They could hire Rich Little. Hiring one person is almost always less expensive than hiring 10,000 (or however many it took for SWTOR). Problem solved! Plus, I'm sure he could do a perfectly fine Mako.

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And some men just want to make sword in box light sword so sword come out when opened.

No, no! It's "Hear how ridiculous you look?" Besides, it's noodles we need here. Because we are noodle folk.

I didn't buy the hype - and didn't pre-order until after I'd been in a weekend beta, December FTW! - and was still disappointed with the game. Not initially! The first couple of weeks were great. As the first billing cycle approached, though, I was already considering cancelling. I held on for another month, but that was it. Still hoping to see improvements - and hoping to see them sooner than SOON . In the meantime, I love these forums.

Cool, looks like fun. So when is this game being released?

'Secret' World. Although I would definitely give an MMO set in Maple White Land a go.

I was playing a couple of nights ago, a KDF character, and was doing one of the missions - Bringing Down the House, I believe is the name - and at one point I was stymied by a very annoying bug. An annoying bug that had stymied me back in 2010 when I played that same mission on an earlier KDF character. I googled it, and found the old STO forum thread in which a Cryptic dev had said he/she would look into that annoying bug and take care of it. One of those, "They meant it when they said it so technically it's not a lie!" deals for which Cryptic is infamous. So, more polished? Maybe in some areas. In others, not so much. PS: Free the Horta!!!

Well, it happened when I was playing my Gunslinger. She was on Hoth riding along on her speeder, when suddenly a group of about 40 miniature ninja wookies crashed through the window. I didn't hesitate, not even for an instant, before springing into action, that action being to push back from my computer desk with sufficient force to overturn my chair, allowing me to roll backwards across the floor and grab my trusty snorkel, which is lying atop a stack of gaming magazines on the other side of the room. Snorkel in hand, I proceeded to unleash mass quantities of devastation upon the horde of miniature ninja wookies, who seemed somewhat surprised at being devastated by means of snorkel (which, btw, I have never used for snorkeling - I found it one day, so long ago I can't remember where, and have kept it handy ever since, just in case). The miniature ninja wookie bodies began to pile up, inhibiting movement, but that was okay because by the time it reached a critical stage they were all -- Oh, wait, you meant in the game. Okay, well, this one time, on Hoth, my Gunslinger was riding along on her speeder when she stopped to kill a couple of Imps. Pew! Pew! That's when my eye was drawn to some movement at a nearby snow drift - or maybe it was a chunk of spaceship wreckage. I forget. Anyway, it was just the wind, randomly blowing snowflakes up and over the drift. Now, maybe some of you will get this and maybe some of you won't, but to me, that tiny little easily overlooked detail was EPIC beyond measure. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

Free the horta!!!

Maybe, maybe not. It's not necessarily a bad thing when devs leave. It might even be a good thing. What if the ones leaving are the ones responsible for the game's problems? Now that they are out of the way, maybe things can get better!

I'm not happy with SWTOR at present but I don't see how Tera is going to pose much of a threat. For all its flaws, real or imagined, SWTOR is still Star Wars (a lot more Star Wars than STO was ever Star Trek, IMO) and lots of folks reeeaaally like Star Wars. Tera? I'd never even heard of it until people here started mentioning it.

/e Louis Armstrong I see me me me Ev-er-y-where It seems unfair But I don't care And I think to myself It's a Me Me Me World

I wouldn't read too much into it. The timing seems about right. I am, however, only an old PC game enthusiast and know little of the ways of marketing.

You know you are on a Dead Server if everyone is wearing tie dyed armor, chowing down on veggie burrito consumables, and following the band from planet to planet recording concerts so they can trade the tapes with each other.