Originally posted by Quicksand

This thread summed up...

 

You are eating dinner, lets say steak, then the cook walks over and says hey, we will now offer pizza as well if you decide you want that, or you can ignore it and just continue eating what you are eating now.

 

And then you reply by saying HOW DARE YOU OFFER PZZA!!!!!! I HATE PIZZA!!!!!

 

Yeah, evil SWTOR offering something that someone may like.... How dare they!

Or alternatively, make you do a load of washing up before you are allowed to eat the steak, and then saying "But hey, we added washing up, that's a good thing right, right"

Will someone send the Bioware devs an email containing the following link:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergent_gameplay

I swear, some of these developers are so far removed from the games they make, and gaming trends in general, that they have no clue the world is moving on.

(PS:  Is this the only forum left on the internet which does not auto-link posted URLs?  Time to ditch CFML and move on...)

Originally posted by Aeonblades

Originally posted by Maverick827
Yes, a video game adding a feature is essentially the same thing as a train wreck. Spot on.

A job isn't a feature, it's work. Adding a senseless time sink with minimal rewards to a game that I wanted to succeed so badly is just dumb. Flat dumb. Especially when said game needs a lifeline.

The system gives the player a reason to re-visit certain areas/planets and how do you know the rewards will be minimal  , have you insight into what the vendors will sell at any given rank ? Do you not want to re-visit Ilum ?Who says it needs a lifeline , the term tortanic is very old and a load of rubbish ( not that you called it that ) .

For me I think it sounds pretty cool , another thing to do in the game or a few other things to do. i for one don't like the space missions too much but cool for the people who do and I'm still not sure if i want to be flagged on Ilum , but I will try the voss heroics and the section X parts of this new system , I hope the rewards are cool and that they add more really early planets to the system.

Remember originally most of us thought it was going to be a PVP only system , I'm glad it isn't.

Cheers,

BadOrb.

For those who hate rep grinds, there is hope for you.  You can just buy rep boosters from the cash shop.  Now everyone can win, yay!

Hint - look at the top right Bonus rating on the OP's screenshot.

Originally posted by Karteli

For those who hate rep grinds, there is hope for you.  You can just buy rep boosters from the cash shop.  Now everyone can win, yay!

 

Hint - look at the top right Bonus rating on the OP's screenshot.

 

Taken from the official website:

Subscriber Bonus

You can earn additional Reputation Points each time you consume a Reputation Trophy if you have a Reputation Bonus in effect. All Subscribers get a natural +50% bonus to all Reputation Points earned. This value is displayed in the Galactic Reputation tab of the Legacy window.

Not that I'd be surprised if the cash shop offers an alternative. They did it with experience boosts,  (subscribers get a 25% bonus to xp, yet both subscribers and non-subscribers can buy 25% boosts in the cash shop), so why not? (Not looking forward to this system either way, heh.)

these are the kinds of things you add when ppl already love your game and want to keep playing despite having done everything already

is EA really this delusional about the games success still?

You need to realize that this is an entirely voluntary system.

It provides NO bonus really.

We already have Valor rank for people who like to pvp, maybe this will cater more to pve'ers . 

Anyways, as every other title grind, it's not mandatory, if you like playing in that fashion, you'll get good reputation regardless of whether you're trying or not.

I don't see the problem, it's a title system, if you are a pvp player, you'rel ikely to skip it alltogether, and provided a alternative to light/darkside vendors( Their items suck anyways).

Originally posted by Quicksand

This thread summed up...

 

You are eating dinner, lets say steak, then the cook walks over and says hey, we will now offer pizza as well if you decide you want that, or you can ignore it and just continue eating what you are eating now.

 

And then you reply by saying HOW DARE YOU OFFER PZZA!!!!!! I HATE PIZZA!!!!!

 

Yeah, evil SWTOR offering something that someone may like.... How dare they!

Because you don't want the pizza smell stenching the room.

I eagerly read all SWTOR announcements, hoping against hope that they will do something to make me want to return.  And now this - yet ANOTHER grind mechanism, a thinly veiled attempt to keep people playing not because they are having fun but because they have invested too much already to leave.

I left another beloved IP, LOTRO, when they nosedived into the cash shop exploitation model.  SWTOR's pain is of another variety, but no less dispiriting.

Originally posted by Aeonblades
Seriously, after all the things they could do to save the game they make a faction/rep grind? Really? It's like watching a train wreck you really can't look away it's so bad.

As I remember when last time checked swtor is still 2nd game for sub numbers. Yes, very far behind wow, but still.

Originally posted by jawapet
I love how people hate on this game and say they don't care, yet whenever there is news about they immediately jump on and comment... and then read through additional comments to comment on those.  They claim they hate it and don't care, but they seem to spend a lot of effort making other people care about them not caring... If they honestly didn't care they wouldn't post anything would, let alone continue to comment on it multiple times.

Look at this new "feature", never requested by anyone, never suggested by the community, just another number grind in good old static SWTOR-world

Just in case some Disney suit is reading here, there should be no opportunity wasted to tell him to get a developer like SOE, Funcom or Trion to make a Star Wars MMO and cancel the contract with EA.