Originally posted by Benjola

I'm not a huge fan of fast leveling and easy to solo mobs at any level in the process.

I'm also not a fan of long leveling grinds and mobs that take 5min to take down.

Balance is needed of course but it looks like Bluehole opted for Ez-mode for their western client ( I guess they know their average western gamer mindset heh)

The MMo trend has been to make game easier, do you know why, because hard core gamers are dying, player skill is deteriorating, and they prefer to just say they made it to end game, they could give a fuck about earning it.

Look at swtor, a leveling curve so fast that youhad to skip quests chains just so you wouldnt outlevel the content, forget doing dungeons if you even did the bonus series the next planet would be 90% greyed out to you. Its all a joke, i seriously miss the days of eq 1 and lineage 2 when it actually took 2 or 3 months to hit max level, not 2 or 3 days.

lets see them balance this so it doesnt turn into 40 viable skills and 460 nonsense abilities. I find it hard to believe this system wont just turn into people asking for the best and nobdy experiementing, followed by the ones who experiment sharing what they learned so nobody else experiements.

I dont see funcom being able to balance a system like this, all wait and see however.

Originally posted by Creslin321

Originally posted by Ganathar

The RIFT forums are that way -------> http://www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/game/431/view/forums/forum/1001/General-Discussion.html

 Uhhh...so are you saying that ideas from other games that are extremely applicable to major problems in SWTOR shouldn't even be considered?

Dont bring that crazy talk here, people might think you work for blizzard or something with that kind of logic.

Originally posted by Puremallace

Originally posted by Tidel

I have come across a few things in the game. Are any of you finding swtor to be a little racist? Or possibly gender bias?

Just curious.

nah nothing gender bias about a tool that elts you torture your female companion on demand. Been there done that OP Bioware calls it story telling. The people who rate these games T for teen are going to end up agree'n with you.

You have to be the same puremallace from aion, nobody else trolls on your level.

Originally posted by cura

Originally posted by DarkPony

Originally posted by cura

They took down server for this??

And scheduled maintenance !!??1122

 

Which should be performed in the night.

The night according to Whom? you realize downtime is going to piss somebody off somewhere, it was preformed in the night. They took the servers down at 3am est.

Originally posted by Gorilla

Underwhelming compared with say Trion around the launch of Rift. What really niggles me is that in the EU this is a crappy time fr maintenance.

YOu have a link to trions very first patch notes?

2 days after christmas, back to work, but lets completely ignore that fact.

Originally posted by jpnz

Originally posted by dubyahite
I'm paying for two subs.

Never stop slicing.

Never not slice.

Why stop slicing?

Stop slicing, what?

 

Did i get it right? :P

 slicing is good to 50, but, you make way more money just killing mobs once you are in your 40s, so you can actually focus on other crew skills.

Yeah, bioware is teh first company to ever do this, you know they dont charge you until the 30 days is up right , you just need to prove you have some sort of valid subscription method, you know you can cancel it right away right, just to make sure it doesnt automatically bill you each month.

You know if you had an 8th grade education you wouldnt make threads like this, youd just use common sense and not panic over nonsense.

Ill probably get a warniing for that last one. meh.

Maybe if you guys visited the ACTUAL bioware forums instead of trolling on this one all the time you wouldve seen LAST WEEK that bioware, outlined all their maintences for the entire week in a stickied thread.

This maitenence wasnt a surprise for anyone who actually follows the game.

This is not an MMO, its a lobby game. Zone are instanced.

Thats as much as i read then i just stopped. Because anyone who has played the game knows that this is an outright lie, thats the problem with reviewers, you are allowed to write them without having to prove that you actually played the damn game.

Looks like a pvp server to me, are you sure you should be a guild leader?

Originally posted by sanosukex

Originally posted by jdlamson75

Wow, man.  I feel your pain.  I mean, actually having to pay attention to things.  The horror.

hope you enjoy it at 50 with dozens of abilties and no way to tell when you reactives are ready other than spamming the key hoping they are available or stare at your hotbar.. loads of fun there

I started gaming before indicators, unlike you, i know how to play my toon perfectly without relying heavily on indicators. You forget that indicator crap is a adaptation of  a WoW mod, its not in everquest 1 or 2, its not in final fantasy 11, its not in lineage  so most first generation Gamers know how to play without relying on crutches.

