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Star Wars: The Old Republic [Releasing Date: Dec 20 NA/EU - NDA Lifted]
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CcrooK said:
If your a fan of Star Wars, then I think the logical idea is to swing to playing SWTOR over any other MMO being released within a year.
But there are plenty of gamers that refuse to play a sub, or in most cases, refuse to pay for more than one (i.e anything other than WoW). I think GW2 has a lot of hope after Rift did quite well. Gameplay is just king and its looks very awesome
BattleMonkey
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Shrinnan said:
I would imagine some would somewhat revere the purebloods in a way, but I guess since humans rule the majority of the Sith, there is lots of animosity amongst others. I don't know if the games are really going to follow the heavy xenophobic nature the TOR novels put forth.
bjaelke said:
Well unless
Revan actually destroyed the Emperor and turned bad once again, it seems clear that the Emperor is someone else from the holonet. And the upcoming Revan novel sounds like it's going to involve Revan going after the hidden Emperor
MaddenNFL64
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i'll make an empire alt just to see that place. I wanna see more of the capital planets already 
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Retrofluxed
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Looks like no release date.
http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=328394
Starting to get annoyed. Seems like 2012 it is.
Oh and this Origin shit is just a way for EA to try and grab some Steam money.
http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=328394
Starting to get annoyed. Seems like 2012 it is.
Oh and this Origin shit is just a way for EA to try and grab some Steam money.
HarryDemeanor
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Trouble said:No Steam
Hopefully it's only a timed exclusivity deal for the new Origin service. EA keeps it on Origin for a number of months and then puts it on Steam and other services.
EDIT: After rereading that WSJ article I guess we are screwed.
Stephen Reid said that there'll be 2 updates besides the 3 Friday updates on the site. One of them is already given in the Origin exclusivity. I imagine the other has to do with digital pre-order details. The EA store need a big exclusive hit for when it opens. Either they go with BF3 or SWTOR.
Oh, and the release date is still 2011: Don't ever think we're not hard at work every day, and moving towards a date... that's currently in 2011.
Oh, and the release date is still 2011: Don't ever think we're not hard at work every day, and moving towards a date... that's currently in 2011.
Retrofluxed
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bjaelke said:
Stephen Reid said:
I feel like the wind is out of my sails right now. I really had my fingers crossed for a release date announcement at E3. Shit, at this rate, I'll just be happy to see the game out before 2012.
Yeah I have already lost all enthusiasm for E3 as far as this game goes now. No release date etc means a waste of time. Sorry if your game is supposedly this close to launch you do a hell of alot more than this.
The excuse we dont want our competition to know too much is a load. WoW is their only real competitor and Blizzards not doing shit this fall
The excuse we dont want our competition to know too much is a load. WoW is their only real competitor and Blizzards not doing shit this fall
Road to E3: Star Wars: The Old Republic
Hmm, seems like the perfect place to announce something in relation to it. Maybe it'll be DRM-free. That Origin news really came out of nowhere. I'm hoping for some kind of incentives.goat said:
I thought that being the money and time sink that TOR has turned out to be, they HAVE to release it in 2011...CcrooK said:No release date eh? Smells like 2012.
If they delay it now it means that they intend to blow another massive wad of cash and development time on it. And by the time they are finally done, the scene has changed.
LowParry
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glaurung said:
Well, a lot of people over on their forums are pretty upset about it. Nothing like putting Bioware on blast but it seems everyone before was expecting some kind of reveal of a date. I dunno. Maybe we'll still get beta times roughly. But yeah, I think this game needs to be out by this year. I mean hell, we're not looking at FFXIV quality of a launch here.
CcrooK said:
Judging by the leaked videos the game is already in a better state than FFXIV, christ that game was awful.
Wonder if they have started to charge for that clusterfuck yet.I am starting to think there won't be a release date announcement at E3 but I think it more likely that there will be a beta (open or not) announcement. Or at least talk about ramping up the amount of people in beta. ....I want in!
They send out another email 2 days ago reminding the Europeans to prepare for European Game Testing.Orgun said:Judging by the leaked videos the game is already in a better state than FFXIV, christ that game was awful.
