Nanoling
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I cancelled my sub half an hour ago.
this is the message i saw when i cancelled: You have 20 days of play time remaining. When your play time runs out, you will no longer be able to play. Please sign up for a recurring subscription plan or redeem a Game Time Code.
So, basically that means you have 20 days to convince me to keep playing.
I suggest the rest of you who are dissatisfied with the service, graphics, maintenance times, bugs etc. do the same.
Show Bioware that you won't stand for it. Make them work to keep you, instead of letting them leech off your bankaccount just because you were too lazy to do something about it.
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No seperate EU maintenances
No high rez textures
Silent treatment on the forums
Bugs, bugs, bugs
You know what?
*clickety-click*
You have 20 days of play time remaining. When your play time runs out, you will no longer be able to play. Please sign up for a recurring subscription plan or redeem a Game Time Code.
Thank you and goodbye.
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There's a guy on my server called Access Denied. i thought that was pretty funny
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For all you guys who think this is the wife's problem, I say again, you have a LOT to learn about women.
I've been married for 37 years, I made ALL the same mistakes but I learned from them. Seriously, why are you flirting and having virtual sex with your game characters? Honestly examine that and you might start to understand.
I see what your problem is.
"I" am not having sex with whatever NPC is on the other side of the screen. My character is.
If you = your character in your mind, you're being unfaithful.
Luckily i don't have that problem. I=/=my character.
I've been married for ten years and i have romanced every single character in every single bioware game. Everyone. If you could have threesomes or foursomes, i'd do it.
All through it, my wife would be right next to me, laughing with me.
It's not us that have a lot to learn about women, it's you who, for all your years of marriage, have something to learn about being a husband and a man.
I will never tolerate irrational jealousy, but i will always be up for talking something over and that includes if her feelings should somehow be hurt because i play a game on my pc.
(and to answer your question; I make my character have sex with the NPC's to see what happens next, because that's the whole point of story driven games)
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To be honest, this guy hurt our game by posting a review that says (authoritatively) DO NOT BUY THE GAME. He doesn't suggest it, he doesn't act impartial with his observations that lead him to this conclusion, he just basically shouts at the reader DO NOT BUY THE GAME.
Even though pretty much EVERYONE is satisfied with the initial purchase, people just don't know if it's worth resubbing for generally. Honestly? He was hardly constructive, he offered no real suggestions, he attacked parts of the game that are almost universally proclaimed as awesome, and he told people not to buy the game.
He doens't have to be impartial or give suggestions on how to improve the game.
I think you need to learn what a review is:
(from Wiki) A review is an evaluation of a publication, a product or a service, such as a movie (a movie review), video game, musical composition (music review of a composition or recording), book (book review); a piece of hardware like a car, home appliance, or computer; or an event or performance, such as a live music concert, a play, musical theater show or dance show. In addition to a critical evaluation, the review's author may assign the work a rating to indicate its relative merit
So basically it's his evaluation of the game, nothing more, nothing less.
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very well thought out and written, OP.
While I do not agree on all your points, a lot of what you're saying is reasonable.
We need more posters like this guy and less fanboys and haters.
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wow, you'd think that having OP's mistake corrected would somehow be taken out of your wages.
OP, good luck with having your oversight corrected, more power to you if you manage it.
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For me, it's "The thing Czerka found"
Can't click towers, can't delete quest, resetting does nothing.
My wife just did the same quest on her SI, no problem ( We both play SI's so it seems to strike at random )
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/headasplode
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What really astounds me is that i see so many americans telling us europeans to just live with it.
Don't you understand that all we're asking for is seperate maintenance times for the EU servers? it's not like we want maintenance done in the middle of the day for american servers or something.
You americans stand to lose nothing by supporting us in wanting seperate maintenances.
So why are you always in these threads telling people to "just live with it"?
Actually, why would you even care?
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All textures are already on your disk. This whole copy protection/remote rendering thing is just hilarious and technically absurd. You need to understand what texture streaming is but I will explain while answering the following quote.
Agreed. The "conspiracy theory thread" is just utter garbage. Do not make statements on things you do not know about though. There is "texture streaming" and it has nothing to do with remote rendering or pulling textures from a remote server/location.
