Originally posted by Olgark

TSW is by far their best MMO to date. Do not listen to other people as you will only get their own view on the game, you have to experience it yourself to fully get to know the game.

 

In other words do not be a sheep that follows the flock.

 

I like TSW as a MMO and find a lot of enjoyment from it, been playing since release and still not through all the content yet. Those that say they have done it all are lying as there are many lore items and rare monsters that can be found. Some are yet to be seen in the game as well.

My favourite is AO I think. Loads wrong with it, but that which is good is very good. A flawed masterpiece.

Spent £40 on the game, played about 10 hours and wasn't really impressed.  A few nice ideas, such as the investigation quests, however the gameplay was nothing new, pvp uninspired and generally didn't keep my interest.  The 70%-ish scores are probably a good reflection of the game.

There is probably a decent single player game lurking around in there, but certainly nothing that would make me want to pay a monthly subscription on top of the initial outlay.

I thought it was a decent idea though, and would be happy to see it suceed.

Originally posted by Ulcerate
Great story, great enviroments. Horribly boring and repetative combat. Terrible grouping system. Terrible instances. Worth the admission? Sure. Worth the monthly fee, no way. I quickly canceled my sub after I hit the savage coast and realized that this was more of a single-player experience than a multiplayer. I'll come back to the TSW when they decided to wipe the monthly fee. Till then i'll play a superior MMO(GW2) on it's release without having to worry about getting my moneys worth. 

Well, enjoy your "superior" game (GW2), a game that I tried in beta, and that I think it's a huge disappointment, with its generic and poorly written story, worse voice acting, super shallow pve consisting of recycled mechanics from rift and warhammer and incredibly boring generic hearts quests, horribly dull combat mechanics that limit players to a single dps role all the time, and still rely on the use of "auto pilot" combat, an awful "downed" state, etc etc

Originally posted by Gorilla

Originally posted by Vesavius

 

The bottom line is that, if we accept that this model is actually 'free', going 'F2P' does not make these failed games any more fun.

 

If I wanted to play TSW I would be playing it. I would have paid for the client. If the folks that did buy it found it more then a month's worth of fun, they would be paying the £10 for another to keep on playing the game. The reason I didn't, and so many of them didn't, is because the game isn't fun enough for the majority. It is a ragged around the edges snooze fest with moments of 'that's cool'.

 

It's the game that's the issue, not the rev model.

 

The devs need to stop blaming the payment model (or metacritic!! or whatever else...) for their fails and face up that they simply need to make better games.

 

Ones we find fun enough to not mind spending money on. 

 

Im inclined to agree though going micro transaction has boosted active players in other games. I plan on playing some time in the future, I hope they go hybrid (freemium) as with a game that us fairly light on content I would prefer to sub for a month or two.

You know... I wonder about this in the long term... the active player boost I mean and how it works for a lot of the games out there. The launches of these conversions always get a huge boost, there isn't an argument there at all, but how many are retained in the long term I wonder? We don't really see any facts given out.

In my experience, when this industry isn't giving figures then that means they usually aren't doing that proud of them. I am not saying that this is the case here, but has any Western converted MMORPG boasted about 'continued and sustained growth' 3-6 months down the line? Or does the F2P model see as much attrition as the sub model, but the cash shop set up just allows for more money to be made off a smaller number of players?

I would like to see some real figures for some of these games really, especially some of the ones that first made the change. How are they REALLY doing now in terms of numbers, assumption and guess work aside? It seems that people's impression comes from the 'F2P' relaunch, which inevitably see a lot of new players (and returners) trying the game out (again), but really tells us nothing beyond those first few weeks.

How many of these new players are actually staying around for the long haul though? I wonder if it is truly any more or less then under their old model percentage-wise.

I wish there was a game site out there that was capable of having a proper look at the F2P model... a critical honest look that was as concerned as much for the consumers as it was crawling up the industry's arse for advertising and access. 

Funcom does alot of things badly, TSW could have been of much higher quality then it realy is.
Funcom, many mmo players have a bad taste in their mouth, and wont buy another product.

TSW is another example they cant do thigns right and dont deserve the playerbase and support an mmo studio realy should be getting.

