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A confession; I've been playing TOR.
Reviews & Impressions « Star Wars: The Old Republic 3/06/12 12:08:12 AM
Originally posted by TUX426 Apparently you do care since you clicked to read the thread ;) I never implied TF2 has more depth, nor is it a game I expect depth from. My expectations of an FPS and an MMO are very different. In a FPS like TF2 I just want easy access, simple fun and in TF2's case, a touch of humour. In an MMO I want something that challenges me, gives me both short and long term "goals" and all the other stuff I've already listed in this thread. TF2 meets the expecations I have for a game of it's genre; TOR does not. |
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A confession; I've been playing TOR.
Reviews & Impressions « Star Wars: The Old Republic 3/06/12 12:01:27 AM
Originally posted by eddieg50 Which implies it's not a game to stick with. Personally, I think an MMO should stack the content at the end game rather than trickling it out through the low to midlevels - there's no reason the journey has to be associated with the tedium of getting to max level. The main purpose of leveling in an MMO should be to learn how the game works and the various features that can be found in the game rather than drip feeding content. I'm not a big fan of voice acting and generally find it to be more cheese than entertainment. |
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A confession; I've been playing TOR.
Reviews & Impressions « Star Wars: The Old Republic 3/04/12 11:56:56 PM
Originally posted by Troneas This is where you don't really know what you're talking about. You haven't really read what I wrote at all but I'm not gonna argue with you point by point because it's a pointless argument. At the end of the day we're both losers - neither of the versions of SWG that we enjoyed exist today. |
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A confession; I've been playing TOR.
Reviews & Impressions « Star Wars: The Old Republic 3/03/12 8:10:04 PM
Many will probably remember me saying I wasn't going to play TOR, however I have family members and friends internationally who like to aid my crazy addictions and picked it up for me late last year. I'm sure there are many here that are hoping to read this and see that I've "seen the light" and come to realise that SWG was crap, etc etc. If you're one of those people then you're probably not going to like this post. I always knew TOR was never going to be anything like SWG but I figured that this is what MMO's are these days and being a fan of the MMO genre I might as well at least play one that is somewhat sci-fi. So for the last three months I've trying to become attached to TOR like I was with SWG. That attempt has failed. As much as I've tried, TOR is too linear and simplistic for me. I don't feel like I'm playing an MMO, I feel like I'm playing a single player game for the most part - there's little in the way of a community and there's nothing there to really entice a community atmosphere. My main complaints:
There's all the little things that SWG just had that you get used to and miss, like housing, the travel system and towards the end, the GCW systems. I suppose three months on I'll admit, I'm missing SWG. Not obessively so, but I just look at the MMO's out there today and can't really find anything that would keep me interested. Everything is trying to be like WoW. Maybe SWG was just "the perfect storm" and in general, MMO's just aren't my thing.
If anyone needs me, I'll be in Team Fortress 2...
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SWG Vets, new and old... where are you going?
General Discussion « Star Wars Galaxies 12/17/11 4:55:20 AM
Originally posted by hipiap Woah, woah! I'm not over 30 :P |
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SWG Vets, new and old... where are you going?
General Discussion « Star Wars Galaxies 12/16/11 4:16:40 PM
No where until another game with open sci-fi/non-fantasy world with plenty of free choices is released. For now I'll stick with short investment games like Team Fortress 2. Given the design of MMO's these days, it's unlikely I'll ever have another MMO to play. |
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Now that SWTOR NDA dropped, do you believe SWG should return?
General Discussion « Star Wars Galaxies 12/15/11 11:27:50 PM
Originally posted by TUX426 I feel like I'm on trial, but.... it's a game, there's not an infinite amount of things to do in the game non-stop so, while I waited for Rebels to regroup or whatever, I'd leave my character in a buff house and come back later. Many times I'd get caught up with something else I was doing IRL and leave it logged on over night then get home from work the next day and notice it's still running (I don't shut off my PC either). Yes, I take a laptop with me on trips and yes, there were times where I logged in at a hotel. There wasn't much time for that while I was in New York (well,really the US east coast) since I was on the road most of the time having a look at the area and visiting some of the historic places. Anyway, it's over now...my SWG Xfire stats are forever frozen in time :) |
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Now that SWTOR NDA dropped, do you believe SWG should return?
