Rikalonius
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Whoa, I came here to bash Cathar and the stupid dye pack lottery, but some of the nonsense I'm reading is going to force me to jump in.
From the game FAQ: "Windows XP Service Pack 3 or later"
That's it, end of story, that is what the game is advertised to run on, so it damn well better run on it.
Second, I can see a boatload of people who don't know crap about how an operating system works. The only real differences between XP and 7 is the amount of bloatware that Microsoft has stuffed into in order to give you the illusion you are buying something new. They are like EA in that way. Microsoft would love nothing more than to get you to drop $100 a year on their "franchise" and make little to know progress in efficiency. The fact that the game doesn't run on XP is not because XP is old, but due to a coding mistake by Bioware. They will fix it, I'm sure, but to hear people suggesting players should go out and buy 7 is the height of ridiculous comments.
Where the game first came out, there was problems running it on Windows 7 and they had to put out a workaround, should those people have been told "Maybe you should fall back to XP (nobody would ever suggest anyone fall back to Vista, not even Bioware and EA)?
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I'd really love to see the Neo-Crusader Mandalorian set released some time soon, I'd even pay 2K cartel coins if I could decide what color it was going to be.
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Empirical evidence and gaming trends would suggest your attempt to label it a fallacy is fallacious. If we are talking about A - Z, we've already experienced A - W, he was just making a prediction on X and Y, which, as your own link says "is by no means invariably fallacious."
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So they said it themselves - this is NOT an expansion. Looks like bioware is just trying to see if we are willing to pay for a patch, as long as it has a fancy name attached to it. Looks like we are, but hey, people are paying $18 for recolored stuff on cm, so why not
And they you wonder why people don't trust bioware
inb4 ninjadelete and/or infraction
A SWTOR Dev said something that turned out to be untrue?
Say it ain't so.Yeah, that's a pretty freaking common occurrence going back to October 2008.
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Your right, it doesn't give them the exact location where the danger would be coming from. But it would alert the jedi that there is indeed a danger somewhere but that is before the attack is made, the danger sense would be increased telling where the attack would be coming from just in time for the Jedi to react and avoid it. Jedi could also heightened this sense, to actually find the location of the person or where the danger is coming from beforehand without the need for the attack to be made, they could find said person even before the attack is made or just about to be made.
I guess sense danger doesn't work when you are looking right at it. Like when Jango Fett shot that Jedi dead on the balcony of the Geonosian arena. How many Jedi were killed in that battle against battle droids? What does the Republic even need an army for if the almighty Jedi can take on all comers without blinking. Why did Mace flee the scene in the face of Super Battle Droids? Who left the Kamino landing pad in their ship and who left after barely escaping death after he was tossed off the platform? Luke into the trap door. Ki Adi Mundi faced his Clone Troopers and still died. Luke didn't even see Boba Fett coming and the only reason Fett didn't kill him was the stupid accidental death because of George's awful writing and hatred for a bit character becoming so popular with the fans.
On top of all that, how many Jedi WERE killed by Mandalorians in the Mandalorian wars?
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They only couldn't sense it, because Sidious was blocking them.
Please show me in the FILM where it espouses that? That is purely fanboi apology. And people want to use the pejorative fandalorians, Jedi fanbois make us look well adjusted.
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You can't get the drop on someone who can see the future.
Lot of good that did Luke when that trap door opened, eh?
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Well of the males only the Smuggler and the IA have more than one choice for romance, and you really have to have a fetish to go after Akaavi.
I suppose if you are a male Inquisitor you could have a relationship with Zash through Khem. Ewww.
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No, I can hold it! Arghhhhhhh! ~ Jek Porkins
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It seems that many who complain about the Mary Sue'ing of Mandalorians, and it does happen, are all to keen to turn Sith Lords into virtual gods. If you look back to the first three movies, even Yoda was a bit winded after lifting that X-wing, and he didn't do it in a big hurry. Faster forward and we have The Force Unleashed, which did irreparable damage to the Jedi concept by having one pull a Star Destroyer out of orbit. At that point, they are pretty much invincible. Yay, everyone mentally m@sterb8 about super force users. Snooze.
Don't get me wrong, a lot of damage has been done to the Mandalorians as well. They too are often rendered free of weakness and pure as the driven snow. A warrior culture normally relies on slaves to do the jobs that warriors think they are too good to do. If everyone is a warrior, who is going to cook the food?
A Mandalorian one on one against a fully trained Jedi should be an unlikely scenario, but a team of Mandos working together should be a threat to a Jedi. That's the trade-off. Jedi are more powerful, but Mandos have greater numbers. Jedi lead good troops, Mandos are elite troops. It can all work in balance if it is written right.
