Originally posted by Samhael

Sorry, I couldn't buy into any of the 5 listed here.

 

Same here.

Originally posted by Archeminos

Originally posted by Kost

Originally posted by madruga

The game is not F2P and there is no real indication that will happens.

What you can do is play a demo or trial with limited options to test and buy the game later.

The fact that Cryptic was purchased by PWI, as well as the low population and ever dwindling subscriber base, are most definitely indicators that the game will eventually go F2P.

It's only a matter of time.

Funny, as an active player, I see the playerbase growing, not dwindling. Where do you come abouts the info?

The population always grows up after an update(and an update was fairly recently).  Once the update adventures die down the population will again settle. We don't have any numbers but I don't think anyone could safely say that the number of new subscribers per month is HIGHER then the number of people leaving...

Obviously my perception of the situation could be misconcieved but I come from a guild with over 1,000 members. We play a vast majority of games. At launch STO had about 400 members if I remember correcyly. Within the first year the number was well below 100, as of right now there are 3 people currently subscribed(not counting the 14 people with lifetime subs). During updates the number jumps up to about 30 or so, but most unsub once they have experienced the content contained within the update.

I'm currently at commander and just floating around in space with no real direction. In my past MMO's there has always been a wealth of resources to help direct a player to where the next best place is to go. I've googled around for a bit but can't really find any information(except those paid guide scams) theres not really any guides/resources on the STO wiki.

I'm looking for something that shows the 'linear direction of content', while this may vary a bit the game does support enough of a linear structure to create one. Such as at Level 10 your optimal mission zone is x, level 20 is y. Also something that points out, you just hit level X now would be a good time to check out this thing here. Like I said I'm about half way though commander and am at a loss on where I should be heading to so any help would be greatly appreciated :)

Originally posted by olisud

What to say! Bioware+Star Wars= Awesome Gaming Machine. They think about everything and i think nothing will stop them. Now all other games looks to me so poor and boring and i stop to play them. I only wait for SWTOR countdown to be back to MMO world

 

What does this have to do with the novels...? <.<

I read his first SW novel, and I didn't consider it even half as good as his Mass Effect ones. This one may be better, who knows.

@S00S00 Not trying to troll or flame, but it's kinda funny that the one thing out of all those errors you fixed was dumbest, lol.

That being said, I'm a big guildie and all but I sure would like some other things shown off as well. I've yet to be shown enough to pre-order a copy. There is still so much up in the air regarding gameplay.

Originally posted by Yamota

I tried LOTRO again (last time was a year ago) and I could not play past a couple of hours. The game has an awful "single player game" feel to it and I could not stommich another kill 4 wolfs, 10 rats etc quests and that Strider need me, out of all the houndreds of other noobs, to "save middle earth".

 

Welcome to the MMO genre?

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otro is great if you are a sub ,  f2p is making me a living hell.

I spend 500 tp per month aka $5 per month cuz of quest pack.

I lvl up10 lvl per area.[/quote]

You should look up some of the guides out there that show you the direction to best utilize your money/time in F2P.

Covering Diablo III and WoW; but the 'accent pciture' is of Starcraft II, lol.

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BioWare is a company that has made a very good reputation for itself as a producer of quality, story based RPGs. To expect a major departure from a basic formula that has supported and grown the company into one of the bigger brands in gaming is just silly.[/quote]

My only contention with this, is that they [b]aren't[/b] making a single player RPG - they [b]are[/b] making an MMO - there are many similiarties and differences between the two, they can't just take their 'normal bullet point development cycle' and slap together a loose party system, and an AH and force feed it as an MMO to the already existing MMO community; especially when you want a monthly fee from it.

I think they noticed how many people were talking about not subbing once the free trial ended, I know 100% that I wasn't going to - and out of the 10 people I play with that bought the game only 1 of them was going to keep playing after the free trial. I'll still log in maybe once or twice this week - but the game needs a lot more 'polish' before I'm willing to put a monthly cost on myself for a half-completed project; regardless of if it was an executive decision or development decision to push it out the door.

It's too bad that the entire game is based around story and there won't be much in the way of people only playing one character. I enjoy side leveling an alternate here and there when I get bored - but when the response for 'what do you do at 'end game'' is 'roll an alt' I can tell the game isn't for me. I'm all for making leveling alt's more appealing and the like - but I would like to experience as much content on one character as possible, and TOR is going out of it's way to make sure you keep leveling, then level an alt, then level another alt etc etc. There will be no 'player persistence' since everyone is going to have 6 characters -_-

I really prefer Jaimie's writting over Richards - it's sad to see we won't be seeing anything more of Jaimes :(

There are quite a few places where the translations are down right incorrect, I don't understand how someone being paid by a company to translate can make such great errors...

There is a whole slew of gramatical errors in this article...I thought MMORPG.com had editors?

My guess is they are adding ina web based version of the lotro store, honestly. It's quite a bit longer then usual though.

Anyone know how long todays site mait. is supposed to last? It's been down for about 6 hours now and still can't hit any Turbine websites, lol. I don't play all that much so I don't ever see when a mait. is coming and there is no data in my launcher about it.

Originally posted by Wizardry ,just seems like way too much loading of screens.

Sounds like you have one outdated computer, as I rarely get loading screens.

My computer runs it at max with little to no issues(outside of the well known issues) and my wfies alienware runs it faily well but you have to turn off quite a few settings(Shes got an MX17 Dual 512 SLI Enabled Cards, Lolcure2duo and only 4Gigs of ram - but it still looks great and runs 'well enough' as long as you mess with the system settings enough. I assume the ful retail version will have better scaling anyways.

Is it really necessary to mass quote?

Originally posted by Thomas2006

They are going to be giving out keys on a daily basis in limited numbers to prevent the issue they had at the start of overloading the account system.  So just keep checking the website every so often and you might get lucky.

No, no, no, no. STOP SPREADING THIS CRAP.

If you don't know the correct answer - stop posting. They have sent out 0 codes since the system went down this morning(around 5am EST), anyone who says they got a code since then is lieing through their teeth - the code generator isn't even linked into the page anymore ; it auto redirects to the 'We are no longer offering keys atm' page - and has since last night. No matter how long you keep refreshing ANY page you aren't going to get a key. Your best bet is to wait until SE gets ahold of a translator and finally issues a statement on what is going to happen, and even then trusting their translations is silly.

I don't have any stuttering at all right now - and theres apparently 2300 people on the server at the moment.