Originally posted by Xthos

Brad as leader=bad.

Brad as a idea person, should be good.

 

People often make the mistake of putting people in charge of things that have no business being in charge of things, an idea/vision person doesn't usually make the best boss....He isn't the boss, so he will be handled/managed.

 

 

idea people are worthless, everyone is an "idea person". game design ideas always look great on paper, but usually falls apart in execution. it's the designers who thoroughly and efficiently test their ideas to see if they actually work or not that really make somebody a great game designer or not. brad was cute when he was trying to get everyone hyped about bringing back the old school immersive mmo, but he let everyone down when he made a mediocre product, sold his game to SOE and went into hiding.

also if I remember right, SOE has been very slowly undoing the hardcore design, so at this point it's probably going to be another dime a dozen wow clone.

funny how he mentions the re-itemization for the freemium launch, and yet with SOE's model free players will never see the majority of those items (free players can only equip common items lmao)

pretty amazing how much this game keeps evolving

the problem is that if ncsoft made a pve server, then gankers wouldn't have carebears to kill anymore

funny how bioware spends 300,000,000 dollars to make the first immersive story based MMO with voice acting and they still had quests that were "I lost my eight power generators in the ice cavern. Can you retrieve them for me?". (also not to mention intentionally corny dialogue, because its star wars!)

 then underdog TSW sweeps in from out of nowhere and pretty much puts TOR to shame in the story/quest writing/voice acting department.

the actual game definitely needs a lot of polish, but it's still incredibly refreshing to play after all the failed 'wow killers' (which ironically were all vanilla wow clones)

game overloads way too many quests on you at once (a case of quantity over quality), no flow of movement between the questing spots (cataclysm does this really well), and plenty of awful quests that send you to previous zones for no reason other than making you waste your time traveling over there

not to mention you outlevel the majority of them way too fast, the exp curve is completely off sync with the questing system right now

oh well, I guess you get what you pay for! 

I never thought the freemium model could get worse, but SOE has managed to pull it off

great job SOE

games like LOTRO are considered freemium instead of F2P.

you would think that they would be the same thing, but not quite

freemium usually gives you only so much of the games content, with the rest needing to be unlocked. it's basically a glorified demo. occasionally the devs will throw you a bone here and there, but there will be a point where you'll want to start buying crap

F2P is usually as the name implies. occasionally a greedy company will design game mechanics that encourage you to buy from their shop, but it's never anything like unlocking zones/instances/quests (that you would see in freemium)

personally I hate the term freemium, it's misleading to a lot of players. I guess it sounds better than limited demo 

it's the moron star sperg fans that ruined SWG by whining that it wasn't star warsy enough. literally can't have fun unless they have their laser swords to fulfill their manchild fantasies

must be desperate to get players back

based on everything i had seen before about the game, it looked so bad (even worse than TOR)

but actually playing it was incredibly refreshing, from the story telling to the game mechanics to the UI

game obviously needs A LOT of polish, but there's definitely potential with this one

who would have thought a my little pony brony would be writing MMO preview articles

Originally posted by Illyssia

Originally posted by Alot

 

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Originally posted by marz.at.play
Oh boy...here we go! Release the floodgates.

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Release the Kraken!

More like release the trolls...

 

SWTOR is a very good game and all Bioware have stated is that they are looking into F2P options. An endless trial is a F2P option for example. However, what would be really cool would be 1-49 F2P and 50 as small sub, with DLC expansions at a small purchase cost. SWTOR is looking good here, heck, it's Star Wars folks! 

"heck, it's Star Wars folks!"

this line right here pretty much invalidates all your past and future opinions

if people thought SOE was bad with their F2P model

just wait till EA tries it lmao

"It’s Star Wars!"

stopped reading here

Originally posted by Distopia

Interesting that Cathar was chosen

                                            Charr with a lightsaber?

doubt they'll look like that though. just look at nasty juhani from KOTOR1 (same race as the above pic), it'll probably be another texture color swap like that 

heart sank when I saw SOE's name

so much for this game

so depressing that they dropped warhammer online for this garbage

EA at its finest

Originally posted by Kalfer

Poor Ohlen, he looks like he is about to cry. He can't fake his lack of enthusiasm. It must not be fun to be Bioware austin. He looks old, tired and worn out.

 

I bet their development team consists of great people. Who really knows. In Hollywood it is often the case that the producer overrules the director and scriptwriter and makes his or her own changes to the film. Maybe there is some outside influence going on here as well.

 

 

Are people really asking for this Legacy stuff? They seem dead set on this path that they are on right now. I really wish them the best. 

the whole bioware situation in the past two years has been pretty depressing overall

why did they even make a video for this...?