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Telaan

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  1. If you’re just playing it to experience the story, what does it matter if you’re over-leveled? None of the planetary side quests are difficult even at level; so what you’ll experience really isn’t any different.
  2. I honestly see very few over the top requests on the forums. Most are generally good and reasonable ideas that often stem from something experienced in another game. Of course not everything is possible; but the honest truth is that this game is in maintenance mode and has been for many years. EA lacks either the talent or scruples to follow through on what is necessary to maintain a AAA MMO. EA is a disreputable gaming company with a well documented history of doing anything it can to make a dollar; including pushing the envelope of the law. In doing so it’s earned more than one “worst company in America” award. SWTOR is the perfect opportunity and platform to try and earn some goodwill back from consumers. However, that will never happen because....EA.
  3. It’s a sad reality made even more tragic in that MMOs require more post-launch support than any other genre of game.
  4. I can run this game on max graphics with a mid level gaming PC I built before this game even launched. No joke... It doesn’t take a $5000 rig to run; but it does require more than a Dell laptop designed to run word 97.
  5. I didn’t realize it was so chic to *accept* mediocrity or have no expectations from a AAA game company to upgrade the engine on a MMO bearing, arguably, the most valuable IP in the world to enable something that should’ve existed since launch.
  6. Not even close. TLJ made $28.7 million the first weekend with a 92% drop the second week to $2.8 million the second week before it was pulled from theaters. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/star-wars-china-box-office-why-disneys-jedi-mind-trick-isnt-working-china-1075177 You seem to have a tenuous grasp of what virtual goods are and that mobile sales constitute the vast bulk of all gaming virtual sales. But none of this is surprising considering the confusion you have surrounding toy sales.
  7. Considering games nearly twice as old as swtor have it...I’d say that we’ve gone eight years without it is rather relevant. Especially considering the game should’ve never launched without it. It’d be like releasing a new smart phone with no ability to access the internet. PvP has and always will be toxic in any online game. It’s the internet.
  8. The romantic relationships in the movies had deep, meaningful, and fundamentally destiny altering implications. The romances in SWTOR consist of three lines and a fade to black with a kiss. They are literally only as deep as the smugglers numerous one night stands with non companion NPCs. The player companion romances in this game aren’t remotely comparable to movie romances.
  9. The point is that it’s entirely possible. I’m fairly certain I never stated that all it would take is the flip of a switch to make happen. What I did say is that it IS possible since communication already occurs. It WOULD take upgrading the engine to do. If LOTRO can manage an engine upgrade than this game under EA certainly can and should too. It’s 2019 and it’s time this game have features that existed in 2004. The reason that this won’t happen is because the game is in maintenance.
  10. But is there a quick travel to my favorite smugglers luck machine and then another one to my favorite kingpin machine?
  11. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.forbes.com/sites/markhughes/2018/01/19/star-wars-the-last-jedi-heads-toward-final-global-total-of-1-3-billion/amp/ https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.forbes.com/sites/lukethompson/2017/12/21/why-arent-star-wars-toys-selling-as-well-this-year/amp/ https://www.google.com/amp/s/fortune.com/2018/01/18/star-wars-the-last-jedi-chinese-theaters/amp/ Please stop. The film in China was literally pulled from theaters; a weak market is vastly different from a hostile one. Ticket sales dropped 92% after just a week in theaters. “‘The Last Jedi has already been completely pulled from cinemas here,’ Jimmy Wu, chairman of nationwide Chinese cinema chain Lumiere Pavilions, told The Hollywood Reporter. ‘It’s performed much worse than we could have expected.’” TFA made $29 million in China. TLJ didn’t even make $3 million.... Star Wars toys lost to Nerf toys...Nerf...despite leading the market as recently as 2016. What is so difficult to understand that toy sales are tanking within the toy market compared to other toys...? It’s not a discussion of toys vs virtual good or anything else. Just toys. Toys. When talking about market competition it helps if you keep it relevant by talking about the same market. That all toy sales are down is irrelevant to the discussion of Star Wars toys in comparison to other toys. As far as mobile games go. There isn’t a single Star Wars game on any of these lists: https://www.statista.com/statistics/263988/top-grossing-mobile-ios-gaming-apps-ranked-by-daily-revenue/ https://www.pocketgamer.biz/feature/66339/mobile-games-billion-dollar-club/entry/1/ https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.gamesindustry.biz/amp/2019-01-16-fortnite-tops-2018-superdata-chart-with-usd2-4b-digital-revenue Ahhh this explains it...the need to defend a poorly written movie has resulted in purposeful hyper-focusing on a metaphor in order to side step the point which was.....garbage writing. How about I fix it for you...space Goebbels with wizard powers. The point stands that the writing is trash and Luke’s character makes no sense. The special effects were cool though... People had no problem seeing the entire enterprise crew without any of the actors who made them famous. Weird... You can admit you like the movie despite it being garbage writing. It’s ok. I mean...I like Starship Troopers and that’s movie is trash lol.
