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

[Rahdulan]

Next step is a jew planet where only PvP is allowed.

I'd buy that for a dollar.

 

[Cool name]

I did never imagine a company could manage an MMO so badly. They do make Kim Kwang Soo seem like a business genius in comparison.

 

[Shannow]

Next step is a jew planet where only PvP is allowed.

Nah, no pvp, but you can open trade windows with anyone and rob them blind.

Nah, it's a planet where the dudes just want to live their lives, but the whole planet is made responsible for the actions of a few assholes.
Of course I mean, a planet where nobody can wear a helmet because their noses are too large.

 

[Angthoron]

Next step is a jew planet where only PvP is allowed.

Nah, no pvp, but you can open trade windows with anyone and rob them blind.

Nah, it's a planet where the dudes just want to live their lives, but the whole planet is made responsible for the actions of a few assholes.
Of course I mean, a planet where nobody can wear a helmet because their noses are too large.

Are you really trying to be reasonable on the Codex? What is this, an EBayed account?

 

[abnaxus]

The planet should be called Gaya.

I guess Uranus is already taken.

 

[Angthoron]

The planet should be called Gaya.

I guess Uranus is already taken.

IP rights for that are reserved.

 

[Syl]

The planet should be called Gaya.

I guess Uranus is already taken.

IP rights for that are reserved.

By whose faggot?

 

[Angthoron]

The planet should be called Gaya.

I guess Uranus is already taken.

IP rights for that are reserved.

By whose faggot?

By the one that covets Uranus.

 

[Zeriel]

I did never imagine a company could manage an MMO so badly. They do make Kim Kwang Soo seem like a business genius in comparison.

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[ohWOW]

Haha, yeah Everquest 2 is a real stinker.

 

[Angthoron]

Took it longer to go F2P than this masterpiece though.

 

[mediocrepoet]

Well at the end of the day, the craftsmen at Bioware can only do so much. That "Star Wars" license that they were locked into really dragged them down.

 

[Larendav]

I did never imagine a company could manage an MMO so badly. They do make Kim Kwang Soo seem like a business genius in comparison.

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While Turbine provided plenty of updates, they made so many shitty decisions. I'd still say they handled it worse than EverQuest II. Considering they just shut it down without testing a freemium model.

 

[Larendav]

Whether TOR makes the investment back is irrelevant compared to this

Soon, BioWare will go under & it can become an annual celebration here.





Hopefully.

 

[Angthoron]

"The day of the Final Lulz"

 

[RK47]

Even if Bio goes down, the IP is too valuable to collect dust.
EA will just necro another studio and tell them to get another Dragon Effect installment out, continuity be damned.

 

[Valestein]

Even if Bio goes down, the IP is too valuable to collect dust.
EA will just necro another studio and tell them to get another Dragon Effect installment out, continuity be damned.

Yep, like what happened with Command and Conquer.

Whether they'd continue Dragon Age is dependent on the third game's sales. The second sold far worse than the first.

 

[Rahdulan]

I did never imagine a company could manage an MMO so badly. They do make Kim Kwang Soo seem like a business genius in comparison.

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Even though EQ2 is an inferior game compared to EQ1 it's hardly a "How Not To Design & Manage MMORPGs 101" that is The Old Republic. Then again I guess it was kinda obvious in hindsight when you see who worked on the game - company with no MMO experience and remnants of whatever remained after EA butchered Mythic after Warhammer Online failed to perform. Match made in heaven.

 

[sea]

Even if Bio goes down, the IP is too valuable to collect dust.
EA will just necro another studio and tell them to get another Dragon Effect installment out, continuity be damned.

Yep, like what happened with Command and Conquer.

Not necessarily a terrible thing. C&C3 was actually quite good, so was its expansion pack and Red Alert 3. Really well supported post-release too, a rare thing to see from EA. Sure they ran out of ideas and C&C4 was complete crap, but I had no problem that they weren't Westwood.

Seeing the same thing happen to BioWare properties wouldn't be a terrible thing. Get some devs who are possibly more talented/organized and who know the genre and are familiar with the source material, and they might well make something better than BioWare ever did.

 

[RK47]

Problem is...they're running out of 'talented studios' they can acquire.
It's a gamble they'd rather not take.
The day Bioware isn't making a quasi-RPG shooter/action games is probably the day they can close down the studio, cause I don't believe they know how to do anything else.

 

[Zeriel]

I did never imagine a company could manage an MMO so badly. They do make Kim Kwang Soo seem like a business genius in comparison.

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Even though EQ2 is an inferior game compared to EQ1 it's hardly a "How Not To Design & Manage MMORPGs 101" that is The Old Republic. Then again I guess it was kinda obvious in hindsight when you see who worked on the game - company with no MMO experience and remnants of whatever remained after EA butchered Mythic after Warhammer Online failed to perform. Match made in heaven.

Sure, but as far as mismanagement goes, it's much more impressive to drive a successful franchise into the ground than to botch something you just created.

 

[Mother Russia]

So, status update?

Has TOR killed WoW yet?

 

[lightbane]

What about the new DLC and the Gay Planet? How much butthurt these two have generated so far?

 

[Cyberarmy]

So, status update?

Has TOR killed WoW yet?

ToR was holding the gun backwards so it became a suicide.

 

[Crispy]

What about the new DLC and the Gay Planet? How much butthurt these two have generated so far?

I haven't seen anyone in-game mentioning it. I'm not even sure if it's live yet. Maybe in update 2.0?