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    BIoWare: Grinding The Gears (A hopeful story for SWTOR)

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    http://oceanicgamer.com/2012/08/swtor-grinding-the-gears/

     

    A snippet:

     

    There’s nothing so embarrassing as trying to go up a hill in the wrong gear. You can hear the engine struggle and have to endure the amused smiles from passengers in other cars as they bomb past you. Unless you are a complete idiot, you will change down gears.

    This is clearly BioWare Austin’s revised philosophy as Bioware’s Executive Producer for Live Services, Jeff Hickman, has pointed out in a recent interview with Zam.com. Lets face it, BW has become notorious for offering up big promises of things ‘coming soon’ but for the most part it’s been a bad case of over-promising and under-delivering. It look like this is changing – hopefully.

    How Many Cartel Point to the Drachma

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    Well I think it's certainly possible to have a sub for a MMO, but you have to have a B2P option as well for all those unwilling to pay a monthly fee, then you have to decide what's the difference between having a sub and no sub, and the easiest answer would be that subs get free access to all the content updates

     

    Absolutely, as a minimum I reckon.

    How Many Cartel Point to the Drachma

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    Money. We all need it, we all use it. Without money we couldn’t get what we need, or more frequently what we merely desire. As we’ve all learnt over the past few years, the value of any currency bobs about like a dead Gungan in a fast flowing river, so what type of currency you get makes all the difference. What can you buy with it? Is it a silver dollar or a Zimbabwean dollar?

     

    Which brings me to the bright and shiny new currency, Cartel Coins, that are part of BioWare’s new brand of bling to retain existing players and win back some of the jaded masses. By their own admission, they are struggling to keep people’s interest, either because players have become bored with the existing content, the game doesn’t play the way they want or offer the playstyle they like. Even worse, new games like Guild Wars 2 or upcoming expansions for existing games (WoW, Rift) are proving far more enticing.

     

    The idea of rewarding those of us who are sticking with SWTOR with a rapidly increasing pile of virtual dosh is a good one and they’ve given us a rough idea of the sorts of things we can buy, but they’ve given us no idea of our money pile’s relative value.

     

    the rest here:

    http://oceanicgamer.com/2012/08/swtor-how-many-cartel-coins-to-the-drachma/

    Flash Point Podcast Thread

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    Hi everyone,

     

    Flash Point is a podcast devoted primarily to SWTOR, with some coverage of other MMOs as well. We've been podcasting since well before launch. We publish a new episode each fortnight on a Sunday evening (Sunday morning US West coast). Whilst mostly focused on Australian and New Zealand players, we talk about the game generally so we have a good audience world wide.

     

    All the info on the podcast can be found here - we'll post a link to each new episode here as it appears.

     

    The podcast is also part of our website, The Oceanic Gamer (formerly TOROZ), which also covers SWTOR news.

     

    Many thanks :)

     

    David

    Flash Point Podcast

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    Episode 32 is hot off the presses:

     

    http://toroz.com.au/2012/05/flash-point-32-turkey-slapping-crystal-gayle/

     

    Points of discussion:

    - Post 1.2 stability

    - Asia-Pacific server transfers and server merge need

    - Fleet duelling

    - Arena-watching from the cantina

    - New playable planets

    - Shout out for a funny guild-created video

    - Shout to Midian and Remnants guilds for their achievements

    - Datacron runs

    - Combat parsers and SWTOR’s TOS

    - Pimp your UI

    - Call out for more writers for TOROZ

    - Lore Update: Crystals

    - Multi-player space combat

    - Avengers movie review

     

    :)

    INFO and LIST of SWTOR Podcasts (Why read when you can Listen?)

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    NAME : Flash Point

    ABOUT : Australia and New Zealand's only SWTOR podcast although we have a lot of listeners from outside that area

    RELEASE/LENGTH : Released fortnightly on a Sunday

    WEB : http://www.toroz.com.au

    RSS : http://feeds.feedburner.com/TorozPodcast

    iTUNES : http://itunes.apple.com/au/podcast/flash-point-a-toroz-podcast/id425671007

    TWITTER : http://www.twitter.com/swtoroz

    FACEBOOK : http://www.facebook.com/swtoroz

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