Originally posted by Suraknar

 

In terms of gameplay on the other hand, I see this feature like yet another step in to the Themepark design of segragating people further within an MMORPG. I mean...a first step was to have Solo Play within an MMORPG, WoW did this, now SW:ToR is taking it a step further, you do not even need to Socialise with other players anymore, now you will Socialise with NPC's...in an MMORPG.

How much further down the drain will the Themepark Design bring MMORPGs? It remains to be seen, it never seazes to appal me however.

 

Couldn't have said it better. There are real people running around but the enphasis will be to interact with a fake person. MMOs are getting dumber everyday.

Awesome article! I loved the poking fun at all the mindnumbingly short-sighted people out there. Including myself *blushes* Still mad at LA v.v

To all the sexually insecure little boys who feel their masculinity automagically shrivelling up in the face of love between same gender people: Poor you. I hope your e-peens as well as your actual penises will survive the horror of the (modern) world. Mordern in parenthesis, as this is a concept that has been around since we were apes. Same gender attraction exists in most of the biological world - it has been around since the dawn of time - and the unnaturalness is the blind unforgiving hatred and discrimination against same-gender love that quite a few people spew.

Seek help.

"Not all games are meant to suit you. If you don't want to deal with all of the dialogue and storytelling in a game designed for dialogue and storytelling, don't play it, you f**king moron."

This is the single biggest problem with these idiots to this day in MMO's. The majority of MMO players thinks that just because an mmo is released, that it should cater to their every whim. They act like they are forced to play every mmo. The simple option is dont play it. The people who think every game has to catter to them is like, you said  a "f**king moron." and the mmo genre is plauged with f**king morons.

Great article even though i have exercised my option to not play SWTOR, but not because of story :)

Totally gonna make a girl toon and have a lesbian relationship with my companion.

Lol peeps want same sex stuff cuz like 50% of dudes actually play chicks ! And they dun wanna hit other dudes either, but jump down in the lesbo world. It's not bout gay or not gay, i think it's even the opposite (they don't play girls just to impersonate one, but to stare at a female ass for 60000 hours instead of staring at a guy's hairy crack).

Man, this is going to be epic, just for that, that game's worth it lol.

To complain that the game is "too story driven" is like complaining that The Pool is too "Pee-y", or that the sky contains too much Smog.Player in the role of the Hero  .  Fact and Error correction   T 

The Greatest fear of the haters is, this is not the game You want to play.  I get a maniacal laugh when I read, that SWTOR is the first game to contain Story.  From people who didn't read the story in any other game they played, and insist those games had no story.  Not ever story ends with you being Revan.

Originally posted by haibane

Lol peeps want same sex stuff cuz like 50% of dudes actually play chicks ! And they dun wanna hit other dudes either, but jump down in the lesbo world. It's not bout gay or not gay, i think it's even the opposite (they don't play girls just to impersonate one, but to stare at a female ass for 60000 hours instead of staring at a guy's hairy crack).

Man, this is going to be epic, just for that, that game's worth it lol.

You do realize the vast majority of gamers who play online are not playing these games just to find a significant other right???

Originally posted by toddze

"Not all games are meant to suit you. If you don't want to deal with all of the dialogue and storytelling in a game designed for dialogue and storytelling, don't play it, you f**king moron."

 

This is the single biggest problem with these idiots to this day in MMO's. The majority of MMO players thinks that just because an mmo is released, that it should cater to their every whim. They act like they are forced to play every mmo. The simple option is dont play it. The people who think every game has to catter to them is like, you said  a "f**king moron." and the mmo genre is plauged with f**king morons.

 

Great article even though i have exercised my option to not play SWTOR, but not because of story :)

I hate to blame a majority of mmo players in this day and age for what is a symptom that does in fact plague a good many posters on this website maybe it's in a rush to get the post count up but yeah I don't see what the point of having pages upon pages of posts about a game that you find undesirable is.

And of course I love the usual comeback of "it's a forum everyone is entitled to post their opinion" yeah but you don't find it strange that you post on every single post in the TOR forums even though you have a great amount of disdain for the game??

Why not just support something you do like? Or if you are unfortnate enough to not have a game that you like available go and help the real world try to solve the problem of world hunger or help your kids with their homework, what is the fascination for constantly harrassing people simply because they prefer a different gameplay style than you do??

The other option I find a bit more disturbing than people trying to get up the post count is the recent trend to see anything that doesn't seem to benefit the individual as something they must go to war against, do people really believe that themepark games like WOW and TOR will actually eliminate the development of other types of games??

The talk around here about GW2 would certainly suggest that isn't the case at all and we can go further back to games like DF,FE, or MO failures in some ways but proof that one gaming style has certainly not caused the other styles to be put out to pasture so to speak.

There's an old saying that goes "if you can't beat em join em" in this day and age it seems we need to add "if you can't join them leave em the hell alone".

What a troll.

