Originally posted by tazarconan

Since GW2 is build on the concept that gear aint affecting stats at least not in the way it happens in the rest mmorpg's money economy crafting is doomed only to be around for cosmetic reasons.

In fact money have no value here since there is no point to gather money since u cant enchant gear,or go buy x uber item or gems to further improve it,therefore crafting and the whole economy system are  shallow or someone could say it does not even exist.

 Well this is basicly same on most games, crafting without decay is pretty useless in long run. Same problem with item modifications. Surely pots, food buffs and that stuff is still there since this is what economy in most MMOs is nowdays. Still this is more shallow than most big MMOs offer.

Originally posted by freakishbean

Dark Millenium is pretty much a go, simply because the Warhammer 40k franchise is THQ's biggest draw, next to Saints Row.

 Problem is that Dark Millenium is MMO and that means spending close to 10-20 million per year for development. Thats a huge hit since development times in MMO can be double what it is for normal single game. So I can see that cutting DMO is easiest way to save money.

I hope they don't cancel it but it's the easiest target if they are in financial troubles, like stock price might tell.

Originally posted by ShakyMo

Originally posted by Zarynterk

When you say you can dodge ranged attacks, how can this be done? Is it like Skyrim where you can physically get out of the way, or is it based on your dodge modifier (roll high enough to hit kind of thing). I guess my question, is the game more twitch based like Skyrim/Mortal Online, or WoWish in essence.

you can actively dodge things, there may also be a dodge stat, I've seen stuff about  double tapping straffe keys, but im not certain if thats correct so don't hold me on that, but devs have stated you can actively dodge somehow, but probably not just simple moving out of the way like a FPS

 Double tapping was in AoC, it was pure gimmick feature much like hated shield system. If you have tab targeting you can't have real dodging like in FPS. Most likely you get dodge bonus when you dodge. Ofc we can wait the huge battles where everyone keeps smashing barrell roll and attack buttons.

I'm sorry but blaming engine for problems that they had with LACK OF CONTENT is plain BS. Content isn't created by coders, it's totaly different people. Problem wasn't even polish, it was pure lack of content all together when you get closer to level cap. Funcom has history of rushing games out before proper full game experience.

Yes, TSW has much better start but it has also lot less resources due AoC failure. And yes, TSW has got totally BS critism on this forum but thats same for every game here. Personally Funcom was good company before AoC but how they lied and managed whole AoC publishing I have lost all faith on company. Fanbois and Funcom just have to deal the fact that disappointed AoC fans are going to throw them on rotten tomatotes and TBH they deserve it.

Originally posted by Torgrim

Would you still play it?, and would this game get so high rating across the boards on all gaming sites and mags?

If it was based on what, hentai porn, hello kitty, my writings when I was 6? Hell yes. Let me phrase you another question, would you watch Lord of the rings movies if they weren't directed by Peter Jackson and not based Lord of the rings books at all. Jeesh trolls there days.

Originally posted by omome

I take this blatant fear mongering to be an insulting, below the belt, slap in the face.

[Mod Edit]  Basicly Stephen Reid shoot whole thing down already with dual texture post. Also anyone with even little understanding of programming could easily explain why this is pure fear mongering. Again, basic problem with all game devs in PC world is huge amount of possible HW configurations not to mention all crap that people have in there computers like anti-virus. Then you might have bigger problems like how you done the pipelining of graphics engine, which gets worse in MMO scene because you need to cut those pesky cheaters by coding graphics rendering with network code. Why because if you don't happens what happened with games like Mortal Online or Darkfall. And keep mind Mortal Online is based on Epics version of Hero Engine which they call Atlas. Usually the easiest answer is the correct one. But this has all the good stuff written in it, I mean EA and DRM perfect bullshit to sell on masses that have no clue how games let alone MMO games work.

