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  1. Eh there dumb and incompetent game designer , but there not idiots , they start losing subs then there goes the whole plan of story based content per month The Logic of there patch is the majority of the people playing are causal according to there metric only a tiny precentage do hardmode content or even ops , . They'll reverse it as quietly as possible to try to avoid it leaking onto game media . hence the complete silence .
  2. hm they don't seem to learn that almost never works, no one will do there grind they'll find other thing to do and will drop it till the next story patch so essentially er they've failed ? if your going to have a long grind it has have some tangible reward a legendary reward , Not some gimped companion , 250 K Influences is a lot to grind . Take SWG the only reason for that blasted village grind was to unlock the Overpowered Jedi . That the ONLY reason why anyone bother to do it and invest all that time . No one going to grind alliances for some gimped companion and 208 gear and Tedious star fortresses over and over again for weeks . These will be as dead as hard mode flash points , Not to mention there separate from the group finder... so I can't see that lasting long.. . . You wouldn't get gear from them , when you can just do a Story mode ops get 2x the gear and rewards in a shorter period of time than it takes to solo one of the H2 Star fortresses. Without the Companion carrot defeat the point of doing heroics . Frankly level sync is a very good idea there a reason why most MMO are doing it it solve a problem of being trapped on one planet and having to grind Ilum over and over again . . With the level sync it open up people to go to other planet do other things making the grind less annoying , Remove some of the tediousness of MMO grinds by opening up a variety of locations and area to go back to , , One day I feel like Voss maybe the other day makeb , Or Tython .. More variety of thing to do and choices to level more people happy more people for group content for lower levels . Your still really powerful, thing die pretty quickly , wasn't a big deal . Your not Valkorian but your not far from his right hand hand demolishing both golds and champion alike at lower levels . Ashara soloed a champion on her own on Narshadaar given I am level 65 it should be that good , Given high level of presence and influences she had .
  3. Yeah honestly it not are job to "Test there crappy patches " They could of Easily postpone there patch or put it on a test server . It literally Improved NOTHING and it broke the damn patcher people still can't log on .It was completely unnecessary and done without warning and Rushed . I am not being paid by bioware to test there crappy content .when they refuse to even open there test servers.
  4. What the heck , why would anyone do this junk ? the star fortresses H2 drops 208 gear for a half an hour of work or longer and your reward for a 250 k alliance Grind is some gimped companion and no story . You might as well do story ops the rewards are better and it takes far less time to do than sit there mindlessly "LFG For Tatoonie star fortress"
  5. Well I unsubbed and I've pretty much been subbed since launch . Simple of matter of logic for me 250 k grind = Gimp companion reward that can barely do existing content without the main player over gearing for it . Was expecting a very Heroic (Character companion ) Not it can barely survive in Tactical and Star Fortresses . Er this is the only content in the game Doing heroic to level for your character companions at the moment ....so you Nerf the reward Then expect me to pay till you get more story ? forget that I'll be back when there more story not about to grind Star Fortress for trivial rewards . Battlefront just came out there plenty to play . So count me as one of the lost subs. And Add insult to injury not only do you screw up the companion you screw up the patch for the screwed up companions ! . god Bio-ware is incompetent .
  6. hm think it it illogical to keep faction as meaningfull post expansion but gotta realize the fleet is in the (Past) so yeah people 1-50 or who only want to do1-60 who don't own the expansion probably need a place to be so can't just remove it anymore than I can stop my ability to take quest on korriban at level 60.
  7. Think i'll ignore that guy to . I hate people who derail conversation with go play another game because they worships the butt crevases of EA . As a Star wars Fan Bioware-EA conglomerate have sole ownership of The star wars License . Meaning there are No Alternative Star wars RPG or Games made by alternative company . Meaning there are no Other choices compared ot the days when they licensed games to multiple company prior to Disney or when Bioware was independent . giving EA a total monopoly on the license . Unless your playing some off the books unlicensed mods your stuck with Bio ware .
