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Star Wars: The Old Republic: NYCC '11 Q&A Panel Recap
SBFord
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During last weekend's New York Comicon, MMORPG.com partnered with Bioware and the Star Wars: The Old Republic team for a Q&A session. Industry Relations Manager Garrett Fuller has the write up from the event that you definitely won't want to miss. Check it out and then let us know what you're thinking in the comments.
The fans came out right away asking for specifics of PvP which has been only touched upon slightly in the news. Unfortunately, Gabe Amantangelo was not on hand to answer specifics. Still the team explained that PvP continues to be a prime focus in the game and players will have plenty of options to go and battle it out in the galaxy. The open zone world PvP is the most anticipated topic right now and hopefully we will get more information as we get closer to launch. They did say there would be dedicated PvP servers out there. So prepare for battle.
Read more of Garrett Fuller's Star Wars: The Old Republic: NYCC '11 Q&A Panel Recap.
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"The open zone world PvP is the most anticipated topic right now and hopefully we will get more information as we get closer to launch"
We're only about 6-7 weeks away from launch depending on when early access starts. How can Bioware justify not being able to talk about basic gameplay like open world pvp yet? Are they going to tell us the night before release? Seems really weird.
I get the impression they were aiming for a 2012 release, but for whatever reason now they're just scrambling to finish stuff and push it out the door by the end of the year.
I'm of the same mindset. How a studio, following several years of other supposed mmorpg's delivering a shell of a game, can be 2-months from launch and not be complete and confident enough to 'demonstrate' the massively-multiplayer game-play element as thoroughly as they have their single-player and small-party cooperative game-play, it does leave that same sense of push seen with other contentless games.
I'll get entertainment out of the Single-Player and CORPG journey that is clearly evident with SW:TOR, by their demonstration that 100% of the game-play Bioware is confident in its' completeness to reveal is predominently Single-Player & CORPG, doesn't make this game a mmorpg just because Bioware can host 100's of players on a server that can chat through tex-writing cooperatively and simultaneoulsy.
Their responses should be fluent off the tngue related to the core system questions, like open world pvp, still very vague about the item modification. Im loosing trust in Bioware and this title at the moment, they should by now be able to say everything about the game and they are not the only logical reason for that is that they're frightened it might damage their sales, which is going to happen regardless if they lock up and don't tell us. It's starting to look a little rough for bioware, im not totally impressed after this.
Glad to see some people starting to realize what I've been saying for a long time.
HOWEVER to be fair, they still have time to test one more build before launch.
Never a good sign that open world PvP is something they can't discuss with only a little over a month to launch. I would suggest there is a 50% chance that it wont make it in the launch of the game. For anyone who enjoys PvP over PvE, this is a title to be extremely wary of buying at launch. I would wait at least 1 month before forking over cash to hear more about the PvP aspect of the game from people who are actually playing the game.
I'd think open world pvp will be in for launch. They have already announced its there and they don't like to announce stuff that isn't ready. So I'd say the open world PvP is there, the details and what happens in the world pvp however isn't rock solid just yet, perhaps it is in testing now and a lot of changes are happening.
Better not to know these things than complain upon release because its not there.
The game has a solid two full months till release. Plenty of time to make sure everything that will be in the game at launch is fleshed out and tested. Just because they didn't go into detail about open world pvp it doesn't mean it's not in the game and being tested internally at the moment and will be in another build for a broader test by beta testers. In another word, relax.
Right now remaining vague is their best option as any respond may trigger fans to cancel their pre order. This is base on feedback that bioware forum goer are very nitpick about detail. Width of the lightsaver...same sex romance...etc
Great panel; PvP is off little interest to most other than end game maybe..... so in reality ome of us will be having fun for months before we even need to consider this.
Well done Bioware you have your priorities right; Story / Immersion and world background / gameplay in reasonable sized groups.
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See...they are how close to launch of this title and still they cannot answer the simplest of questions. Hmmm...wonder why that is? I truly wish they'd drop the NDA.
some people like to go into game not knowing every little detail, the internet can kill a game for you before you play it..for once go in and be surprised.
there is a closed beta, i am in said close beta. Your comments=lol
i'd like to know what i'm buying..
There is a description on the box, it's a Star Wars themed MMO.
I know you know that betas are not trials, no reason to wish blood from a stone.
This hits the nail. People will complain if it has it and if it doesnt. They will complain if they have a system they dont like or if that system isn't in 100% because its endgame and needs tweaking. In other words... the more you give, the more people will bitch one way or the other. So, BIO gives little and people will get what they get, rather than getting what they expected to get and bitch about it not being perfect.
That's EXACTLY what an MMORPG is... Massively Multiplayer Online(read - 100's of players on a server... simultaneoulsy *sic*) Role Playing Game.
Just because it doesn't meet your expectations of what it SHOULD be does not diminish in any way what type of game it is and should be classified as. It's as much MMO as any other game out there that is played online, and as much (if not more) RPG than most, if just being a BioWare brainchild is any indication. Just because it doesn't have open world PvP combat doesn't remove it from the classification. There's more to RPG than rolling.
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Do you realize Bioware was at a Q&A session? They were there to specifically answer questions about their game. Someone tossed them a softball about pvp and they froze up like a deer in headlights and said they cant' talk about it yet. On what planet could that be considered a good thing when a game is only weeks from release?
If they were worried about spoilers then they wouldn't even have a Q&A to begin with. Besides, what exactly can you ruin about pvp by talking about it? It's probably the one aspect of the game with the least spoiler potential. We know more about story and individual storylines than we do about open world pvp.
ANd you do realize the person who could actually answer those question was not present at this panel? Their silence on this could mean so many different things. From it not being ready, to the details being promised to some mag for a big exculsive reveal in November. Anything can happen, acting as though it can only mean here's another AOC, well I'm not going to say what i feel about that..
For every minute you are angry , you lose 60 seconds of happiness."-Emerson
Not sure what you're confused on here... Yes, there is open world PvP. Yes, there are also Warfronts for PvP. Yes, there is a ranking system and currency for PvP. This is all known. What is it you haven't learned that you are babbling on about?
This says it all right here, you think your impression speaks for everyone, you think you know what people expect in mass, you think you know it all....
For every minute you are angry , you lose 60 seconds of happiness."-Emerson
I'm not confused because there's no info out there to be confused about.
So what are the ranks in the ranking system? How do you gain rank? What bonuses do you get with higher ranks? What will we be doing in this open world pvp system? If stuff is able to be captured what happens when one faction takes control? Are there bonuses? What do they do? Is open world pvp offering the same gear and valor points as warzones? What will be done to correct for faction imbalances and prevent one side from dominating 24/7?
The only thing we know so far is "yeah, there will be open world pvp."
Oh I see, you want every minor detail down to the atom that is in it. Sorry, no.
Those are the kind of things that will be "in testing" until launch day and every single patch after launch.
Developers never tell you before a game launches how many points you are going to get for X or Y.
Yep...but hey, I said as much about games like WAR, Aion, Rift, and has anyone listened? Nope. Oh well, as a professor once said to me, '...we give you all books, and instead of reading them your dog eats them, you scribble in them, but read them...not a chance. I do not think any of you read them.'
Once again we get a stagnat game, stagnat game play on rails(and in this game we're talking serious rails), stagnat MOBS(AI's no better than a rock), stagnat worlds(they do not even have night and day cycles!)...(BTW what I just wrote does not break the NDA - this info is all ready known or watch any relased game play video and you can see exactly what I am talking about) - this game brings absolutely nothing to the genre that hasn't been done before - and better in most cases. I give the game 6 months and then we'll watch the exodus begin.