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I'm not buying this if there's no real PvP, though. What's the point of getting "phat lewtz" if you can't own people with it?
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03-17-2010, 04:00 PM | #197 | ||
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You know, speaking of development timeline, I don't even know if (external) closed beta has started yet. We signed up in, like, December, wasn't it? But I haven't heard a word about beta since then. Quote:
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03-19-2010, 12:36 PM | #198 |
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I've been keeping up on the updates and I really feel this one might give WoW a run for its money.
All the other MMO's have tried and failed miserably but this one feels different. I can't wait for this game. |
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03-19-2010, 03:00 PM | #199 |
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I really hope Bioware can do it, but it honestly sounds to me like they don't have the MMO formula quite figured out. I have no doubts that the game is going to be amazing for a while, I just don't know how it's going to be sustained to have the longevity of WoW. I'm also wondering what Blizzard has up its sleeve with their brand new IP MMO.
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03-19-2010, 03:17 PM | #200 |
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As far as the perfect MMO formula goes, I'm not entirely sure even Blizzard knows what made WoW as big as it was.
The question for me, from the moment it was announced and BioWare started talking about adding the story pillar to the MMO genre, was just how successful that approach would be. Because that's something that many of the MMO gamers I know have actually looked at as a negative. Even me to a point. Most of my time talking to NPCs in WoW, and in LotRO now, has been tabbing as quickly as I can through tedious walls of text to get to the next monotonous grind the game has to offer. And in that light I'm not sure that, at the end of the day, your average WoW player gives two shits about story. MMO's, so far, have basically been about giving players a never-ending supply of braindead clicking, and not about following a storyline or doing anything else that requires thinking. I hope it works, though. It would be nice to have a little more meat in the genre. |
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I did some digging and found some additional recent endgame discussion:
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03-20-2010, 12:20 AM | #202 |
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I dont like PVP much myself. I want a game thats built for PVE. I like raiding. I like killing big bad meanies to get my phat lewts. For me its not about the phat lewts. Its about killing a meanie with 24- whoever many ther people. Back in Everquest doing certain raids liek Xegony, Rathe Council and Ralloz Zek The Warlord required 65-80 something people and sometimes even more.
I want a PVE game that isnt all that focused on PVP. I dont need the game to be a WOW killer. I just need a fun game that has a healthy population and i am set. Here is an Everquest raid i frapp'ed about 3-4 years ago. This was a 54 man raid. This shit was fun. I died at the end cause he asshole tank pulled a rampaging mob toward me when i hit lifeburn. He did it on purpose. lol asshole. |
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03-21-2010, 07:30 PM | #203 |
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You guys completely lost me.
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Official forum post from a TOR developer on group versus solo xp:
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They may be close to testing.
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03-24-2010, 04:10 PM | #206 |
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That's a screenshot of the page you get if you login to https://launch.swtor.com/.
Which I have done. And seen that page for myself. |
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03-25-2010, 07:49 PM | #207 |
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Mmmm.....REAL video game; aaaaarrrrrgghhhh......
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I just do not see this game being predominantly pve unless you are talking about leveling up.. After watching some videos, it seems to be going the eve route.. Which there is nothing really wrong with that.. Most of starwars is sith vs. jedi.. Which there is nothing wrong with that.. I have a feeling they will use updates for storiy arcs to further the pvp aspect, in doing so you will have to pve to get items to further the story along.. Basically it is going to make you pve to pvp.. |
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