I see your a big Tera fan by your posts, SW let you down?

Trolls and World of Panda kids

you know what ruined me?

I baked a caked and used a 1 1/2 cup of salt instead of sugar

I will never bake again!!!

hardcore..

no i not hard core like mick vick, we are wif you home dog.

S!

hrica1 <BKB>  chimming in.

Indeed, this game should cost no more than $9.99 a month to play.

I bought this game at launch, I still have the big box!! (you know the one that promised everything that was not in the game lol)

BUT I have had so much fun with the game, but to pay $18 a month is just plain stupid and the rats don't listen.

S!

hrica1 <BKB> retired until the game is afforable to play

can I haz your credits plz?

Pats with Manning

Post who & why, or if you just don't give a fig, troll American's Football!!

Or list your team and why!!

why the EA hate?

Cuz they don't have ninja's, pirates and upcoming Pandas in there game haha

Originally posted by smitty0356

Any mmo with a very popular IP always sells boxes to people who will not like the mechanics or interpretation of that IP.  When this happens, the first few months usually shows a decline in total subscriptions.

 

In the past, companies have knee-jerked to this trend, and made drastic changes to try to appeal to the initial masses of players, and this has proven disasterous to the long-term success of the MMO.

 

A prime example of this is MXO, where they had to buff and cater to the huge "neo-clone" population, which alienated everyone that was not a "neo."

 

Problem is, the type of player that is quitting after a month, generally can't be retained long term due to conflicts with mmo mechanics, or key problems with the IP.

 

I hope bioware does not try to cater to the "darth paul's" in an attempt to save thousands of subscribers that will likely quit anyway.

You put MXO and SW in the same paragraph LOL,

Also if you want hardcore pvp and not thempark pvp play UO, Darkfall or even MW3..

SW is more PVE then pvp

Great Job Garry!!

Great post and glad to see some one nearer my age on here lol.

Ever play Moongate? the MUDD back in the day..bout 20 years ago

I think the first WoW clone was the clone wars right?

dude I don't know what game you are playing but Juggies are Hard as heck to kill.

Originally posted by Keogh

Want a idea of how the game its doing?

2 million copies sold. 1.7 million people are still subscribed (credit card or game time card).

2,000,000 boxes sold

      300,000 people  didn't sub  (these must all be MMORPG.com community members)

_____________________________

1,700,000 people sub (and are playing an avg. 4hrs per day)

 

ding

Seems like Bioware & EA are going all out on SW.

Good Job. Keep it up.

Originally posted by Istafein

Originally posted by aligada87

 

   Well after playing almost 2 month of the game, I finally had it.

 

     I have an i7 processor with 16 gigs of ram, 2 gtx 580 sli, and I still get fps problems. Not all the maps of swtor, but certain compact places, like wz, and illum omg lol. I kept wondering if it was my pc, but from what I see from this forum it isn’t my pc at all.

 

     There is also a problem with alderan wz where sometimes the bike doesn't appear, and I even tried resetting my UI. Still no go. My fps in illum would drop to like 15-20 fps and it’s bad when we have big group fights.

 

     The thing is, I have played Tera online, and Blade and Soul (Private server). I can assure you I can play the game at full settings with no issue at all from having 40-50 man PvP raids. See, I could live with this problem, Bioware, but what topped it off for me was when you guys replied in customer service, “It’s not our game it’s your pc”. I mean seriously now, you don't only see me posting but many more people posting the same problems, and you have the nerve to say it’s my pc.

 

     I love the game. I really do. The PvE is amazing and the PvP is fun, but the way you guys handle things, ignore people on forums, and still continue to say to this day that "it’s not our system, it’s yours" - well it shows how you guys really handle things. Also what is worse is, with in-game support, you would think at since you guys messed up the game so badly, that you would at least have good in-game support, but you guys can't even provide that.

 

     For example (this is not my fault btw), I bought a champion PvP weapon and it clearly showed the item was main hand weapon. I remember it too that I didn’t make a mistake because I made sure that the 2 PvP weapons I wanted was the only one showing. Well guess what happened? When I bought the item, it somehow registered as an off-hand, when it clearly states it is main hand. I’m a Sith Juggernaut. What am I going to do with an off-hand weapon? The Champion/Battlemaster bag is already irritating to get, and what’ more irritating is the loot drop it gives.

