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Star Wars: The Old Republic Forum » General Discussion » 1.5 on the PTS
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10/11/12 7:32:44 PM#21
I missed this news, Thanks for sharing the 1.5 update! This game is awesome and keeps getting better all the time! On my server, Prophecy of the Five, we had 6 instances of fleet on tuesday night, and I got into 12 pvp fights in an hour on Hoth while questing, loving the action lately! |
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10/11/12 7:36:26 PM#22
Originally posted by tiefighter25 Pretty much this. I mean WoW releases a content patch on the average of 1 per every 9 months and if a struggling game like SWTOR cant even beat them, then its time to turn off the servers IMO. |
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10/11/12 7:42:10 PM#23
Originally posted by Bynt I have never seen more than 2, or heard about more than 3 .. lol .. take a screenshot next time :-) .. 1500 people ... 6 instances, lol? Want a nice understanding of life? Try Spirit Science: "The Human History" |
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Sevenstar61
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Joined: 7/22/12
"But it was so artistically done..." - Grand Admiral Thrawn's final words |
10/11/12 7:46:25 PM#24
Originally posted by gaou Most likely new Warzone will be next and then or at the same time F2P. I sort of think that F2p will be released before Xmas. They were talking about remaking Ilum in January... but dunno. Makeb might come first. Oh forgot about these space missions that were also leaked. It might be after Pvp warzone I guess. NEW SPACE MISSIONS NEW VANITY PETS
I really want to see how this Avalanche Heavy Tank will look. LOL
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10/11/12 7:52:00 PM#25
Originally posted by ZylaxxOriginally posted by tiefighter25 ? Lol. Besides it meaning that in your eyes the majority of MMO's can easily be turned off (there are enough that can't equal WoW in content updates, even if they're doing it laid back), iirc BW has released other content updates over the past 9 months as well. It isn't on the level of a WoW, but not nearly as struggling as some here hope/wish for it to be. |
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10/11/12 8:04:02 PM#26
Originally posted by smh_alot Probably also might be because the cut-off deadline for 2012's award was before the release of TSW and GW2. I think it if was after that, swtor would probably got blown out of the water in a few of the categories. |
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10/11/12 8:05:48 PM#27
Originally posted by Sevenstar61 Bizarre. Did EA put this stuff in just to give hope to players? I mean that many operations, as listed, is a 5-10 year plan....
Nothing was ever talked about, but I sure wish they would go in a different direction and put in stuff that just screams Star Wars or KotOR. More instanced encounters is not what is wanted (at least not by me). More story, minigames, social games, 3D space, and stuff that breaks the mold is needed. Operations, more quests, more instances, more solo instanced space combat, and more instanced PVP just says more of the same (boo).
But thanks for the link, it is interesting. Want a nice understanding of life? Try Spirit Science: "The Human History" |
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10/11/12 8:08:04 PM#28
Originally posted by Sevenstar61 If the "best new" and "best design" winner is a game that went from the IP selling 2.4m boxes to the game losing 90% of the players and going Free to Play in less than year, then you really have to question the judges competence, they obviously feel the best game is one the consumers trampled each other to death to get out of. "i don't waste my time building relationship in games" - nariusseldon |
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10/11/12 8:17:34 PM#29
Originally posted by smh_alot What I was alluding to was that there was only one content patch before EA decided to switch to FTP (iirc patch 1.1 and 1.3 were not content patches) in the spring. (Announced ~August 1st). Prior to the descion to switch to FTP, Bioware has planned on combating lowered subscription rates by aggresively pumping out new content. (When they anounced they would be realeasing major content updates at a monthly rate.) The leaks for the content Bioware was working on, and are now just begining to find their way live, came out in early February of this year. What's more, the content that was previously slated to release in meaty patches that consisted of an operation, a flashpoint, and a warzone, etc.; are now being broken up into much smaller 6 week pieces. An operation in one patch, a companion in another patch, a warzaone in another patch, etc. As someone just posted, a lot of what they've been working on lately is vanity pets and speciality mounts. Guess where they will end up. I'm pointing out that this content (1.4, 1.5) has been worked on to near completion in the spring (the HK questline was in the beta) , and either EA has been sitting on and stockpiling the content to coincide with the FTP launch, or EA's deep cuts to the development staff as prevented Bioware from being able to release the mostly finished content to the live servers. Either way, it doesn't seem very fair to their subscribers. In essence, SWTOR's sub base has been funding a conversion to FTP. I guess you could say it's one of the darker aspects of a game that converts to freemium post launch, especially a game with a much reduced staff. |
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10/11/12 8:20:10 PM#30
Originally posted by Karteli Oh yes they are. TES Online is kinda getting the same treatment right now as well. |
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10/11/12 8:24:00 PM#31
Originally posted by Sevenstar61 Since people were wondering, the people who decide who wins the awards are as committee of the following individuals: http://gdconlineawards.com/advisory/index.html 16 game developers, 3 of which who work for EA including Richard Vogel and Eugene Evans of Bioware. And no, they can't recuse themsleves. Then again, I was not elected to watch my people suffer and die while you discuss this invasion in a committee! Nyuck, nyuck, nyuck. |
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10/11/12 8:39:53 PM#32
Originally posted by tiefighter25 Rich Vogel is dusting off his resume, so I imagine an award like this would only benefit him..
