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I have to agree that is one of the few things Blizzard did well consistently. Their seasonal events had stuff for everyone.
This new event seems rather half-a**ed, like it wasn't fully tested and just thrown out. The rewards are rather limited, especially if you're a force-user class. Forcing all these people into one small area is causing zone-wide lag. I never had my lag meter go red til this event started. Not to mention once I turned in the quest on my sniper, I couldn't pick it up the next day. So that was it? Whatever tokens I got that's it?
I agree: Bioware just doesn't look very good when only considering this live event. It looks rushed, the rewards (yay I'm an Operative!) aren't fully spread out and the mechanics of getting the individual items just....suck.
I'm glad you agree about the WoW holidays, that stuff was just pure fun. I mean I remember it clearly: I was stuck inside with a cold during a nice chilly October evening and logged in to WoW to find a bunch of guildies running around like headless chickens trying to complete Hallows' End stuff. I joined in and it was genuinely fun. For one freakin' night, everyone was just trying to help people, group up and have fun instead of the constant trolling and boring-ness that had even become WoW at that point. Yes, guy whose name I can't remember, achievements played a big part in making more people want to do things but as a guy who started playing WoW the day TBC released I can say I always enjoyed those events as a way to 'kick back' and just enjoy myself instead of mindlessly banging my head against various walls. TBC was pretty unforgiving.
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I didn't know anyone who gave a rats *** about wow holiday events UNTIL they released achievements right before WOTLK came out.
You must lead a shallow life then sir and I feel bad for you.
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For all the people complaining out there please show me another MMO that had done a live event better? Every Live Event I've seen on other MMO's comes down to a Dev just spawning boss mobs in one area for a few hours and randomly handing out a few gifts... If your lucky you got one, if not to bad....
I waited a day before doing the live event and I didn't run into any issues... went smoothly and got everything completed within a few hours.... Difference is i'm not in the mind set that I have to do it the second it became available... Way to many people out their with ZERO patience...
*cough* WoW has held many live holiday events over the years and they were always enjoyable with good loot (mostly collectibles) that to this day I still have in my bank box and occasionally break out. I still have the Halloween Wand
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I've done the Event with 3 characters and in every case I only had to wait a minute or two "in line" to click on the box thingies, I seriously think you are blowing it out of proportion.
In other cases the people "in line" would just team up on the same group so when ONE of the members clicks on the box EVERYONE gets the item, so it's really no big deal.
You are on an awesome server and I would like to know which one. I'm playing on POT5 and while people are generally very nice there, it was getting pretty um....heated in the laser room. I had to beg someone to invite me to a group, and when they did they just instanced off without warning! Now, this turned out to be a good idea because in the second instance of DK we were the only ones in the room
but it should have never come to that. Thirty plus people in a room, all trying to click the little door button and then everyone and their brother messing with the controls while we're trying to set up the laser and mirrors is not what I would call a fun experience. It's kinda nerve wracking because you NEED that item to finish the chain and yet you feel like it could conceivably take all day. It should have been implemented in a different way. -
Now, I'm sure that there are numerous threads that cover this, but I don't feel like peeling through them
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Everyone still arguing in this thread should read the post quoted above. This is the end of the argument. It doen't matter what side you are on. They will make a lot more cash and end up keeping paid subscriptions with selling AC respecs simply beacuse the end game is set up for subscriptions and guess what, an AC respec means I can re-run the end game for different Raid gear, PvP gear, etc.
Just for the record, I could care less about either side. But the fact is, EA isn't running a charity MMO, they want profits and will pretty much do anything they can and when they see that an AC respec makes a profit, it will be sold in the cash store.
No, it's not the end of the argument, even though said argument is moronic. You, nor any other poster here knows what EA or Bioware is going to do. That's the only REAL fact in this entire thread. All of you guys can continue to go back and forth on it and neither side will be totally wrong and vice versa, but at the end of the day, nobody will know until the people in charge let us know.
