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I will play it, just like everyone else who commented on this thread. Even those who say they wont, will. It's Star Wars ! Even if some of the features seem similar to WoW or the other MMOs out there , this is a sci-fi game and the genre need a sci -fi game.
Been following this for a while now. Funny thing is I'm usually the guy that gets told by my friends to try certain new games. But so far I have 2 other friends that never touched a mmo before looking foward to trying this one out. Also my best friend with whom the last mmo we played together was WoW, stop playing well before I did. This guy swore off mmos after WoW and refused to get involved with any of them (old or new) while he focused on his personal life.
We of course talked about TOR and I was telling him to keep an eye out on this one (we've been playing mmos together since UO). He didn't like the direction he felt BW was taking SW, particularly with the break up of the classes for each faction (he felt that it should have been a open-ended faction system). I stil had reserves about it and hoped for the best. Any way he texts me the other night telling me that TOR looks like it's gonna be sweet as hell. I said "I told you so" and he said this may be the one that draws him back in. I kinda took a step back because this dude won't touch ANYTHING. F2P, B2P or P2P. Now all of a sudden he wants to roll a jedi counsular so he can test out how deep this "diplomacy" system is.
So yeah that's me and 3 others that I personally know of that were done with (or never played a) mmo that are picking it up. It will probably be at least 2 more that join us if BW puts enough spit and polish on it.
"Small minds talk about people, average minds talk about events, great minds talk about ideas."
No but seriously, I really really hope this game lives up to the hype, and I don't even plan on buying it until I've at least tried a trial. I just don't want to come on here for a few weeks and constantly hear people complain about it not being x or y.
edit: now that I think about it, people already do that. O well, maybe people will keep underhypinh tera and other mmo's so I won't have to deal with that when they come out.
You know the answer to this question. The answer is meaningless. Meaningless as it relates to sustained interest.
If one doesn't understand that, then one must seek treatment for that missing chromosome.
Most every mmorpg enthusiast will buy this game. Most every mmorpg enthusiast purchased every other mmorpg over the past several years. Most mmorpg enthusiasts are still overly disatisfied with what is available over the past several years since there have been millions of box sales, yet only a couple hundred thousand sustained subscribers to each mmorpg.
As I purchased about every other mmorpg over the last several years, I will also purchase this one.
The last one I purchased was Rift. Nice linear themepark single-player-esque lobby-system game. I was able to play @ 2-weeks of early access and then one-month free. I was able to level to max over 6-weeks, enjoying the journey, and coming away with more enjoyment then I have gotten from a single-player RPG, but at the same price.
Personally, I am still looking for a mmorpg, not an overly glorified single-player lobby-system inorganic carnival ride that ends with running the same Battlegrounds meaninglessly over and over and over, nor the same dungeons over and over and over, where the meaning of your game-play is summed-up by the color of your gear.
SWtOR might not be that game, but if anything, I hope to get more enjoyment out of a month to 6-weeks of it as I would any other single-player RPG. Whether my interest is sustainable to encourage me to fork-over $15/month after that, is up to the devs.
You know the answer to this question. The answer is meaningless. Meaningless as it relates to sustained interest.
If one doesn't understand that, then one must seek treatment for that missing chromosome.
Most every mmorpg enthusiast will buy this game. Most every mmorpg enthusiast purchased every other mmorpg over the past several years. Most mmorpg enthusiasts are still overly disatisfied with what is available over the past several years since there have been millions of box sales, yet only a couple hundred thousand sustained subscribers to each mmorpg.
As I purchased about every other mmorpg over the last several years, I will also purchase this one.
The last one I purchased was Rift. Nice linear themepark single-player-esque lobby-system game. I was able to play @ 2-weeks of early access and then one-month free. I was able to level to max over 6-weeks, enjoying the journey, and coming away with more enjoyment then I have gotten from a single-player RPG, but at the same price.
Personally, I am still looking for a mmorpg, not an overly glorified single-player lobby-system inorganic carnival ride that ends with running the same Battlegrounds meaninglessly over and over and over, nor the same dungeons over and over and over, where the meaning of your game-play is summed-up by the color of your gear.
SWtOR might not be that game, but if anything, I hope to get more enjoyment out of a month to 6-weeks of it as I would any other single-player RPG. Whether my interest is sustainable to encourage me to fork-over $15/month after that, is up to the devs.
I totally see where you're coming from. When was the last time we got 200 hours of gameplay out of a single player game? And we're being promised at least that much with EVERY class. This game definitely has a lot of potential.
Yes I will be playing it. I've been follwoing this game for close to 2 years and have only gotten more excited. The game simply looks amazing.
