Well I'm not re-subbing. I got to level 43 as a Sith Juggernaut on the Vrook Lamar server, and it was a lot of fun..but just in the last week, I am getting kinda bored. I don't really blame the game though, I think it's just because I'm much older than I was when I first joined this site (almost 8 years ago!) and I really have lost much of my interest in MMORPG's. Also, since I was off during Christmas break, I played a LOT.

That being said however, the game is not half as bad as all the doomsayer's would have you to believe. It was actually pretty fun, especially with RL friends and stuff. I love Bioware too so I hope the game is a huge success for them.

Originally posted by Warmaker

STO

STO

STO

Talk about taking a fabulous, world-wide known IP, and making it an unrecognizable abomination on what Star Trek is.  Absolute waste of huge potential.  And because of STO, there's absolutely no chance of someone making a better Star Trek MMORPG while this piece of trash is still around.

A brighter future for Star Trek MMORPG gaming has been sentenced to 10 years in prison with no chance of parole.

I couldn't have said it better myself. The potential for an online Star Trek game was HUGE and what we got was complete and utter garbage, IMO.

Most disappointing waste of an IP ever!

Originally posted by forest-nl

Played so many games over the years i forgot prolly some who where still rather importend for me as gamer. Here some i remember playing. I also had coleco vision and C64 but forget the names of games i played.

1.Quake 2 - PC

I just wanted to say - that I still, to this day, had the most fun playing Quake 2 compared to any other game... ever.

I played so much of the Freeze Tag mod in Quake 2 that it was almost a sickness!

This is actually great news! I played this game a few montsh ago just to see how it was these days, and the graphics were actually awesome. With HDR and the other graphical updates the game does look amazing, environmentally speaking.

Not just Skyrim, but Saint's Row the Third too!

I won't be playing any MMO until TOR is released. And I feel th same way that you do about MMO's. I'm just sick of them. Oh sure, I'll play TOR when it comes out but I am keeping my expectations as low as possible.

If you think that their cash shop won't have better skills or items in it, then go play AOC and look at their cash shop.

For example, one of the things you can buy in the cash shop, if paying as a ranger, is an upgraded version of a skill called Deft Stabs. You CANNOT get this rank of that skill without buying it.

Honestly, this game looks cool but it IS going to be P2W and P2LookCool.

I'll tell you exactly why people are upset. Because they are having it at launch, which means that things that should have been in the game are now being moved to the cash shop.

Ugh and I was kind of looking forward to this game, too. But what this means is that they will be taking things out of the game and making them only available with RL money.

Oh sure, you will get some points every month for subbing, maybe 30 points or so, so getting that neat pair of pants that cost 400 points will only require you to be subbed for over a year! Woooo awesome!

Seriously, this is a dumb move on their part and only the most die-hard fans will end up playing it now.

I had to laugh when I was reading the forum for this game, people there are saying that this game will give SW:TOR competition.. That's pretty funny!

Originally posted by Torvaldr

I have access to my old characters of the 3 slots I can unlock (I bought an additional slot a long time ago).  But I can't delete and remake a new character from a locked class.  In fact I can't delete and remake any characters at the moment without deleint ALL my old characters because there is some bug associated with character deletion/creation (it's on the forums).

@Frodo: You can't unlock AA unless you subscribe.

Yep I checked out the F2P model and was stunned that someone like me, who had both the previous game AND expansion couldn't roll a new character on Deathwish with any class I wanted. I mean, WOW. Talk about gouging your former customers who actually have payed you in the past.

If they had allowed former players to have all classes unlocked, have some of the dungeons like Sanctum and Pyramid of the Ancients without paying for them, and raised the stupidly low 2 gold limit to something like, 15-20 gold, then I probably would have played the game and dumped some coin into it.

FWIW, I DID roll a new character on Deathwish to check it out, and the global chat had some of the most offensive chat I've seen in any game EVER. I vaugely remember what it was about but I rememeb the n-bomb being used frequently.

IMO you should pass on it, if you're a former player. You will be missing too many of the things that you used to sub for, and let's be honest, if you wanted to sub this game before, you already would have.

Originally posted by Zookz1

I seriously think they auto-ban for certain activity.

I was thinking the same thing but I just checked my account and it's not banned. I haven't played since the month after the game came out. (October I believe.)

@Toolfan and Catriona - Just curious, is this god mode hack responsible for the people that seem to auto-log out when close to death? I can't count how many times I would be attacking someone and then poof, they vanish. And it wasn't their totem either, because they literally disappeared when I was hitting them.

Was just curious, because again it happened a lot..and no one can minimze their game and End Process that quickly!

Originally posted by Catriona85

Spin the facts my pretty Scottish arse. Even a cursory glance at the official forums will confirm that spiking has been an issue since day 1. Yes 1.05 introduced downloading on the fly. But that does not detract from the FACT that spiking has been here since the beginning. Also don't try and throw in filthy innuedo that I was banned from the game. I was banned from their forums for telling the truth. Now since Funcom operate a truth embargo, that is not surprising is it.

Frankly do your research before making scurrilous allegations.

I have to agree with Catriona here, the red bar spiking HAS been around since day 1. Long before the background downloader was introduced. Which means that it's something that will NEVER go away.

