This game could learn from SWG

Yeah, it might.

But another dozen FPs and OPs aren't going to suddenly make SWTOR a massively successful game, a JTL expansion just might.

SWTOR needs to expand it's depth and breadth not just add more of the same stuff people are already bored with.

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Driz

Just for the record, you seem to be bullying at this point, or simply missing the other posters point.

The previous poster is rightly saying that the development of new, large scale systems for TOR will divert resources away from other potential new features. So, for example, the development of a JTL-style expansion would very likely divert resources away from the development of new planets, or new end game raids, therefore if I don't like JTL but do like raiding then such a decision by the BW/EA would negatively affect my gaming experience.

Just for the record, you seem to be bullying at this point, or simply missing the other posters point.

The previous poster is rightly saying that the development of new, large scale systems for TOR will divert resources away from other potential new features. So, for example, the development of a JTL-style expansion would very likely divert resources away from the development of new planets, or new end game raids, therefore if I don't like JTL but do like raiding then such a decision by the BW/EA would negatively affect my gaming experience.


Personally, I don't like space combat so the development of a JTL-style expansion would likely divert resources away from activities I do want to see developed (open world pvp, new raids, bigger planets).


I am also aware, ofc, that companies like BW have multiple development teams that *can* work independantly of one another. However, the larger the project, the more teams are likely to be involved. So, developing something like player housing is unlikely to affect the development of new endgame raids because they are radically different types of content and thus likely to be different teams. However, developing JTL-style space combat is huge, requiring people from the world builder team, animators, mechanics, art teams etc which would definitely divert resources away from things like new raids, warzones, pvp revamps etc.

SWG's crafting and loot system. It was HORRIBLE. All the best stuff was made by players so your gameplay wasn't that of an adventurer or hero, but instead a consumer. You farmed credits in order to buy things to help you farm credits so that when the stuff you bought broke, you would have enough credits to buy the things you need to... farm more credits, and while you were farming those credits to buy things to farm more credits, the things you were using broke, so you needed to keep farming credits in order to sustain your credit farming...

Notice a theme there?

On the other side of the equation, I really loved the space game in SWG. That was so very well done. It was fun.

Yeah, it might.

But another dozen FPs and OPs aren't going to suddenly make SWTOR a massively successful game, a JTL expansion just might.

SWTOR needs to expand it's depth and breadth not just add more of the same stuff people are already bored with.




And more players = more money which, may at least, lead to more FPs and OPs anyway.

Personaly, I would like new Ops, I really enjoy SWTOR Ops, they are fun and interesting which I felt "that other MMO" had lost, and for me it is about the endgame as it is for alot of player.


If I want a space game, I would by a space game (if there were any i liked atm ). Now I would not be adverse to them making a separate game connected with SWTOR on and engine deigned for that not this done as a separate project and so taking nothing from TOR (you could even have more connections like importing toons which would not be hard).

But the key is, if its done, it should be separate and so not impact on SWTOR IMHO, no matter what other player say, I enjoy SWTOR, it has issues yes, but I think it is currently the best MMO out and is doing the core of the game correctly.

Personaly, I would like new Ops, I really enjoy SWTOR Ops, they are fun and interesting which I felt "that other MMO" had lost, and for me it is about the endgame as it is for alot of player.


If I want a space game, I would by a space game (if there were any i liked atm ). Now I would not be adverse to them making a separate game connected with SWTOR on and engine deigned for that not this done as a separate project and so taking nothing from TOR (you could even have more connections like importing toons which would not be hard).

But the key is, if its done, it should be separate and so not impact on SWTOR IMHO, no matter what other player say, I enjoy SWTOR, it has issues yes, but I think it is currently the best MMO out and is doing the core of the game correctly.