I followed warhammer closely and saw early on that it was all hype. I have a pretty good nose for these things and I honestly don't think SWTOR is going to be the same. I'm convinced this is the real deal and eagerly await it.
No. Ugly animations, Standard combat, Holy trinity, Only real selling point is "We have story", from the looks of it, it is mostly a soloers game with people grinding raids for gear for end-game.
This is what I'm afraid of, which leaves me.....undecided.
I'm also still pretty pissed off about DA:O's stupid amount of DLC and don't trust them not to pull that shit again. Single player RPG or MMO....what's to stop them really? There are other pay to play games that also have item shops. So DLC....not much of a stretch from item shops. Bioware thinks they're pretty hot shit, so...nothing would surprise me. All things considered, I'll have to wait and hear player reviews before I'll pick this up now, I believe.
from everything I have seen and read this will be a pretty darn good game, but I am on the fence about buying and playing it, simply becuase, WoW is a great game too, but, the community makes the actual playing experience one of the worst of any MMoRPG I have played and I have a feeling that the asswhipes, social rejects and just plain jerkie, me first, I think being as nasty to others as possible types will flock to this game like white on rice.
from everything I have seen and read this will be a pretty darn good game, but I am on the fence about buying and playing it, simply becuase, WoW is a great game too, but, the community makes the actual playing experience one of the worst of any MMoRPG I have played and I have a feeling that the asswhipes, social rejects and just plain jerkie, me first, I think being as nasty to others as possible types will flock to this game like white on rice.
well.. its more noticeable in WoW because of player numbers.. you get the types you mention.. is most games.. so while your not wrong exactly.. i just don't think it will be any worse than in other games.. though in a way.. the more noticeable they are would indicate large numbers of players wouldnt it?
Hell Yes, so far Bioware are gods of the story telling gaming, Dragon age, Kotor, Mass effect and on and on, for once I have good feeling inside and am excited to play and probably knowing the way bioware make game replay and replay the game, just sad this is going to be sich a huge year for games, Elder scrolls, Mass Effect 3, ToR, Battlefield 3, going to have to quit my life just to play them all
90% of the folks here will play the game at some point. even if its just the trial or a free month box gameplay. its just one of those titles you simply cant ignore, no mather what side of the mmo world your from.
some will love it, some will hate it but everyone will have played it.
90% of the folks here will play the game at some point. even if its just the trial or a free month box gameplay. its just one of those titles you simply cant ignore, no mather what side of the mmo world your from.
some will love it, some will hate it but everyone will have played it.
Nope.. not me.. its not like there won't be other things to do instead of waste time on this one after all... i think the 90 percent estimate is not only optimistic.. its widely innacurate.. and wholly dependent on there being a free trial... but 2 out of 3 aint bad...
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absolutely. I'm a star wars geek, and BioWare has a great track record. (Dragon Age 2 is still a good game, if not totally amazing).
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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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I tell you what. If I don't get to play it soon I think my own head will explode........Deal with that!;)
I will play it, just like everyone else who commented on this thread. Even those who say they wont, will. It's Star Wars ! Even if some of the features seem similar to WoW or the other MMOs out there , this is a sci-fi game and the genre need a sci -fi game.
Of course I will. As will almost every other person here.
Been following this for a while now. Funny thing is I'm usually the guy that gets told by my friends to try certain new games. But so far I have 2 other friends that never touched a mmo before looking foward to trying this one out. Also my best friend with whom the last mmo we played together was WoW, stop playing well before I did. This guy swore off mmos after WoW and refused to get involved with any of them (old or new) while he focused on his personal life.
We of course talked about TOR and I was telling him to keep an eye out on this one (we've been playing mmos together since UO). He didn't like the direction he felt BW was taking SW, particularly with the break up of the classes for each faction (he felt that it should have been a open-ended faction system). I stil had reserves about it and hoped for the best. Any way he texts me the other night telling me that TOR looks like it's gonna be sweet as hell. I said "I told you so" and he said this may be the one that draws him back in. I kinda took a step back because this dude won't touch ANYTHING. F2P, B2P or P2P. Now all of a sudden he wants to roll a jedi counsular so he can test out how deep this "diplomacy" system is.
So yeah that's me and 3 others that I personally know of that were done with (or never played a) mmo that are picking it up. It will probably be at least 2 more that join us if BW puts enough spit and polish on it.
"Small minds talk about people, average minds talk about events, great minds talk about ideas."
Good thing this game isn't overhyped or anything.
No but seriously, I really really hope this game lives up to the hype, and I don't even plan on buying it until I've at least tried a trial. I just don't want to come on here for a few weeks and constantly hear people complain about it not being x or y.
edit: now that I think about it, people already do that. O well, maybe people will keep underhypinh tera and other mmo's so I won't have to deal with that when they come out.
