Does anyone else remember when the Pandaran race was an April Fools joke? Blizzard must really be scraping the bottom of the barrel.

Originally posted by DarkPony

Aaaargh ... I really despise this "haves and have nots" segregation. It's like having the choice to use a cash shop before you enter the game. But I really want a CE as especially all those ingame items and options are so appealing and all signs point to me enjoying the game for a long time.

Hhhhnnnrrg .... principles or greed .... what shall I follow ... dillema this.

 

 

I shall enjoy entering and leaving the CE in-game store over and over again just so you plebes can watch me and get more and more jealous.

http://www.g4tv.com/videos/55873/the-mmo-report-thursday-october-20th/

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/reviews/2011/10/playing-the-star-wars-the-old-republic-beta-the-birth-of-a-jedi-knight.ars

Originally posted by Puremallace

No negatives at all. I think a very glaring negative and this is going to get endlessly debated. Is this a single player rpg or mmorpg. Everything in this article and a few others is only about you and I have not heard one reviewer mention others players or how you interact with them.

 

Is that just a oversight because it is worrying alot of people?

It is most definately NOT single player, it most definitely IS an MMORPG.

The article mentions Flashpoints. These have to be played with a full team (4 players) and there are 15 of them in the game. Other articles mention "Heroic Quests" which are everywhere, from the starting planets on up, and these need at minimum 2 players to complete. Further, the very fact of the PvP means that a huge portion of the game is multi-player as you need to play with and against other players.

You can solo the game, but then you are going to be missing an absolutely huge amount of content. It's be like only playing a quarter of the game rather than the whole thing.

In fact, this game is so much an MMO that the reviews don't feel the need to mention the "single-player vs. MMO" question. It's simply a moot point and not worth discussing.

Anyone who claims this game is single player is either lying or completely ignorant of what this game is.

Originally posted by Terranah

I'd like to point out that Star Trek fans are every bit as psychotic, lol.  Great post Coyote!

Case in point: Me when Star Trek Online was released.

Originally posted by kadepsyson

Originally posted by Xondar123

Originally posted by CujoSWAoA

Well, so much for me ever touching EVE.

Without Incarna, I have 0 interest in the place. 

 

Yep. Now that Incarna is effectively dead so is my interest in the game.

Incarna could have been awesome, but CCP went about it in a completely wrong and stupid way.

In a game about flying spaceships I want to walk around like every other MMORPG.

 

Sarcasm aside, there are other Sci-Fi mmorpgs that focus on being on your legs.  EVE is not one of them.

In other words, EVE can't offer mer a basic feature that EVERY OTHER MMO HAS? Wow, that speaks volumes about the game. I might as well play Star Trek Online because there I get to fly spaceships and have a basic feature that EVERY OTHER MMO HAS and EVE is far too lame to have.

Originally posted by Snoepie

150$ WTF LOL

 

are people serieus buying this ???

Have you even looked at the list of stuff that comes with it?

I'd say this is one of the beefier CEs I've ever seen for a video game, so it's a good buy for the SWTOR fan.

Originally posted by CujoSWAoA

Well, so much for me ever touching EVE.

Without Incarna, I have 0 interest in the place. 

 

Yep. Now that Incarna is effectively dead so is my interest in the game.

Incarna could have been awesome, but CCP went about it in a completely wrong and stupid way.

It's a small image so I can't really judge, but that's a Sith on the box art and the last box art had a Jedi. So I'm thinking it's a two sided box with a Sith and Jedi side.

Can not disagree more about the cut scenes.

Originally posted by keithian

There are a lot of evil forum posters here, so I expect nothing less than 3/4 choosing Empire lol.

Hah! Jokes on you, I chose Empire!

Originally posted by Joliust

 

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Originally posted by popinjay
So this is the game that people say is going to kill Rift?
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How can SWTOR kill what is already dead?

Buuuurn!

Originally posted by DarkPony

That's a bit like asking if you'd pick that red tricycle you always dreamed of as a toddler over a Ferrari now.

 

Yes, I agree with the equine.

Have they yet fixed the ugly, low res starship models?

When I played the game I was excited to get a Constitution class ship only to find out that it looked nothing like the ship from the movies that I love so much.

Originally posted by Teala

They'll not lift the NDA.  If they did the truth would get out and they wouldn't be able to sucker people into buying it.

You mistyped "the truith would get out and the servers would crash at launch from everyone in the entire world trying to log in at the same time."

The real reason the NDA hasn't been lifted yet: The hype for this game would go into overload and they'd never be able to get enough servers up and running at launch.

No word on the Legacy System yet?

Originally posted by SaintViktor

Originally posted by maskedweasel

Originally posted by SaintViktor

Originally posted by kadepsyson

I think it's because it has Star Wars in the name.

 Indeed, that is the only real reason why.

No thats not the only reason.

 

 

Based on TOR timeline

BioWare story telling

Polished gameplay

Large Scale Multiplayer BioWare title.

PvP

Decision making in your quests

there are a lot of reasons.  Honestly it being Star Wars is much further down on my list then it being a BioWare game,  and of course, all that comes with that, like decision making and the awesome story.  Plus.. the open world PvP is pretty high up there too,  and after playing the game for more than a month now..... well...  I can't go into the OTHER reasons I'm completely stoked.

 Oh look it is Star Wars, I think I'll play it. Cmon man, it has been around for ages and alot like it. Oh wait you said polished gameplay  ? LOL......

This sentence here shows me you have no idea what you are talking about.

Originally posted by FuryV

This is a genuine question.  Why exactly has SW:TOR got everybody talking about it as if it's the next big thing?

Because it's the next big thing.

Originally posted by Requiamer

"reported as an attack page", please mods delete the OP link, it is a .ru scam or virus infection page. If your link have valid content OP please find an other none infected link.

The link was fine when I put it up, I guess something must have happened to it...

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