Helistin
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The higher ups always just 'Time to part ways with company X to look new opportunities' even when they are escorted by the security out of the office with a thousand dollar shoe mark in their behind.
But yeah, seems the house cleaning is continuing. Anyone know what happened to James Ohlen? Haven't heard anything from him since the summer.
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That first quote is just priceless.
But on the other hand what would you expect them to say?
' We spend 200 million dollars developing the game and all you got was unfinished mmo from the year 2006 that features a crappy engine'
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In theory it sounds like a great idea. In reality it would be a massive trollfest. This is by far the worst MMO community I have ever seen.
They started it by selling us their unfinished mmo from the year 2006 that features a crappy engine.
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Best way to the game run smoothly would be to go back in time and tell the big shots at BW not to choose custom beta fall-apart hero engine.
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So, my guess is at the start of F2P, 250K subs if BW is lucky in the least.
You are most likely right. Great job on alienating their current subscribers while focusing their efforts to the f2p time.
They just can't catch a break.
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This weekly event could take place in a Special WZ Area, in which the first 100 Republic / 100 Sith players to que can join in - First come, First Serve! - Not sure what the Reward could be, any ideas ???
Hero engine would go belly up with 100 vs 100. If i want to attend a slideshow i go visit my aunt and watch some bad holiday pictures( which i don't want to)
Good idea in theory though.
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They have most likely been holding back the new stuff they have made and are in making of for the f2p. Not exactly fair for the current subscribers but what youre gonna do.
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Unfortunately Elfa, I think you're right. My worry is that by the time they do implement this (November?) the damage would have already been done in terms of sub numbers, frustrations, etc.
After free transfers taking 6 months to move people off from the dead servers there wasn't that many left in the end to take advantage of them. Seems familiar...
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This part is speculation.
EA/Bw can partly blame themselves for it for being vague about state of things. People will speculate and think of the worse since usually the reason for being vague is that things arent going your way.
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They said in the next content patch they will be working on more class balance. No one knows when or what really.
That's nice they are looking into it but you can't leave the borked balance months untouched. People just got another reason to pack their bags and move to greener pastures. Didn't they learn anything from Warhammer?
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People are leaving because you have been silent about cross server warzones and open world PvP. Give us these two things and everyone will benefit greatly from it.
BW / EA has a great game here for PvP. I just hope they realize and exploit this before it's too late.
That ship has sailed already. It will be almost impossible to lure the pvp playerbase back once you lose it.
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It's probably the way the game is architectured, the servers are standalone and cannot talk to others. See the ordeal with transfers even though it's essentially just export/import from one DB to another.
This. And in the games current life support mode i doubt they will spend the $ to add something that complex to the game anymore.
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a lot of misinformation getting thrown around in here.
Bioware/EA did not receive a full version of Hero Engine. in fact they got a demo version at best. this was explained on Hero Engine's website.
it was Bioware/EA's choice to run with the incomplete engine and we the players are suffering for it.
on a good note, i have a radeon 6870 and im running the game at all max settings (minus anti-aliasing) at around 60-110fps and 40-50fps in warzones.
im very pleased with its performance.
Hero engine makes me sad. Comparing to some of the competition it gets even more sad where there can be hundred+ players on the screen with all kind of effects without the game reducing to slideshow.
Guess their demo version was just for small crowds
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I'm not sure on that. As paying existing employed developers would surely fall under breaking even? 500k subs isn't paying the server rental and a couple of moderators to keep the ship afloat, it's going to include everyone.
I would also say that the 500k subs for breaking even referred to when the employed team was larger. After the two rounds of redundancies I would guess that the break even point is a lot lower than that now.
Maybe, maybe not but i'm pretty sure Lucas wants the same juicy cut even if there is 100k or 1 million subs.
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EA has really put the game into life-support mode if they can't spare couple people to attend.
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It'll hum-hum along for a few years like all the other MMOs. I highly doubt it'll be shut down in a year or two like the doomsayers suggest. EA will give F2P a chance to make some revenue.
All that depends how much money f2p will make and how juicy cut Lucas takes from cake. I'm guessing it's not peanuts so i think there pull the plug option that far in reality.
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After seeing what Tor's competition were able to do the difference is absolutely crazy. Makes me sad thinking after so many years and millions of dollars the game is light years behind it's time. Class story aside.
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It's just to balance things out since Gw2 servers were down 2 hours at prelaunch day
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Because Timmy the intern didn't have a clue.
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You just proved my point.
After launch they made a big deal about how the game was so succesful that they WERE able to keep their entire team. But then they lost a lot of subs so they had to lay off staff and go back to the original plan
So the original plan was to lose 75% of their subs in 8 months? Makes perfect sense...
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I am able to get ~16 fps on my amd radeon hd 4350. You call that bad?
Not bad. Abysmal maybe.
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But after playing the Planetside 2 beta. Then coming back to classic MMOs like TOR (and even GW2), you realize how far behind things are compared to what is possible with modern hardware.
Sadly this is the case. As much i enjoy/enjoyed Swtor everthing looks,functions and feels like something from year 2006.
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After the recent fiasco at Canderous Ordo the present policy is that cheating is accepted.
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Real war in Swtor is in the forums.
PVP needs to be divided by valor ranks!!!
in PvP
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In reality that translates to "We don't have the tech"