You know the answer to this question. The answer is meaningless. Meaningless as it relates to sustained interest.
If one doesn't understand that, then one must seek treatment for that missing chromosome.
Most every mmorpg enthusiast will buy this game. Most every mmorpg enthusiast purchased every other mmorpg over the past several years. Most mmorpg enthusiasts are still overly disatisfied with what is available over the past several years since there have been millions of box sales, yet only a couple hundred thousand sustained subscribers to each mmorpg.
As I purchased about every other mmorpg over the last several years, I will also purchase this one.
The last one I purchased was Rift. Nice linear themepark single-player-esque lobby-system game. I was able to play @ 2-weeks of early access and then one-month free. I was able to level to max over 6-weeks, enjoying the journey, and coming away with more enjoyment then I have gotten from a single-player RPG, but at the same price.
Personally, I am still looking for a mmorpg, not an overly glorified single-player lobby-system inorganic carnival ride that ends with running the same Battlegrounds meaninglessly over and over and over, nor the same dungeons over and over and over, where the meaning of your game-play is summed-up by the color of your gear.
SWtOR might not be that game, but if anything, I hope to get more enjoyment out of a month to 6-weeks of it as I would any other single-player RPG. Whether my interest is sustainable to encourage me to fork-over $15/month after that, is up to the devs.
I totally see where you're coming from. When was the last time we got 200 hours of gameplay out of a single player game? And we're being promised at least that much with EVERY class. This game definitely has a lot of potential.
Yes I will be playing it. I've been follwoing this game for close to 2 years and have only gotten more excited. The game simply looks amazing.
I followed warhammer closely and saw early on that it was all hype. I have a pretty good nose for these things and I honestly don't think SWTOR is going to be the same. I'm convinced this is the real deal and eagerly await it.
Since I am mad for all things Star Wars and most thing Bioware I will buy this at release.
But with the way the game is shaping up now, I have serious doubts that my comittment to it will extend beyond 2 months.
I think a whole bunch of people WILL buy the game.
But the real question is, can the game keep us?
I most definitely will play this game, right at launch even. I want to see how well Bioware does with their story approach.
If the story model is successful I'm crossing my fingers for Dragon Age MMORPG! We'll see.
This is what I'm afraid of, which leaves me.....undecided.
I'm also still pretty pissed off about DA:O's stupid amount of DLC and don't trust them not to pull that shit again. Single player RPG or MMO....what's to stop them really? There are other pay to play games that also have item shops. So DLC....not much of a stretch from item shops. Bioware thinks they're pretty hot shit, so...nothing would surprise me. All things considered, I'll have to wait and hear player reviews before I'll pick this up now, I believe.
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from everything I have seen and read this will be a pretty darn good game, but I am on the fence about buying and playing it, simply becuase, WoW is a great game too, but, the community makes the actual playing experience one of the worst of any MMoRPG I have played and I have a feeling that the asswhipes, social rejects and just plain jerkie, me first, I think being as nasty to others as possible types will flock to this game like white on rice.
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buy - YES
stay after initial month - i sure hope so, but only time will tell
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well.. its more noticeable in WoW because of player numbers.. you get the types you mention.. is most games.. so while your not wrong exactly.. i just don't think it will be any worse than in other games.. though in a way.. the more noticeable they are would indicate large numbers of players wouldnt it?
Hell Yes, so far Bioware are gods of the story telling gaming, Dragon age, Kotor, Mass effect and on and on, for once I have good feeling inside and am excited to play and probably knowing the way bioware make game replay and replay the game, just sad this is going to be sich a huge year for games, Elder scrolls, Mass Effect 3, ToR, Battlefield 3, going to have to quit my life just to play them all
Before Dragon Age 2 I would say : I would buy it and play for 1 month
But now, after DA2 was such a piece of boring crap.
I would only play demo or beta.
I am still on the fence with this one, I am not sure if I will or not.
I am worried it will be a Jedi fest, and that the class balance will be non existant when it comes to the jedi.
I think I may wait till after the first month or 2 and see if it goes the way of DCUO ...
90% of the folks here will play the game at some point. even if its just the trial or a free month box gameplay. its just one of those titles you simply cant ignore, no mather what side of the mmo world your from.
some will love it, some will hate it but everyone will have played it.
Nope.. not me.. its not like there won't be other things to do instead of waste time on this one after all... i think the 90 percent estimate is not only optimistic.. its widely innacurate.. and wholly dependent on there being a free trial... but 2 out of 3 aint bad...
and yes i am a meatloaf fan..