You'll most likely get bored of such a game as TOR when your balls drop and you stop talking with a squeaky voice.

Originally posted by xDayx

Im a fairly experienced pc gamer but cant understand the hatred for EA. Other than nickel and diming Sims expansions(which I dont blame them for), why the hate for EA?

 

  If you're a Pc gamer, then you should know why there's a hate towards EA for many reasons. They've taken many good Pc gaming companies under their wing and killed what made their games loved by their fans.

 Go have a google on how many companies with land mark Pc game titles EA  has taken over and picked apart ,only for later titles released under the same name to be a shadow of  the games they were making before. People seemed to have forgotten about that for a time, Bioware is just one of their later companies they're now ruining the magic touch they had before.

Ultima online  EA's and the free fan services will still be standing. There's a lot in UO todays new developers can learn a lot from on what makes a MMO last.  There more stories to be told in UO experiences than 1000 of TOR put together.

 Not any time soon,but it will have a constant revolving door of people coming in and out. This will be due to  how fast you level in the F2P STO.  I came back at LT 16 where I left it after my first month when it was first release and with in a  week  of casual play I'm now Capitan 36. 

 A game with very little content and dull end game people will feel inclined to not log in. I'm already bored of it again already. The Duty offer system is just stale. They have fast levelling and then add this to it to make it faster.

 The whole raid for an item that goes into the need for greed is dated and not fun any more, and that's all you have to do end game. With the slow progress that will be done on the game this year, this game will be a year away from anything meaningful happening to it.

Retention rate of the share holders squeezing their buttocks together more like over the worries of the  longevity of a MMO shoved into a single player hole.

It's really staying. "Sub even though you played our single player MMO and all it has to offer ,and you will get a medal & title to show others how special you are" *rolls eyes*  You've got to be a brainless consumer to pay a sub just for this fluff if you were going to cancel.  They must know the cancel button going to get hit a lot rolling this out as they have. Well if they didn't take the community tools and M out of MMO things might have more life when people have been lead to the end of the game by the game and not by their own path.

Planetside 2

Yes I remember, he was also very addicted to prescription pain killers too during a lot of  VG's development when it was Sigil if I remember right.

* 10K Critical Strike from wall of text *  *Falls and Lays motionless on the floor of the thread with an empty health bar waiting for a rez*.

I so hope May is going to be released date and the date in the PS2 story was an easter egg for SOE's goal to get it out the door by then.  This is the only MMO I want to play! I hope the dev team nail the performance down quick now they got all the assets in put all together and now it's all about the balance and getting it to run good with a lot of  peopl, the beta testers!

"I have to briefly talk about MMOs and their engines." 

 Nope you just have to talk about TOR and its rubbish choice of engine!  SOE FL engine cleans the floor with this engine and certainly doesn't have the restrictions EA are making out for excuses, as do other engines out there who certainly don't fit EA's excuse of " other MMO's and their engines" blame game.  No the truth is you picked an engine that had other short comings,but you wanted some of it pros leaving you to make up long BS reasons to explain yourself like this.  I have one word for you EA “tessellation”  come into the 21 century and use it! You may of not had this issue in the first place, but oh wait they can't do that, they've got console plans for it no doubt!

When TV was first invented and not shown to the public yet, it was 3D, the inventor then dropped that design for a 2D display design for the simple fact, we see it as 3D on 2D screen anyway. When you play 2D, you don't view your fps game as 2D when playing, your mind sees it as 3D, you sense depth, you have a sense of 3D objects and world. So you'll always have people whose minds get on with with 3D'ing their 3d mind,  if that makes sense, and people whose minds don't get on with it, for this reason, 3D gaming, and media in general, will never put a stop to gaming/movie watching on 2D monitors/screens as its the visual form of Marmite, you either hate it or love it.

This li shell of of a Star Trek game that's an insult to the IP will not get me back, even if free. The only credit due for this game is a pat on the back of the art designers, at least they got that right. The rest is a two year rushed half ass of a game that's got a poor foundation to try build and improve anything on. Scrap it and lets try again with a ST MMO, as this isn't it.

 Starting the day with Newspaper every day is one way to be robbed of your own thoughts and the mindset you would have had for the day with one fabricated by some editor and his goons that's nothing but, some spin, a sprinkling of  half truths, and a lot of lies, and paying them for the privilege. Look how they affected you, they've affected you enough with this BS out of the mind of a newspaper employee to fill a column to come here.

Originally posted by illorion

cmon man navy battles against a kraken AND you can bring your donkey with you.... holy. fuck.

That's so the Kraken can really kick some ass!

Most Pc will buy/pre order a DVD copy online at places like Amazon, as its often a lot cheaper to buy the DVD there than in the shops, even more so once the game is a couple months old, it's always cheap on Amazon.  Pc gamers don't really walk in shop to buy anymore, either digital or a pre order/buy on line for cheaper.

Game of the year for the Kids MMO section more like, kids only fall for this stuff. Game of the year belongs to the developer who gave out the most money for a positive opinion to be slapped on to the back of their game. It's all been mediocre mainstream rubbish this year that  the masses drool over as they do their Mc D's happy meals.Being a Pc gamer today in the age of crossplat developers gone mad, is like walking up to a nice dressed up pretty whore in an Amsterdam red light district window, as soon as you pay your money and get to unwrap your prize to have some fun, you are greeted by fake boobs, and a penis, then asked to bend over as she takes out the lupe.

Nope think again, SW is done on same dated engine Funcom used for AO and Age of instances.  It's a MMO that will feel dated mechanic wise,  and  mechanical abilities open for developers to use to create fun new interesting gameplay limited.  Enjoy the secret world of instances.

Planetside 1 & Planetside 2 going to be better their DF 2.0 in 2012.