development of all Bioware games from Baldur's Gate to Mass Effect 3.

So again, please cite your information before spouting hipster nonsense.

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zeekaran
03.15.2012 , 01:39 AM | #152
Hell no.

1: GW2
2: Dark Souls
3: Neither of the above have subscriptions (because I play DaS on the superior PS3)
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Obi-Shinobi
03.15.2012 , 01:54 AM | #153
Nope

1. Crafting is fail like every MMO since SWG
2. Travel times are LAME and ridiculous
3. Wookiee aren't a playable race....lolwut
4. No player bounty system....major fail
5. Open world Pvp doesn't exist during questing. Not sure why they even have "pvp" servers
6. Can't receive hate tells from the other faction.
7. No player cities
8. Planets dont really feel that big to me.
9. Way too many servers at launch and they are taking to long to do transfers.
10. Oh you only wanted 3, i'll stop.
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JediElf
03.15.2012 , 01:55 AM | #154
Yes I would.

Heck if it wasn't Star Wars, it could have been Dragon Age, or a new IP.

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futuredami
03.15.2012 , 03:14 AM | #155
I actually think it is better than most star wars content, because like kotor they had more creative freedom without lucas breathing down their neck about continuity.

this is probably less true of the knight/consular but for the other classes i have plays there is some really interesting character and plot development from the normally sterile sw stuff.

also if it wasn't star wars they would be allowed to develop more interesting melee weapons instead of 300 identical lightsabers.

honestly it is just great to play an mmo that ISN'T elves and dragons.
Lightsabers are for people who can't use a Gaffi

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Talahar
03.15.2012 , 04:56 AM | #156
YES!
Even as a generic science fiction fantasy (AKA space opera) game it would still interest me more than
the run of the mill dwarves and elves gunk that runs so rampant in MMORPGs these days.
And it would still have the MMORPG gameplay that I like, and in addition the Bioware style storytelling.
That this is a Star Wars game is, to me, really just a bonus.


And if Bioware manages to deliver content that I like, they'll have me for the long run.
So far, so good. Not even done with the first class story, although it's getting closer and closer.
And after that, I still have seven more. And they'll have to release additional chapters at some point,
so yeah, I'll be right here, playing this.

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owenthorn
03.15.2012 , 04:59 AM | #157
absolutely not, if this wasn't Star wars, i never would have bought it, and since BW totally screwed it up, I don't even play anymore
George Lucas: "Well, it’s not a religious event. I hate to tell people that. It’s a movie, just a movie."
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Lakhesis
03.15.2012 , 05:15 AM | #158
Yes.

1) I'm not playing it because it's star wars anyway
2) It's a big name MMO, I'd have tried it regardless
3) For all it's wealth of bugs & clunkiness - I'd regard it as the most irritatingly buggy mmo i've tried, even if it's not the most game-breakingly buggy mmo - the single player questing style is one of, if not the, best of any MMO I've seen. IMO.

So yeah, I'm playing it cos it's an MMO & star wars doesn't enter into it at all.
0.00008 light speed? But that's only a lousy 86,000 kph!

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Fatalist
03.15.2012 , 05:36 AM | #159
If it was a Sci-Fi MMO then yes. If it was another fantasy MMO with ie orcs and elvs then no.

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Styxx
03.15.2012 , 06:17 AM | #160
NO.

0. No Togruta/Sullustan/Wookie/Cathar/etc races that would make an authentic and "immersive" experience.
1. No ownership of structures.
2. No real incentive to group makes it a single player game with a sub, rather than a MMO.
3. No novelty whatsoever.

The above being said... it IS Star Wars and they ARE improving, kinda sorta, so I am playing for now
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