That said, switching ACs would be the most horribly stupid thing ever. It's pretty much the worst thing they could do after going F2P. Buncha gimme gimmes around here. At least y'all are better than the GW2 crowd..they remind me a lot of the BDF back during beta for this game.
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Why hasn't a company come out with a FUN sandbox game where it's all about the player and there are no levels just skilling up forever on what you can do, no stupid raids, no flash points, no instances. Just come up with something epic and new where it would change the face of the mmo world. Is it really that hard to come up with a concept like that you guys think?
I'm talking...a good graphics game WITH very good optimization WITH good gameplay. Like player run cities, markets where you can ride your mount to go get whatever the heq you want, fort seiges, stuff like that. No...I'm not talking about WAR or anything like that. I'm talking just a brand new concept that people can do together to FEEL like they are working together more.
I am always wondering what a new concept would be in an mmorpg later on in the years. Just no restrictions, no stupid raids, no stupid leveling up crap, just skilling up everything you start with and it gets more powerful over the time you use them. Just like real life. The more you use something, the better it gets.
It's probably hard to come up with something like that. You guys think so?
Animal Crossing rules!
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Luckily Bioware doesn't make their business decisions based on what you think.
LOL, maybe if they had based some of their decisions on what informed posters were saying (especially during beta testing) they wouldn't be in the situation they're in now. Food for thought there, Nangle.
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I will posit this question: How often has Bioware done what they've said to a 'T', at least when it comes to SW:TOR? Not very bloody often. I'm suuuure they and EA have nothing but the best intentions at heart, but unless they have seriously turned a few corners since the top guys left and the layoffs, who knows what they could see as 'not giving significant advantage' and what they don't?
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The true answer is: nobody actually knows, despite all the opinions that are being thrown around as facts in this thread.
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Using snow and grass to describe the areas on the Alerdran map.
Use the compass east and west. let’s stop painting ourselves as dopes.
Hahahah....been using snow and grass since pre-launch pal, not gonna stop now.
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Something to do other than grind terrible pug pvp in 4 wzs would make me very happy.
Also fixing resolve and doing something about being stunned every 3 seconds would make me happy.
This whole week i have tried to enjoy the game but i log on, get into a wz, sigh to myself and go "sweet voidstar again" Then within 30 seconds of the match the other team has ALREADY breached the door. After then getting stunned and slowed over and over and over again i quit the wz and log out of the game.
Its very depressing that its just not very much fun.
You know what's funny about this post is that I have never had this experience until recently hitting 50 on my alt (my main is a raider). My GOD..every freaking board it's just a bunch of lightsaber wielding jerks who do nothing but slow, stun and otherwise annoy the crap out of me (PT). I mean, I'm horrible at Huttball. When the game first released (actually, prelaunch) I thought Huttball was awesome. In some ways I still do, but all that Force Leaping, Pulling and what have you is just so....infuriating lol. I feel like a freakin' turtle on that board.
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I'm still going to play SW:TOR and since I pre-purchased GW2 months ago, I'm gonna have a go at that game too. All I'm really posting to say is that every person that posted in here that they won't touch GW2 because they are tired of fantasy games just aren't very bright; Star Wars is a space fantasy IP. Period. So..you're playing a fantasy game right now. If you clarified and said you didn't want to play a traditional fantasy game, there wouldn't be a problem.
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I remembe recalling the staff here using and making iPhone apps to increase your experience in game like the did for Mass Effect 3....will it happen?
Sure. I'm sure they'll find a way for people to convert their Cartel Coins into cold hard cash for use on the Itunes store or something.
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Right, rather than trying to squeeze 15 dollars out of every last customer they have until everyone's on a ghost server (SWG) BW Opted to open the game back up to a wider base of players in the hopes that the wider base will all spend a litle bit of money in the store. It makes sense as a business model.
