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Nearly everytime I see a staff article on here about STOR questions are raised about the gameplay. How much do you need to read beofre it makes you cautious? I would not buy any MMO before launch anyway, STOR will be no exception to that rule.
From what i've seen of the 15 min demo i got at pax, gameplay itself seems okay. About what i'd expect from an MMo, how it is other then that i can't say. I'm not worried about gameplay though.
Help me Bioware, you're my only hope.
Is ToR going to be good? Dude it's Bioware making a freaking star wars game, all signs point to awesome. -G4tv MMo report.
That should be the golden rule for practically all MMORPG gamers, especially the ones who've been burnt before in the past.
The ACTUAL size of MMORPG worlds: a comparison list between MMO's
The ease with which predictions are made on these forums:
Fratman: "I'm saying Spring 2012 at the earliest [for TOR release]. Anyone still clinging to 2011 is deluding themself at this point."
to me, and I could be wrong, its known to happen now and again, its to articulate and planned, to much effort went into that blog just to be some asshole that got his hands on some insider information. However if you have watched the new wall street, it could be one of those pebble in the pond thing they made such a big deal, someone starts a rumor that they try to make viral. I still think either way, truth or not it will be swept under the rug, this douche bag will still face legal charges if EA feels like making an example out of him for slandering and defemation, I am no lawyer but voicing ones opinion is one thing name dropping like he did on the internet is another all together.
I can well believe several hundred million is being spent on the game. The only way to judge the game is once it has been released several months, any bashing or praising beforehand is just pure speculation. Bioware has a good track record, so I've faith it'll be at least an okay game and that would be enough for me to buy it pre-release. I'm done getting collector's editions though, those usually end up a complete waste of money.
I believe where there is smoke there is fire...
The fact is swtor till now..didnt show anything that makes me say "wow, thats pretty damn amazing"
Guy sound believable, but u cant be 100% sure - he didnt said anything what wasn't more or less known about mythic and war, I just hope he is wrong about SWTOR, but i have mine concerns. SWTOR is still work in progress, but still havent seen anything to get me realy thrilled about the game and i'm SW fan, i dont know, something is missing.
Their effort put into voice acting will probably mostly be appreciated by english native speakers, for myself (and many others without perfect knowledge of english) I couldn't care less - I have no doubt i will need to read dialogs to fully understand what npcs are saying .
What a strange thing to say. For me there is no single element which constitutes the 'core pame play' of an mmo or any game, but the story most certainly is one element even if it's just by means of the scenery and environment.
Also $300m ? That's 3x what was previously estimated, if that figure is even remotely correct this game needs to be giving blow jobs in down times.
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The person who is certain, and who claims divine warrant for his certainty, belongs now to the infancy of our species.
Who is this guys anyway? He throws shit around but never even talks about himself, while he does pretend to be all-knowing for the rest.
Also 300 million? I call bullshit on that.
Actually I call it on the whole thing.
I'll go make my own anonymous blog right now and claim the exact opposite, lets see whose BS ends up being more believable.
Feel free to use my referral link for SW:TOR if you want to test out the game. You'll get some special unlocks!
Okay you hit on a point i didn't even think about, i really hope they got multiple languages for you guys. Cause otherwise that leaves a good portion of the people who want to play out. Maybe you'll get lucky, but i'm not sure, i've yet to hear anything regarding that.
Help me Bioware, you're my only hope.
Is ToR going to be good? Dude it's Bioware making a freaking star wars game, all signs point to awesome. -G4tv MMo report.
Go on then.
Though tempting, I wonder if such a blog would get half the attention this thing does, people want sensation.
Feel free to use my referral link for SW:TOR if you want to test out the game. You'll get some special unlocks!
Shoot... the description of the EA corporate culture sounds bad; but actually it's not the first time I read such a thing about EA internals nor about game company internals as well. My brother works in a software company (not games tho), and from his years of tales I hear how much of a diva most programmers and designers are. Unlike the make believe how much like a family they are, most software companies are a man eats man world.
Hard to believe what he tells about SWTOR... wow... $300 million dollars! His opinion isn't too great of TOR. I guess we have to see. Makes me kinda uneasy and afraid, tbh. Yes, there is bitterness and revenge, but he sounds so convinced... *shudders*
If that is true about SWTOR ... the big impact will be that no Triple A MMO will be developed for a LONG time. Hope he is wrong.
basically this guy
"Ex-Mythic Working Retail says:
October 13, 2010 at 2:52 am
I hear through the grapevine that the shit is hitting the fan over this, hope things turn out well enough for you. I know many people who want to shake your hand, after dealing with this.
While I do not know about the more recent events described, sounds like what was going on when I was there.
You didn’t even get into the Tool Support for devs, or the lack there of!
The items team had to manually make the items before the release (spread sheet, cell by cell) until it was clear they were not going to be done by the 3rd (or was it the 4th?) attempt at release. The guy they had to make a tool to help had 1 month to make it, and after that month, it was crashing, and making broken items.
I, on my own time off the clock, wrote a replacement tool in less than 12 hours (over 3 days after work) The day I finished the tool, I was fired for ‘not being early’ because of the same management BS you described.
They were still using MY tool a year later."
Confirmed his credibility.
He really worked in mythic
"It has potential"
-Second most used phrase on existence
"It sucks"
-Most used phrase on existence
100% voiceovers eh? And I turn off all sound on every game. (prefer to listen to my own soundtracks) Won't be doing me much good I guess.
Its the internet, story could be true, likely is not, more likely we'll never find out either way.
