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    This game could be so much more...

    in General Discussion

    Posted · Edited by Loupe

    I'm getting extremely tired with this game, all my friends are waiting on this mythical 1.2 patch to fix everything but I just don't see it happening. They are all waiting for Ranked Warzones and gear customization but Bioware has been so unclear about "Ranked Warzones" that I don't even know if they are going to be anything like Rated Battlegrounds in WoW, sometimes it just sounds like it is going to be this arbitrary ranking you get for just queueing random warzones...

     

    Now may god protect and keep all those working on the game safe and employed.. :p

     

    No, not in one patch.. The insult is the overall lack of interaction within the forums by someone who's job it is to truly fight for what's right in gaming, and protect us from that what is outright stupid to ignore. I am mortally sick of gaming companies milking us and eternally failing by degrees, year by year, down the slippery slope of base common denominators.

     

    To BW, and the powers that be. Are there no Jedi among you? Even a Sith can see the injustice and dishonor of it all. You have failed to rally the people to hope, and the galaxy unravels before you.

     

    Be out front and give us the laundry list of issues, that by the clearest evidence you were warned of time and time again. Deny nothing. Lay down a reasonable and understandable timeline with your player base. Set focus areas of support and ask players to actively assist in nailing down the priorities as quickly as possible. Get a all hands on deck attitude going on, because I don't care if you do suddenly have great progress with your next patch, your lack of public relations disturbs me..

     

    Further, shut down the most broken of content. If you know the issues.. Otherwise get appropriate logging in place so players can participate in the solutions. Better to cry about, ' Can i hax epic lazr and pew pew mor plox ? ' than detailed well worded bordering on the obsessive breakdowns of the bug conditions issues and timing.. that you appear to ignore outright. don't cha think?

     

    Unfortunately, I suspect that by association and commonality of code or systems, they BW can't. They would have to shut the whole game down for a patch just to turnoff the access. My presumption is that not only did they release the game unfinished, but were not bright enough to have a proper set of game management tools in place either.

     

    Personally I would very very very much like to see the financials for where all the investment went in the development. Because if it was majority for score and voice acting I could possibly understand the failure in other areas. However it is still intollerable for how they have handled it going forward.

    To put it gently, I agree with these guys..

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    This isn't really a design problem. It's normal for low level content to empty out when the majority reaches max level. You find that in every MMO. I challenge you to go to lotro or WoW and go to a low level zone and find more than 5 people in it your level.

     

    I disagree. Clearly the leveling curve is too low, characters can max level way too fast. This is backed up by the crafting system and coincidental collection of resources to level skills on. Further most heroics and FPs are not tied into any plot or story creating natural choke points for all players.

    To put it gently, I agree with these guys..

    in General Discussion

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    Look, any game community requires, you know, people willing to participate in said community. It will not form on its own. Most MMOs, including TOR, have many, many ways in which to join up with other players...permitted that you are willing to do so (they are MMOs after all).

     

    So, instead of complaining about the lack of people willing to help you, why don't you use the LFG system that is there (and yes, it could use a lot of work, but it is there) or join a guild, or help people out with their quests/heroics, or engage in RP, or...any other myriad ways to join the community and take part in the social aspects of the game.

     

    No MMO that wants to have mass appeal (something they all strive for) is going to force a player to have to be grouped with other players in order to actually play the game. Let's facet: many, many people want to play an MMO solo (which, yeah, seems to contradict the very nature of the genre). So all MMO developers are going to make sure that this significant player base is satisfied. It's up to us, the players, those of us that WANT to play the game as it is meant to be played, with other people, to actually go out and create the community and be helpful and engage our fellow players within the game.

     

    Tho again I have tried these things. Because of how things flow there are many difficulties. Like the general proportion of levels in any given zone focused on the same objectives. Maybe tis just my luck at things or my scheduling. I play early afternoons and late evenings east coast. But my east coast server is always standard or light now. I think the most people I've ever seen was 150+ in fleet, and I spent hours looking for a group in my level doing the same content I was interested in.

    To put it gently, I agree with these guys..

    in General Discussion

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    This is pretty much the exact same sentiment that I feel. EVERY MMO that has come out in the past 5 years has suffered because a small, but very vocal, minority of MMO "players" have come out with extremely divisive rhetoric that basically causes negative feelings towards the game to ripple through the community which in turns causes people to think twice about subscribing and eventually the game dies due to lack of funding. (sniped but generally agreed with)

     

    Because the krap management companies behind the games keep releasing titles which are absolutely not ready for market.

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    in General Discussion

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    It simply amazes me that people who "hate" the game the most are on the forums "posting" the most.

     

    I suppose the happy people are playing while I'm stuck at work waiting to play.

     

    Generally when I hate something I have nothing to do with it, but I guess I'm the odd man out.

     

    People often presume to see hate when in truth there is none.

    To put it gently, I agree with these guys..

    in General Discussion

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    Even if there was do you honestly think that the quality of the "contructive critisism" you have seen get the Dev to really look at the posts? The vast majority is about how they hate this or how they hate that. Sorry that is in no way, shape, or form constructive.

     

    And just in the last few hours I've seen a thread complaining the plnets are too small and then another saying the are too big? Ya thats helpfull.

     

    Although, all these people took a look and talked about it. I really don't care if the Dev's pay attention or not. I am of the opinion they are deaf and dumb.

    To put it gently, I agree with these guys..

    in General Discussion

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    Because what some people are looking for in games either will never exist, or might exist with increased technology 10 years from now.