Thats the problem with to many UI mods, just like the way using MSN abbriviations fuck up your grammar in the long run, waiting for giant flashing click me buttons make you a weaker player.

Originally posted by Watface

Originally posted by DeserttFoxx

Oh so by competitive features you mean only pvp features, i see.

 

Here i thought their warzones, and badges for killing other players in world pvp as well as an ENTIRE planet dedicated to world pvp was a pvp feature, guess not.

 

Stop complaining about the single group warzone queueing lets face it, 4 people can run a warzone in this current build, you dont need 8, and 8 premades vs 8 pugs is not fun for all parties involved. you dont need to be able to do it.

Im not interested in providfing fun to people that cant be arsed to learn some basic skills and play as a team in a team game.

 

Rewarding these types of player is folly unless you are just after their $$$$

Here is what you dont understand, 4 skilled players can dominate 8 pugs. Have you not figured it out yet? Biowares approach to everything is less is more.

You speak like you are hardcore but you arent. I am a hardcore raider/pvper, i personally cant stand pvping against anyone who cant put up a decent fight, i dont even gank low levels, if i get into a warzone and i know for a fact its all pugs i could careless if i own them if im rolling with a full guild group.

But you and i cleraly have a difference sense of pride, and i take no pride in crushing the weak.

Oh so by competitive features you mean only pvp features, i see.

Here i thought their warzones, and badges for killing other players in world pvp as well as an ENTIRE planet dedicated to world pvp was a pvp feature, guess not.

Stop complaining about the single group warzone queueing lets face it, 4 people can run a warzone in this current build, you dont need 8, and 8 premades vs 8 pugs is not fun for all parties involved. you dont need to be able to do it.

I wish they would ask about the character creator.

Make a list of every game that has had a lifetime subscription and look at where they are now.

Lifetime subscriptions are  a scam, if a company offers it at launch it is a clear sign they have no faith in their game over the long term, they plan on shutting it down or going free to play in a year or two at most.

Lifetime subs usually equal to 2 years worth of subs upfront, which means after the 25th month they start losing large amounts of money just keeping the lifetime subs. If TOR offered a lifetime sub i would cancel my preorder.

Originally posted by Falin

well gee of course they have 900k pre-orders they were all over their forums asking people to pre-order for a chance to get in the beta!

Please link 1 thread, not several just one, where that proves this statement isnt complete bullshit.

People who dont see ToR potential do not understand the MMO genre at all. Tor in its current state is much further along then WoW was at launch. It has more features and foundations set then any MMO to be released in the last 4 years.

People need to understand that MMOs need to be released in stages, first the foundation of the game has to be perfect, all the expected features should be in place and flawless, which is what Bioware has done, they have a solid foundation laid for them to add WHATEVER nexgen features they want. This time next year, SWTOR will be the one to beat, i will put money on that.

It is hilarious, The mmo genre has degraded the need for telling a story so much that people actually believe it is a hinderance when the game actually has one. I assure you all of oyu people who are against story in an MMO, forget that RPG is at the end of that acryonym. And you same people who would rather not have it because it "SLows you down" havent played the game or prefer to grind in game.

Ive done situatiations in game, where i have completely talked myself into a fight, out of a fight, talked other parties to fight each other, all netting the same xp, taking the time to enjoy the story doesnt slow you down, it adds. You start to give a shit about what happens in game, which no other MMO can claim to do.

But if you are deadset on hating the Voice overs, then, you reserve the right to smash spacebar, use it, you are only depriving yourself.

But just like how single player RPG like Skyrim are now 100% voice over, when in the past they used to be 100% text, MMOs will be walking the same road, you think blizzards next MMO wont be 100% voiced? Get used to the cutscenes.

Originally posted by fenistil

Originally posted by DeserttFoxx

Originally posted by Grotar89

I skipped 90% of VO while playing TOR, most of them are unnecessary...

Well story is only nessessary if you want to hear it, if you just want to grind mindlessly then obviously it will be a hinderance.

You realize that you can have wonderful story WITHOUT voice over?

You can also have great dialog without voice over or even without cutscenes...

 

 

I really don't like polarization saying "you're not amazed by VO then you're grinder and don't care about story" <-- this is NOT true, at least not in my case.

So you want to go back to the wall of texts? really? let me answer that for you, it is because you want to go back to fucking ignoring the story. Because lets face it, Books are awesome, audiobooks are better.  Quests are awesome, voiced quests are better.