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If this game was not Star Wars would you still play?
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Guildrum
03.14.2012 , 07:49 AM | #51
No, because it would have never caught my attention in the first place. That said, I love the game, but it first caught my eye due to it being Star Wars.

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Tiaa
03.14.2012 , 07:49 AM | #52
Quote: Originally Posted by Reico View Post
So true

the jilted Star Wars: Galaxies crowd, still pining for their ill-starred sandbox that went the way of Alderaan last December.
I read the first comments on your link.

That's all everyone else needs to read too.

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So, if you complain about the lousy engine that makes any kind of populated area lag. And it gets worse if they engage in combat. And this is despite a 2GB ATI 5950 OC to the virtually the same benchmarks as an ATI 7950..

That makes you a hater? Those are FACTS.

And when the DEVELOPER trolls you? Saying your Digital Storm, custom-built, over-clocked, liquid cooled i7 ASUS MB computer is a piece of garbage...

You're supposed to agree with the *********? Or the BioDrones that harrass you? Give me a break.[
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1) Never expect objective reviews from sites like gamespy. It is owned by IGN and IGN like many other big game websites makes its money off advertisements. As I type this there is an Ad for ME3. If Leif Johnson was to be honest, it would only server to piss off EA since they are paying good money to advertise their games through IGN. For this reason authors like Leif Johnson will always side with the game companies over the players. AD revenue runs gamespy and authors won't do anything to lose AD revenue.

2) I keep hearing everyone argue over the content of ToR. The content isn't the problem, its the difficulty. WoW was released with much less content. The difference between WoW and ToR was that it took players months to hit 60 in WoW where it takes players only weeks to hit 50 in ToR. Gear is handed to you in ToR. When I hit 50 I was wearing all blues with lvl 49 epics I bought compared to when I hit 60 in WoW and was in greens. I had to work for what I had in WoW. Everything wasn't handed to me. I played because I wanted to make my character better. Ever though there was only MC, it took MONTHS before the TOP guilds cleared it. MC kept everyone busy for a while because it was a challenge to clear and get geared.

ToR is made for impatient children who want everything right now. They can't be bothered to get keyed for anything. They just want to hit max lvl, raid instantly and get 3-4 epics a run like in ToR.

Think if ToR made it take twice as long to lvl to 50 and OPs were hard. Everyone wouldn't be running around in all epics complaining there was nothing to do because they would still be working to improve their character. When MMO players feel like it isn't worth it to improve their character anymore they quit. It's that simple.

WoW understood this and excelled at this. In Vanilla you hit 50 and started doing instances. You felt as leet as St. Pete once you were decked out in blues. Your heart pounded when you got your first epic because it was truly epic. You got all epic gear? Congragulations. You were a living God in those days.

Now people may say well only very few people got to see MC and other raids. While true, everyone wanted to see it so they worked to make their characters better. They saw those living Gods walking around in full epic and said to themselves "I want his/her gear" and worked for weeks or months to get it.

In ToR you hit 50, see someone in full epics, and say "I want that gear" and a week later you have that gear with nothing to do.

Sadly MMO's keep getting dumbed down and infultrated with selfish children who are like socialists. They want everything but don't want to work for a damn thing.

IMO doing something as simple as adding a new tier of gear that you can get by collecting tokens from HM's/OP's will go a long way to keep players busy. Make them work for weeks to get a single piece but make it worth it. Players need something to strive for. They need a reason to play.

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nocturnalgamer
03.14.2012 , 07:50 AM | #53
Yes if it was still sci fi
1.I hate orcs
2. I hate dwarves
3. I hate fantasy that contains those things and the rest

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Drewser
03.14.2012 , 07:51 AM | #54
Yes, 1 reason - I am having fun.

If at some point the game is no longer fun, I will unsub and move on to a game that is.

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Tricky-Ha
03.14.2012 , 07:52 AM | #55
Nope, I wouldn't play it if it wasn't Star Wars.

I won't play Guild Wars 2 or Tera because they are fantasy themed MMO's with elves & fairie crap, same reasons I don't like WoW, EQ, Rift & other fantasy MMO's.

I am looking forward to FunCom's The Secret War. I always wanted to play as myself in a modern persistent world MMO.
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Reico
03.14.2012 , 07:53 AM | #56
Quote: Originally Posted by Tiaa View Post
I read the first comments on your link.

That's all everyone else needs to read too.

Thanks for proving my point.
PVPers are the biggest cry babies of any community
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Drewser
03.14.2012 , 07:54 AM | #57
Quote: Originally Posted by Tiaa View Post
I read the first comments on your link.

That's all everyone else needs to read too.
Actually, they should read the article since it brings up some very good points.

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Tiaa
03.14.2012 , 07:56 AM | #58
Quote: Originally Posted by Reico View Post
Thanks for proving my point.
I find it funny when people say "Thanks for proving my point"...

...When you only post two sentences.

One, which was a link to a long, over-written article and the second being a generalization of all those who disagree.

You had no point.

Stop wasting my time.

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Reico
03.14.2012 , 07:59 AM | #59
Quote: Originally Posted by Tiaa View Post
I find it funny when people say "Thanks for proving my point"...

...When you only post two sentences.

One, which was a link to a long, over-written article and the second being a generalization of all those who disagree.

You had no point.

Stop wasting my time.

You fit into one of the three groups perfectly.

Try harder.
PVPers are the biggest cry babies of any community
Reico Emeir - IOI - Tempest
<I O I>

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Hokonoso
03.14.2012 , 08:00 AM | #60
please elaborate. if this game was not star wars then there would be no force or lightsabers. now we have 4 classes which dont fit so you must delete them + all story and all endgame. now you have a game with 4 classes with storylines and only 4 AC per side and now you have rift... congratulations you just created a game that is already out and sux so... NO

im sorry but this question will never fly, there is no game without star wars, you cannot even take a single aspect of this game without star wars being a part of it, sci fi fantasy mmo wont even make sense outside of the star wars universe, especially a themepark one that doesnt put all it's effort into space combat. this game isnt much different than wow except for 2 things, it is star wars and is about the star wars story, not just story but star wars story.
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