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The end of the arguement. Is SWTOR in decline? Can it be saved?

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The end of the arguement. Is SWTOR in decline? Can it be saved?

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Ghaiana
04.21.2012 , 02:35 PM | #941
Quote: Originally Posted by Kalfear View Post
me to

I was in closed beta and there was not a out pouring of requests for more sandbox
Just the normal 1% posting over and over and over the same thing

What was being said coming outta beta was
- no end game content
- bad pvp
- no legacy
- need more socialization and interaction
- lots of complaints about UI (never mattered to me honestly but the complaints were there)
- game losses its gloss and shine once you hit 50

Those were the main ones I remember.

Mostly it was the lack of end game content (which is why people claiming they got 30 days because they found out when they leveled to 50 there was no end game content baffle me. EVERYONE was telling them this before retail even hit that there was none), UI customization, lack of socialization (game played like a solo player game).

Sandbox stuff was few and far between in beta and always ended up same way

Player 1 : SWG blah blah blah, need more sand box
Player 2-3-4-5-6-7: SWG sucked and this isnt SWG2
and on it went from there till you just learned to tune it all out.

I mean if you intentionally spoke to other SWG fans then I guess you could claim there was a majority asking but thats pretty closed minded to do that and then buy into it as majority request
I only remember SWG as a game where I stood standing around waiting for something pre NGE...Post -NGE it was empty, much more empty than SWTOR. EvE was much more fun compared to SWG.

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AshenK
04.21.2012 , 02:35 PM | #942
Quote: Originally Posted by Kalfear View Post
me to

I was in closed beta and there was not a out pouring of requests for more sandbox
Just the normal 1% posting over and over and over the same thing

What was being said coming outta beta was
- no end game content
- bad pvp
- no legacy
- need more socialization and interaction
- lots of complaints about UI (never mattered to me honestly but the complaints were there)
- game losses its gloss and shine once you hit 50

Those were the main ones I remember.

Mostly it was the lack of end game content (which is why people claiming they got 30 days because they found out when they leveled to 50 there was no end game content baffle me. EVERYONE was telling them this before retail even hit that there was none), UI customization, lack of socialization (game played like a solo player game).

Sandbox stuff was few and far between in beta and always ended up same way

Player 1 : SWG blah blah blah, need more sand box
Player 2-3-4-5-6-7: SWG sucked and this isnt SWG2
and on it went from there till you just learned to tune it all out.
And guess what?

-There's still no 'working' end game content.
-There's still no 'good' pvp rather it's BioWare giving out rewards to people who didn't work to win in a Warzone.
-Legacy is one big grind.
-What interaction? No one interacts with one another due to how the game is set up.
-The UI still doesn't work right.
-It loses it way before 50, I'd say level 30 is when the game gets old.

And what have we gotten? Yay we got an event that if you look at the forums it's clear that people want said event removed! And chances are people wonder why the TOR forums are more about how great Diablo 3, Guild Wars 2, Tera and Secret World are.

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Kalfear
04.21.2012 , 02:39 PM | #943
Quote: Originally Posted by AshenK View Post
And guess what?

-There's still no 'working' end game content.
-There's still no 'good' pvp rather it's BioWare giving out rewards to people who didn't work to win in a Warzone.
-Legacy is one big grind.
-What interaction? No one interacts with one another due to how the game is set up.
-The UI still doesn't work right.
-It loses it way before 50, I'd say level 30 is when the game gets old.

And what have we gotten? Yay we got an event that if you look at the forums it's clear that people want said event removed! And chances are people wonder why the TOR forums are more about how great Diablo 3, Guild Wars 2, Tera and Secret World are.
LOL Ashen, im not sticking up for EAowares TOR, see my sig

Im just saying that those were the main talked about issues coming outta closed beta testing

Sandbox and other issues were just fringe issues in the background talked about by the different minorities that wanted them. They were not representative as a major issue to the masses of testers.
In regards to lessening F2P and Preferred restrictions
In GAMING, as in LIFE,
You get what you pay for
No game restriction is so dire that $15.00/month will not eliminate it

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JeramieCrowe
04.21.2012 , 02:40 PM | #944
Quote: Originally Posted by Kalfear View Post
To me death of a MMORPG is when it can not meet the expected market! The predicted sales.
Well, then, TOR's doing GREAT! Because last year's predicted subs was 500k. TOR's at 1.7 million subs, and almost 3 million sales, over three times more than predicted!