Box sale
Subscription
Cash shop

TSW aint worth that amount of cash to play, it was pretty obvious from the start this would not sell well.

Also GW2 (sorry) shows a path how a simple box sale can provide massive amounts of profits, + its a better game overal with no sub and not a Pay to Win cash shop.

Any company from today onwards will need to look very carefully how to sell their product as people aint stupid anymore after Warhammer / Aion / SWTOR.

Originally posted by Mothanos

Any company from today onwards will need to look very carefully how to sell their product as people aint stupid anymore after Warhammer / Aion / SWTOR.

 

 

Not sure what have to do here in this company swtor. Best game, most fun, of all times. Of course not counting pvp or end game to which I could not care less. For the rest is incredible, never played any game in my life for 7 months, and played a lot.

I'm having a lot of fun playing TSW, my only major complaint with the game is the bugs.  They haven't addressed all the bugs yet, even with the patches.  I'm hoping they just don't continue to focus on content over bug fixing.

The combat I see nothing wrong with it, I haven't had an issue with it.    

PvP is another issue (which is always an issue in MMO's that aren't centered around it), combo's work well here and I see it evening out as more people figure out their build.  Every ability has some kind of counter, just comes down to knowing your buttons and having good teamwork.  Just some figured it out earlier then others from Beta. :)

SWTOR i found myself skipping the movies, could only stand to listen to them once and that was it.  

TSW would be the same except for the guy in the desert (can't think of name offhand) he's always hillarious to watch.  Can't say you won't like them all, you'll have your favorite and least favorite characters.  

Though both of these games had animation flaws in their movies, but then I've seen that in most movies I've watched in MMO's, not something major and can't say how hard it is to animate and fix these sort of situations.

Originally posted by ereyethirn
To those of you saying free to play isn't evil. YOur right, its not. but the article never said it is, all it said was that p2p games going free to play is evil, which I agree with because games that are setup as p2p are generally made with massive money making in mind, however when those games go free to play, those games still want to be massive money makers so they make playing the game horrible unless you pay them money. And that is what is wrong with games that transition from f2p to p2p

What a strange perspective you have.

This is typical BS from Funcom. The game was reviewed across the world by professional reviewers of gaming world and got a reasonable 7 or so.  However, Funcom think that there is some player base that really loves this game, there may be, but we are talking very niche and can't be a metric for a good games compsny to proceed with.

Reality check here, from one who played TSW closed beta, the game is alright and would work free to play model, but isn't going to be viable as sub model for long.

I will NEVER....EVER...listen to someone telling me that I should NOT hold  a companies history against them...or that I should have to pay for something that is sub-par and like it.

Deal with the FACT that more and more people are no longer feeling trapped into having to pay a product that is not delivering on its end.

Funcom has EARNED their reputation, a reputation that has earned them articles on this very website about how they seem to be inable to make a game that meets up to its potential, or that it takes them near a full YEAR after release just to make the game release worthy...

And the worst thing about this article, is that you dare to tell us that we should not be speaking out about this game...no. I WILL speak out. This game is not worth a subscription, the company is not worthy of my money. They are NOT a new company and they should be LEARNING from past mistakes which they have shown NO SIGN OF BEING CAPABLE of doing.

If you dont want people to "hate" on you...dont earn it with over a decade of bad business practices.

[mod edit]. I urge anyone [mod edit] to ignore reviews, ignore comments made by anyone else and just give the game a go. If you like it play if if not, don't waste your breath on it.

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You can boil down any review of any game or any post on the forums to this: -

You like SWOTR - noob the game is crap!

You like TSW - noob the game is crap!

You like GW2 - noob the game is crap!

You like 'insert game' - noob the game is crap!

Who cares what anyone says about a game, try it yourself, don't have stupid reservations about who made it, who publishes it, who wrote it, what review score it got or anything else. Play it and if you like it keep playing it.

Originally posted by Illyssia

This is typical BS from Funcom. The game was reviewed across the world by professional reviewers of gaming world and got a reasonable 7 or so.  However, Funcom think that there is some player base that really loves this game, there may be, but we are talking very niche and can't be a metric for a good games compsny to proceed with.

