Originally posted by superus

uh.. i do care that's why i'm posting.. we can demand better!!!  I'm sorry BigMango if it's sensi-poo time but I don't blame BW for the strategy they are taking but the point is that we as a gaming consumer base should expect more, not just take it as you put it "business as usual".

All I'm saying is it's clear as day based on the timing of this "Founders" email.  If you continue to subscribe to this drivel then I feel sorry for you.  You are truly part of the cash cow herd that EA is milking..

http://pc.ign.com/articles/121/1216719p1.html  (haha this has nothing to do w/ my post but I just found it amusing).

Well, that's how the world works. There's no point in starting to swim against the current today, you'll just be frustrated your entire life. Better to learn to deal with it

There's nothing to milk here. I am only level 35, so I'll be subbing at least to finish my story. I'll see later how it goes past level 50.

Hehe, thanks for the link..

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Originally posted by JeroKane

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Originally posted by stealthbr

Jesus, don't overreact... It's just a title for those who sub in the first few months, that's all there is to it... I'm off to bed, but I strongly recommend you don't waste more of your time with this.

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Because other MMO's introduced these titles and didn't require you to subscribe to the game. You earned them by participating in Beta, pre-ordering the game and buying the Retail!
This email only proofs that a hell lot of people have ditched the game and not gonna subscribe, so they try to lure people to subsribe with a stupid title! lol.

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No, this was certainly planned long ago.

It's a well known fact that many players only start subbing a few month after launch to let things settle down. This is just an incentive to get some of them to sub within the next 2 months.

Other games had and still have veteran points and other useless things to keep people subbed. Some are giving titles to veterans.

There's nothing new here.

Originally posted by superus

Originally posted by BigMango

Look how the haters are raging again because they'll be missing out on a title. And now those who will get the title are labelled as sheep and what else? Lmao. How can someone put so much emotions into a non-issue?

Sorry but I could care less about a meaningless title.  You are truly free to spend your hard earned $ however you see fit but if you can't see the marketing spin behind this then you deserve to throw money down the drain.. lol.

If you didn't care you wouldn't want to waste the time to post about it.

If this works BW would be stupid not to do it. Business as usual. Furthermore, if someone is ready to pay 15 bucks for the sole reason of getting a title, then it is worth it to him. People are spending much more than this on nonsense like  getting drunk every saterday evening. Go figure

Almost all mmos have been doing things like this, with veteran points and other useless trinkets (EQ2, AOC, Lotro, Wow, etc.....).

Then you have the people spending 100+ bucks on collector editions... many don't even care for the hard goods, they just want the ingame trinkets and titles. Who would want to spend their money on this?

Nothing new to see here.

Look how the haters are raging again because they'll be missing out on a title. And now those who will get the title are labelled as sheep and what else? Lmao. How can someone put so much emotions into a non-issue?

Yeah, and Wow is popular because of the McDonald's Disneyland design and now the pandas. Seriously. 

Not Rift, if anything it reminds me of everything Darkfall tried to do but failed to achieve.

Originally posted by monstermmo

I love the defensive fanboyism.

I never said i was quitting.

It's nothing about you. I was just comparing your post with all the rubbish flying around about SWTOR being a single player game.

If you are left with only group content at level 20, just move on to the next planet (go back to the holo terminal in your ship, they'll send you on to your next mission).

Originally posted by niceguy3978

Originally posted by monstermmo

Im level 20 and havent wanted to log in cuz pretty much every quest i have atm is a group quest and i dont want to be bothered getting a group for each of them right now.

Not saying i dont like to group, just dont want to be forced to and not in the mood for it at this point in the game. When im in the mood to sit around in general chat LFG then ill play again.

That's interesting, most of the people quitting say they don't want to pay a monthly fee for a single player game.  You seem to be quitting because it isn't a single player game.

+1... was about to post the same. Lmao. These players don't know what they want.

SWTOR is a good game. I hope you'll find a game you like.

Originally posted by Professor78

Shame this isnt in HD but you get the idea, SWTOR can't come near to this in shadows, textures, lighting and reflection.... Look at all the little things like fire reflection, Sunlight beams coming through trees and glinting of objects. Trees swaying and shadows reacting how they should. Show me something comparble from SWTOR!

