What is the going rate on forum advice these days?

 

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That depends. I don't think you can objectively quantify the weight/worth of laughter or e-Rage.

I do think, however, that proclaiming oneself an anti-troll and then trolling the trolls that one just self-righteously called trolls invokes some Einsteinian/Orwellian double-think permutation of the law of conservation of matter, creating a singularity in some alternate universe. A sort of sister rule to the circle-jerk that is the "I hate this forum and everyone in it" posts.


Anyway, the folks saying SWTOR is nothing/exactly like WoW are by nature stating uncontestable opinions until the NDAs are lifted. I'll reserve judgement until then.

 

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Best part of every new MMO release.

 

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I'm actually excited about this game coming out. Maybe because I burned myself out on WOW.. Tried some others and couldn't get into them. WEnt back to Ultima Online and lasted 2 days before I just said the heck with it and still waiting for Dec 20th when I can play this game. So now, I just play my facebook games LOL

Disregarding the Facebook games (seriously?), I'm looking forward to this game too. It's still pretty raw right now, with a lot of issues, and it will probably have a lot of issues after it goes live, but ya know what? It'll still be fun. Right now, this game has a lot fewer issues than WoW when it went live.

People rag on WoW because they recycled things from other MMOs. SWToR is doing the same thing to an extent. I won't argue that I mean come on, this game went into development like 5 years ago. But it's still fun. It refines on what WoW failed at. Quests aren't just a matter of reading text as fast as you can. The voice acting they have actually draws you in, so long as you are into that sorta thing. Not only that, it doesn't take an hour to organize a "heroic", which in TOR's case is a regular dungeon.

Now I admit that I don't have any experience with endgame raiding, but for the first time in many years I'm actually anxious to find out how it goes.

The only thing I hope that Bioware has learned is that taking hours to form a raid is NOT a good approach. But considering everything I have seen so far in the beta, I don't see that happening.

 

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I don't understand why people call ToR WoW in space.

I mean, you get similarities between MMO's with things like the UI and such, but the General quest system for lvling is nothing like WoW, the crafting and how it works isn't like WoW, hell even the combat itself isn't like WoW (no auto attack)

 

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I was told by a friend who is keeping up with all the news on this new game is that it will take 200 hours to level 1 toon from 1-50..

I couldn't care less what people say about it. Its a Bioware game and its Star Wars and that is about enough right there for me to try it.

If I don't like it, whatever. It will be a loss of about $60.

 

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This is my sentiment pretty much.

 

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This is fairly standard for most new games. 10 days /played is a good rule of thumb for MMO's to reach max level on the first toon.

 

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