just my point!! They *****!
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just my point!! They *****!
They're not crap, they're just capped by the infrastructure and that is not going to change any time soon.
Not something that bothers me really, I dont mind being behind in MMOs, no matter how hard I try I always end up behind most people anyway because I just dont have the time in life to devote to playing games. Especially newly released MMOs where its commonplace for people to book off release week from work or play the MMO for 8 hours a day for the first couple of weeks.
I'm in no rush to bang up the levels and the whole idea of "server firsts" and being quickest to do something seems asinine and immature to me anyway, so I'm not fussed about that sort of thing either. If the MMO drops off significantly in terms of gameplay after the first few months then that suggests to me that its not a particularly well done MMO anyway, so not too bothered about that aspect of it and ultimately I'd rather wait for 3 months and see if people are sticking with it, than pay now, pile what little gaming time I have into it for the first few months only to find that everyone then gets bored with it and buggers off to the next big game.
nah they crap mate, endless trouble with them! but agree not going to change anytime soon!
Let him have his 2 cent, he will be the first playing it!
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TB seems to be the kind of guy that sticks to his principles, he seemed infuriated about the £50 price of the digital download edition and urged people not to buy the game because of this.
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I'm in no rush to bang up the levels and the whole idea of "server firsts" and being quickest to do something seems asinine and immature to me anyway, so I'm not fussed about that sort of thing either. If the MMO drops off significantly in terms of gameplay after the first few months then that suggests to me that its not a particularly well done MMO anyway, so not too bothered about that aspect of it and ultimately I'd rather wait for 3 months and see if people are sticking with it, than pay now, pile what little gaming time I have into it for the first few months only to find that everyone then gets bored with it and buggers off to the next big game.
as I said for me it's not so much ranking up, I can't spend and wouldn't want to spend 20hours a day in front of the computer. But all the MMOs I've tried there's something about starting the game early on, and that you find your way around with other people. I suppose it's the whole jumping in at the deep end if you come in later. Rather than learning with everyone else.
I've always found that the being behind the learning curve, so to speak, is something which is more prevalent in themepark MMOs than sandbox ones. I've found that generally speaking with sandbox mmos there isnt much difference between coming in later on and coming in right at the start. I think maybe part of that is that with sandbox mmos you dont have a level curve so you dont get into the situation where players are moving through the zones/levels as time passes. Sometimes with themepark MMOs you get the situation where the crowd has moved on to the next zones leaving earlier ones lacking and the players in those areas then suffer. Thats something which you dont generally encounter in sandbox MMOs (one of the many reasons I prefer sandbox)
theres definitely an advantage to waiting if you have the patience but I do think in at the start brings a certain camraderie. Personally im more with tombstones style of play, couldnt give a damn about server firsts and reaching max level asap. Going to play this one a lot like i played galaxies, at my own pace and with a casual guild.Registered for early, 39.99 was about as much as i was willing to pay. Think it will be a lot more fun the less I know so not reading any of the hype at all.
I’m sure a lot of people are incensed by the price tag! He can urge as many people as possible, it’s not going to happen!
Galaxies was so good before the enormously bad choices that were made, and thats coming from someone who doesnt greatly like sci-fi games ! It was like UO in space and anything thats like UO gets 1 million thumbs up from me
Galaxies was so good before the enormously bad choices that were made, and thats coming from someone who doesnt greatly like sci-fi games ! It was like UO in space and anything thats like UO gets 1 million thumbs up from me
How is UO these days? I always see it being compared/likened to SWG and I know it was around before it. Interesting..
No idea, I'd imagine its been wow-ified as much as is possible within its engine. I left UO in 2001 (started in 1997). I did go back about a year ago when they did a return for 7 days for free thing but it was virtually empty and all the great people I knew from back then had long since gone. I did read a while ago on a forum that the GM blessed housing that formed the player run town we had built (which became quite famous in the game) had finally fallen down after over a decade, some remaining players were forming a petition to have the buildings replaced as they were part of the games history even though those players werent around when we built the town back in '98. (Kinship Village)
I dont think we will ever see the like of UO again tbh. The genre has changed into such a different creature now compared to what it was back then and more significantly the sorts of people who play MMOs now have changed so much compared to back then. Today, with the way MMOs and their players are now, I dont think the players would tolerate/cope with an MMO like UO. Which is a shame as I think if more people had experienced UO at its prime then the MMO genre may have developed in a very different manner.
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Well then it's a shame that people are dumb enough to preorder a game which costs £40/£50, is still in a very closed beta with a strict NDA which implies that bioware are trying to hide something.
Once they realise killing crap isn't the only thing people find entertaining in an MMO the world will be a better place. I'd love to just go back and make some random bits in SWG praying for a perfect success
(I think that's what it was called!)
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Despite what I said about not pre-ordering it 'til we had a release date I saw it in GAME and couldn't stop myself from pre-ordering it... Luckily I managed to restrain myself enough to just get the standard edition, despite how hard the guy in the store was trying to sell the collectors edition...
Any news on Open world PvP? That would make the game for me, Instanced PvP is okay, but nothing beats open world PvP(If it is done like WAR's was without the bugs I will be happy)
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Any news on Open world PvP? That would make the game for me, Instanced PvP is okay, but nothing beats open world PvP(If it is done like WAR's was without the bugs I will be happy)
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Massively disappointed. I would be perfectly happy spending £50 on the game, but I don't then want to spend £15 every month just to play it. I was an enormous fan of KOTOR I and II, however this is already shaping up to be a failure for many fans. All I want is a single player game with nice graphics, the same play style and the same amazing storylines as they have managed to produce in the past. And a few references to some of the awesome characters from the previous games would be nice, I know HK-47 survives the whole Old Republic Era .
All in all- I wanted KOTOR III, not TOR. Why they went MMO is completely beyond me (other than the massive profits of course!)
Hopefully BioWare will utilise this money to make a worthy sequel of the KOTOR series- I know they can do it!
.All in all- I wanted KOTOR III, not TOR. Why they went MMO is completely beyond me (other than the massive profits of course!)
Hopefully BioWare will utilise this money to make a worthy sequel of the KOTOR series- I know they can do it!
Well its probably not completely beyond you
Its the same reason that so many big names are leaping on the MMO bandwagon.I bet they utilise the money to make a Dragon Age MMO instead