You dont even know what NGE was, it changed game from one type into another in something that supposedly was just expansion pack. I just left but i can understand peoples bitchng about it, how would you feel if your Hello Kitty online was changed in the middle into FPS shooter, or strategy game? Considering your tone in this piece of trolling you will be screaming so loundly that they will need to pluck they ears even in siberia.

About the second point some peoples hate that approach some like it, if you like it play it if not like it dont play it. Simple. Your bitching about they bitching is quite pointless becouse someone will start bitching about you bitching they bitching and we have first human made perpetuum mobile.

Last part i didnt even noticed and dont care either way, why you care? You really need some romance with few lines of code? And if not why do you care if some others really need to stimulate themselves that way?

Level of "articles" in mmorpg never stop to amaze me, it hitted so low that it created gravitational distortion like black hole:P

Originally posted by Arleonenis

What a troll.

You dont even know what NGE was, it changed game from one type into another in something that supposedly was just expansion pack. I just left but i can understand peoples bitchng about it, how would you feel if your Hello Kitty online was changed in the middle into FPS shooter, or strategy game? Considering your tone in this piece of trolling you will be screaming so loundly that they will need to pluck they ears even in siberia.

About the second point some peoples hate that approach some like it, if you like it play it if not like it dont play it. Simple. Your bitching about they bitching is quite pointless becouse someone will start bitching about you bitching they bitching and we have first human made perpetuum mobile.

Last part i didnt even noticed and dont care either way, why you care? You really need some romance with few lines of code? And if not why do you care if some others really need to stimulate themselves that way?

Level of "articles" in mmorpg never stop to amaze me, it hitted so low that it created gravitational distortion like black hole:P

The first human perpetual motion machine powered by pure bitching. LOL. I LOVE IT!!!

Originally posted by Mordred1

Originally posted by Suraknar

 

In terms of gameplay on the other hand, I see this feature like yet another step in to the Themepark design of segragating people further within an MMORPG. I mean...a first step was to have Solo Play within an MMORPG, WoW did this, now SW:ToR is taking it a step further, you do not even need to Socialise with other players anymore, now you will Socialise with NPC's...in an MMORPG.

How much further down the drain will the Themepark Design bring MMORPGs? It remains to be seen, it never seazes to appal me however.

 

Couldn't have said it better. There are real people running around but the enphasis will be to interact with a fake person. MMOs are getting dumber everyday.

 

 

I disagree. Only because the people who don't socialize are still not going to socialize..while the people who do..will continue to socialize as well as play through theirs and their companion's story. From what I've heard there was no lack of socializing going on in the tests.

20k hits and counting, keep up the good work Coyote.

as long as i don't have to see the gay relationships with other players and their npc's then i'm good

No same sex relationships? I don't get it, Bioware did homosexuality in the Mass Effect series so why not the same for Star Wars? To be honest it doesn't bother me if they don't, a man loving a women is wonderful in it's most natural way that even for myself as a young man likes gorgeous girls. Perhaps that's what Bioware wants to do with this game, to keep it clean for everyone.

I'm going to actually be sad when the Star Wars fanatics find you and kill you with their plastic swords because that article was freaking hilarious.

Originally posted by BarCrow

Originally posted by Mordred1

Originally posted by Suraknar

 

In terms of gameplay on the other hand, I see this feature like yet another step in to the Themepark design of segragating people further within an MMORPG. I mean...a first step was to have Solo Play within an MMORPG, WoW did this, now SW:ToR is taking it a step further, you do not even need to Socialise with other players anymore, now you will Socialise with NPC's...in an MMORPG.

How much further down the drain will the Themepark Design bring MMORPGs? It remains to be seen, it never seazes to appal me however.

 

Couldn't have said it better. There are real people running around but the enphasis will be to interact with a fake person. MMOs are getting dumber everyday.

 

 

I disagree. Only because the people who don't socialize are still not going to socialize..while the people who do..will continue to socialize as well as play through theirs and their companion's story. From what I've heard there was no lack of socializing going on in the tests.

 

That's because what you mean by socializing is joining a guild and raiding. There are tons of ways to make a game player driven without alienating the solo gamer but it's easier to make a single-player like game with multiplayer options and charge a subscription fee. I think even Diablo 3 will have more player interaction than this mmorpg. 

LOL. Nobody seems to recognize that sexuality + paid merc = prostitution. No matter if homo or hetero. If Bioware was smart, they would cancel it an replace it with a droid. Repair costs are probably no prostitution. Or are droids amoral.. :D

It's not prostitution.  Even two adults involved in pixelated shenanigans where one is being paid by the other for said shenanigans is legal, so far as I know.  In fact, pixel prostitution could be the new and impoverished America's work from home, make millions future! 

Anyway, Bioware certainly can't be arrested for pimping out its NPCs.  Although it would be hysterically funny if a crusading moral prosecutor tried to drag them into court for it.

Great Just great.