 

     Anyways I was so excited when you guys replied with the protocol droid saying list the item you need replaced, name of server, name of toon etc... but then leaving me hanging with the ticket opened for about 3 and a half weeks, is just crazy. I still have no response to this day, and it clearly shows again that you (Bioware) don’t care about the customers.

 

     I know this probably doesn't mean anything to you guys, but I am speaking for the rest of the people,

WHO ARE GOING THROUGH PROBLEMS IN THE GAME, AND FOR FUTURE PLAYERS WHO WANT TO JOIN SWTOR.

There is no point on going through this painful experience with Bioware. To sell an unfinished product to customers is just not fair at all. An example of unfinished product is FFXIV, but at least FFXIV made a U-Turn and actually fixed the problems.

 

     Now from what I hear they are doing very good, and are releasing 1 of the biggest patches people are looking forward to. The difference is FFXIV customer service responds to the community. When they say they will do something, they do it.

 

     Anyways for the players who are still experiencing problems in-game, and for future, gamers who are looking into SWTOR, that don’t know much about how the game is, don’t be fooled. Read this post, and if it isn’t convincing enough, read other post, save your 60-120 bucks plus monthly and really think about what your about to do lol.

 

     I really thought I could stay with Bioware, and play through SWTOR’s problems, but jeez, at least provide us with better customer service. You guys already messed up the game, give us something.

 

     Anyways GL to all who are playing the game, and to people who are playing the game with no problem, I really hope it continues for you guys. Just wanted to share what I posted to SWTOR Bioware. Sorry my English writing isn’t my strongest suit lol, so don’t judge it :( feel free to leave comments  

 

I cleaned it up for ya, OP, in case you wanna edit your post so peoople can read it.

But yeah, I know a lot of people at school that are having the same problems as you. I'm glad I decided to wait on buying this one.

  Purple drop for this guy.  Nice to see a random act of kindness

Originally posted by JudgeUK

The only way to get the message across, vote with the wallet.

 

    ^^^ this x 100

Originally posted by Rataplan

Originally posted by Hrica

Originally posted by Alot

Could you post your rig?

 My cpu is a i7, got 4g of DDR3 ram and a ATI 4800 HD. 

I know that my card needs replaced but are the requirments that high on SW to have disconection and chop all the time?

It is important to specify the type of the core. Is it I7-800 series or 900 for example because there is a huge difference between them when it comes to accessing your RAM.

I went to check on your graphics card on amd.com and it does not seem to exist. they have 4830, 4850 and 4870. I could be wrong because I only checked amd.com.

I'm just trying to say if people ask to post your rig you need to be very specific otherwise people can't really help out.

 

It's a 4850. I had to get the box out of the closet.

In the original post I just ran the dxdiag command and it said 4800 series

Originally posted by BadSpock

To Zary - no not yet.

To Hrica - I got it on sale for 150 after rebate and a gift card I had - was an amazing deal. Card was about 230 base price though at the time.

I don't know how true this is, but I've always heard that AMD processors and ATI cards play nice, and Intel processors and Nvidia cards play nice - so if you have an i7 you should look into a Nvidia card > AMD.

560 is the comparable card in performance to the 6870 if I remember correctly.

Should be about 200 these days? Maybe a little more/less?

Also RAM is super cheap these days - you can pretty easily get 4gb to bring you up to 8gb total for like.. 30 bucks?

Obviously depends on your mobo and OS though.

Hey thanks, I will do that when taxes come back

Originally posted by BadSpock

AMD BE 3.2 quad, 6870 1gb, 8gb DDR3 1333 and the game runs great.

I would imagine, OP, that YES, that 4800 is far far too old to expect to be able to play the game at a reasonable frame rate.

 

My laptop supposedly met the minimum requirements, 2.1 ghz dual core, 4gb ram, ati mobile something video card - even on lowest of low settings the game churns out 2-3 FPS - completely unplayable.

 

what would be a good card to replace it that would not break my wallet?