General Discussion « Star Wars Galaxies 12/14/11 5:54:40 PM
Originally posted by Gravez Sorry to dissapoint but a decent chunk of those Xfire hours are AFK hours. Over the years, since it really has been the only game I've really played I just left the game logged in with an AFK macro running so I could continue playing when I wasn't busy doing something else. As for money wasted? That's a little ignorant on your behalf. Who are you to tell me what to spend my money on and what's a waste and what wasn't? Everything we spend money on is a waste at some point - however, I well enjoyed my holiday to Las Vegas and New York City. |
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Now that SWTOR NDA dropped, do you believe SWG should return?
General Discussion « Star Wars Galaxies 12/14/11 8:11:17 AM
It wasn't far off. While some of it was minor and related to the ending, there were other changes added somewhat regularly. Things like the Space GCW changes, profession revamps, atmospheric flight...
I think you'll find when the phrase "free time" is thrown around it doesn't mean what you seem to think it does. Usually it means it's something someone has worked on inbetween projects or while they're waiting for someone else to complete a task before they can carry on with their main work...or simply bored at lunch. It's all paid time by SOE.
They'll likely work through their existing contracts with LA but once they expire I'd find it unlikely they'll renew. The same is likely true for Warner Bros - based on Smedley's claims it seems they're done with licensed IPs.
I don't think the problem is how protective they are but more how much extra work it is. It takes extra time to pass everything through a third party and it slows down the whole development process. SOE couldn't even interview their own Devs about the game for their Podcast without first clearing the questions with LA first, as an example.
It has been rumoured that LA will no longer be using external companies for its games. This would imply that LA will not be working with Bioware once their current games end.
You're not defending commonsense and truth, you're seeing what you want to see and sure, you could argue that what I've posted (and the same with Superniceguy) is the same. But that's been kind of my point the whole way through this thread...the quotes are vague and everything we post is just guessing based on our own opinions. Nothing in this thread is factual, it's purely assumptions with little weight. |
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Now that SWTOR NDA dropped, do you believe SWG should return?
General Discussion « Star Wars Galaxies 12/12/11 7:24:09 PM
Originally posted by tixylix I've enjoyed the 8.5 years I've spent playing this supposed "ruined" game. Sorry you didn't. |
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Now that SWTOR NDA dropped, do you believe SWG should return?
General Discussion « Star Wars Galaxies 12/12/11 6:13:08 PM
And how does that rule out what Superniceguy theorised? SOE's reluctance to renew could be due to the issues Superniceguy theorised with LucasArts. If we add the rest of the quote that you've missed out by Smedley:
Really though, there's a million things that could be speculated from the quotes posted. Everyone here has their own agenda and will find it just as easy to speculate something contradicting to your own opinion of what it all means which is quite pointless. |
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Now that SWTOR NDA dropped, do you believe SWG should return?
