Just saw this on the store shelf this past Saturday:
Comes with a Darth Malgus mini-fig.
Aren't there Old Republic themed sets out now? Huh, can't find any, guess not.
Edit: Oh there are, they are supposed to release sometime this summer.
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Star Wars: The Old Republic |OT2| In a F2Play galaxy far, far away
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Aren't there Old Republic themed sets out now? Huh, can't find any, guess not.
Edit: Oh there are, they are supposed to release sometime this summer.
BattleMonkey
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Besides the Fury that he posted? They also have out the Republic Striker star fighter that comes with Satele Shan and some other mini figs. Amazon has both sets in stock: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B007Q0OUW6/?tag=neogaf0e-20
XiaNaphryz
LATIN, MATRIPEDICABUS, DO YOU SPEAK IT
Click on the pic for full res. If I had displayed the full size pic, it would be easier to see the big Old Republic logo in the bottom corner.
BattleMonkey
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Hope they do more, would really love to get some of the other class ships in lego form, but doubt we will see anymore past these two sets. Course they do come out with some odd choices of sets at times so who knows.
Liar, we saw you log in yesterday!Although I guess if you didn't "do" anything then it doesn't count.
That was the end of the weekend, though! I mean nothing Friday, Saturday, or Sunday at all. I literally logged in, stood at the fleet, and then logged off Sunday night after a few minutes.
Got on tonight for rated...we sat in queue over an hour and got no pops. Good times. We did get two games of normal where it was all 8 of us on one team. Those poor pubs.
kyo_daikun
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Needs a rage quit and grapple buttons to be viable
BattleMonkey
Member
What a waste. This game had so much potential, and EA squandered it.
Silence for weeks. Not looking promising.
XiaNaphryz
LATIN, MATRIPEDICABUS, DO YOU SPEAK IT
Not surprising if EA really did fire most of the community team.
BattleMonkey
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Only been a month since 1.3, so doubt it. Took longer before for any new info on next updates. We still haven't gotten the in game event which the files for are already in.
2 mil subs to FTP in less than 6 months. gg EA
Enosh
Member
well really happy I didn't buy 60 days now, especially since I don't think there will be a content update until the f2p conversion ^^
edit2: well apparently new content in august
from the little I read about this seems they will also increase the level cap with this?
I wonder how this will work, will raids be a buy to play thing? only some? maybe only the higher difficulties while normal will be for everyone?
but will see once more details are released,
edit2: well apparently new content in august
from the little I read about this seems they will also increase the level cap with this?
I wonder how this will work, will raids be a buy to play thing? only some? maybe only the higher difficulties while normal will be for everyone?
so far they are speaking of convenience and cosmetic items, like devs always do when it comes to these things
but will see once more details are released,
I think we're just suprised that they got the Store ready for it, as tooling it was going to take a while. But yeah, friends of mine will be able to play the game now that otherwise wouldn't of, so I'm thrilled.
Ya raising the level cap has been known since E3 (Makeb).
It should be interesting to see numbers on subs here in a bit, they had to be bad for them to frontrun the earnings call with this news. I'm not sure what I think of the change yet, obviously it will bring in more players, but I need more info on the content being gated and how it will all work. Will we be able to earn Cartel Coins in-game? etc etc
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=40482767&postcount=103
Saw Wario64 post this in the other thread.
Saw Wario64 post this in the other thread.
BattleMonkey
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Party Jawa! lol
It says http://www.swtor.com/free comparison chart linked at the bottom that Raids will only be available to subscribers
It says http://www.swtor.com/free comparison chart linked at the bottom that Raids will only be available to subscribers
Same. And here I was thinking I would be guilt free if I went to GW2.
Same, I'm still enjoying the game immensely and reading between the lines it looks like 1.4 will hit in August. If the planets align, perhaps the new world event within the next week!
please
Well, EA beat on earnings, they didn't break out subs in the press release though, gonna have to wait till the call at 5pm.
Two games, 1 sub?
Two games, 1 sub?
They'll be costed using cartel coins, most likely (aka blow your stuff on cosmetic stuff you're going to have pay for the expansion).
It's not a bad thing, I just figured they wouldn't restrict it that much. It's pretty much worthless if I want to continue to PVE and even PVP.
StudioTan
Hold on, friend! I'd love to share with you some swell news about the Windows 8 Metro UI! Wait, where are you going?
I haven't read much yet but I thought the coins were for convenience/cosmetic/vanity stuff and not content like ops and warzones?
