TL_Roff Posted February 19, 2022 Share Posted February 19, 2022 What's waiting in the wings? That a cinematic trailer was pumped out for "2" chapters and a operation is kinda mind boggling considering KOTFE and KOTET had loads of content! So my guess is more is coming but it's just not done yet or is still in testing. I hear every ones disappointment that there isn't more right now and I feel it to. I've all ready taken one toon from 75 to 80 and almost have another one there. My bounty Hunter is sporting gear at 306 plus and he just managed to break 79 yesterday. But either way there has got to be more new content coming. It just wouldn't make any sense for there not to be. I guess we'll see Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iopseal Posted February 19, 2022 Share Posted February 19, 2022 I wish I had the Story Writer's job getting paid for 2 years for less than two hours of story. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lichtfaengerin Posted February 19, 2022 Share Posted February 19, 2022 The story that came out with the update felt like a prelude. It would be okay for me if we had been given some kinda plan as to when throughout this year more story will be released, but we havent, so now it just sucks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JojoKasei Posted February 19, 2022 Share Posted February 19, 2022 The story that came out with the update felt like a prelude. It would be okay for me if we had been given some kinda plan as to when throughout this year more story will be released, but we havent, so now it just sucks. Something like "this is the beginning, there will be new missions every month" would have been perfectly fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TonyTricicolo Posted February 19, 2022 Share Posted February 19, 2022 Supposedly, the expansion coincides with the 10year anniversary and its content will be spread out through the entire year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raansu Posted February 19, 2022 Share Posted February 19, 2022 Something like "this is the beginning, there will be new missions every month" would have been perfectly fine. They tried that before with kotfe....it wasn't very good since each "chapter" was barely 10-20 minutes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pietrastor Posted February 19, 2022 Share Posted February 19, 2022 They tried that before with kotfe....it wasn't very good since each "chapter" was barely 10-20 minutes. So still multiple times more content than the 3 minute cuscenes we've been getting as story "updates" nowadays Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Master_Morak Posted February 19, 2022 Share Posted February 19, 2022 The story that came out with the update felt like a prelude. It would be okay for me if we had been given some kinda plan as to when throughout this year more story will be released, but we havent, so now it just sucks. You can't get a plan from someone who has no plan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kryptonomic Posted February 19, 2022 Share Posted February 19, 2022 Certainly there is a reason so little is released in one shot. And let's think about it. Let's say you have a "year long event" that you are promoting. But you know you only have a certain amount of overall budget. And you don't want to blow all that budget in one release. Because once you do that, you have nothing left to release, right? So instead you decide to pace the releases. It's like a cake you have for your kids, maybe. You can slice it up into many pieces or just a few -- but you are ultimately still limited by the size of the cake! So if you have a really small cake, you are either going to just give the whole cake at once (and hope the kids are happy with it as that one-time event) or make the cake last by distributing what there is of it in chunks. But, again, if the cake is pretty small to begin with, those chunks are going to be small, particularly if you decide to spread them out. Yet, the more you spread them out, the smaller the individual chunks have to be. So then you're perhaps counting on the kids being happy that at least one day of the month, for the next twelve months, they get a piece of cake. Yeah, okay, it's a really small piece of cake. But at least you keep that going for multiple months; thus you hope the longevity of the overall "cake release" satisfies even though the individual bits of cakes are a bit lacking. Of course ... it's always possible that you have a surprise waiting for the kids. Maybe that cake isn't quite as small as they're assuming it is. Or maybe, as it turns out, you don't just have cake. You have some ice cream and other things waiting in the wings. Absent some menu telling the kids what's coming, they have no idea of this. The question lots of people want answered is: which strategy is the SWTOR team following here? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThanderSnB Posted February 19, 2022 Share Posted February 19, 2022 This is why they need to get away from the whole expansion idea. They don't have the budget for a true expansion. Instead, they should call them seasons. They could tie it in with Galactic Seasons if they want, but basically, a season would be a period of time one or two years long. Anything released in that one- or two-year period would be part of the season. A season might have the same amount of content as an expansion, but it would allow them to spread it out over a long period. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damask_Rose Posted February 20, 2022 Share Posted February 20, 2022 They tried that before with kotfe....it wasn't very good since each "chapter" was barely 10-20 minutes. But it launched with 9 chapters. According to Dulfy there was 3.3 hours of cutscenes in those 9 chapters. LotS clocks in at 45 minutes, so KotFE had close to 4x the cutscenes as LotS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nefla Posted February 20, 2022 Share Posted February 20, 2022 They tried that before with kotfe....it wasn't very good since each "chapter" was barely 10-20 minutes. I'll take 20 minutes of cutscenes and 1-2 hours of gameplay per month over 55 minutes of cutscenes and 3 hours of grind per 14 months... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pricia Posted February 20, 2022 Share Posted February 20, 2022 My hope is that they'll actually keep their promise of new content all year. I'm assuming we'll get some new story each patch, starting with Manaan in 7.1. The question obviously is how long before that even comes out... But I also hope that the delay gave more time for story people to make more content. Considering that the expansion is called "Legacy of the Sith," I'm assuming that we'll find out what Malgus is talking about. And I bet we'll get a new flashpoint to finish the Mando stuff too at least. And hopefully more imp/rep content as well so it's not the same for both sides every time. So I'm staying cautiously hopeful... My thing really is I want to see SOME progression between relationships with the new companions (we got the beginning of that) and the saboteur stuff (we just got more of the same). I didn't mind what we got so far but I always want more... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raansu Posted February 20, 2022 Share Posted February 20, 2022 But it launched with 9 chapters. According to Dulfy there was 3.3 hours of cutscenes in those 9 chapters. LotS clocks in at 45 minutes, so KotFE had close to 4x the cutscenes as LotS. Ya it took about 5 hours of actual gameplay to get through it, mostly because of all the forced encounters. I remember back then thinking that was kinda bad, but everyone tolerated it because we knew we'd get monthly chapters, which sadly all ended up being really short......never imagined we'd get down to a measly 30-40 minutes of cutscenes and 1.5 hours of gameplay for an "expansion" though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ForfiniteStories Posted February 20, 2022 Share Posted February 20, 2022 Supposedly, the expansion coincides with the 10year anniversary and its content will be spread out through the entire year. Onslaught of the Sith's content has already been spread out over the years since its first update, Jedi Under Siege. This ain't exactly news. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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