Originally posted by bongo123

so theres no easy fix for this? that sucks

Grats on your new laptop!

As for the lag spikes, my guess would be that it's the background downloader that's plaguing you. Try opening your launcher and go to "Options" (or whatever it's called, its been a few months since I played) and on the left side, check off all the content to download. Mark them all and close your Options screen, and see if it starts downloading more files. I would guess that's probably why you're lagging a bunch.

Unless you keep seeing your latency bar spike to red. In that case, it's just your ISP!  /sarcasm

Originally posted by Catriona85

Spiking has been an issue for almost as long as I can remember playing aoc. Sometimes it is indeed gamebreaking, and unplayable pingrates in sieges are common. A server reset appears to ameliorate the situation somewhat, but then the spiking builds up to it's former frequency. There have been multiple threads over the years complaining about this, and in fact being told by Funcom, "it's not us, it's your isp."

It's not your isp. It's them, even though they won't admit it.

Yep I remember those, good old red bar lag.  That's something that has been around since the game came out, and for them to say it's our ISP is pretty laughable.

Other than the red bars, you sometimes get a massive "freeze", where your screen becomes completely frozen and you end up 100m away from where you were when it started. Always loved those too. But I'm sure that according to Funcom, that's just my hardware...my Maximus Formula, QX9650 Extreme CPU, 8 gigs of RAM and eVGA GTX470.

 I have no real problems with the game, but let's be honest people - this IS the game that will we will see at launch. I remember all those Aion betas, where we could play for 3-4 days at a time and then have to wait weeks before playing again. That beta was restricted (level cap) and was the EXACT same game that we had at release.  People said the same thing then, "This isn't the whole game" "It's only a beta" etc.

I'm not saying that this is necesarily a bad thing (the game never crashed on me or anything) but stop pretending that there is some miracle path that will happen on release day.

The game looks great visually, the animations are very well done, but the horribly laggy mouse and overall crap interface have totally killed any desire for me to play it. Plus I don't like a game dictating how much I can progress in the class that I want to play, but let's not get into THAT here.

Whoever plays though, have fun! I hope they fix that mouse issue soon for you.

Originally posted by Lukekini

 Cartoon style is just what it is. Hate it or like it.

I hate it.

I LOVE Bioware, I mean Mass Effect 1/2 and Dragon Age are some of the best games ever IMO...but the cartoon graphics of this Star Wars game was enough for me to pass on it. Have fun playing it though guys, I hope it's fun for you. (Not being sarcastic.)

Originally posted by xpowderx

These RETARDS really need to learn what it is they are saying. Instead of accusing people they do not agree with as such a horrible thing.

So for me, who really knows what they are saying, it is disgusting, sad and a terrible thing to say to anyone. So for future reference, think of them as having a mental disorder or retardation. Because they show it daily.

Sarah Palin just called, she wants you to apologize for using the R word.

But seriously, you are one to talk about accusing people of throwing out things that they don't understand. Not you personally, but your party. Calling us Socialists, Marxists, Fascists (sometimes, all three at once!) and calling Obama the same. Classic example - the elderly man at a Tea Party rally who had a sign that read, and I quote "Keep your government hands off of my Medicare."

Anyways, my opinion on the Arizona Law actually leans towards what the Conservatives think about it. Something NEEDS to be done in Arizona, the crime rate there is breaking 10%. However, this approach could have disastrous results. Police are going to harass a U.S. citizen, and they're going to be sued. It's inevitable.

What really needs to be done (and most of my Conservative friends agree with me on this) is to bring some of our troops home (preferably, the 30,000 or so stationed in stupid places like Germany and Japan) and have them actually GUARD our borders. Don't deal with illegal immigrants while they're here, get them while they're COMING here.

I'll give my opinion of the "alpha." Yeah, I said it.

Clunky as hell. It feels like you weigh 1000 pounds with the way that you move. SLOW. Lumbering.

I logged in the first time, ran around a bit..graphics looked okay all maxed out. Went to the help menu and was reading about the game and how to do stuff. Hit a key to use mouse lock (z key I think? can't remember) and clicked on an option at the top. Clicked the Z key again and the game totally froze. I mean it hard locked, with green and white fuzzies all over the place. NO it wasn't my computer or anything, no overheating. Just a crappy programming job I guess. I can play Mass Effect 2 for HOURS, minimize the game for 4 hours and come back and play with no crashes. Not a single one.

The animations looked, IMO, absolutely horrible.

The character models, again IMO, looked absolutely horrible.

The sound..uhh..sounded, absolutely horrible. The music was ehh okay, the sound of unsheathing your weapon was okay. The other few sounds I heard really sucked badly though.

I knew a kid in high school once, he weighed about 300 piunds, and even that fat tub of lard could jump higher than your character can in this game.

I think I'll stop here. Sorry, but this game is another Dark and Light. IE - a total ripoff and wouldn't surprise me if they start scamming people's credit card numbers, double charging them, etc. Again, this is all my opinion.

"Hey, roundeye! You cheat, we see you cheat. Now hurry go to our fake website and enter your personal details. WIth warmest regards."