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While there are workarounds, aren't all companion droids thus far Aim based? I know Scorpio and T7 are, but I'm not sure about the Trooper companion. If they are, it just seems like another one of those "lack of attention to detail" moments by BioWare, to suddenly change him to Cunning.
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Neo crusader Mandalorian armor
Jedi Armor (KOTOR 2)
Better selection of jackets. (The life vests suck, Bioware)
The light armor look.
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So I logged in an had ZERO cartel coins. I'm a recurring subscriber since launch, and a Collector's edition holder and I have ZERO cartel coins. Anyone else have this issue?
EDIT: So, I was like -4500 in the hole for no reason. I bought 5500 coins and ended up with a positive 1000. Really, Bioware, this is how you want to start this, screwing over a loyal customer.
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Talk about breaking immersion. I'm a smuggler, my ship is my only home. It has aftermarket add-ons, and state of the art technology in every nook and cranny. Yet today as I get ready to fly off to Ilum, a level 17 commando waltzes up like he owns the joint and runs around my cockpit. Now is there a quest somewhere to get a better security system so I can keep the riff raff away?
*** this is happening a lot lately, why are other people allowed on my ship. Are we running out of private instances and we need to start carpooling?!
The spaceship feature of this game is arguably one of the bigger letdowns, and there are threads and threads about that elsewhere, at least so far it has been the closest thing to a "home" my character has. I feel violated.
Anyone else having this problem?
Happened to me a couple nights ago, I logged into my smuggler and a consular was running around my bridge.
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I predict a continuation of the Clone Wars TV show that will rewrite the lore of all six movies and Darth Vader will not be dead by the time Episode 7 comes out.
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So have we found out what happens to Ashoka during order 66? Or is GL not likely to comment while the show is still running?
She is impregnated by Anakin just before he turns, then he freezes her in carbonite and hides her in the Massassi temple where she is found by Luke Skywalker while scouting out the location for the new Jedi Academy.
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Hey folks, the Cartel Market team wants your help and advice in determining possible future content.
Specifically, they want to hear about what current in-game outfits you’ve been envious of that you would love to see available for other classes as moddable outfits. Please post your thoughts and ideas below!
Lek'ku wrap. Why this wasn't in the game I'll never understand.
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Does George Lucas still have the "whatever I say goes" power now that Disney owns Lucasfilm?
No. Disney owns it all and can do with it whatever they want.
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It seems Disney intends to take forward Episode 7 with a new storyline. I think this is good news, there will be less of a feeling that a dead horse is being flogged, and hopefully not too many geriatric ex- star wars actors turning up.
Although I can see Mark Hamill coming back as the new Obi Wan Kenobi role.
What is also good news, is that the ridiculous post ROTJ books will not be made into films. Star Wars is the films, for better or for worse, and devaluing the product to make more money by releasing all these books and comics, is a sad reality of the modern world. We don't need to compound this by turning them into films.
The franchise needs a proper reboot, like they achieved with Star Trek, not re-animating second class literature.
First, the reboot of Star Trek wasn't all that good. It took a timeless series of stories, that are still watched by people today, and turned it into another summer blockbuster with the chic pretty boy actors of the time, and sprinkled in a cliched action oriented story that will be forgotten long before the TOS will. When I watched it the first time I was impressed, because of the special effects mainly, I think, but watching it two years later I realized how campy it really was. It offered nothing to science fiction, and did plenty to damage the franchise.
Second, many of the EU books, and there are some horrible stinkers, are better than the prequels. Mara Jade is a compelling character and hugely popular, why squander that?
Lastly, they won't be a reboot. The first one is still titled episode 7, so they will be a follow on to ROTJ, like it or not. How long after Return is anyone's guess. Whether or not they intend to recast the main characters is again anyone's guess, but they wouldn't deliberately title it Episode 7 if it wasn't chronological.
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One of the hilarious sub plots of Lucas selling the franchise is the absolute panic it has sent through the fanboys and their incessant G-Canon, C-Canon, T-Canon, Who gives a crap-Canon nonsense. No one cares what some crappy writer decided happens to Luke Skywalker 50 years after the movies in some book that sold a few dozen copies. It doesn't prove or disprove any argument about the characters we saw in the movies. About 80 percent of what's in the post ROTJ EU is garbage.
Agreed. The whole canon classifications are idiotic. It is either canon, or it isn't. Canon is what, up until this point, George Lucas said it was. And as Disney is about to prove, no amount of sub-categorizing the EU lore is going keep from being obliterated.