The other EA dev's would also vote for themselves, as it would benefit their careers. What an insult to gamers. Gaming journalists should be ashamed :/
Gordon Walton is also in the list. He is the one responsible for blessing everyone with the alpha version of the Hero Engine, which he said EA engineers could finish themselves. Wow, what a corrupt panel of judges :P
Heres a graphical representation of all on the board: Want a nice understanding of life? Try Spirit Science: "The Human History" |
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Originally posted by Karteli those arent operations as in raids. those are space mission quests that are repeatable weekly
as for ilum, i don think it it is so much them remaking it as them having a plan for an event that is going to happen there
Next one, very recent, yesterday The Grand Acquisition Race came online. Anything you can tell about world events? Are they coming more often or, just every few months, every year? Our long-term plan is to get the world events to be really frequent, and we’re going to continue to add them to the game. In the immediate future, we have this one, and then we’ve got another one that is actually going to be – so we’re going to have, what we want to do, is in January, what we’re targeting to do, this may or may not happen, so you can’t hold me to it. But what we’re targeting to do, is have a fun anniversary to the Ilum shenanigans that happened. An alien race might invade, and they might crash into Ilum and there might be some new activities that happen on the planet. We’re targeting that for, January is when we’d like to see it, but we’ll see when it happens, you can’t hold me to that! I know how everyone does, and then I’m going to have the Executive Producer on me saying “you said a date!” and it’s like “no, no” but that is our target, because that’s when we’d like to have it because of the spirit of, and just sort of laughing at what happened.
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10/12/12 8:31:03 AM#34
1.6: A Brand New World
Instead of spending our time wasting resources in creating brand new shallow content nobody asked for, we finally decide after a good few years of the suggestion to focus on creating a more immersive world. No longer will you see NPCs standing around doing nothing but filling an empty space.
- NPCS now offer a broad range of different conversations, movement routes and ultimately come to life - Soldier patrols in various different zones including random enagements between republic and imp forces - Active random real world events taking place everywhere that people can participate in - random class specific dailies that can be located on every world that lets smugglers smuggle, bhs hunt etc - All new pvp zones similar to illum that can be found on various different worlds that offer objective based pvp
There, announce that EA/BW and you might actually have created new content worthy of people to give this game another look. Keep failing at the WoW clone rubbish though. 
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10/12/12 8:35:13 AM#35
Originally posted by Karteli i am glad that entire SWTOR community chose you to speak on their behalf. You must feel really important. |
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10/12/12 8:39:23 AM#36
Originally posted by halflife25 And what percentage of that "community" make up the total number of people who bought the game? Karteli is merely pointing out that once again, EA have failed to grasp and put resources into bringing in features that might entice old players back.
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10/12/12 8:42:52 AM#37
Originally posted by Senden it is lways better to talk about your own experinces or expectations instead of trying to speak on behalf of others by using words like 'many' or 'no body'. it is a very old trick to give more weight to your opinion. But if that is how you want to play it. This is another patch of stuff that 'everybody' was asking for in the many threads on how to improve the SWTOR. Now i hope you support what i said too. *grins*
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10/12/12 10:41:25 AM#38
Originally posted by Sevenstar61 Ill Just leave this here..
Warhammer Online has received the following awards:[39] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warhammer_Online:_Age_of_Reckoning
Its all nice that they won those awards and such but really it just doesn't matter. As for 1.5 being on the PTS, thats cool and everything and hope they can pull it off but they haven't even fixed a lot bugs from 1.4 yet. This could yet be another Bioware disaster in the making, bugs from 1.4 and soon 1.5 and the FTP conversion. I hope for the sake logic that 1.5 is on the PTS for extensive testing only, but giving Biowares track record i would be pretty nervous if i was a current player who is planning on staying after ftp.
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10/12/12 5:46:31 PM#39
Originally posted by Senkensha This. When I read a post saying "This is what Star Wars fans want", I have to sigh. It's a Bioware game, of course it's going to be a directed story experience. For those that wanted something else, that's understandable, as is expecting features that would be reasonable in this type of MMO. But saying each patch isn't giving what you want when the game's foundation isn't what you want is like beating a head horse. On topic, it's a nice patch if they're sticking to there 6 week update schedule. If they go months again without updating, then I have to say this would be a dissapointment. |
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10/13/12 4:52:37 PM#40
Originally posted by Draron Nobody around here is saying they want SWTOR to be like WoW? Or did I miss something..
The poster, Senkensha, made a general (arguably irrational & without cause to the quoted reference) statement that people somehow wanted WoW. I don't think they did, hence why so many left, when they found out SWTOR was too much like WoW.
So .. This isn't what SW fans wanted, it's just someones accusations, without justification. Don't sweat it.
6 week schedule is definitely positive. Although 1.5 will be the first in the cycle, so I'll believe it when I see it .. yet I wonder if EA can keep it up, once all the previously developed content gets released (with what was known about way before vs. what is coming).
Space flight, minigames? Next year .. maybe? Was development started? Want a nice understanding of life? Try Spirit Science: "The Human History" |
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