General Discussion « Star Wars Galaxies 12/12/11 3:46:57 AM
Originally posted by TUX426 Someone's a little defensive of LucasArts, it seems ;) The quote you've posted is pretty vague. It simply states that resigning the license wasn't in SOE's best interests. Superniceguy's theory has just as much potential to be correct as yours. That's the problem with vague quotes... |
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I signed it. However, I'm coming to terms with the fact that the game won't exist from the end of the year. It'd be nice to see that change but based on history with petitions against SOE & LA in regards to SWG, I'm not liking the chances that this will go very far. It is nice to see that it's starting to be noticed by various news sites, though :) |
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Farewell, SWG. Although it's been 8 years of ups and downs, it has been great. It's unfortunate that there are no other MMO's out there for me to move on to - nothing has what I enjoy about SWG, so I guess December 15 will also be the end of MMO's for me. It's been fun :) |
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SWG is up and running :) Looks like the Devs were busy during the down time - some nice updates on TC too. |
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Sence the account hacking... "Att: clans"
General Discussion « Star Wars Galaxies 5/14/11 12:17:06 PM
Although it's poor timing, I think it's unlikely that it's related. I think it would be unlikely that the people that have the information would be using (if they've even got to that stage yet) it for anything game related. Rather, they'd be using your information for things like applying for credit cards, loans, etc. - RL related stuff. Rather, it's likely to just be a typical phishing attempt. When I clean out my spam folder I notice a bunch related to WoW and recently, Rift. Replying to the emails just lets them know they have a real person on the other end - just delete them instead :) |
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Originally posted by Daffid011 1. From what I remember of the initial annoucement after the 21st, there was no mention of changes. I'm assuming the initial investigations of SOE looked clean and whatever differences there are between SOE and the PSN were seen as enough to keep the same hackers out of SOE's systems. They were only down with other Sony sites intiially as a precaution as they knew the PSN had been hacked. It wasn't until more indepth investigations were carried out that it was discovered that they had also been breached. The investigations are being carried out by third parties, not Sony itself - I imagine this is due to the hackers covering up most of what they did. 2. The issue of excessive info being available on the internet aside (it'd be interesting to see the same processes done against other large companies, actually), none of that really mattered as the guy in the link also says that it wasn't a case of the hackers cracking the security and getting through but rather a likely case of using social engineering to get the info they needed to be able to get in. While humans are involved, all the security software/hardware in the world can't always combat a social engineering attack. |
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SOE Update List Of Games Offering Welcome Back Gifts Even SWG Players are getting something...
The Pub at MMORPG.COM « General Discussion 5/14/11 3:17:16 AM
Originally posted by TUX426 I figured the "would be nice" line gave it a way. If I had said "is nice" then you would be correct. |
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Originally posted by Daffid011 1. Firstly, it wasn't February, it was April. At the time when they came up, they said based on investigations at that time, the attack only appeared to have been on the PSN. This would have been concluded by the secutiry team that were looking into the PSN attack. SOE was only taken at that time by Sony as a precautionary measure. There was no announcement that I can remember that mentioned anything about changing their security defenses after that initial downtime on the 21st, but it's hard to confirm this when the forums are down, where the response announcement was made. It wasn't until the secutiry teams working on the PSN progressed through their investigations did they find that SOE had also been accessed. This isn't a failing specific to SOE but SCEI as a whole as their investigators are the ones that likely assumed based on prelimery investigations that SOE was fine. Either way, it's pointless argument - SOE wasn't brought down a second time due to a second attack after the intial April 21 downtime but due to evidence being discovered that showed that SOE had also been compromised in the initial attack that also took down the PSN on April 21. There was no second attack, it's all part of the original attack. 2. You're incorrect. It's been shown how you can use Google's search results to show that Sony's web servers were using the latest version of Apache. This doesn't mean that every other web server running that software is vulnerable, it just means that the way in which Sony has setup their websites was vulnerable. At a guess, I would expect they were using custom built add-ons for the webserver to intergrate their login services and this is what likely had the vulnerability. It's certainly easy to beat up on Sony for this and to an extent, they do deserve some of it. However, this situation is not unique to Sony and nor will they be the last, it's just a case of "being in the wrong place at the wrong time". Secutiry vulnerabilities exist in all peices of software that connect to the Internet, leaving a constant game of tag between developers and hackers to find these before the other side does. In most cases, the developers win but from time to time, the hackers get there first and this is what we're left with. |
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Star Wars Galaxies has mult passenger ships. Unlike EVE, you're actually in control of the ship so it's a bit like a flight simulator. You can have varying sizes of multi-passenger ships starting with what is essentially a starfighter with a gunner seat (like a Y-Wing) right up to the big gunships that can have 6 people controling turrets, a pilot, someone controlling the astromech and who ever is left repairing parts as they fail from damage. What's more, the space part of the game is about to recieve some more content with the addition of Space blockades and improvements to planetary control through space systems. Unfortunately, right now you can't try the game due to the Sony drama, but it's worth considering once the game is back online. |
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