I'm a fan of some of the post-ROTJ EU lore. i like Thrawn, I have all his Star Wars minis. I like Mara Jade. I like Darth Talon, but it will soon be gone. All the figures, statues, comics, novels, will become a faded legacy of what once was and only those who lived through it, or have an interest in rare collectibles will care.
Disney knows the power of the Star Wars brand. If they hand't labeled it Episode 7 in advance, I would half expect a complete reboot of the series.
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As we get closer, you realize the world is changing around you…. We have to change accordingly. Now you’ve got a hybrid model, which is the way I like it, because I’d rather say “give me all you can eat for 15 bucks a month and I’ll play the game if you give me everything,” which is still available. But this fall there will be, we open up the funnel at the top, look, come on in, there’s no cost to play, if you want to progress it gets better quickly.
Peter, yes, the world was changing around you and you continued not to change with it despite the repeated admonishment and down right begging by the beta players to change and/or leave certain things alone. Instead you steadfastly marched to the beat of Blizzard's drum, like every other lemming MMO, and went right over the cliff behind them.
The threads are out there already, you didn't listen to the fan base before and you're deluding yourself now into believing it wasn't the fault of the developers who thought they knew better and condescendingly dismissed those who were earnestly trying to help.
As someone in the comments asked, "What's the WoW secret sauce?" Nobody knows, not even Blizzard. Blizzard exceeded expectations by exponential exigency. It was a feat that will not soon be repeated. May people who played WoW didn't fold into the niche market that is MMORPGs. Also in WoW's beginning their wasn't the saturation in the MMO community there is today. Companies are going to have to work harder for their customers, like it or not. Or they are going to have to settle for lesser subscription numbers. Freemium is not a way to get more subscribers, but it is a way to separate hardcore players from more of their cash. They are going to fund these companies, and in a sense, get less in return. Would you pay three times the amount of a game to be given a chance of getting something no one else has. Only a few will, and that's what the bean-counters at EA are depending on.
MMORPGs are returning to their roots. They are returning to a niche market. There certainly isn't much fun to be had anymore. All that was new and slick with persistent world gaming has run its course. I don't know what the next paradigm shifting game will be, but I have a strong feeling it won't be a WoW clone.
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If my mind serves me right, KotOR came out in 2003.
We've seen it all, GTA, Halo, Sonic. I think it's time for a KotOR HD remake.
Now, I don't want to ruin the original concept of the game, and by that I mean choices and dialogue but perhaps we can have a Revan voice actor? Maybe a few things of extra content and maybe a KotOR II remake by teaming up with Obsidian and making the greatest SW game EVA?!
It's only a suggestion.
Hope others agree!
I'd like to see Mass Effect 3 level of graphical detail in a KOTOR remake, yes please.
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I have seen a lot of you guys beg Bioware to reconsider putting out these "Grab Bags" (gambling bags) and judging from the PTS server, your cries have gone unheard.
So now I am asking you...Bioware....please please please do not go through with these grab bags. You are placing some of the coolest stuff in to these bags and making it to where the only way you can get this stuff is to gamble. Pink-purple crystals? Grab bag only?
Come on Devs...I am respectfully requesting you reconsider here.
It isn't BioWare. It is John Riccitiello and EA. They don't care about anything but cash, and judging from the PTS, they are salivating all over their $2000 suits for it to go live.
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False argument. You assume that the people working (continually) on bug fixes are those developing the Cartel shop.
This a.) is simply not true and b.) does not in any way address the central premise of the thread, which is that the Cartel shop is going to make a lot of money.
Which, in fact, it almost certainly will, putting more money into the game making it possible to, for example, hire more people to fix bugs. This is a good thing.
You want to talk about fallacious arguments. I agree these packs will sell, for a while, but why would EA waste those profits on hiring someone to fix bugs when they are making the profit with the game in its current state? I know you'll say that more bug fixes will draw in more consumers, but if that is true, why didn't they just fix the bugs?
Most likely. I hope they plan on spending a large chunk of that money on content. And by content I mean PvE, PvP, System upgrades, bug fixes and new features. Not more Cartel Store Content.Respectfully, you'd be mistaken.
Say it ain't so.
Welcome to Game Update 2.1: Customization
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Posted · Edited by Rikalonius
This has been an ongoing trend of EA and its only getting worse because people are buying into it. The next generation of gamers won't think twice about, and that's what the end game is. Even LEGO got in on it with their Minifigures collections that parents buy for kids not knowing the best ones are a 1/100 chance. John Riccitiello gave away the farm when he talked about charging a $1 for ammo 4 hours into a Battlefield 3 session as an example of what he had planned for greater revenue generation. It isn't going to stop until people get fed up and stop buying into it, and I don't see that happening anytime soon.