Doesn't matter, soon enough we'll find out for ourselves whether its the next best thing to sliced bread, or just another also ran on the scrap heap of failed MMORPG's.
No, Bioware is not too big to fail.
"True friends stab you in the front." | Oscar Wilde
"I need to finish" - Christian Wolff: The Accountant
Just trying to live long enough to play a new, released MMORPG, playing New Worlds atm
Fools find no pleasure in understanding but delight in airing their own opinions. Pvbs 18:2, NIV
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"This is the most intelligent, well qualified and articulate response to a post I have ever seen on these forums. It's a shame most people here won't have the attention span to read past the second line." - Anon
How does another guy who alledgedly worked for Mythic back in the day, who tells his own story about internal affairs, confirm what the original poster claimed?
That's a fallacy, there is no connection between the two.
Furthermore, think about what he says: he knows it all and everyone else is bad, BioWare is making a 300 million dollar game with most of it spend on voice acting and George Lucas is panicking...
1) This guy claims to work for Mythic on Warhammer. That team is located in Fairfax, Virginia...
How does he know what goes on in Austin, Texas at the TOR team?
2) George Lucas is panicking about this game... really? George Lucas... That's just ridiculous, I wonder if Lucas even knows about this game, he has never been involved with much of what went on with his IP beyond the films, that's handled by LucasArts.
LucasArts is also closely involved with TOR (they do the voice overs and sound he talks about for example), but they are obviously not in contact with the Warhammer team, so how would that guy know what is going on with LucasArts, let alone that he can look into George Lucas's mind...
The whole blog just screams bullshit.
Feel free to use my referral link for SW:TOR if you want to test out the game. You'll get some special unlocks!
Everyone can speculate about this disgruntled EA employee about Warhammer's failures but it hasn't been the first
time an EX EA employee has come out and spilled the beans on EA's poor handling of Warhammer.
There is some truth to this and I too believe Old Republic will be a failure. If anyone played Warhammer on here
you can relate to this guy ranting about what goes on inside EA Mythic, during Warhammer it was Fubared from the
beginning to well soon to be end I hope......
I for one I'm just buying one MMO coming out soon and that's Guild Wars 2 I don't trust EA anymore to make great MMO's
and to listen to their gaming community.
Warhammer had soooo many problems and Mark J would come out and reassure us about changings coming to Warhammer
but they never happened why???????????? EA that's why.....go ahead and give a hyped up game your money fools...me
I'de rather give my money to GUild Wars 2 buy the Box and play for FREE!! period....no montly payment.....I don't know how easier this can be,.....It will have a much better campaign and a proven PVP that was massively successful in GW1...I'm out
Just can say one thing.
UO just had the booster released. And most bugs from the Testcenter were still there.
So much for Bioware/EA/Mythic
As Bioware now controls the online division I think.
:P
When Bill Hicks was talking about the perfect coke add, the beautiful face pan down the perfect breasts, pan back completely naked stunning woman with a can of coke between her legs and just the tag line "Drink Coke".
He got it almost right, the camera would then pan right and on a chair next to her would be a haggered old female tramp, a little whispy beard and mustache, a mole with a 3 inch thick hair on her forhead, pendulous breasts that covered her knees and yeti legs, she would be holding a Pepsi bottle in her hand and a new tag line, "She drinks Pepsi".
The point is the only thing better than advertising your product as something that actually makes life worth living (I shit you not, current coke advert in UK when Xfactor is on "Saturday night tastes better with Coke"), is to make people believe their competition are pig humping whore mongers and their product will turn you into pig humping whore.
In most media it simply isn't viable to use this form of black advertising on the interwebs anything is game!
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The person who is certain, and who claims divine warrant for his certainty, belongs now to the infancy of our species.
shocking news? Somebody that has enough knowledge for a game and a vendetta could make a blog about any game out here and it doesn't make it true.
Cannot believe that people are being this gullable. This guy may have done his research, or maybe he is an employee about to get laid off, either way he has a personal grudge against this company, so I don't buy any of this BS he is shoveling.
If TOR sucks, than so be it, I'll find some other game to play. Probably gw2 since I was buying that game, but what if it sucks too? Hmm tough one, maybe a trip back to SWG , AOC, or just start a new AIOn account, since I actually liked that game.
THis is a fucking game , man. If it winds up failing why do I or most of the other people on here care????? It is not like I own EA BW LA or even work for them. SO , it means absolutley nothing to me.
"When it comes to GW2 any game is fair game"
Smells like more bullshit if you ask me. These people really need to confirm their credibility and put their names up instead of posting anonymous blogs.
I doubt any of these people worked at BW or mythic. Why? Because if word got out or somehow somebody found out that they did this. They would NEVER be able to get a job in the gaming industry EVER again. Think about people.
"When it comes to GW2 any game is fair game"
I doubt any of these people worked at BW or mythic. Why? Because if word got out or somehow somebody found out that they did this. They would NEVER be able to get a job in the gaming industry EVER again. Think about people.
Damage limitation.
You contradict yourself. You question blog credibility, becouse of anonymity and then you say he would never get job in the industry if they would know who he is ... Well thats probably why blog is anonymous ...
Blog is anonymous because it is bullshit. The guy didn't work for EA. He posted that blog very cleverly, in an attempt to trash this company. It's just like that apb blog huh? You expect me to be so gullable to believe this?
He didn't say anything that the whole TOR community or the mmo genre doesn't already know about. What he said , anybody could have said just out of reading a little bit about both these games or playing one of them.(WAR)
"When it comes to GW2 any game is fair game"
Oh somebody is gonna find out who they are. I am working on it right now.
"When it comes to GW2 any game is fair game"