     

    It's still a video game at the end of the day.

     

    But the absurd Irony is that in the beginning it was the norm. All the early MMORPGs were heavily complex and integrated. In social engineering, in game economics, to 100% player driven crafting..

     

    The industry has been trying to recapture that appeal ever sense, and failing a little more every year. If not for being way to far on the other side of that EvE Online would meet most of the elements that made the oldest MMOs so great. But by the numbers that business model and game design motive is clearly working to turn a profit and maintain positive growth.

    To put it gently, I agree with these guys..

    in General Discussion

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    Feedback should be useful. Useless feedback (as most of the detractor's have provided in this thread) is nothing more than white noise.

     

    Well I didn't think my feedback referencing a well designed blog post I agree with in total, was useless. I would not be able to articulate all that.. I wasn't expecting to see that there when I went over there today, but it so well summed up my impressions I was compelled to share.

    To put it gently, I agree with these guys..

    in General Discussion

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    So you will troll the TOR forums because you don't like the game? Here's a suggestion. How about go play something you do like? Drop this game and don't look back. Why hang around if your not having fun playing the game?

     

    I liked it when I bought it.. sort of.. I had reservations because of my technical difficulties.. I still 'sort of' like it because of the overall innovations and attempts at breaking new ground. They need all the feedback they can get before its too late.

     

    To improve things we need more speech not less.

    To put it gently, I agree with these guys..

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    I could get my dog into any beta. Its not hard and really says nothing about anyone's legitimacy. I've gotten press credentials to get into E3 before and I've never written an article or blogged. The internet is an amazing thing. It really sounds like you just googled up an article that fit with your views and posted it here on the forums so you could proclaim to everyone "HEY LOOK, THESE GUYS AGREE WITH ME AND THEY'RE ON THE INTERNETS SO THEY MUST BE LEGIT!" Honestly, you said these guys are brothers and all I can keep picturing now are the two brothers from Metalocalypse that tried to blackmail the band.

     

    Your dog must be awesomesauce!

     

    I do read their stuff a few times a year.. and they're more like clones to be honest and some impurities got into Graev, we think.. He's the special one.. :p

    To put it gently, I agree with these guys..

    in General Discussion

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    Well as I stated I hadn't been keeping up with them for some time. However lately I get the inclination to see what they've been up to, what games they're looking into. They get invited to every beta of pretty much anything apply to. So.. That means something to me regarding their legitimacy, anyways.

     

    These two brothers are studying to be in game design. They have evaluated the pros and cons in various titles, versus their vision of achieving perfection, for years. Well Keen specifically as Graev is more the hard core gamer.

     

    GW2 is on their radar but I was so turned off by the first, I dunno if I can get excited about it, but I'm looking at it more seriously.

     

    Given my history with online gaming. I want a title that is dynamic enough to be a living community in the server and the forum. To be engaging and interactive to the point you develop a relationship with your character, like you would expect in any good RPG. I haven't seen this for many many years. The future of MMORPG game design is not the sticks and carrots, not the beauty of land or sky, but depth of character and community building.

     

    Those lucky enough to get into a gaming group of friends, develop a decent organized guild and have enjoyed a social connection to the game from the beginning, count yourself lucky. For my experience spamming general on planets, fleet, form the ship, and every dinky space station instance.. When I needed a group, some help.. nothing, and silence for a vast majority of time wasted in the asking. Occasionally I'd get lucky myself, or see someone else in the same boat and jump in with them.

     

    I'll spare you the insanity of what it takes to have installed this game on my system, it works.. So I can forgive them that.. Now.. I'll spare you the story of being stuck under a floor for two days after a patch, requiring 4 tickets and 4 phone calls to get resolved. I won't bother to express the multiple bugs and glitches causing the game to be broken to the point of disgust among not only myself but multiple parties and situations.

     

    If its good to you, good for you~! It's not good to me.. Krapy game or just my luck, I can't say..

    To put it gently, I agree with these guys..

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    Stopped reading the blog post after the first sentence. They went into the game expecting it to suck, so that is all they got from the game. When you have already made your mind up about something before you try it then all your doing is wasting your time.

     

    Kinda like stopping the reading at the first sentence and making a blanket judgement?

    To put it gently, I agree with these guys..

    in General Discussion

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    http://www.keenandgraev.com/2012/02/14/copy-gold-leader-out/

     

    I haven't been keeping up closely with these guys. But Keen is uncannily right in his perceptions a vast majority of the time. Besides his assessments, in addition I can not tolerate the bugs and poor design elements which just make you wonder about the designers professionalism, if not their talent. Also the general game management structure and failure of proper public relations and in game support.

     

    It was great while it lasted and save something biblical in effect to change how the game plays and feels, I do not see this title lasting. I'll hang out a while longer, probably go back to an older title like DDO.. I'm sure they've added content by now..

    LFG Tool

    in Flashpoints, Operations, and Heroic Missions

    Posted

    most of the People seem to forgot what the lfg tool did to wow it destroyed ALOT of the social aspect of the game :(

    get of ur lazy asses and look for a group or join a decent active guild and dont ruin the game for the ones that actualy want to do that and not just be lazy and click on ur lfg tool

     

    NEY to lfg tool !!!!

     

    ps. i do like the idea of a serverwide lfg channel but for godsake no lfg tool

     

    What people here seem to fail to perceive is the lack of a social aspect in this game. You can Ignore everyone till 50, level to 50 within 2 months of very casual gaming and once at 50 see how hard it is to do anything on your time.

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