  8. They won't touch thing we've paid for that rule one of business or people will start demanding refunds for cartel , It would be like taking away the togruta unlock >_> Treek and HK will be like everything else You can have treek at level 1 same with HK once it unlocked independent of story.
  9. this game can barely deal with clipping on slightly different aliens it can't handle hoods there no modifers to change part of the body., human there not a chance in hell there going to redo all the animation just so you can make a shrek female lol. Unless you want slightly modified males model+breast to look like female better put that to rest.
  10. Eh most of the MMO feature are not that spectacular on the SWOTOR engine... the fact is they screwed up and they owned that and admitted it...so yeah that a poor defense for the engine . It was selected originally for it ability to collectively collaborate in real time .if I remember the DEV debriefing .Team in different area can work together in real time on the same area ) This ended up becoming a curse and hindrance rather than a blessing were someone would edit an area without letting another team know ,causing major communication problems with the 300 + people they had employed . Performance wise its pretty terrible for what it looks like . Aging games like AION run without lag and similar graphical feature to TOR and with minimal system resources and look just as good not to mention you can fly lol..something they've told us that isn't possible in the current version of the SWTOR engine ( having ships land on planets and be controllable etc ,or flying mounts) . Aion PVP centric game with a massive grind , I wouldn't want to play though and it not star wars.... , but feature wise the engine which is far older about 4 years older than tor it can do far more than TOR and they did upgrade there graphical engine in that time . When I run TOR runs like crap even on my Geforce 970 with 16 GB of Ram and 8 Core it definitely more resource intensive and it runs terrible on low end systems They can upgrade there engine it a matter if they want to invest in the money to do it and hire enough skilled people to do it or if there some incentive outside of selling us more cartel junk. If Tor had 40 woman/man raids or mass pvp with very little lag , could handle tons of particles without alot lagged and looked graphically like WoW, Quest builder or planet builders instances etc . I could understand the visual trade off for greater mmo functionality,...but as it stand it can barely handle 16 people in the same area without dragging the entire system to a crawl . It has none of those Super MMO feature that are touted by even crappy game like neverwinter.
  11. It not the model so much that makes it bad , her model no different than the other faces in the game ... it the incredibly low-grade dilapidated texture , lack of hair transparency and lack of eyelashes , Washed out colors the texture work is poor all around and low-res .
  12. Er because there right it is tiny from a features point of view .not some major overhaul of the game . I know the bioware defense forces comes out any time someone complains but come on , I am a 3D designer and pretty sure it pretty difficult for someone to go just make a new character head if they've never sculpted a character , Never used Maya or z brush in there life ,or worked on a production team , understand what an edge loop was . But for someone who knows it ? Making a head for an identical rig with zero changes to animation no new armor , No new body .yeah I wouldn't lie and say "YEAH That really difficult loll just because someone who is completely unskilled at the trade can't do it , even with that usually work on a TEAM to reduce the labor for something that minor even further . From a consumer point of view it would make me doubt the company capability if there talking about a grand expansion and they have trouble with minor features from a consumer point of view . While the fallen Empire is Massive . (there literally no new content beyond a new house and changes to ability cast in this current patch ) It would send the message to me that there systems have some extreme limitations there working and not to trust any of there advertisement .
  13. It a business isn't a very good logical defense ,it a crappy business logic tired of gamer using that as-sine logic to defend whatever retarded things a company does. , If I want to maximize my money I give players what they want and a majority want to ensure I get a high return , I do a poll (Not just the forum, I poll multiple places to get the best possible statistical result , in game or at the launcher) . So if some species in high demand then most likely will get higher returns from adding that species and long term profit . I don't pick a species that far t less popular even hated ,because it "Easier " then go .. well if it sales well will consider the more popular one with Some ****** pr spin !. That horrible business logic you essentially set yourself up for failure ,then use outright bribery to make up for either them being lazy or a lack of desire to invest in the game. Not to mention it hurt your long term Trust with a consumer base that want to support your product and you wonder why people hate EA , they earn the hate they get. Not like this game is carried on the merits of the game developer , it would of died a long time ago if it hadn't had the star wars IP backing it .