 

Reality check here, from one who played TSW closed beta, the game is alright and would work free to play model, but isn't going to be viable as sub model for long.

 

The professional game reviewers game it a 7.0 (45 reviews apprently)

The people playing the game gave it an 8.4 (700+ reviews apparently)

Who do you trust? Someone who gets paid to review stuff of people that are paying for a service?

If your answer isn't the player then you are stupid.

Originally posted by Maelwydd

Originally posted by Illyssia

This is typical BS from Funcom. The game was reviewed across the world by professional reviewers of gaming world and got a reasonable 7 or so.  However, Funcom think that there is some player base that really loves this game, there may be, but we are talking very niche and can't be a metric for a good games compsny to proceed with.

 

Reality check here, from one who played TSW closed beta, the game is alright and would work free to play model, but isn't going to be viable as sub model for long.

 

The professional game reviewers game it a 7.0 (45 reviews apprently)

The people playing the game gave it an 8.4 (700+ reviews apparently)

Who do you trust? Someone who gets paid to review stuff of people that are paying for a service?

If your answer isn't the player then you are stupid.

Originally posted by Maelwydd

Originally posted by Illyssia

This is typical BS from Funcom. The game was reviewed across the world by professional reviewers of gaming world and got a reasonable 7 or so.  However, Funcom think that there is some player base that really loves this game, there may be, but we are talking very niche and can't be a metric for a good games compsny to proceed with.

 

Reality check here, from one who played TSW closed beta, the game is alright and would work free to play model, but isn't going to be viable as sub model for long.

 

The professional game reviewers game it a 7.0 (45 reviews apprently)

The people playing the game gave it an 8.4 (700+ reviews apparently)

Who do you trust? Someone who gets paid to review stuff of people that are paying for a service?

If your answer isn't the player then you are stupid.

Originally posted by Darkcrystal

Being in the gaming industry , I realized for awhile now, that people on this forum most of all, love to bash games, no matter if they are good or not, they love to find things wrong with a game, I for one would love to see some of these gamers make there own game, most would NOT have a clue where to begin.....  People love free to play , why??   because they think they are getting stuff free when in the end it costs you more and you get less, with 15 a month is a cheap hobby!! I mean cheap, but gamers today have there morals and standards all over the place.

 

Games back in the day used to be great, and gamers, had respect for DEVS, those days are gone, gamers/people love to hate on everything, you need to get over your selfs and play the games or find a new hobby!!

Originally posted by eckardt

Originally posted by Maelwydd

 

PCGamer gave SWTOR 93!!! and TSW 69. Go figure why!!!! Play the game and make your own judgement.

 

If you put it this way ... I would give tsw compared to swtor no more then 35 or 40. swtor is one of most polished games ever released since day 1. Virtually no bugs, no lag, increcible immersion and incredible - best ever I have seen in any game - twists in main stories, ...

But, there was big "but", pvp it looks was/is terrible and buggy, endgame not existent. This would not know as I do not care even minimally for this 2 aspect. And, yes, never liked space combat missions. 

For the rest all the best about swtor. And have been playing since day 1 up to few weeks ago when started to play tsw. And i'm 50 not some small kiddo. And have played a lot since c64.

If somebody have something to say over some game, I mean something other then "epic fail" or alike ... at least I guess can aspect point by point whats wrong, 1...., 2.....

Well ... appart obvious problems nobody like, i.e. bugs, crashes, bad support in case one need it .... it is also all down to PERSONAL preferences. Which i usually always state. I never liked pvp, endgame for me is when all my alts are at max, I really dislike 1st person games which i would never play (tried however few times out of desperation more or less), ....

And I can also say for mysel, I do not hate any game. May dislike, "hate" bugs, .... but I see in this forums many true haters, that feed on hating something or somebody. Bad for them. Bad for those that read them.

you either love TSW (like me), or you hate the game so much that you have to tell everyone how bad it is.

the problem with TSW was not if the game is good/bad, the problem was that few people tried the game, and the haters are such a vocal minority that makes the game look bad, the amount of people that left the game after the free month is so low that I can't see the difference in Argatha, it's the same as launch day, clearly, most who tried the game are staying with it after the first month.