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The_Korrigan  Title: Scrub Buster
Posts: 955
Registered: 2001-7-17 03:51:32
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Date Posted:
1/1/00 12:03am
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Did WoW finally meet it's match? |
Quazimortal posted:
Oh don't say that, you might give me a reason to play it so I can grief the hell out of you. 
The chances we end on the same server are... infinitesimal, or even non-existent since I play from Europe, and I definitely won't disclose the server I play on anyway. So please, help yourself, and I thank you in advance in the name of Bioware and Electronic Arts for supporting their game with your subscription 
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Quazimortal  Title: The One and Only
Posts: 1,557
Registered: 2004-9-18 21:52:58
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Date Posted:
1/1/00 12:04am
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Did WoW finally meet it's match? |
The_Korrigan posted:
Quazimortal posted:
Oh don't say that, you might give me a reason to play it so I can grief the hell out of you.
The chances we end on the same server are... infinitesimal, or even non-existent since I play from Europe, and I definitely won't disclose the server I play on anyway. So please, help yourself, and I thank you in advance in the name of Bioware and Electronic Arts for supporting their game with your subscription
Oh god, there's no way I would play on a European server. Not with the head-stuck-up-the-ass attitude most of you guys seem to have.
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Spookysheep Title: Lieker of Cheese
Posts: 1,248
Registered: 2002-1-9 06:49:19
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Date Posted:
1/1/00 12:04am
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Did WoW finally meet it's match? |
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Date Posted:
1/1/00 12:04am
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Did WoW finally meet it's match? |
The_Korrigan posted:
Perfect - two more reasons for me to play it 
But, that aside... the game looks technically exceptional, but besides the advances in computer power, and being sci fi instead of fantasy, what was the difference between that video and, say, Diablo 2? Or Guildwars?
In fact, in what way is this game a mmorpg at all?
That doesn't make it a bad game by any stretch of the imagination. But I am quite tired of games telling me what to do, and what I can do, in the game. These "individual story based mmos" don't seem to understand the greatest strength of being an mmorpg - letting the PLAYER make the story (or at least being one of the people involved in making it).
Where is the effort to advance the technology to allow more freedom for the players and giving them content to match? Yeah, it's harder, but its also infinitely more rewarding.
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Arcilite_I Title: VN's Most Wanted
Posts: 1,260
Registered: 2002-1-27 08:46:24
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Date Posted:
1/1/00 12:04am
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Did WoW finally meet it's match? |
slythetove posted:
Tai-Daishar_MT posted:
I may be the only person in the US not caring a whit about the upcoming Star Wars MMO. Probably speaks more to my feelings about the genre than Star Wars itself as I actually liked most of the movies.
Nah you're not alone. I couldn't care less either. Zero interest.
--Sly
I'm in the middle, excited but couldn't care less if it bombs. Movies are epic 
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hostagecat Title: Lord of the Fluffy Death Kittys
Posts: 18
Registered: 2005-3-30 14:57:43
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Date Posted:
1/1/00 12:04am
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Did WoW finally meet it's match? |
Arcilite_I posted:
slythetove posted:
Tai-Daishar_MT posted:
I may be the only person in the US not caring a whit about the upcoming Star Wars MMO. Probably speaks more to my feelings about the genre than Star Wars itself as I actually liked most of the movies.
Nah you're not alone. I couldn't care less either. Zero interest.
--Sly
I'm in the middle, excited but couldn't care less if it bombs. Movies are epic
and sadly they are better than the first 3 prequel movies, maybe George Lucas should have used Biowares writers.
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Azure-TheBlueOne  Title: Made in Alaska
Posts: 319
Registered: 2003-2-24 19:25:37
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Date Posted:
1/1/00 12:04am
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Did WoW finally meet it's match? |
Broken_Kayfabe posted:
But, that aside... the game looks technically exceptional, but besides the advances in computer power, and being sci fi instead of fantasy, what was the difference between that video and, say, Diablo 2? Or Guildwars?
As an aside to what Broken was saying, the game looked very personally instanced early on, and previously MMO gamers haven't embraced that style for MMOs. In fact, they've been quite jaded by games that personally instance or phase too much, ime.
It could work, and I think phasing and instancing is the way to go for online games, but the coding is delicate, and I think when you go too far in separating players from enjoying a world where they regularly see and/or interact with their fellow players, it just doesn't work as an online game for most people.
I'm not saying swtor does that necessarily or doesn't have that in mind, as I haven't read a ton of background info on its development, just that the vid made it look somewhat like Guildwars. And I have to wonder if GW would see what popularity it does have if it had a monthly fee. Also, STO comes to mind. Then again, it is Bioware too. We'll see. 
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Crafty_ac2  Posts: 99
Registered: 2002-12-8 23:08:07
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Date Posted:
1/1/00 12:04am
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Did WoW finally meet it's match? |
flashpoints, are these just another name for instanced encounters? will this be another instance based one like star trek was?
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The_Korrigan Title: Scrub Buster
Posts: 955
Registered: 2001-7-17 03:51:32
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Date Posted:
1/1/00 12:04am
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Did WoW finally meet it's match? |
Crafty_ac2 posted:
flashpoints, are these just another name for instanced encounters? will this be another instance based one like star trek was?
It's more like WOW's instances. Flashpoints aren't raids though, it's 4 man instances. Yes, not 5, 4, even more accessible for small family groups.
Planets will have large explorable areas (aka non-instanced). Alderaan alone is approx. 8 to 9 WoW zones large, and there are a ton of planets in the game (17 to be precise). Do the multiplication, and SW:TOR could very easily reveal having way more explorable non-instanced areas than WoW.
Another important thing to mention, Flashpoint can also happen on planets that aren't among the 17 explorable ones, like on the video where you actually travel to the planet where action happens. Kinda like "off-world dungeons".
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Spookysheep Title: Lieker of Cheese
Posts: 1,248
Registered: 2002-1-9 06:49:19
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Date Posted:
1/1/00 12:04am
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Did WoW finally meet it's match? |
Players will get tired of "exploring" very quickly when they are in massive zones full of the same scenery over and over and over and over....
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