Originally posted by username509

Isn't this supposed to be a f2p microtransaction first person shooter?

NO THANK YOU!

It's not quite like that.   It's more of the League of Legends model where you CAn spend money but you don't really have to.   The game takes a fair amount of skill and that's usually the deciding factor.   There isn't anything in the game you HAVE to use real money to get, but you can if you want to get it faster.

 On a side note I am streaming Tribes again tonight right now (Friday), this time on my personal stream.  Welcome to swing by and I'll try to check the chat between rounds to answer any questions or shoot the shit.

http://www.justin.tv/paragusrants

Can't believe I didnt know about this until the other day.

Originally posted by nickster29

Very nice.  This is the only game I have been playing lately while waiting for Torchlight 2.

 

There is nothing quite like smacking someone with a middair spinfusor while travelling through the air at 150+ km/h.  Brings a smile to your face every time.

Yea it does. 

Streams is done for tonight, but I will hopefully be doing this regularly.  Thanks goes to everyone who tuned in.

Bump

I highly recommend it.  No wipe after beta either!

Hey all,

I've been given the keys to the MMORPG.com streams, so for a little while I am going to be livestreaming "Tribes Ascend".  Feel free to join in and take a gander at Hi-Rez free to play game in beta right now.   If you like the game you can get a key by "liking it on facebook".

You can find their channel HERE.

Wat?

Originally posted by MMOGamer71

10:30 PM EST?

Really?

Sorry it could not be earlier, but my Wednesday schedule is such that this was the earliest I could definitely be on by.  Consider it a trial run of sorts, and if all goes well and it's not a complete train wreck I will do this more often.   I stream pretty much every day much earlier, but this will be my first time doing so in an official capacity.

It depends on what the trade off is to being voiced.   Yes there is a trade off in terms of money and development resources spent.   If voicing the game is going to costs a lot of money and time that could have been otherwise spent on adding massive amount of content or system to bolster the gameplay elements, then I'd rather have that over voices.   Voices are cool, but a novelty when the game is designed around masking the same type of quest over and over again.    At that point it's not really worth it to me because there are only so many ways you can dress up a kill quests before it gets tedious. 

To really understand if it is worth it, I'd like to know how much of their budget was spent on this feature.   Only then can we say whether it was worth having in the game.   TOR is lacking badly in a lot of critical areas, and most people I know would have traded the voice overs in a heartbeat for more meaningful content and system to add longevity to the game.

Originally posted by Souldrainer

DAOC launched in 2001.

WOW launched in 2004.

SWTOR launched in 2011.

 

Which of these games was nearly unplayable for two weeks because servers were down so much?  Which of these games launched with zero PVP incentives or objectives?  Which of these games launched without any PVP gear in them?  Which of these games announced multiple hero classes at launch and never delivered?  Which two had bugs where you fall through the universe, with no known fix?  Which two had randomly crashing dungeons?  Which two had unlootable loot  (one of them still has it to this day, and it's not the newer one)?  Which one had a bug where you would remain crouched after looting?

A little perspective, please.

Which one of these had the budget of a major motion picture and the advantage of being able to reference over a decade of previous MMOs to learn from and still made the same exact mistakes?

Originally posted by BadSpock

I like the idea of a 3rd faction just for PvP purposes.

Hell, there are examples in TOR of different factions within the Empire fighting each other. Entire Flashpoints.

They already have Huttball which is faction-neutral - so why not?

 

Pretty much this.   I have no idea why none of the devs for any of these bargin bin express MMOs have not figured out that a 3rd faction for PvP is great.

<3 Suzie

Originally posted by ronsson

OMG Ninja Review!

I'm the server developer and I have to say I agree with the review but it's too early:) 

We just released a new graphics engine but we still haven't added the new models or character customization ack ack! We were planning on starting to make more noise once we've got the new models and animations in.

Nah, it's great really. Thanks loads. It's a good score and any explanation about what we do is positive.

We've tried to make Wurm have most of what we think an MMO should be.. huge, open, "Massive" compared to single player MMOs, full of personal adventures where even the smallest peasant should have impact on the world. Not to mention real heroes. 

So yeah, anyways. Graphics will shape up:) Luckily.

I wouldn't worry too much.  The staff here tends to rereview games at regular intervals.

