It happens. In an age of austerity which other MMO's are experiencing but were established in better times, well, yeah, this.

F2P might help, it's worked with LOTRO. But we'll see.

Lol sorry I left because of the incoming Panda's. Yes I'm a pandist, sorry. On to LOTRO and Panda free lute playing.

The jury is still out on that one, OP.Literally, with the upcoming pending legal battle.

1. No panda's.

2. They can't get away with playing with the lore to put panda's in.

3. There is no way they can make a far east power grab and snub western fans by putting oriental temple's in Mordor. With Panda's.It just won't work.

4. I love this game, especially the Prancing Pony, panda-less Prancing Pony. Cool game and only pay for stuff when you can or just only when you want to, no pressure despite the ads. Try it, free download, free account, etc. I would recommend upgrading to premium by buying a few points or purchasing the Mithril Edition.

The coming of Panda's brings a feeling of such doom over me it defies rational explanation.

I enjoyed games like Baldur's Gate I and II, as well as the previous Diablo's so I'm looking forward to it. My main hope is that the game will maintain my interest over the long term and not vanish too fast.

WoW, WoW, WoW, it is calling you, calling you..

Homer Simpson would run into a door, get up, run into the door, get up, run into the door, get up, run into the door. With a comical 'Ow! Doh!' each time. <- metaphor.

I will prod it with a stick for a bit. If it doesn't explode or die then I will play.

As austerity bites into business and people's incomes, putting them off subbed games, I am expecting more merger talks to emerge as well as other drastic measures & not just with SWTOR. Yes people have disposable incomes but that does not mean they will be spending it if consumer confidence is at an ebbing low, especially after GAME and GameStation collapsing as a sign of the times.

Patents are useless. There will always be a prior art get out clause. Not to mention Blizz could just buyout Worlds Inc and then cremate them in a very big furnace. Many times. I have never seen a company with a death wish before, it should be interesting.

I'm for general chat. chitchat kills total boredom despite trolls.

Originally posted by n3v3rriv3r

Originally posted by nyxium

She should think about doing nerd Playboy shoots.

I think it is called cosplay.

What is Playboy?

Cosplay will do. :)

She should think about doing nerd Playboy shoots.

SWTOR Redux:

PVE - Leave alone.

PVP - Complete utter rewrite. But not abandoned, just started again from scratch with pure balance and ultra tested for exploits before release. tested to death, many many balanced deaths. This shouldn't take too much work as they almost got it right before the exploits were discovered.

Space combat - multiplayer only. Space is left out of the game until multiplayer. Player ships stay in game as housing but only cut scenes take players from one planet to another. space travel is enabled when true mmo capability is put in.

Trading - Less aggressive AH monitoring, not everyone is a bot. Also exploits would be rewarded or at least allowed for clever trading and not banned as long as the player is confirmed not to be a bot.

RL prices, down, they go way way down, at least 50% off to what they currently charge.

Friday the 13th. 

Appropriate.

Interesting. Let us see what happens when the servers are back online before ringing the doom bells. Despite it being Friday the 13th.

Technically a bribe but it's BW's sandbox they can do what they want with it.

Edit: When I say sandbox I meant it's their den to do with as they please, not a sandbox mmo before that is pointed out, if indeed the effort is made to point it out etc.

On the plus side there is a Beta experience awaiting pre-purchasers so it's not so bad.