Seriously It baffles me how some people can;t tell teh difference between bland graphics iwth all he nice bits in to immerse tou into the game.

Make sure you select 720p so its not all blury!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrDNx-g0AeQ&feature=related

Yep, nice video. It looks great indeed.

Originally posted by Painlezz

Originally posted by BigMango 

Sorry, but looking at the screenshot in the OP, swtor looks much better.

You are talking about a bug. Some people are currently having a bug with swtor, which makes the game only display low res character textures (I have seen these shots). But for the people that get the game to work properly (I and many others) it looks great (same as the ingame cinematics). And now they are talking of giving us even better textures.

No, actually the cut scenes have higher res as stated by BIOWARE themselves.  So, you are wrong.  Some people might have horrible low resolution textures yes.  But no one has high resolution.  At least not nearly as high as the game claims to have available (cut scenes).

My ingame armor looks exactly the same as in the cinematics (many others have confirmed the same). Only the faces are higher res in the cinematics, but this difference you don't seen ingame as the ingame characters are much smaller than the fullscreen cinemactics.

The big fuss on the forums is from the many people who only get the low res bug (I agree this problem exists for some people as I have seen their shots, which don't look like what I see ingame at all).

The good thing is that thanks to this we'll get even better textures.

Originally posted by Professor78

 

2 months.

BW said today that the highres character textures would be coming with game update 1.2, this Q1 2012.

http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?p=1499874#edit1499874

 

SWTOR high rez is roughly abouts RIFTS low to medium setting in my personal opinion. SWTOR looks like it did on the console one kotor.

Sorry, but looking at the screenshot in the OP, swtor looks much better.

You are talking about a bug. Some people are currently having a bug with swtor, which makes the game only display low res character textures (I have seen these shots). But for the people that get the game to work properly (I and many others) it looks great (same as the ingame cinematics). And now they are talking of giving us even better textures.

Originally posted by boubhs

Originally posted by Bunks

Not me, I'm waiting for SWTOR II (the Hi rez reviewers version) to be released soon. That's gonna put Rift to shame :)

 

Then you will wait a long time m8 :)

2 months.

BW said today that the highres character textures would be coming with game update 1.2, this Q1 2012.

http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?p=1499874#edit1499874

Originally posted by Laughing-man

Originally posted by cloud8521

a SSD is not worth the cost. just becuase they are severly limited in the capasity department

How about because after a while they become slower than normal HDs?

http://www.brighthub.com/computing/hardware/articles/43400.aspx

So why pay more for something that only works better for a limited amount of time?

SSDs are a waste of money.

Edit:  Here, do some googling, do some research, lets all be realistic here, SSD's are a failure of technology, like the Virtual boy or Zip Drives...

They are a scam at worst, and a waste of money at best.

No, there are very slow SSDs and very fast SSDs.

Furthermore, this article is from May 2011, so talking about SSD generations 1 and 2. We are currently at generation 3 which fixed almost all problems SSDs had, and soon moving on to 4.

Finaly, this article says "Strictly speaking, it's not that SSDs slow down over time: it's that they can only write so many times to the drive.". You also have the problem with HDs. I am losing data and replacing at least 1 HD per year due to errors in my household.

Go watch some youtube comparison videos to see how much faster everything is on SSDs. Seriously, who would even want to install windows on an HD today? If you are broke and barely strugling to make a living on social security we can understand. This still doesn't mean you would want it.

Originally posted by drbaltazar

Originally posted by Terranah

Underwhelming.

 

Needed:

 Sell back feature on vendors.

 Appearance tab.  

Hi rez textures.  

Optimization of game and decreased loading times. I didn't really have a problem with Taris and performance.

aside from aa i cant say i figure what your talking about might need to play with your setting i play in 1080i30(gpu), ingame set at 59 deinterlacing in gpu set at adaptative movement ,with adjustement detection on and so far aside from aa the graphic are gorgeous no issue at all

Anti aliasing has been working fine for me since launch.

