There is only so many ways to read about killing ten whatevers before reading becomes a bigger grind than completing the quests.

I'm sure I'm in the minority on this website, but I rarely bother with lore in MMO's. If I stop and smell the roses, it is only in a single player rpg setting. In online games I prefer stories written myself through PVP or social interactions with guildmates and random strangers over generic fantasy story #327 fetch quests.

Originally posted by GeezerGamer

Originally posted by DavisFlight
Of all the MMOs that have released since WoW, Rift is the closest thing to being a carbon copy of WoW out on the market right now. It is a blatant, shameless WoW clone, and brings almost nothing new to the genre.

Have you played either game lately? They are nothing alike.

I wonder the same.

People love to have opinions on things they know nothing about and just repeat two-year-old troll comments. Wow has nothing close to the soul system, especially now with the panda talent changes. And Rift's world is much more alive with people in every zone grouping together for invasions, rifts, and group quests.

Originally posted by actionreaction

Originally posted by Shadowguy64

Originally posted by Thorkune

Originally posted by AZHokie54
Make sure you come back in a few weeks, after you're bored to tears, to let us know you quit again.

As bad as I hate to do it, I completely agree.

 

I and 8 million others disagree with both of you trolls.

Hey I'll explain to you friend why you enjoy WOW ( and the other 8 million )

 

here let's have... Nancy MacIntyre, the game’s senior director of Star Wars Galaxies explain the benefits of a WOW like system!

 

We really just needed to make the game a lot more accessible to a much broader player base. There was lots of reading, much too much, in the game. There was a lot of wandering around learning about different abilities. We really needed to give people the experience of being Han Solo or Luke Skywalker rather than being Uncle Owen, the moisture farmer. We wanted more instant gratification: kill, get treasure, repeat. We needed to give people more of an opportunity to be a part of what they have seen in the movies rather than something they had created themselves.

 

 

So pretty much to break it down

GOOD FOR PLAYER BASE

• NO READING/ LESS READING
• NO WANDERING/LESS WANDERING
• NO LEARNING/LESS LEARNING
• INSTANT GRATIFICATION (KILL-LOOT-REPEAT)
• LUKE SKYWALKER NOT UNCLE OWEN
• PLAYERS DON'T CREATE (SANDBOX) - PLAYERS PLAY ( THEMEPARK )

WINNING

/shedsatear

Once I went PC I never went back.

PC = better graphics, more variety, better prices (steam sales ftw), modding community, indy games, better mmo's, better controls, really I could go on and on, but most of you already know these things considering you're on this website.

(I did buy a PS3 for Red Dead Redemption though, and then gave it to my little brother once I was done with that game)

Try Kerbal Space Program. It's still in alpha but the game is amazing. Plus tons of mods.

Originally posted by Distopia
Why not go play the SIm's or something like that? There are plenty of non-combat oriented games out there, hell wanna be a farmer? Pick up a simulation based on it.

I think people are missing the point, we do play Sims, and we also play MMOs, and even PVP in those MMO's sometimes.

What I miss is the kind of system SWG had, where there was a real place for both within the game together.

I don't think it would work. Eventually all of the space would be filled with giant penises.

Originally posted by Iselin

Originally posted by nariusseldon

Originally posted by Iselin

Originally posted by Elikal

Once in Ultima Online, a MMO was about a world. In Star Wars Galaxies I knew people who spent 50% of their time or more as DANCERS. Or musicians. Or Doctors. Or Hairdressers. And I don't have to tell you the many fantastic stories of the UO days.

 

People do that every day in 2nd Life. If that's what you actually do want to do, there it is.

Not a lot of people want to be hairdressers in games. There is a reason why violent combat based games are the most popular, and mainstay of the industry.

Yeah...hairdressing and interior decorating in a virtual fantasy world is not my idea of fun either.

I read threads like this as" Why can't MMOs be more like those other games we hate and ignore?" 

Why does it have to be one way or the other? Black or white?

Even within the Military there are barbers.

Another thing, this is the reason I still buy at least one single player game a month. When I was active in SWG, that was all I played. I could get my pvp and micro-management fixes in the same game.

Now I have to have an MMO or a FPS for PVP, then log out to Tropico or something similar for the management side of video games. It would be awesome if they managed to bring that all together in a persistent online world again.

Originally posted by whisperwynd

Originally posted by SuperDonk
I COMPLETELY agree with the OP 100%! I want to be uncle Owen again! I miss my quiet days as a moisture farmer on Tatooine.

Then die horribly for being a pacifist.  J/K  

I actually enjoy pvp, and will always pick a pvp server to play on, but I miss options, and I miss my little resource business I managed in SWG.

Not everyone wants to be pwning people or npcs nonstop.

If they do a full wipe, everyone who didn't exploit the game will want a refund. And probably a lot a players who did cheat as well.

They really can't target the players in this, they need to target the exploit and attempt to remove the exploited currency from the game, if that is even possible.

Originally posted by DamonVile
Games built for disposable players are now apparently built by disposable employees.

This is single sentence sums up the gaming industry perfectly.

Originally posted by Sevenstar61

Originally posted by InsaneDalek

Meh, no big deal. I'll reserve judgment until I actually see what they're going to do. There's at least a little potential here. DICE doing SW Battlefront 3 could be awesome. Also, I think Visceral Games could do very well with a Dead Space style game featuring lightsaber combat...

Wait and see, I suppose.

I could not say it better. All this prejudice without even knowing what's ahead of us is... illogical.

What is illogical is ignoring the past, especially the recent past.

Originally posted by DavisFlight

Originally posted by MikeB

Originally posted by JeroKane

WHAHAHA! I just don't know if I can't stop laughing........... or crying really.

I guess this marks the end of Star Wars for gamers at least. /sad

Bit melodramatic, I think. Who else could you have realistically seen this license going to?

Personally, I'd love to see Battlefront 3 finally get made as a Frostbite-powered game. As for future Star Wars MMOs, I'm not going to touch that one (today ;)).

Well if ruins all hope of a good MMORPG. EA has utterly destroyed every single MMO they've ever touched. (Sims, WAR, SWTOR, Earth and Beyond) and their track record with other franchises is not great.

Don't forget SimCity 2013, EA considers that an MMO.

I understand the OP's point of view, it just seems like a losing battle though. Pre-teen and teens have pretty much unlimited access to nudity or porn whenever they want now.

I would love the idea of an adult only game, but to be honest, nothing about Scarlet Blade is even the least bit interesting.