If you have strong feeling towards Teala's blog, then maybe you would be better of posting comment there as it would probably be a lot more appropriate than trying to call her out here.   It is a blog by the way, which are by nature the opinions of the people who write them.   I'm sure she will be here soon enough to defend herself, but frankly I don't see what the problem is.   She has her opinion, she backs up her point of view with supporting facts, and I'm not really seeing any real falsehoods.  By making this thread here you have really done your cause a lot more harm then good, you'd be a lot better off commenting there where she will see it (we get private messages in our in box when someone comments on our blogs here).

Originally posted by noncley

Originally posted by Tyvolus3

Originally posted by Airwren

Originally posted by altair4

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/ea-falls-on-broker-concerns-about-star-wars-2012-01-19?siteid=yhoof2

In before some fanboi tries to discredit the wall street journal.

I am the farthest thing from a SWTOR or EA or bioware fanboi you will ever find....BUT, WSJ is owned by fox news (sic) corp.....just sayin'.

Exactly, and everyone knows Rupert Murdoch isa typical h8er obsessed with SWG sandboxes. Well, sorry., SWTOR is a dull little repetitive themepark and if you don't like that, Roops, go play Eve. KTHXBAI

LOL!

All joking aside, I am kind of curious what the projected initial box sales were.  The game seemed to do really well in this department, unless maybe they are counting retention past the first month into this?

Games and movies based off of IP is a sure fire way to know that the thing you were once fond of is about to have a giant deuce dropped on it in a very public and humilating manner.

That's probably Mythic's influence.   DAOC was notorious for excessive CC, so when they made WAR, they promised that they had learned their lesson.   Someone added it up one time, and WAR had like 144 different abilities scattered across all classes on both sides that would be some form of stun, knock up, knock back, root, knock forward, disarm, snare, silence.  It can be infuriating to have an oversaturation of CC in PvP.

Originally posted by Praetalus

You just don't get it. Look at the sub numbers for EQ2... look at the sub numbers for LOTRO. Look at the Sub numbers for Age of Conan..... BTW, all of these games are free to play now. 

 

Now, do me a favor and look at the sub numbers of WoW.... which is not free to play I might add. 

 

You know why WoW is higher? Low poly count. They keep the game low so more people can play it. You may not like it but it's a decision you must make as a developer. You can't understand that because you're looking from your point of view and not taking theirs into account. 

 

If you don't like the decision they have made.. you have every right to leave. I understand the decision and intend to keep playing. Both views are viable. 

 

WoW's high subcriptions are not because of its low polycount.   By that same logic Everquest 1 would have more subs than anything else out there.   All of those other games have serious flaws and it has nothing to do with their visuals.

Don't get me wrong, I am a huge believe that gameplay is far more important than graphics.    They don't make or break a game usually, but between misleading people and then basically telling them thay can't figure out their own graphical settings is silly.

Originally posted by Forumtalker

Originally posted by voltt

Got a high end computer game runs fine no fps issues.

 

The game looks great haveing a blast playing

 

Who F****** cares about the high res textures, enjoy the f****** game

Following your "point", ask yourself:

"Then why does Bioware use High Resolution to advertise the game"

 

I agree with this.  A lot of companies show screenshots that are very hard to achieve for advertising, but in this case they are literally impossible.   That is really outright deceitful.  Even more mind boggling are the big name reviews that gave this game above average scores in the visual department when its lacking fundamental textures that are found in pretty much every modern video game.

I have to agree with the OP.  I think what it boils down to is you are paying a monthly fee for the priviledge of playing in the Star Wars universe.  The game is what it is, and while it's not my cup of tea, I understand the appeal.   The issue I think is that even if you forget about the fact GW2 is coming, there are a lot of other games in the MMO space that feature the same exact gameplay that don't require a fee to play (granted many of them at one point charged then were forced to switch).

I think going forward, you are going to see that the price to play a themepark game will be free to play.  It's the same for MOBAs.   We had a bunch of MOBAs opn the market, League of Legends is free to play, so to justify paying money for the same game experience when you get can it free elsewhere is hard to justify.

The problem I think ultimately is the end game as the OP pointed out.   Rerolling an alt is not really my idea of end game content, although it seems that Bioware was betting on this to an extend because they want you to experiences the various stories.   The problem is that aside from switching sides, the you will be playing through a lot of the same content over again, which is kind of a bore.

In their defense they seem to have an update of some sort coming out fairly quickly all things considered, and if they are somehow able to keep real content coming out in patches that occur on a monthly basis, then maybe you could say the fee is justified.   This remains to be seen though given that the game is only around a month old.