  14. Sound about right ,but to be fair if where talking about real empires , The Republic, would mirror the American empire (Ever Empire till-date has said they are morally superior to the savages and then committed genocide and the same crimes of the Empire who where more openly totalitarian or didn't hold themselves in such a high moral spotlight .)They held ideas high ideas of morality while committing all sort of crimes , lol kinda symbolic when Palpatine took over the Republic via a democratic and peaceful debate LOL and turned it into the galactic empire. His argument were from morality and peace to stop the separatist evil once and for all !!!! ) . Which remind me of the Jedi/republic relationship .But think they kiddify the story really or they could of easily explored that . Think in this day an age people are suspect of anything that sound way too noble to be believable , sinc ,since it does not take the flawed nature of human institutions into account and doesn't try to make believable human characters out it . People are more accepting of good people in bad situationist , than absurd moral purity ( I am saying things I really don't believe in ,but It sounds good and because it sounds good it makes me feel morally superior to the inferior people ) . it like the Christian church chanting about ending all sins while killing all the native people and anyone who disagree with there ideas , Reminds me of the Jedi to be honest . Only real difference is they despise anyone who doesn't believe what they believe and can't politically act on there hatred =/ like there deep hatred of the Voss . Even the more modern star trek films had to re-characterizer the Federation as a flawed believable utopia completely different from Roddenberry perfect Utopia (The New Star Trek Movies /Deep Space 9)
  15. No you demand bio ware put actual choice in there narrative and stop being lazy , consular story has to be one of the laziest one-dimensional branching writing I have ever seen . YOU do not force a player down a path then offer moral choices that are suppose have some effect on defining there character . Plenty of fallen dark Jedi in star wars lore hell there one in the imperial agent instead of getting a proper story with branching choices . Get some crap railroaded down one road . One of the reason so many people despise the consular story . (Sith Warrior Honorable warrior looking to redeem the emperor or a malevolent monster , and hell the Imperial agent story the choices damn near alter ever act and the ending , and a far as possible from black and white cartoony dark side/light side choices ? ) Hell there not even a companion on your squad that will vehemently disagree with you , Boring , At least the Jedi Knight has Lord Scourge who provide a completely different point of view , Consular ? Oh we are too lazy to write branching story paths with conflict or put any effort into it .lol.. think there a reason that Republic player complain Bio-ware is imperial biased LOL and a lot of people truly hate the consular story .I doubt it will change since the Empire sales better and will most likely get more resources. . There was definitely more effort put into the Imperial story than the republic ones . Probably because it was more difficult. Most of star wars the Sith tend to be faceless evil caricature with very little realistic depth .To be fair the background jedi are just as one-dimensional , it really only the heroes that had any depth , Luke Obi-wan etc Leia , Her Children etc ) But the Sith in a classic pre-EU interpretation as pure evil is evil can get, going to conflict with a good/bad moral systems bio-ware typical employ, forcing them to philosophically flesh out the Empire story better , In-retrospective the Republic story are easier to write . they just had to copy paste ever generic element of star wars. Good guys this , Chant the good guys some more and your done. Not much a writing challenge to be honest . Jedi Knight is word for word a copy of ever plot cliche of the original trilogy while the consular story seem to have zero direction/story flow.. beyond to seem "Good". Writing a Light Side Sith /neutral sith iwas probably more of a challenge , Making the Imperial agent story took far more of a challenge and it shows in the quality and how human the character feels that they've been crapped on by the galaxy. With the Jedi particular the consular Bio-ware seems like they didn't even care , They made a generic character zero branching narratives and zero depth , zero dramatic tensions , and no fallibility and zero consequences for any of there actions. . People are critical of it because in this day in age people expect more moral ambiguity from there stories , there little tolerance for old school generic Fantasy black/white morality .Also the Game TOR is based on (KOTOR ) was based on exploring the complexity of moral ambiguity and was famous for it . Jedi consular story spits on it really complete trash in comparison to the original kotor , .Hell in kotor 2 the Jedi where incredibly corrupt fearful and bigoted.
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