So, by your own definition, TOR is definitely not dying.
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JeramieCrowe
04.21.2012 , 02:43 PM | #945
BioWare just responded two days ago saying that they have not lost any subs. And Blizzard just admitted that they're losing subs to TOR. Oh, and did you notice that Blizzard just laid off 600 employees? According to the logic I've seen in this thread, that means WoW is dying.

But, that's okay. The game is obviously dying because of these reasons.
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Kalfear
04.21.2012 , 02:46 PM | #946
Quote: Originally Posted by Ghaiana View Post
I only remember SWG as a game where I stood standing around waiting for something pre NGE...Post -NGE it was empty, much more empty than SWTOR. EvE was much more fun compared to SWG.
yeah I tried SWG on 4 different occations and from the end of the first month the lands got less and less and less.

By the time the combat upgrade came out you could play all day and never see more then 4 people on Dant
By time Village came out entire planets were empty ghost towns

This imaginary story the fanbois of the game like to put out about how NGE killed game is so false. The game was dead long before NGE. Heck it was dead before The Village update.

But they didnt beleive the released financials and stats when the game was going showing the 70% canclation rate after first month and then rising to 80% after 3 months.
Why would they beleive it now?

I do always laugh when they complain about "goto x and kill so many of this" quests.
Its like they removed mission terminals completely from their memory banks.
I honestly couldnt begin to count how many Mokks and Janga I killed on Dant while in those massive groups for bonus xp (but you still played solo)
In regards to lessening F2P and Preferred restrictions
In GAMING, as in LIFE,
You get what you pay for
No game restriction is so dire that $15.00/month will not eliminate it

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tuckerpb
04.21.2012 , 02:54 PM | #947
decline yes
saveablity yes, but only if bw wise up and put pve and content over pvp. every game were they put pvp over pve the pvpers complained to the point that the game is hated by everyone and ether closes or goes f2p with cash shop.

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Marrond
04.21.2012 , 03:01 PM | #948
Quote: Originally Posted by JeramieCrowe View Post
But, that's okay. The game is obviously dying because of these reasons.
I have screen from december with a queue for my server arround 5 hours but what does this change? Even with event on any server hardly hit "Heavy". At the beggining of this event, day 1, there was like hundreds of people and I even had 3 minutes queue to my server. Today it's even hard to get Ops for world bossess on Tatooine. I play on most crowded server EU. Most of the time there's just dead silence. It's even hard to find someone to do flashpoint since all in the fleet just constant queue Warzones or AFK.

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JeramieCrowe
04.21.2012 , 03:04 PM | #949
Quote: Originally Posted by Marrond View Post
I have screen from december with a queue for my server arround 5 hours but what does this change? Even with event on any server hardly hit "Heavy". At the beggining of this event, day 1, there was like hundreds of people and I even had 3 minutes queue to my server. Today it's even hard to get Ops for world bossess on Tatooine. I play on most crowded server EU. Most of the time there's just dead silence. It's even hard to find someone to do flashpoint since all in the fleet just constant queue Warzones or AFK.
That, in itself, should prove that the numbers are actually there, it's just that the players do not play concurrently during normal gameplay.

So, the current server transfers that BioWare has going on will fix this. Server transfers are happening as we speak, people.
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sylrian
04.21.2012 , 03:12 PM | #950
Well I am subscribed, 1.2 is retarded. Legacy system sucks and is full of worthless crap. Seems like people i know from wow and rift are getting alot of there guildys back from swtor. So dying, i wouldn't say that although i do see this going free to play in the future. They stranded tuns of people on low pop servers, pvp is a grindfest of warzones and endgame raiding is a joke. So I found myself wondering what is this game about? horrible pvp and horrible endgame. I guess people can collect taun taun pets idk lol I'm out of here, and thx agian bioware for stranding me on a lowpop server. May the force be with you guys come on GW2