Vornin Posted February 21, 2012 Share Posted February 21, 2012 Too bad the real players dont agree. Not the on-the-spot interviews of "famous" people playing the game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IGsChevy Posted February 21, 2012 Share Posted February 21, 2012 I would rather play The Old Republic with the bugs it has than go back to playing another Elf or Orc YUCK /signed Strangely enough, I play SWTOR because I have fun when I play. That is far more than I can say for many of those "other" games. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Superawesomerman Posted February 21, 2012 Share Posted February 21, 2012 I kept thinking about the orchestra on the Titanic. Lol, +1. Every new sale is like a 4 month sub to them. So it might be more profitable to concentrate on attracting new marks. I mean subs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ondow Posted February 21, 2012 Share Posted February 21, 2012 False advertising. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Talorya Posted February 21, 2012 Share Posted February 21, 2012 Begun the recruitment wars has, more people the game needs... I'd say get a move on expanding the content and put in actual variety in the game if you want to retain your current player base instead needing to produce these recruitment ads. The better your current game is, the more likely your player base will recommend it to others and build your customer base in a more solid fashion. Recruitment ads/incentives are temporary solutions, more exposure only hook the innocent ones, but it does nothing to retain them. Improve your game quality asap, lack of freedom and variety is the biggest problem that BioWare should focus on as it is the single thing that is dictated entirely by BioWare's resolve and management. Good job on making a good game for 2011, now bring it up to speed for 2012, you have 2 months to convince me this game will actually respond in a timely fashion to improve game quality instead of catering to pvp/raiders. Tera's shaping up to be a solid contender for my subscription fees after the first beta weekend, and with more weekends coming up, that game will only get better in my view compared to SWTOR. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Typheran Posted February 21, 2012 Share Posted February 21, 2012 The PVP Forums would disagree with this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Armargis Posted February 21, 2012 Share Posted February 21, 2012 I think I speak for more than just myself when I say that BioWare needs to stop coming out with ridiculous "New Player Guides", videos about how "great the game is!" and actually pay attention to the PROBLEMS with the game, you know, like the horrendously linear design of Ilum, the numerous bugs that still burden us in the end game and the rest of the game alike. You've obviously confused your demographic. I get that its more about money than it is customer satisfaction at this point, but wasn't it obvious that you need to focus on actually fixing/creating end game content when you found out that most of the people who got to 50 within the first month have unsubscribed due to your total disregard of the community? All the DevTracker shows is that you address and answer the same, stupid drawn out questions asked by idiot players who can't follow basic instructions or learn to play the game, all too frequently without even providing us with any kind of solution to any of your REAL problems, writing it off constantly as a "thank you for your patience" or "working as intended". Acknowledge the incredibly dissapointed hardcore-playerbase you've been losing since January, or I'm going back to Rift. Nooo! Please dont go back to Rift! We will miss you so much! Wow haha, I mean I agree with most of what he is saying but that last part...hurts me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vlado Posted February 21, 2012 Share Posted February 21, 2012 More like i wonder how many of the negative commenters are from WoW.... not only that,I think a lot of the negative commenters are fan site admins that need TOR to fail cause they are losing hits on there pages. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnesium Posted February 21, 2012 Share Posted February 21, 2012 I don't mind the recruitment videos, they will always show the best image they can and getting new players is better than them losing them but they have their work cut out to be able to keep players for the medium/long term. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darka Posted February 21, 2012 Share Posted February 21, 2012 I think there is a odd feel to this forum, no one can simply just not like or dislike TOR, everything gets blown out of proportion by the Drones, or the Fanbois Useless threats made, ultermatiums, extreme desires and blindness plague this forum, seems that hardly anyone can respect anyone elses view, and that everyone feels their view is the correct view shared by everyone on the game and anyone who disagrees is a troll The Fanbois, and the drones turn everything into a war. You can not discuss anything with out a fanboi claiming your a troll for something, or a drone coming trying to ride the fail boat. Its kind of funny, but very sad. The war will continue, and common sense will lose out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoulstitchMMO Posted February 21, 2012 Share Posted February 21, 2012 omg, at 2:46 Stephen Reid actually says that the Bioware team works 24/7 to solve all the problems as they arise. No. You don't. Because exploits have been going on for weeks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shuno Posted February 21, 2012 Share Posted February 21, 2012 The piece of music at the very start that you get when you load into Balmorra is one of my faves, but it really reminds me of something else but i can never place it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emeda Posted February 21, 2012 Share Posted February 21, 2012 (edited) The best part of the entire vid that shows that they were paid actors or employees and not actual random players. Time 2:04 The red colored saber has nothing to do a sith but actually dark side points, which anyone in this game would know by the time they reached an area that allowed for world PVP But it sure did sound exciting when he said it if you never played the game before. Edited February 21, 2012 by Emeda Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NickM Posted February 21, 2012 Share Posted February 21, 2012 The PVP Forums would disagree with this. The PvP forums disagree with everything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nanogasm Posted February 21, 2012 Share Posted February 21, 2012 It's like you guys spanked your monkey through the whole video. Or at least the first half, because that's when I turned it off. I can understand