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Sorry. "Fell flat on it's face" to me means: Hellgate London (first round), Chronicles of Spellborn, Stargate Worlds, Tabula rasa (R.I.P.).
ToR? Not so much.
There is NO miracle patch.
95% of what you see in beta won't change by launch.
Hope is not a stategy.
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"This kind of topic is like one of those little cartoon boxes held up by a stick on a string, with a piece of meat under it. In other words, bait."
How thick you want to be?
Check the post I made, there's 2 ways to disable usage of cores on multicoreprocessors.
No, and read the posts please.
EDIT: Because you're not going to read the links anyway, here's commandline for you:
bcdedit /set onecpu on (Vista and later)
reboot
Your os uses only one PHYSICAL core.
Not bought in that sense but as you know every web site, magazine, radio station or TV station sells advertising space to their clients. So, when a certain MMO developer is their client than all you'll see are positive reviews of their games becuase losing clients is bad for business.
Empty servers?, yes sure, the test server maybe. In primetime all the servers are standard, heavy or full, and the population is growing everyday, some people quit but then you will find new players so there is nothing like a mass exodus or population drop in the game. My dear friend, swtor is an huge success already and it will be even bigger in the incoming months, live with it.
Do you feel better?
I don't think your comments are inflammatory and overall I agree with them. There is a huge sense of entitlement out there, and while a certain degree is understandable as we are paying customers for these services, it just doesn't make sense to me.
Imagine a world where people test drive a car, buy a car, and then rip apart the dealership that it is missing a feature (let's say heated seats). Can you drive a car without heated seats? Of course! Does the fact that other cars have heated seats mean the model you bought has to have them? Absolutely not. You test drove the car; it is what it is.
We benefit from MMOs being in a state of ongoing development, so we can help to guide the priorities of the dev teams as a community. That should not be taken for granted.
Uhm, are we getting to OS basics here?
1. Run cmd.exe as an administrator
2. paste: bcdedit /set onecpu on press enter
3. You get message The operation completed successfully.
4. type: bcdedit and find a line saying: onecpu Yes
5. Reboot and check System Manager -> Performance. You have only one core running. If you have 2, disable hyperthreading from BIOS.
6. ???
7. Profit
EDIT: But since there's no reason to put cores off when playing, this is a thing I'm going to try once I get back home. I'll report back if it changes performance in any way (better or worse).
EDIT2: There's actually a hotfix from Microsoft to do this
You are trying to reason with someone who is usually in total denial of anything else but his own opinion and uses to accuse people to do just that.
Professional gaming sites are out of touch with gaming (esp. their reviews) since they got too much in touch with money. Those editors write what they got paid for to write and what gets the food on the table. Most of us would probably do the same....but maybe not that obvious.
Wow truly amazing. O_O
We get 7 pages after the OP's famous "ok sorry".
Truly mind-boggling stuff.
WOW!
I swear the "ok sorry" should be the new "arrow to the knee".
Something like:
I went to the club the other nite, got drunk and screwed in the head, knocked down a couple of loudspeakers from the stage, punched a few guys in the face then fucked a girl in front of everyone...the security guards came up crashing down upon me... until I said "ok sorry."
Looking forward to EQL and EQN.
If the intent was to talk about how gaming sites are out of touch with games and gamers, the thread should be in a General gaming or mmorpg forum. If the intent was to say that SWToR couldn't possibly be as good as all the awards it received, then the OP should not have attempted to disguise the thread as talking about how gaming sites are out of touch with games and gamers.
I can not remember winning or losing a single debate on the internet.
You guys do see the conceit around here correct? It's astounding. The thought that just because YOU don't like something, there's no way anyone else could like it. Surely everyone must see how bad it is, I mean YOU see it, why can't they?
I also adore the fact that the people who like what you don't are immediately labeled "fanboys". Or of they are not excited about something you're excited about they're "naysayers". This site proves what's wrong with the world..lol
My advise to the original poster would be to ignore the rewards. It's obvious you don't like the game, so the awards mean nothing anyway.