I personally don't have any problems running this game, but then again I actually know this computer stuff. I don't "optimize" my Windows to gain extra fps(you might get 1 fps more but breaks pretty much everything else), I don't use beta drivers because they give more fps(which they might but causes tons of bugs and instability), I don't install some hack AV or security stuff that some "dude" recommended in Internet(because that "dude" is most likely is some teen with less knowledge of computers than opposite sex genitals).

Originally posted by JeroKane

Originally posted by mmoguy43

Originally posted by Teala

Originally posted by Lidane

Originally posted by Teala

You know what is so damn funny, Bioware was caught lying to their player base and many of them are so blinded by fandom that they do not even know they have been lied to.

Or maybe some people have much bigger priorities in life than a video game.

So the high-res textures aren't in the game. Boo hoo. CRY MOAR. If that's the worst thing that you ever have to deal with, then bully for you.

See perfect example.   By the way, high res graphics were in game, during beta.   That is why the UI had three settings, low, medium, high.   Now Bioware comes out and says there never were any high res textures, which is a lie, and the UI showing the texture settings of low, medium and High should have only ever showed, low and high.   They out right lied to....

I'll give you one thing. It was a lie but it didn't come from Bioware, it came from you, hon.

Ehh what? You can go to the official website and browse every friggin' screenshot and CLEARLY see HighRes textures in every single one of them!

There is also plenty of early Closed Beta footage on the net, posted by Closed Beta testers after the NDA was lifted, that showed HighRes textures ingame!

Jeesh try bit more to pull smoke screen to your lies. Firstly we don't know if those in Closed Beta even had same textures! They have what could be called master version of textures and 3D models that are massive, those are then compressed and packed for different purpose. So you don't know shit what textures and models were in Closed Beta, you can't compare Closed Beta to Final. Secondly they already admited that there is 2 different textures and renderers to handle different situations. And since they are developers they can do stuff players can't, this is nothing new and is wildly used by all game developers.Thirdly it's called marketing showing best of product, does McDonald actually make burgers they show in pictures?

Seriously go away, you been trolling enough based on rumors, pure lies and hatered against this game for last days. We get it, you don't like the game but don't come up lies and wild theories.

Originally posted by Laughing-man

What most people are not getting is that this is important because they misled their player base and they lied to get high end gamers to play their game.  A lot of people built new PCs and were looking forward to the hi rez graphics option, which they claimed would be available in the game multiple times.

I am very disapointed, they should have never advertised this falsely, and they should have admited to their design choice sooner.  This is a big deal.

When was it said that they will have higher graphics in-game? In beta cinematic parts had same rendering as in-game. So did people just read stuff wrong AGAIN. Also they are enabling AA which again makes graphics look better.

Problem with OP and lot of MMO players is that they burn game too much. I personally spend 2-3 hours per day max, sometimes skipping days and it doesn't wear me out. And that's propably what target audience is. What is happening in MMO space is same thing that happened with other gaming space, movement to more casual way. There is tons of smaller MMOs that target those that like to see MMO as second life.

Why so many seem suprised that some Frag nut Danny gives bad score to this. Seriously guy who gives BF3 9/10 has no respect in me. I played BF3 for 5minutes and it was exact copy of Quake 1 rocket jump crap, back to ARMA2 with ACE.

Originally posted by Gylfi

Originally posted by nyxium

TOR has phased instancing to handle crowds in a zone.

why would you not like crowds? Obviously i chose to play an MMO because i like feeling among a cosmos of lives.

 Try do killing quests when hundred people are doing it same time. I think TOR is big step towards player friendliness. Besides chat is same for all instances. Besides who the hell wants crowds, we don't live in cities because we want to travel in crowds. Crowds are just negative aspect of living in same place.

Originally posted by MaGicBush

I do agree this was a bad launch, though far from the worst launch in history. The client runs fine, and seems very polished. However the way Bioware/EA is launching it has been bad, the staggered launch was supposedly to stop queue times and allow for a smooth transition in so as to not crash servers. However, servers have crashed and the queue times are ridiculous on most servers. So they failed in that aspect, they also do not seem to be listening to their own playerbase which have been simple requests. Such as squashing the issue with disconnecting and having to re-queue, or all the negative comments associated with the staggered launch. The communication has been horrible to, with EA/Bioware going back and forth on some issues such as the grace period and staggered launch.