  12. Weird I thought engines could be upgraded. It’s almost like LOTRO upgraded their engine.... LOTRO.... Server transfers happen in seconds. Done it across more toons than I care to admit because of getting put on different servers than friends. Five years ago is not today.
  13. Your individual server will always matter and server transfers will always be desirable. Whether it’s to transfer to play with a friend, to join a progression or PvP guild, the economy, or any other myriad of reasons. But cross server queues will benefit players and increase quality of life for numerous areas which increases the potential for more subs. I suspect that the reason we likely haven’t seen it is because it would require someone to foot the bill to develop.
  14. The engine isn’t the problem. Cross server communication/queues are already possible; hence why we can transfer between them with associated data. They’ve also already merged numerous NA servers. They’re just not going to merge it down to a single one only.
  15. That wouldn’t be a problem. All they have to do is add -server to the end of the name like in other games (ie: Telaan-Satele Shan vs Telaan-Star Forge). It’s much more difficult to coordinate win trades with larger more active queues as a result of a deeper base of players being drawn from across numerous servers.
  16. Originally Lucas viewed them as heavy. In an interview with Mark Hamill, he stared that Lucas continually told him to hold the hilt with two hands and imagine it was heavy like a broadsword. However, Lucas also later stated that the fights of Episodes IV and V were designed to be clumsier and slower. Vader vs Obi-Wan was a broken man vs an old man; while Luke vs Vader was a half trained kid vs someone holding back his punches. By Episode VI it’s a Jedi Knight vs a Sith Lord and you see a bit more intensity (although Vader’s costume physically hindered the actor). Lucas said that for the prequels he wanted to show what a Jedi at their height looked like.
  17. But why? Not that this is a new question...but I’m still trying to wrap my head around how a game was released in 2011 without it in the first place. It would help fix ranked win trading, decrease pvp and pve queue times, break up the odds of running into the same premades repeatedly if solo queuing, etc.
  18. PvP has been trash in this game since shortly after launch. Ranked is the biggest joke of it all. Without cross server queues it’s literally meaningless. Even regs queues would seriously benefit from xserver. If I want to play esports I play battlefield or WoW. It’s tragic that anyone would consider themselves a real pvper and use ranked in this game as an example. How this game made it past Q&A in 2010-2011 with no xserver is baffling.
  19. I didn’t decide anything. The suits at EAware decided what is and isn’t relevant to this game. Companions are at times relevant to the overall story surrounding whatever crisis is occurring. But the “romance” parts of it are absolutely superficial and silly. They have zero depth. Period. Romances with companions will never have any kind of meaningful impact on the uber story arc or the outcome unless they decide to shoehorn it in...which is also something that will never occur. Your response seems to indicate you have some belief that it’s because I’m adverse to adult themes? This is literally a game in which you run around merc’ing people by the thousands. Wanton killing, murder, genocide, crimes against sentient species, slavery, rape, etc are all themes seen throughout the game in some form or another. This is purely about the responsible use of finite real world resources so that the greatest whole benefit. Superficial and and shallow romances are in no way remotely close to included in that. This game is undeniably built around killing things. Repeatedly. A lot. Period.
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