I am starting to think there won't be a release date announcement at E3 but I think it more likely that there will be a beta (open or not) announcement. Or at least talk about ramping up the amount of people in beta. ....I want in!
Vigilant Walrus
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Angry rant incoming(aimed at whiners on the official forums) ;
Really?
F**king really? People are bitching over this? Why on earth do you want to doom this game before it's even out? Did you learn nothing from WAR/AOC/FF4/SWG/Others?
Once they release it in half finished state, it's over. After that it will just be broken dreams and sad sad star wars fans paying 15 bucks a month for beta.
People are so impatient and annoying, it's incredible. Play some other games FFS, and relax. You know EA and Lucas wants nothing better than to ride the hype train to retail and get the short term benefits of a hyped products. they will buy this in droves and they will make lots of money in the beginning. Historically these companies are not good at thinking in the long term(Read: see both companies history with MMOs).
Bioware should be commended for keeping the investor sharks at bay and trying to fix this ship before it sinks. The combat already looks like something from post Horizon days, we know as well that they will get bitch slapped for it, unless TERA/B&S/GW2 all becomes utter crap. Besides their story angle they seem to ride it directly into familiar WoW territory and plenty of people will burn out soon enough.
So logically what is left to do? They can either make the most tight and polished awesome traditional MMORPG known to man, a spiritual successor to the WoW model of we-can-have-all-different-Types-of-MMOers-Game, or they can go back and spent two more years and redesign it to something unique and different... Or follow impatient fanboys fabulous idea of just releasing it now for their short term excitement / long term dissapointment.
Honestly it's no wonder that MMORPGs are stuck in such a quagmire of mediocreness. It's like a women who keeps going back to her violent husband. It's almost like MMO gamers subconsciously want to be abused and disappointed.
Really?
F**king really? People are bitching over this? Why on earth do you want to doom this game before it's even out? Did you learn nothing from WAR/AOC/FF4/SWG/Others?
Once they release it in half finished state, it's over. After that it will just be broken dreams and sad sad star wars fans paying 15 bucks a month for beta.
People are so impatient and annoying, it's incredible. Play some other games FFS, and relax. You know EA and Lucas wants nothing better than to ride the hype train to retail and get the short term benefits of a hyped products. they will buy this in droves and they will make lots of money in the beginning. Historically these companies are not good at thinking in the long term(Read: see both companies history with MMOs).
Bioware should be commended for keeping the investor sharks at bay and trying to fix this ship before it sinks. The combat already looks like something from post Horizon days, we know as well that they will get bitch slapped for it, unless TERA/B&S/GW2 all becomes utter crap. Besides their story angle they seem to ride it directly into familiar WoW territory and plenty of people will burn out soon enough.
So logically what is left to do? They can either make the most tight and polished awesome traditional MMORPG known to man, a spiritual successor to the WoW model of we-can-have-all-different-Types-of-MMOers-Game, or they can go back and spent two more years and redesign it to something unique and different... Or follow impatient fanboys fabulous idea of just releasing it now for their short term excitement / long term dissapointment.
Honestly it's no wonder that MMORPGs are stuck in such a quagmire of mediocreness. It's like a women who keeps going back to her violent husband. It's almost like MMO gamers subconsciously want to be abused and disappointed.
BattleMonkey
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Don't see why everyone cares about Steam, when its pretty much useless for MMO's as they all use external launchers and patching is done outside of Steam.
The first of 5 updates to come today: MMORPG: Advanced Classes Interview
HarryDemeanor
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BattleMonkey said:
They just want to buy all their games from one location without having to use another client.
To be honest the game should be on Steam as well but it doesn't bother me all that much since I'll be picking up the retail CE.
NemesisPrime
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bjaelke said:
Oh thanx! Excitement growing! Looks like GW2 and SW might keep me MMO happy for the next few years.
BattleMonkey
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Nice update
The_Inquisitor
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Hey everyone. Been on vacation in Greece. Looking forward to catching up when I get back next week.
I don't have the most ideal set up right now. So lots of new info is coming out but no release date? Bah....
I don't have the most ideal set up right now. So lots of new info is coming out but no release date? Bah....
Azwethinkweiz
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Sith Assassin Tank for me!
Retrofluxed
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Healer 4 Life, so Sage for me.
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