eldisper Posted May 18, 2012 Share Posted May 18, 2012 (edited) How much does the demographics influence the game? I have noticed most players are on between 5 and 10 pm . demographics are 30+ professionals. Do you have any ideas on how to better support this group such as looking for group,guild? Am I thinking in the right direction? I know these are a lot of questions maybe you can share some tips with me Edited May 18, 2012 by eldisper Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kamor Posted May 18, 2012 Share Posted May 18, 2012 To be honest I do not see a lot of questions. Just a bunch of statements Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eldisper Posted May 18, 2012 Author Share Posted May 18, 2012 Sorry, I am. lol I forgot to add question marks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sammm Posted May 18, 2012 Share Posted May 18, 2012 (edited) A bunch of players including myself discussed about the mmo demographic in a previous thread (about a month ago). It's inevitable (for a while) that the average mmo gamer age keeps increasing, it's around 35 years old now. At 35+- years old, you usually have way more responsabilities than when you were a teenager/young adult. Therefore, you have less time to commit to mmo gaming. I think it influences partly the server populations of most mmos. In SWTOR, having so many servers exacerbate the problem of low populations. It will be interesting to witness the mmo situation in... 30-35 years. A lot of us will be retired. I wonder how the mmo demographic distribution will look then. If' you're talking about a lfg tool, it's coming in 1.3. Edited May 18, 2012 by Sammm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captyellowbeard Posted May 18, 2012 Share Posted May 18, 2012 how is LFG gonna help if it ain't cross server ? That's right it won't. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sammm Posted May 18, 2012 Share Posted May 18, 2012 (edited) how is LFG gonna help if it ain't cross server ? That's right it won't. It's one of the reasons why they'll launch the free transfer program before 1.3. I think they're trying to consolidate the populations in specific servers before implementing the single server lfg tool. I have no idea if it will work well or not, I can't predict the future. But I sure hope it does. Edited May 18, 2012 by Sammm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ellvaan Posted May 19, 2012 Share Posted May 19, 2012 (edited) Greetings everyone! We wanted to share with you some in regards to our Group Finder feature which is coming in Game Update 1.3! From our Community Q + A Blog for April 27th, 2012: Lovarboy: Will we get dual spec with Game Update 1.3? Daniel: Unfortunately, no. Game Update 1.3 is being kept a bit leaner to get the Group Finder and the next stage of Legacy in the game as fast as possible. After that we’ll be returning to some bigger updates and we’re hoping dual spec makes it for the next one. From our latest Star Wars: The Old Republic Official Podcast Episode I, you can find the following information: Eric: Speaking of systems that we are going to be able to iterate on, why don’t we talk a little about 1.3? 1.3 is our next content patch that is coming out, why don’t you guys talk a little bit about what players can expect to see in 1.3? Damion: 1.3 is, well, it is the group finder patch. That’s not the official name, but really that is our top priority. We have some other features that we are going to go and put inside of it but really this is us really getting a group finder to you guys as fast as humanly possible. Brooks: I am super excited about group finder because that is one of the biggest things that I have run into in lower game is finding groups and actually being able to run those flashpoints that I get. For players who have maybe never used a group finder before, and I know we have plenty of those, what is that actually going to look like in the game? Damion: It is fairly simple and basically what we want to do is to give you a really simple front end that you can use as well as those give you the ability to fine tune your choices a little more so the really simple approach is you open a group finder you choose what role - tank, heal or DPS - that you are willing to fulfill and you can choose multiple if your class can fill multiple and then you choose what kind of content that you want to do and that content is going to be flashpoints, heroic flashpoints, operations although story mode operations only for now and then world content, the planetary content where you basically say I want a quest on Belsavis. Then if you hit select from there, then it will try to find people who want to do that stuff. Now if there is a particular dungeon or particular planet that you want to do by default what it does it gets you to the level of appropriate flashpoints for you. If you really want to the quest in the Mandalorian Raiders flashpoint for example you can go and unselect everything else and just say, "Hey, I just want to sign up for that." And the group finder will try to find other people who are looking for that content as well so that is a great way for you to target certain quests that you want to accomplish. We felt that was important in our game because of where the game is right now where people are trying to clear out their quest logs and accomplish certain goals in certain places. If you would like to discuss the Group Finder feature, we ask that you do so in this thread: Patch 1.3 Dungeon Finder If you would like to discuss our latest podcast, you can do so in this thread: Star Wars: The Old Republic Official Podcast Episode I We hope this helps! Edited May 19, 2012 by Ellvaan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eldisper Posted May 19, 2012 Author Share Posted May 19, 2012 woot , I'm excited thank you for posting about 1.3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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