Texture streaming is the name of a technique used by 99% of the 3d game engines out there. To further elaborate it is the process of loading lower detail textures when you initially draw a scene (mipmaps) and then load the higher resolution ones as the camera draws near the object (or not load them at all if the camera never gets close enough). This way you maximize the performance of the engine by utilizing higher resolution textures when the eye can actualy perceive them and lower quality ones when it would make no difference. The increment in detail may also come in steps whcih is even more effective (several quality mipmaps are utilized and each is "streamed" as/when needed).
The effect that you see in some games that objects have less detail for a second (usually under heavy load) and then suddenly become crisp sharp, is caused by texture streaming.
When you alt-tab out of SWTOR and back in, that logo image you are seeing is there for one reason only. That is to hide the actual process of the texture streaming from the end user because it is entirely unoptimized to the point where it is actualy crawling. If you go to a heavy crowded area like the fleet or Illum and alt-tab out of the game and back in, you will notice that the texture streaming actually is so slow that the effect it produces is visible even after the logo goes off.
Now regarding the Texture Atlas technique. Someone already explained it in the previous thread but I will try to simplify it even more so everyone can understand it. Textures are like images that are applied upon 3d models. The Texture Atlas is technique in which you take a lot of small textures and piece them together much like a collage. The benefit of this is that you don't need to load the texture for every single one of them but instead you can assign coordinates on the collage you made (the altas). For example you have a table, a chair and a vase. The table and the chair are made of wood and the vase from porcelain. Instead of loading 3 different textures to assign to those 3 models, you make an atlas which consists of only 2 textures, wood and porcelain. You assign table and chair to the wood texture and the vase to the procelain one. It's that simple. This allows you to batch draw calls.
So let's see what exactly being said and decipher it:
This translates to: "The game engine's 3d subsystem performance is abysmal and entirely unoptimized that it can't handle our high resolution textures being drawn for every character on the scene so we decided to use a 'texture atlas'." Now that on it's own doesn't say much on why we don't have high res. But the this part that follows does:
Notice the part where it says "essentially to put a number of smaller textures together" and I'll elaborate.
To draw an object on the screen, the engine has to issue a "draw call" to the graphics API (Application Programming Interface), DirectX in this case. The more draw calls you do less performance you get due to the CPU overhead. Simply put each draw call needs a bit of your CPU and when you have many, they add up. So there is a process that is called "batching". This process allows you to draw many objects with a single "draw call" making things much faster. The "Texture Atlas" technique that I explained above allows you to do just that, "draw call batching".
So now with all this knowledge let's translate the above quote: "We had to use texture atlases to reduce the draw calls. But because our engine could not handle high or multi resolution atlases as well and/or it's not cost-effective to implement and/or optimize it, we ALSO had to use low resolution ones which again do not perform properly as we can see of fleet and Illum because the engine needs work that can be done later as x-y-z has higher priority and for now we've masked the issues."
The above is overly simplified in terms anyone can understand. For the technically inclined you can read the whitepaper as published by nvidia here:
http://download.nvidia.com/developer/NVTextureSuite/Atlas_Tools/Texture_Atlas_Whitepaper.pdf
And a research paper on the technique here:
http://www.jhu.edu/digitalhammurabi/research/2004_01_sta.pdf
Bottom line: The engine needs work as this doesn't affect only the high resolution textures as I've said before. And imho, Bioware could choose to communicate with the community without a PR department filtering everything. I like the game and I want it to succeed.
This post needs to have a link on the front page of the thread. This is one of the best thought out, technically insightful and yet easily understandable posts i have seen in a long time.
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Just make sure you wash your hands... and, quite possibly, the keyboard and monitor as well.
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I didn't make fun of his english, but nice strawman argument there. i said that he seemed incoherent, something most seemed to agree with me on.
then i pointed out that if he is this rambling all the time he must work a place where comminucation skills aren't all that important. A fact he himself agreed with me on.
So if you're quite done being protector of the forums and self proclaimed mod, perhaps we can move on?
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So? english isn't my first language either. That i mispelled some words doesn't make the OP's post any less rambling or (as some other guy said) tacky.
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So where exactly did you work again? incoherent-r-us?
Whereever you work i assume it's a place where communication skills aren't weighted all that high.
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Weird, I have the same thing after checking the page you suggested.
