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what's the verdict on TOR?
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Yukishiro1
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Registered: 2002-9-20 23:52:57
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It's about what you expect. The gameplay itself is nothing special, but the single player leveling experience is better than in other mmos because of the story elements. Although the stories are pretty hit and miss. I've heard from everyone the jedi consular story is omgwtfbad, but my imperial agent story is pretty decent.
A lot of their effort clearly went into making the game solo-friendly, to the point where the group content often feels tacked on. I do not see much lasting appeal at this point, but who knows, maybe they'll figure something out.
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Rikarus
Title: Ultimate Badass
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Registered: 2002-2-24 12:24:32
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Elocism posted:
AWESOME
at the very least i want to play an Empire toon and a Republic toon to max for the stories. surely that is 6 months of gameplay
polished, immersive, and fun. what more do you want?
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Z-Elder
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Registered: 2002-3-15 13:58:39
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SirGarth posted:
is it good for playing largely solo? is there an Outpost server?
As everyone said this is mostly a Solo game anyway.It looks like we here are on a bunch of servers. You should be in OTG by now anyway.
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Testerion
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Registered: 2001-12-28 03:07:47
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I just grouped with Jedi Knight female named Bonk. It was freaky.
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Clackdor
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Registered: 2001-9-21 12:10:52
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Why play an MMO solo?
Stupid players. 
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Z-Elder
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Clackdor posted:
Why play an MMO solo?
Stupid players.
Mainly because there are only a few heroic instances per planet where a group is needed. One can also wait a couple levels and go back and solo them, though the loot will be probably meaningless by then. Unless you are PvPing or plan on elite raiding the gear you just get for normal quests is fine for PvE. At least to the high 20s where I am.
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Yukishiro1
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Clackdor posted:
Why play an MMO solo?
Stupid players.
It is clearly what is wanted when you look at the market these days.
Most people don't want to spend an hour finding a group then several more hours with that group to make substantial progress. They want to be able to level to 50 without ever interacting with another player if they feel like it.
TOR actually does refuse to do some things wow does in the name of community. No cross server queues, no dungeon finder. The rationale being that both of those destroy any sense of community or interaction with the people you group with.
But I agree it is a somewhat odd choice to make an MMO and then devote what appears to be the vast majority of your development resources to single-player content.
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Yukishiro1 posted:
It is clearly what is wanted when you look at the market these days.
Most people don't want to spend an hour finding a group then several more hours with that group to make substantial progress. They want to be able to level to 50 without ever interacting with another player if they feel like it.
TOR actually does refuse to do some things wow does in the name of community. No cross server queues, no dungeon finder. The rationale being that both of those destroy any sense of community or interaction with the people you group with.
But I agree it is a somewhat odd choice to make an MMO and then devote what appears to be the vast majority of your development resources to single-player content.
~ $15 a month from a few million people every month isn't that odd, is it?
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Yukishiro1
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Well of course it's smart business. If people are really willing to stay subscribed.
I suspect what will happen is that unless they change gears pretty dramatically most of those single-player people will stop subbing in a month or two. It'll still be more cash than they'd get from releasing it as a single player game, though, so I guess it's smart business.
Just like it's smart business to milk the same people for a $150 collectors edition.
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Elocism
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Registered: 2002-5-3 01:50:00
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noobs
TOR is the WoW killer
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