This sounds like a step in the right direction.

There is a Star Wars novel called Death Troopers, which is entertaining.

If they introduced a 'murder mystery' plot into Star Wars, a bit like an adventure game, that could be good.

SWTOR is not broken, just because you don't like it. 

SWTOR was good but now is fantastic. Still the best classic mmorpg out there

Originally posted by BarCrow

Originally posted by Zarriya
 

The best one was the unintended plague in WOW ..before the intended WOTLK precursor zombie plague. Some raid had a boss that cause a health sapping plague . (This is all as I remember so I could be wrong..you can try googling the event). Anyway the plague was not meant to travel outside the raid but it did just that via infected hunter pets. It spread through major cities and was so remarkable that apparently the CDC or some government agency studied its spread in hopes to glean some insight into real epidemics.

http://www.wowwiki.com/Corrupted_Blood

 

*found the link above but there were other articles*

Dunno about the CDC, but it seems several articles were published in journals about Epidemiology and such about the event:

http://uk.reuters.com/article/2009/04/27/us-flu-virtual-idUKTRE53Q4HI20090427

@ignore_me: the same thing happened with the zombie outbreak in WoW: a bunch of people were complaining loudly about it since it "interupted" their gameplay in some horrible way (probably dead auctioneers and flight masters etcetra).

As for the SWTOR plague: if its fun I cant see much reason to complain about it not being the first virtual outbreak.

Originally posted by Zarriya

IMO this should not have been posted as an article, this is not innovative, it has been done in WOW before. See here: http://www.joystiq.com/2008/10/22/wrath-of-the-lich-king-zombie-plague-covering-azeroth/

MMORPG.com seems to give this game more attention than it deserves.

I did not know being "innovative" was a requirement to qualify as an article on MMORPG.com

Originally posted by Nevulus

Originally posted by Zarriya

IMO this should not have been posted as an article, this is not innovative, it has been done in WOW before. See here: http://www.joystiq.com/2008/10/22/wrath-of-the-lich-king-zombie-plague-covering-azeroth/

MMORPG.com seems to give this game more attention than it deserves.

I did not know being "innovative" was a requirement to qualify as an article on MMORPG.com

This comment made me laugh.

Originally posted by Nevulus

Originally posted by Zarriya

IMO this should not have been posted as an article, this is not innovative, it has been done in WOW before. See here: http://www.joystiq.com/2008/10/22/wrath-of-the-lich-king-zombie-plague-covering-azeroth/

MMORPG.com seems to give this game more attention than it deserves.

I did not know being "innovative" was a requirement to qualify as an article on MMORPG.com

LOL, good point, I guess there would be a lot fewer articles if that were the case!

Originally posted by mjas512

thay want to fix the game first before thay do stuff like this and the game is still broken 

 

How is the game broken exactly?  I have played every major mmo out there and next to LOTRO SWTOR has had the best launch.  Bugs are minor at best and game is very complete. 

Oh nevermind you are just a troll who probably hates games you never played. 

Originally posted by DJJazzy

I like these types of events they put in games. I hope they keep it up.

 

I agree,  I have had a lot of fun with this event so far.   People who whine about it are the perfect example of gamers who complain about everything.

While I would not classify it as broken, many of the SWTOR bosses bug out causing wipes or resets. (in fact, certain boss encounters bug about half the time in hard or nightmare modes)  Since some of this has been in since beta, it would be nice for BioWare to possibly fix them. 

I've pretty much given up and had canceled 6 weeks back for my 3 month sub. So I'm coasting on the free 30 days they gave to try to stave off an exodus. 

Great event BW! I see good things in the future of this game wich I enjoy at least as much as the fantastic LOTRO.

Even if the contagious-theme have been used by others in the past, it is still a very nice idea, and nothing beats blowing up Rep scum in Huttball :)

Originally posted by Xerith

Originally posted by ignore_me

It amazes me, but there are threads on official forums complaining about the virus and asking to have the event taken down. Really people?

People will complain about anything. Give a person a sack of gold and he will complain how heavy it is. 

You should have seen the WoW forums during the pre lich king event.  The sad part is...it worked.  They took the event down a week or so ahead of planned.  Auction House nps were constantly infected and killed, along with nearly every quest giver in the game at all times during the time of the event, rendering the questing portion of the game completely unplayable.

A lot of people didn't like it.  I didn't mind too much myself as i though it was interesting, but i can understand the frustration as i saw it everywhere.

So far I'm more then happy developing my ful set of alts, enjoying incredible questing, environments, .... :-) Few months ago I could not immagine any game could surpass for me wow.

Originally posted by Zarriya

IMO this should not have been posted as an article, this is not innovative, it has been done in WOW before. See here: http://www.joystiq.com/2008/10/22/wrath-of-the-lich-king-zombie-plague-covering-azeroth/

MMORPG.com seems to give this game more attention than it deserves.

 

 

Night of the Living Dead , screenwrite should get all the credit.....Dawn of the Dead 1978 is my favorite but the later ones have their merits as well.....

Originally posted by Skymourne

Originally posted by Xerith

Originally posted by ignore_me

It amazes me, but there are threads on official forums complaining about the virus and asking to have the event taken down. Really people?

People will complain about anything. Give a person a sack of gold and he will complain how heavy it is. 

You should have seen the WoW forums during the pre lich king event.  The sad part is...it worked.  They took the event down a week or so ahead of planned.  Auction House nps were constantly infected and killed, along with nearly every quest giver in the game at all times during the time of the event, rendering the questing portion of the game completely unplayable.

A lot of people didn't like it.  I didn't mind too much myself as i though it was interesting, but i can understand the frustration as i saw it everywhere.

I made so much money during that event its borderline ridiculous

Originally posted by Zarriya

IMO this should not have been posted as an article, this is not innovative, it has been done in WOW before. See here: http://www.joystiq.com/2008/10/22/wrath-of-the-lich-king-zombie-plague-covering-azeroth/

MMORPG.com seems to give this game more attention than it deserves.

 

 

You to, I guess...