Seems flawed to me. The reason people have been jumping ship is because whoever at Bioware that made the decisions made awful ones. I'm sure EA making them rush the product out the door didn't help. In fact, everything about this game is rushed. They rush out patches and break things that work. They rush out minor content that breaks things. They rush to fix bugs and by doing so have to rush other things that break other things. They rush out faulty announcements and then have to retract them. Now they're rushing to go F2P instead of just listening to what their actual playerbase wants and would have stayed on and paid a subscription to have. The only thing they haven't rushed is actual content for the game. Now they're going to let people come play for free and that's supposed to ensure that people spend more money when they've (players) already shown that they wouldn't even pay a base rate? Does not compute.
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I knew this would happen. They took a bunch of ideas from a minortiy of people and thought paser's and more daily's would do the trick. Well they don't and they aren't. If you been here long enough you recall Guild Summit about few months back.
They only invited guild leaders. Now playing this game is like WORK. If I want unlock legacy perks I have pay 50k so that I get 2 extra points in convo affection and 40k if I was to use speeder early. What is going on people. You had Bioware Label and Star Wars and 300 million.
What happened.
The fact that we have Legacy Perks at all is freakin' miraculous. If there's anything to be blamed besides Bioware's slow implementation of standard MMO functions and systems, I think the Guild Summit is one of the last on the list. Also, if you have the super high Legacy requirement needed for a lot of these Perks, you should undoubtedly have the coin to go along with it. People are running around with millions of credits and complaining in chat about how they don't have anything left to spend it on.
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Yea dudes, definitely not paying for a Lifetime even if they offered it. Not because I wouldn't pay for it or enjoy it; far from that. Unfortunately, with EA at the helm, they could easily charge a Lifetime fee, have all the most stalwart players buy it and then cancel the damn game months from now. They've done it before and they'll do it again, hopefully not for this game but I wouldn't take that chance.
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B2P stands for BUY to play u go to a shop hand over cash get game install game never pay again B2P used to be called buying a game
Hahahaha, true that.
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LOL did that actually happen?! I suppose I shouldn't be surprised, I mean people moaned about the random class I picked in Dec. of 2011 and got it nerfed all to Hell, and then nerfed the random crew skill I picked and got that nerfed all to Hell too, so why shouldn't Bioware continue to placate the whining masses for BS stuff instead of fixing REAL problems?
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Is Bioware having a special employee lunch since it's Friday Jarjar?
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Haha, this thread is hilarious.. We have a bunch of nerdy elitists posting about how much they despise the equally nerdy TotalBiscuit for no reason other than he's popular, thus proving that they're jerks. Why did you even come into the thread? Did you really think posting, 'TB suuuuuc***s!,' was gonna mean anything to people who actually came into the thread to discuss the content of the linked video? I also love how the actual discussion was revolving around the 'bad blood' F2P was gonna bring and yet this thread is full of people who pay to play the game and yet are trooooollliiinnng nonstop. If ya ask me, there aren't going to be any worse trolls that come in when F2P starts because they're already here.
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Okay, here's what I don't get. Why are all these people saying Bioware offering, 'the best thing about this game (the story, apparently)' instead of *BIG OL' QUESTION MARK*. Hey guys, what else are they supposed to offer? They can't offer free PvP, because leveling up without the help of PvE is just telling people to uninstall. They can't offer anything else, so what else are they supposed to give people for free?
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Man, the original post had a slightly angry tone to it, a sort of 'u mad' if you will. Am I right on with that, or did I miss something in the eight pages that have spawned since?
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Could you imagine someone releasing a smart phone without a touch screen feature or wi-fi access then saying the reason nobody is buying it over the iphone is because its not free?
Umm, this. Hey, F2P advocates..........read this. Over and over again. Then read it some more and shaddap.
but it should have never come to that. Thirty plus people in a room, all trying to click the little door button and then everyone and their brother messing with the controls while we're trying to set up the laser and mirrors is not what I would call a fun experience. It's kinda nerve wracking because you NEED that item to finish the chain and yet you feel like it could conceivably take all day. It should have been implemented in a different way.
GA Event = Amateurish Design
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Oh, lighten up..it was a joke. What does, 'a sense of progression' have ANYTHING to do with what you quoted from me? Haha..you're weird.