Games and technology has progressed? Are we even living on the same planet? Technology is crap if anything, devs can't optimize PC games, consoles are holding the development back. There's barley any innovation or enjoyment from games anymore. They are just clones of previously successful games with a different setting.
Bioware spent $200 million dollars on a shitty engine and voice overs, fuck priorities right? The FPS genre is crumbling because modern warfare clones, the MMO market is crumbling because of WoW clones, the RTS market has only Star Craft to speak of, there are barely any console games like the ones we used to enjoy except for Dark Souls.
Let it be known from now on and henceforth that we the users of MMORPG will now use "ok sorry" as a way to retort with someone else's differing view on a topic's subject.
OP has a point. I write for a press site and recently published my review of SWTOR after a month of playing. In my honest opinion, I think I pointed out many of SWTOR bigger failures as opposed to many other reviews. I could post it but it is in spanish so you wouldn't understand it anyway.
My score was a 8 (struggling with a 7, actually) and, surprisingly, it became one of the lower scores on the internet. In fact, SWTOR has a 8.5 average in Metacritic! But what is worse is the pressure someone (either BW or EA) is doing on the media. It's shameful. All I can say, someone up there qualified my potential 8 as a "very low score". What the?
SWTOR is a good game, but is a very mediocre MMO. More reviews should point that, I tried to.
Well, I can list the things that they have done wrong, the mistakes they have made, the things I don't like, but I would hardly say it has fallen flat on it's face.
Given your title I would like to offer an alternative:
Gamers have fallen out of touch with where the industry is going and what casual gamers are really interested in.
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Original Skyrim: https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/109547
Serph toze kindly has started a walk-through. https://youtu.be/UIelCK-lldo
I agree sadly.
The masses want ultra casual easy mode games mainly. ( IMO ).
While I think SWTOR is a decent game, its a very shallow ultra casual MMO made for the console generation of gamers. The target audience got exactly what they wanted.
So no ToR did not fall flat on its face. In fact due to its ultra casual approach it will be a success. Maybe not the success they wanted, but overall will keep a healthy population of casuals. People wanting a bit of a deeper fleshed out MMO will just have to wait for something else.
From a business standpoint appealing to the masses, which are console casuals, was a very smart move IMO.
On topic.- The gaming sites/magazines are not out of touch, as they are reviewing the game for the intended audience. The average joe casual / jane console gamer will agree that ToR is an 8 or 9+.
This is just my opinion of course. Agree or not as you like cause we all know what opinions are like
There you go, then: http://www.eurogamer.es/articles/2012-01-20-analisis-de-star-wars-the-old-republic
It's a bit too long, as I wanted to talk about the game from three points of view: as a Bioware RPG, as WoW's legacy and as a MMO itself. A good game overall, with some key features (like taking decisions in quests) but with a lot of flaws, either technical (bugs, lack of content) and strategical (class balance, linear planets, lack of sandbox features). Pretty disappointing for the most expensive MMO (and videogame, I think) in history.
For example, I returned to WoW some days ago (a game which I got tired of) and I found it pretty refreshing after a SWTOR month. I really missed some aspects, like VO or better graphics, but the gameplay is too superior, at least for me. More complex, more dynamic. And hella more massive. Of course, WoW has three expansions and a lot of years behind, but the comparison also works with the vanilla version.
I'm not saying WoW rules because I was hating on it since practically yesterday. But this demonstrates how SWTOR fails to be the new king of the genre; it sold nicely and I'm sure a lot of people will still play it, but don't expect a 5-year phenomenon like WoW's. Its class stories are the only remarkable thing in the game, and you can't rely on them for such a long time.
Not sure if it is Prime Time in Europe of not right now, but according to http://www.swtor.com/server-status
Only 6 of Europes 91 server are "light". All the rest are currently standard. Not bad if you ask me.