With this said, I still have a pre-order and still plan to play the game as the client and actual game content outweigh those negatives(check my sig). But to say this is a awesome flawless launch like a lot of you have is a bit ridiculous.

 Seriously you have memory of gold fish or never been on MMO launch. WoW had several hours of queues for weeks after launch! Majority of servers went down daily before Blizzard could fix it, the loot bug fix took weeks and was horrible. Personally I got in on 3rd wave of first day, choose server, after 2 days it got about 1hour queue so I choose new server and haven't had that problem ever since. Compared to most major launches this has been good, people are mostly moaning because most games didn't even had early launch in this type of fashion.

One reason, because this forum is full of sorry ass loser haters who are so jealous because there fan game isn't getting this much attention.

Group content is enough and you aren't forced to do it. Those haters seems to think that forcing people to group is good thing in MMO. Thank god Bioware for bringing freedom to play MMO like I want and not like those loser haters think.

I think anyones alarms should ring if you find "deep" article in website of normal magazine. They are crap, usually written by interns, someones kid or some nobody in street. This article is pretty much crap, firstly it gives impression that article is about business but there isn't any talk about business. Useless opinnion by someone who had change to write it in "paper".

Originally posted by FrodoFragins

It's tough figuring out how many servers to make, but they certainly need more considering there will be a big influx of players on release day.  But they may be saving those servers til release so noone has a head start on them.

I personally fail to understand these cock fights. What advantage does head start give in PvE, or even PvP and who the **** even cares unless you are cock, and animals shouldn't play games.

But if thing are like you say and cocks have won, it's very sad day for humanity.

I guess people whined so much for queues that Bioware gives them that. Only 1 server is green, rest are red meaning full or very heavy. Mine has 1hr queue -.-. Now if someone could tell me why the hell there is more german and french server combined than english. Idiot americans.

Sounds like exact opposite of what we view as good in real life.  It's for people who want to feel better than others since they can put more time and effort in game. It sounds superego nightmare where those that are "better" feed those that are "poor", like in Texas. If point of game is to make you feel better than you are in real life, why would you want to have game that has exactly same or even worse system that is in real life.

Besides there is tons of those games, they are competive sport games. Only difference is that they don't try dress themself as something else. In the end it's same thing saying "Oh I'm so much better than you, here have this buff" as it is "Oh I'm so much better than you, eat dirt and die".

OMG I didn't get to Early Access earlier than originally promised Worst launch ever in MMO history!

Originally posted by Mardukk
I think people are missing the point. It appears they have pretty much admitted that they will never take the space combat off rails. Not good news. Everyone keeps saying be patient...well he already said they bypassed xwing/tie fighter combat on purpose, no need to hold out any hope for the space combat in this game.

Why is that even bad thing? Whole open space PvP is stupid thing. It's a concept full of problems in itself not to mention those problems that happen when you try to stick it to game which major point is typical MMORPG group playing.

Stuff we likely to see as someone said before in this thread:

1) Group missions, instead of flying alone you have 3 other people shooting same targets. Easy to implement.

2) Planet missions, I'm not sure but I haven't seen flying in planet surface. Again easy to implement.

3) More stuff. We have now basic cannon and missiles? Add more stuff.

And when people ask why didn't they bring this and that from SWG, I like to remind them: BECAUSE SWG WAS F***ING FAILURE!1! It's like putting your hand on pile of shit and wish it's full of gold when you it out, it never is.

Originally posted by TweFoju

so what if you disconnected? that counts as log out, and thus you lost your item????

 

 Yup, you can imagine the whining in forums when this game starts. Of course there will be huge whining why people who actually try do stuff are punished instead of PKs.