The subscription page is blank but the payment history page has my payment details and confirms I have a rolling monthly sub as I intended.
Kind of confusing, not sure which page to trust. Do you think I should erase my payment method and re-add it?
i have no idea.
Personally, i'm resubbing either way.
Two reasons.
1. it's the only game in town right now and in spite of the many faults they got some things right as well. I'm an altaholic and the levelling is good.
2. Watching the devs coming out with poor explanations, patches to fix patches that was supposed to fix issues created by other patches and in general this entire ***********
(rhymes with "rusterduck") this is too entertaining to miss out on.
It's a bit like being on the Titanic, only without the risk of drowning in ice cold water.
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Okay hold on hold on here.
That first page. I see what this is, a complete misinterpretation. (And a bad move on BW's part)
So this page.
Was the "startup" page. This page dealt with the steps that you had to deal with to get through the game startup process. This was simply a "checklist" for getting into the game, but it doesn't seem to have the capability to dynamically update, so if you subscription is/is not cancelled shouldn't have any effect on this page (I believe)
However, if this page (the REAL status page)
Shows no active subscription, then I don't believe you DO have an active subscription at the moment.
My page
Shows one, and also shows the date I will be billed. If your page doesn't show that, I don't think you're going to be renewed and should setup a new one. (CHECK YOUR PENDING CHARGES FIRST)
you're missing the next page.
As i move into the "Payment history" screen it clearly shows me signed up for a subscription in a one month recurring plan.
So i do have a subscription, it is recurring and yet... no cancel button.
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Before this degenerates completely into a shouting match, i just want to make clear: i just posted this here to show that some of us indeed have no cancel button.
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that wonderful link brings you the the account login screen from wich you wind back up on the account page with no cancel option.
Edit 2: okay, my bad. it actually brings me to the cancel screen now. maybe i was logged out the first time or something.
Sorry for saying you failed when it was in fact me who failed right there.
...you're still a fanboy, though.
Edit: you actually think i faked this?
Well, i didn't. I don't know what else to tell you. You're a fanboy and will not accept anything as proof that bioware could do anything wrong.
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You are not alone.
This is my account page.
http://i.imgur.com/OlmVP.jpg
As you can see it clearly states that i have subscribed.
This is my "subscription" page
http://i.imgur.com/TFyhV.png
So... where's the cancel button?
Oddly enough, if i go into "payment history" my Credit card and subscription plan still show up as shown here
http://i.imgur.com/4MAQ0.jpg
I guess a workaround is to change my CC info so it no longer matches my card, but the thing is... i shouldn't have to figure out lame workarounds to cancel this game if i want to.
As for the people claiming that there's no problem at all and that people are lying when they say there's no cancel button. well, i hope this makes you see that for some of us, this issue does exist.
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Problem would be solved with combat logs/meters.
Just sayin
Yeah, because there's no whine threads about Heals/tanks/dps sucking and not doing their job/slacking/failing in the WoW forums, are there?
Stop it, man. if this is the best you can do to sell your argument for parsers, then dont even try.
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No problems at all on my end. So your point is dismissed
"I don't have AIDS, therefore it doesnt exist"
See what i did there?
There are problems with the game engine. Maybe they'll fix it. As of right now, no one knows because Bioware are being less than forthcoming with information.
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Self-entitled, indeed. Please feel free to go- these forums won't be losing anything of value.
Oh, so now i'm self entitled because i actually want what what was advertized?
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Look, the people that are disappointed are spoiled wow kids. They want this game to rival a 7 year old mmo and its not happening, at least not yet. Read my signature to get an insight into the mind of your average hater.
Of course. It has absolutely nothing to do with the weak excuses for low resulution textures, while the game is advertized with high resolution textures, the poor communication from BW and the general bad performance of the weak game engine they chose.
It's all because i want this game to be exactly like the game i left because i couldn't stand it anymore.
How silly of me.
Weekly server maintenance EU times?
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Posted · Edited by Nanoling
You should be more sorry that you applied idiocy to anyone who actually took their time to read through your nonsensical stupidity and thereby lost minutes of their lives as well as millions of braincells that, in true lemming like fashion, commited mass suicide rather than be subjected to one more word from you.
I award you - 2 internetz and remove your cookie privileges for all eternity.