Star Wars: The Old Republic will kill WoW - outsourced to Broadsword

[Metro]

Er... well... it's an MMO so I'm sure it's just going to be a bunch of MMO-style quests/content.

 

[mikaelis]

Er... well... it's an MMO so I'm sure it's just going to be a bunch of MMO-style quests/content.

Yeah... but all those opinions about how it is more single player than MMO (focus on story and so on)... 12 different stories for each character ... ummh ... I guess I will pass... Have to save time and HDD space...

 

[HotSnack]

All the EA bullshit aside, is it worth checking it just for single player experience, now that it is for free? Does it even resemble KOTOR? Or is it completely worthless?

Note, that I am not interested in MMO aspect in the slightest.

If you liked the writing style of the first kotor, then you'll enjoy the class specific stories here, with the empire definitely having the best stories of the two sides. Unfortunately while the class specific stories are fun, the generic quests you have to grind in between them are not.

 

[mikaelis]

the generic quests you have to grind in between ....

Ok, I will pass. Fuck MMO.

 

[Emily]

. Oh, and you have to buy the ability to hide your helmet.

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Oh God, they really know how to piss off players. That there is enough reason for me to not even dl the game.

 

[Genma:TheDestroyer]

Oh looks it's Warhammer Online version 2.

 

[Rahdulan]

No one picked it up even after it went F2P.

 

[ohWOW]

Source?

 

[Angthoron]

Looks like an entire guild that left our WoW raiding alliance for tOR is coming back. Lulz.

 

[DraQ]

Voting for topic change to:
Star Wars: The Old Republic killed WoW

 

[Mother Russia]

Voting for topic change to:
Star Wars: The Old Republic killed WoW

Uhm, shouldn't it be the other way round, dumbfuck?

 

[DraQ]

Voting for topic change to:
Star Wars: The Old Republic killed WoW

Uhm, shouldn't it be the other way round, dumbfuck?

 

[Jaesun]

Or Crispy fails to understand MMO's fail.

 

[mediocrepoet]

Star Wars: The Old Republic commits suicide.

 

[Scruffy]

so is WOW dead yet?

 

[Vaarna_Aarne]

so is WOW dead yet?

That is not dead which can eternal lie, yet with strange aeons even death may die.

 

[fizzelopeguss]

so is WOW dead yet?

When the universe collapses in on itself...wow will still be trucking along.

 

[DraQ]

It is not dead which can eternal lie...

 

[Riel]

What's even better than that, they've locked out certain emotes even for subscribers into a pack you have to buy, THAT ISN'T EVEN ON SALE YET.

Also I think that chat message time limit is only until level 10 to prevent gold spammers.

Fair enough about the chat timer, that actually makes sense.

But...

http://www.swtor.com/free/features

Does this?

Took me a moment to realize I need to mouseover to see the details. Still, no customer support for F2P/Preferred? Nicey.

They are going to change the loading screens for F2P players to this

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[mediocrepoet]

lol "Subscribe or fuck off and die."

 

[Mother Russia]

so is WOW dead yet?

When the universe collapses in on itself...wow will still be trucking along.

They said the same thing about Everquest (calling it Evercrack with smug self serving smiles)...and then WoW was released.

 

[Micmu]

http://www.swtor.com/free/features

Ahaha, so according to this, "F2P" is nothing but demo renamed. Why the fuck did they even bother?

 

[J1M]

so is WOW dead yet?

When the universe collapses in on itself...wow will still be trucking along.

They said the same thing about Everquest (calling it Evercrack with smug self serving smiles)...and then WoW was released.

Everquest 2 was also released which fractured many of the guilds and server populations, making them much easier for WoW to scoop up.

 

[roll-a-die]

so is WOW dead yet?

When the universe collapses in on itself...wow will still be trucking along.

They said the same thing about Everquest (calling it Evercrack with smug self serving smiles)...and then WoW was released.

Yet Everquest still exists, makes money, and releases expansion packs.

 

[Mother Russia]

so is WOW dead yet?

When the universe collapses in on itself...wow will still be trucking along.

They said the same thing about Everquest (calling it Evercrack with smug self serving smiles)...and then WoW was released.

Yet Everquest still exists, makes money, and releases expansion packs.

It is only a pale, pale shadow of what it used to be.

Actually, anyone know why EQ2 was never near as popular as EQ1?

 

[Angthoron]

so is WOW dead yet?

When the universe collapses in on itself...wow will still be trucking along.

They said the same thing about Everquest (calling it Evercrack with smug self serving smiles)...and then WoW was released.

Yet Everquest still exists, makes money, and releases expansion packs.

It is only a pale, pale shadow of what it used to be.

Actually, anyone know why EQ2 was never near as popular as EQ1?

IIRC it had much higher system requirements than WoW at the time, which lead people to a "Brand loyalty vs wallet contents" choice. And, just like with GW2 thread, there was the old vs new thing going on, with some people going "Fuck it, I choose a different path" result. I wasn't into MMOs back in the day, so I can't provide more detail, but I do recall there was some massive drama about EQ2 release.

Oh, yeah, and Blizzard luring away EQ1 "pro players" to work for them was possibly one other thing. Sadly, Tigule & Foror are also one of the worse things to have happened to WoW development in the long run.

 

[fizzelopeguss]

It's quite simple, WoW was a revelation while EQ2 was rancid dog spunk.