Here's how to enable it:

http://www.pcgamer.com/2011/12/20/enhance-your-graphics-in-star-wars-the-old-republic-with-these-simple-steps/

I have set it to 2 in the ini file, and then forced at 8x CSAA + 2x transparency AA in the nvidia control panel. Works perfect.

As for the textures I know some people with ATI have a bug which prevents them to get the same textures in game as in the dialogs, but on Nvidia it works fine; I get the same good quality textures ingame and in the dialogs.

Btw, enabling 16x anisotropic filtering and changing all of the settings to high quality in the Nvidia control panel greatly enhances ingame textures quality (this is the same with any game).

Originally posted by Honeymoon69

Originally posted by BigMango

 

SWTOR has changed mmorpgs for many players who now can't go back to the old generation of choiceless text based games with the single OK button anymore.

That said, "end game" logevity is a valid question. I'm not there yet.

 

what choice is that when u can pick any of 123 and still go on like anyone else doing exactly same quest and follow same story like everyone else.

The choices I make ingame:

1. open up new quest lines and determine my future relation with my companions. (i.ex: new quests with companion romance -> you can even get married)

2. determine the gear I wear depending on my light/dark level

3. determine if I will meet an NPC again in the future or not (If I decide to kill him I won't. If I allow him to live I will). This happened several times already.

4. determines if an NPC will contact me by mail or not; if NPCs will send me money or stuff by mail or not; and also changes the content of the mails I receive in my inbox from NPCs.

5. determine the amount of time my companions spend on crafting, gathering and quests I send them to do. The more a companion likes you the faster he will be.

6. determines my character's physical appearance (face and eye color will change depending on light/dark level).

7. the light/dark level also sometimes determines how NPCs talk to me.

To sum it up, RPG is greatly enhanced as you can really chose how you want to role play your character, how he will reply to quests and talk to people and this will also have an effect on him, on his future, if he falls in love or not, if he gets married or not, on the way he dresses, and on the way he physically looks.

Originally posted by Mephster

 Still a good feat to sell 2 mill copies but I think you are correct. If the game bought something new to the genre in a positive way then I could see it having more staying power. You know like giving players something to strive for after the end game. The end game in The Old Republic is too weak.

SWTOR has changed mmorpgs for many players who now can't go back to the old generation of choiceless text based games with the single OK button anymore.

That said, "end game" logevity is a valid question. I'm not there yet.

Originally posted by Precusor

Whens the release date?

Tuesday, Jan 10th.

Originally posted by zymurgeist

So they're just going to sit on their hands and produce no new content right? Oh wait, latest patch on the test server has new content. Look at that, who would have thunk it. You shpuld really give up trying to think for other people. They're perfectly capable of doing it themselves. They might even agree with you.

Yep, and just 2 weeks after launch, they know where they are going with this game.

Of course this was planned.... but well done nevertheless.

Does anyone know if they have planned to add more ships to purchase/earn in future content updates?

Originally posted by thekid1

I wouldn't worry to much about immersion..

What I mean is there doesn't seem to be much immersion anyway  with companions being duplicates and an eery lifeless feeling world.

 

I think having a bunch or Jedi/Siths walking around everywhere is one of the smaller issues this game has immersion wise.

 

With the number of different companions and everyone assigning different clothing to their companions, I don't find them to be duplicates at all.

With the clothing management, it's much less of an issue than the pets which are all looking the same in other mmos.

And I don't find the world to be lifeless. Especially not as what you can see in some other games (i.ex: Vanguard, Darkfall,...). There could be more activity in some places (a few of them need a rewamp), but I find the NPC animations and movements very well done. Certainly better than in many of the other mmos. That said, it's not Skyrim.

Originally posted by Rocketeer

Originally posted by BigMango

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Originally posted by boubhs


play the game and you will see the bad review in front of your eyes..

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Why should HE find it bad? Because YOU are saying so?
It's a good game. It still needs to improve, and it's not for everyone (no game is); but this doesn't make it a bad game.

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You know, im pretty sure there where people who said the same about AoC, Warhammer, Rift, Aion etc.

Since when are AoC, Rift, Aion, bad games?