Yeah, I hear you. I just hope the "convenience" features sold in the Cartel shop are only legacy perks we already have or will have access to as well.
From what I've read is seems like you could buy piecemeal, like more pvp matches/week, or new content like the new Makeb planet and such. Here is a quote from the FAQ:
And here is one I found that goes into a bit more detail on the next content drop in that context:
StudioTan
Hold on, friend! I'd love to share with you some swell news about the Windows 8 Metro UI! Wait, where are you going?
OK, cool, so subs still get new content for free and also get a stipend of coins to use on stuff from the store. Seems similar to AoC's F2P model.
I'm not into the whole piecemeal pricing thing, I'll just keep my sub. The good news is I can drop the 15 bucks a month I paying for my girlfriend who only logs in a couple of times per week to PVP. Sound like she'll be able to do that with the free sub.
Ok, more digging and found this, as an explanation of why one should sub prior to the launch of free-to-play:
So at least we know the new content is at most a month away, if not even sooner.
Edit: And here is the breakdown on Cartel Coins:
If I have done this quick math right, a CE owner who had subbed from launch to free to play will receive 6-8 months at 150(depending on if the 2 "free" months count), 500 for the CE, 2 months at 200(Assuming an October launch? So Aug/Sept) and the 250 coin bonus for a grand total of somewhere between 2,050 and 2,350(2,850 if the CE bonus is 1,000) depending on the variables. So 1,550 to 1,850 for standard edition owners. Now to find out the prices of things in the storefront, and the conversion rate of $ -> cartel coins.
Actually, another page says CE owners get 1,000 coins rather than 500 as a bonus, so who knows which figure is correct.
So at least we know the new content is at most a month away, if not even sooner.
Edit: And here is the breakdown on Cartel Coins:
If I have done this quick math right, a CE owner who had subbed from launch to free to play will receive 6-8 months at 150(depending on if the 2 "free" months count), 500 for the CE, 2 months at 200(Assuming an October launch? So Aug/Sept) and the 250 coin bonus for a grand total of somewhere between 2,050 and 2,350(2,850 if the CE bonus is 1,000) depending on the variables. So 1,550 to 1,850 for standard edition owners. Now to find out the prices of things in the storefront, and the conversion rate of $ -> cartel coins.
Actually, another page says CE owners get 1,000 coins rather than 500 as a bonus, so who knows which figure is correct.
I'm probably drinking the hype juice here, but it really does seem like content was delayed to shoehorn free to play.
Ooh, yay! Better be coming soon in August with a World Event included.
They just announced "less than a million, but still well above the 500k(profitability) level" for subscribers during the earnings call. Sucks they didn't give us exact numbers on subs, maybe we can get it teased out in the Q&A section.
Awesome, we Imperials need a good mara to show these guys how it's done haha. And Ops can still be a pain in the ass in the hands of a good player. I think you'll have fun with it.
Awesome, we Imperials need a good mara to show these guys how it's done haha. And Ops can still be a pain in the ass in the hands of a good player. I think you'll have fun with it.
BattleMonkey
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Well this has been in the works for a while if it's coming in the fall, which from what this all says should be probably Sept. If anything this has all been in the works and pretty much screwing us over from getting new content since this obviously probably was ready already or they had to shift work focus on the F2P transition.
At least we are getting cartel coins for our past subscription stuff.
*edit: Actually EA financials saying the transition is happening in November while the PR statement claims it's in August....
At least we are getting cartel coins for our past subscription stuff.
*edit: Actually EA financials saying the transition is happening in November while the PR statement claims it's in August....
On the SWTOR/free page, it actually says CE owners are getting 1,000 coins versus the 500 the FAQ mentions. It also lists a "Heroes' Banner", whatever that will be, as a reward for CE owners as well.
Nice catch!
Nice catch!
BattleMonkey
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The FAQ mentions stuff like limited inventory and credit limits for free players but none of that is on the feature list :-\
StudioTan
Hold on, friend! I'd love to share with you some swell news about the Windows 8 Metro UI! Wait, where are you going?
Is that what it says? On the info page it says we're getting "200 Cartel Coins Each paid month from August 1, 2012 to Free-to-Play option launch" which pretty much implies it's not happening in August.
I hope so but I agree with him, I've heard it before in other games, namely Age of Conan. Eventually I quit AoC because content was coming twice a year and was becoming paid content at that. Granting even with layoffs I'm sure the TOR dev team dwarfs the AoC team and even AoC had a sizeable expansion before content releases slowed to a crawl.