you don't want to point out concerns or criticisms in your own game, but a little less trumpet blasting of your own egos would garner more integrity; at least in my books. It's annoying and transparent. It's like going to a party and being 'that guy' who tells everyone how amazing he is. I enjoy your game. I think your commercial is really lame and manipulative. Simply showing in-game action sequences to music would have been more respectful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shuno Posted February 21, 2012 Share Posted February 21, 2012 Also, has anyone else noticed the rather high percentage of bearded men that work for bioware? Every video showing peeps who worked on it have about 95% of beards going on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rogoo Posted February 21, 2012 Share Posted February 21, 2012 So how's that epic PvP slideshow you have in your game working Bioware ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easelman Posted February 21, 2012 Share Posted February 21, 2012 In my experience GREAT game for 30 days, flawless start but got empty fast and fell off a cliff. I'm browsing for other games and thats when i know its the end. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kthx Posted February 21, 2012 Share Posted February 21, 2012 What's even more comical is how SO many members have asked for communication from the development team. Except, of course, for the dev tracker, the dev Q&A with 10-15 questions per week, and regular postings from the community team. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nightlingale Posted February 22, 2012 Share Posted February 22, 2012 I honestly think that it's an awesome game. I played WoW for 7 years. I picked this game up about 2 weeks after it came out; I haven't played WoW since. Now, this isn't just an "I am trying to escape WoW" attempt, it just isn't. I also tried rift, I didn't even make it past level 37 in that game. SWTOR has offered some very new concepts. Such as: 1.) All characters have companions 2.) Class quests 3.) Every quest has a story line, choosing your responses (new to MMOs) 4.) Having your own ship! ( I especially love this, I no longer have to dread 10 minute flights in WoW.) 5.) Choosing your subclass (rift tried at this one, but it was way too complex and all of the sub-classes were similar) 6.) Flashpoints (though similar to dungeons, rolling for team responses to conversations make it a new concept.) 7.) Healing without mana as a resource (I absolutely LOVE healing on my bounty hunter!) 8.) Different group compositions (For instance, instead of needing 5 for a flashpoint, you only need 4.) 9.) The ability to gear out your companions (try giving your boar in WoW a helmet) 10.) Shared quest loot! (I always level with my best friend Colt, it's such a relief that we don't have to farm for the quest loot twice as long!) I could go on and on about what I love about this game, but in the interest of time and forum space I won't. It's a new game guys, sure it needs some polishing, but it's way better off than WoW was when it first came out! WoW didn't even have battlegrounds when it first came out. So instead of just attacking the game without explaining your reasoning, give their teams some positive criticism and ideas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arigo Posted February 22, 2012 Share Posted February 22, 2012 (edited) That was a nice "Show the world we had a successful launch (2 months ago) video". I would absolutely love to see a video showing me what your teams are doing RIGHT NOW. Grab that camera and roll through your offices. Show me what your people are doing RIGHT NOW. What's the art team working on? Which bugs are getting some focus? What is the combat system having tweaked? What work is being done to the game engine? What improvements are being gnawed on for the social aspect of the game? Videos like this can be a powerful tool. Right now I don't feel very connected to the working side of this game - the developers and their teams. Introduce them to us and let us see what they are doing. CCP's youtube channel is a great example for this. Check it out. http://www.youtube.com/user/CCPGAMES Edited February 22, 2012 by Arigo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Feelinestars Posted February 22, 2012 Share Posted February 22, 2012 Hey guys, so it seems that the issue was that in this line of source code which we can't show you, we had to change an "IF X, THEN Y" to an "IF X, THEN Z". We've got mike currently compiling the new code, it's a 87.3% progress at the moment, should be done in another 25 minutes then greg here is going to start testing. Do you NEED the dev's to give you a step by step run down of everything they're doing? If they say they're working on something, chances are they are. There is such thing as a priority queue. Perhaps the issue that you and 10 other vocal angry people face is less important to them than the issue that 2,000 others face. But of course they should dedicate all their time to every issue you personally face, before attending to others. No, what I needed was for BioWare to not release a piece of crap, rushed, uninspired game. It's too late for redemption. It's 2012. We don't have years to wait for them to perfect it like we all did with WoW. It should have came out swinging, but instead it came out with voice-acting and very, very little in the way of fun gameplay. The gaming community in this day-in-age is very unforgiving. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jett-Rinn Posted February 22, 2012 Share Posted February 22, 2012 Soon It's 2/21/12 Awesome vid Bioware even those that put the game down all the time can't break their addiction TWO MILLION copies sold and the number just keeps growing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcburly Posted February 22, 2012 Share Posted February 22, 2012 No, what I needed was for BioWare to not release a piece of crap, rushed, uninspired game. It's too late for redemption. It's 2012. We don't have years to wait for them to perfect it like we all did with WoW. It should have came out swinging, but instead it came out with voice-acting and very, very little in the way of fun gameplay. The gaming community in this day-in-age is very unforgiving. Yet, even though you think this way .....the game is a whopping success!! Apparently TONS of people love this game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Superawesomerman Posted February 22, 2012 Share Posted February 22, 2012 Forget all that, I want to see hot teen intern mudwrestling, slave girl modeling contests, etc. I wouldnt believe anything else they posted at this point, anyway. You can esit videos, but you cant edit *******! ...well you can, but who cares? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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