los grafix have nuffin to do with latency interwebs conenction etc... what they have to do with is 

1. You will have a bagillion players in a mmo in one area where your high end nvidia card will have to hustle and bustle to render. Most single playa games, playa, dont befall this issue. 

2. while you won't see RAGE style textures in SWTOR the art direction is actually pretty damn good. But yes, uber high rez textures and more realistic characters perhpas would have been better for some, but at the end of the day there's a very very valuable reason they're not in there, and thats the same reason they're not in the WoWski.

It being that SWTOR needs to run on a Gateway or Dell computer that a kid's dad picked up from Best Buy somewhere in rural Idaho, or for that matter a computer somewhere in a house in Hungary, or Estonia. 

Why? Bottom line. 

The game is a ridiculously fun themepark (and I hates me themeparks), and it's a subscription based game, meaning the more subs, the more cashioca puddin' in the coffers. And that right there is why you dont get a Skyrim-ish looking SWTOR. 

Hope that helped and have a nice day. 

i would  never play one a pve server, might as well just fall asleep. 

Originally posted by rznkain

Originally posted by strangepower

Sorry, you are not entitled to test the game.

The beta is not a trial.

There will be no open beta.

  Thats fine but alot will be just like me if we don't get in before release we will simply cancel our pre-order and play something else.The days of me paying for a game on the premise that it might be good is over with.If I am not worthy enough to be in your beta then you surely don't need  or want my money or my buisness.

LOL, You're funny. I'm sure your tiny miniscule contribution isn't going to even get noticed. 

But in all, I dont understand all this "entitlement", I deserve to be in XYZ. Trutyh be told, you don't deserve diddly. If you [re-prdered. good for you, you'll get early access, ther's your pre-order reward. 

I swear, entitlement is what's making this country (the US) a P.o.S.. Sigh... 

I'm a Sandbox guy through and through, but I have to say that while beta testing this game I had a s*it ton of fun, and am really looking forward to playing it for a while. 

just got my house and am growing bubble crops along with some spinach, love the boost, and wha a surprise, this game just keeps on getting better and better. 

I loved the concept the idea and the game, and like a sucka bought it, and was later totally dissapointed and even banned from this site because of it for months. Har har... bu no really I was. 

In retrospect its 30 some odd bucks ill never get back, which in all honesty I'd rather just have donated to a decent indy outfit. 

I kinda think it's all sorts of fantastic. And I like that, Eve + ATID + Super Mario + Dressup, and you get to nibble on pigs. Pure awesome! 

just another FYI, the whole comment on "validation service" i.e. Steam is so easy to bypass that it's not even funny. Also anyone who can copy-paste files into folders with a little googling can d/l install, and bypass validaiton services. 

See what bothers me in articles on this website, is that so often the people who write them are simply uninformed. 

Just my 2 cents. 

i second that.

shame really, it's such a pretty game. but then again just points to prove graphics dont make the game. 

This game is like pringles, once you pop you cant stop, spent the better part of this weekend playing it, and *gasp* may re-play and I NEVER EVER do that. 

totally worth it. 

Most better crops wont take you unless you have 6m SP, not too bad really, and quick to get. Also get into the eve academy, lear the ropes there, fly with other nubs, and hey, you may even just bounce w/ them when they move, or maybe start your own corp, who knows. 

Aside from that, recruitment channel, and just talk to peeps. 

edit: pm me if you want a 21 day buddy code. :)

Seriously, Join a corp, eve solo is just awful! 

Originally posted by DarkTiger32

TBH once you hit 10m sp, sp doesn't matter anymore. After that point it's all aboot your fits, ability to avoid derp, and your corpies/alliancefodder. You can be in a decent BC within a couple months with meta mods and be useful in fleets.

^ This

and best part is you can be a valuable addition to any corp within that time period. I will say though the game is very zen a lot of time, and def uniqie, but that's why so many people enjoy it. 

PM me if you want a 21 day buddy code as well. Cheers man, and hope to see you in game. 

1. Persistant world where why actions imact it (I only play sandboxes)

2. Players are much more fun to kill than mobs, pew pew pvp style rocks. 

3. Because I can't fly spaceships in real 

4. Becasue I cant make fireballs come out of my hands (or other places) in real

5. Because it's all very serios business. ;)

In all honestly, I think it's going to be a PVE version of DF. Or something along those lines. 

Your entire post focuses on some games, in Eve for example, you're not a super duper blessed by the gods hero. You're a nobody, unless you make yourself into one. 

In UO, you were just a player living in the virtual world, the Hero's were the ones who did the cool stuff in game, changed the way people thought about it. 

Some other less open games, sure there's a lot of kill 10 rabbits, save 10 princesses, bring me back 10 dragon's teeth, you're my hero. But on the flip side, there are other games that don't have you do that, so why not just play one of those?

:) 

Originally posted by Xerith

Except I cannot access it in their new business model, which to me seems odd. Im not about to run about spewing how I should get this and that for free, but lets face it, this entire f2p switch is a marketing move to get both new and returning subscribers to head into the game and see what is new, get them hooked and eventually turn them into subscribers. As a level 80, 95% of the content for me rests in Khitai, ....

A company, wanting to generate revenue, expand its customer base and increase their bottom line through marketing, THE AUDACITY!!!!!