Even though it's not the right time era, I want to seea huttball battle with Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader and C3PO on one team versus Emperor Palpatine, R2D2 and Chewbacca. All my SWTOR suspicions would be true and I could finally go to bed happy.

The joke of PvP in MMO's continues....sigh.

Originally posted by gaou

i know plenty of people aren't going to agree with it but here is the reasoning behind it

DanielErickson General Discussion -> New Announcement at Games COM! HUTT BALL! MUST SEE!

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Originally Posted by Threadnought Why the **** are Imperials and republicans playing a game of football against each other? That's the question I have for DE and his writing staff.

Hey Folks,



Totally fair question. I wrote Huttball personally and gave it my big stamp of approval. Huttball came from a request by the pvp team to have a mode that could mix sides in the event of unbalanced factions. So it's not Empire vs Republic playing insane death sports, it's anyone who wants to win some prizes and flex their muscles going to Nar Shaddaa, gambling center of the galaxy, and blowing off some steam. Story is important but so are alternate, setting-appropriate activities that give some depth and variety to the world and the gameplay experience. There is a crazy Hutt that likes running huge arena events for his amusement. Your choice if that's the way your Bounty Hunter enjoys spending his downtime.



Hope that helps,

Daniel Erickson

 

........what a joke, is this guy high? 

Huttballs rules and all mmos should have this implemented.

hutt ball looks like fun . Its a great way to put a new spin on pvp. plus having empire and republic on same team should be interesting. The fact if u hold onto ball to long it blows up sounds fun as well. 

Seems to me roleplayers dont have to do huttball. As the devs stated its optional if your character isnt the type to take part in games for money or fun then its not for ul. 

This is run by the hutts by the way a neutral fadtion for money. Seems like something a bounty hunter or smuggler woudl do for the pay day at the end of it to me.

Watching videos on this, I can say for a fact that I will be playing. Huttball looks awesome.

To all the nerds that say omg this breaks immersion: really? I mean REALLY? And obi wan betting on a pod race, debate over. ORIGINAL CANNON.

Why is immersion more important than fun? This looks like an awesome CTF mode.

Also to all the people going "yawn, a ctf mode, get original!!" What if they DIDNT have this, and they only had a arathi basin mode. You guys act like the game has to have everything, yet also be original with everything down to core concepts.

every single person cheers when the smuggler at level 14 mind you, stun grenades a guy then nut kicks another to score. IT IS FUN.

and thats why I play games, to have fun.

I never followed star wars so i dont give a shit if a fucking red lightsaber guy is on the same team as a alien with tenticles for hair... i admit it isnt anything new but it isnt anything worse? basically they playing it safe...

Originally posted by Chilliesauce

Originally posted by Yuui

Well, you are wrong then.

As someone with a degree in art and design, I can safely say that this looks NOTHING like style used in KOTOR, Thats like saying that Transformers Animated has a same art design as M.Bay's movies. And this subject has been covered multiple times already.

Ok you proved me wrong since you got a degree in art and design. Who can prove you wrong now with that degree of yours?

     I once was looking at a painting and had decided to buy it when the artist asked me why I liked it.  I gave my reasoning and he then went on to tell me how I was wrong and that his Masters Level Art Degree qualified him to say so because . . . Well, I then turned around and told him I hope he can eat a Masters Level Art Degree because my money would be staying in my pocket instead of buying painting, then walked away glad I had saved the money.  I guess I really should thank him, he saved me $500.00 that day.

Don't know about you guys but if i capture a flag and hold onto it, it doens't blow up later.

So thats a mighty dangerous flag. Course on that same note, soccer, rugby, and football could be a form of capture the flag, but oddly they aren't seen that way, so i'll just disagree on the capture the flag type thing. 

Capturing a Flag looks less silly than moving a Metal Ball?

 I dont think so.

Im fine with the idea, they maybe Sith or Jedi but they are living creatures. If you want to do it either for fun, money or fame do it if not dont do it.

-to state your opinion is of course both granted and expected,this is a forum. Won't even touch that.

-but to all the MORONS saying it kills immersion..the Hutts 'could' and probably 'would have' done something quite similar, with the assumption the audience would be large enough to score them some serious credits. To all the MORONS that think it would be impossible to see opposing sides team up for money, i ask them to do what they only pretend to do. Check that lore a bit more. There were Hutt organisations with roots in both sides way,way after swtor timeline.

Originally posted by Amannas

-to state your opinion is of course both granted and expected,this is a forum. Won't even touch that.

-but to all the MORONS saying it kills immersion..the Hutts 'could' and probably 'would have' done something quite similar, with the assumption the audience would be large enough to score them some serious credits. To all the MORONS that think it would be impossible to see opposing sides team up for money, i ask them to do what they only pretend to do. Check that lore a bit more. There were Hutt organisations with roots in both sides way,way after swtor timeline.

   Excellent post!

  Like I said before...I don't even LIKE small scale combat - but this just looks fun!  And you know what?  If my Consular happens to get 'intel' that a certain (insert opposing enemy here) is going to be on NS, and might be at the game, of COURSE he's going to be there - that's ALL the IC reasoning I need to partake in this!

Sorry peeps but fun trumps all in the realm of lore. It's supposed to be a game first, everything comes in second place to that, even Star Wars....

is this Blitzball star wars style from the final fantasy series???

Like others said, this is an immersion breaker.  I like almost everything I have seen about the game, though, so it's not a deal breaker.  But... Huttball?  WTF?  SMH @ Bioware.

Originally posted by Eliandal

Originally posted by Amannas

-to state your opinion is of course both granted and expected,this is a forum. Won't even touch that.

-but to all the MORONS saying it kills immersion..the Hutts 'could' and probably 'would have' done something quite similar, with the assumption the audience would be large enough to score them some serious credits. To all the MORONS that think it would be impossible to see opposing sides team up for money, i ask them to do what they only pretend to do. Check that lore a bit more. There were Hutt organisations with roots in both sides way,way after swtor timeline.

   Excellent post!

 

  Like I said before...I don't even LIKE small scale combat - but this just looks fun!  And you know what?  If my Consular happens to get 'intel' that a certain (insert opposing enemy here) is going to be on NS, and might be at the game, of COURSE he's going to be there - that's ALL the IC reasoning I need to partake in this!

I think the PvP "game" is a better way to go for modern mmo where the primary focus is PvE initally. Bioware can always meet player needs and wants later on as the game progresses away from inital launch. On this site you alway get strange comments from the hardcore PvP crowd that want death penalties and PvP full-player looting on the grounds that...hey, I do that in real life and it breaks my immersion not to do so in an mmo, but to the normal folks it is more a case that we want something to ease us into PvP rather than it being a necessary requirement for playing a game.

post from georg on huttball :

GeorgZoeller

08.17.2011 , 08:38 PM
Is it so hard to believe that the best warriors of various, often hostile, factions would come together at a neutral place to test each other's prowess and ability in various ways? Especially if there's the chance that some accidents may happen to the other team on the way? It's not like that's unheard of, even during a cold war between mortal enemies

http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?p=8329476#post8329476

This huttball shit is the worst thing I have ever seen. I just don't get it.. It's really dumb and they're all excited about it. I just want open world pvp with a reason, you can keep your fucking huttball. Perhaps I'll just stick with wow. It may not have everything I want, but at least theres no huttball with the horde.