SWTOR: Random Complaint thread. F2P means P2Win

[EternityEnd]

It might have been entertaining, were it bereft of the flagrant hyperbole and elementary spelling/punctuation/grammar. >_>

[Insanecyclone]

Yeah. Too lazy to find the better grammar one.

[Arelian]

It might have been entertaining, were it bereft of the flagrant hyperbole and elementary spelling/punctuation/grammar. >_>

Because it couldn't have been written by someone who doesn't speak English as their native tongue?

[Lucavi]

That shit was hilarious and true, and as an English major, I'm more than willing to allow the mistakes for the sake of making sure its out there.

To think, I almost bought this game...

[Arelian]

I'm really, really happy I somehow broke the system and got the game for free. Cancelled my pre-order through Origin but I guess it never completely went through and I got emailed an activation key. Played for a month, got a Jedi Guardian to cap, raided a little bit and said to hell with it.

[vrumpt]

That shit was hilarious and true, and as an English major, I'm more than willing to allow the mistakes for the sake of making sure its out there.

To think, I almost bought this game...

People exaggerate a lot. Its really not as bad as people make it out to be.

[Havocxx]

Just had to lol @ this

People exaggerate a lot. Its really not as bad as people make it out to be.

From this guy (spoilered for your convenience)

I'm gonna help you, because i'm not I'm not impressed by TERA at all. In some areas it does shine, but overall i wasn't very impressed. I only made it halfway through the starting area before I had to shut the game down. I'll start at the beginning.

Spoiler: show

I spent probably a half hour staring at the character creator in awe at just how awful the races are. You've got your normal boring humans, Generally tit-tastic castanic and pretty boy male castanic with an 18-pack, giant rock beast motherfucker, pandas (which I looked it and was instantly reminded of the cutesy annoying animal ferret things from Aion; recessive nightmares were triggered), Ellin, some other generic rock beast thing, and finally the emo-pretty boy with his tit-tastic significant other. I ended up picking the second generic rock/metal humanoid beast thing, which I ended up hating anyway because his hands were almost dragging on the floor.

So i'm not sure how these asians were able to get away with Elin, as they are basically a child molester/furry dream. Its seriously morally disturbing seeing these little kids run around wearing bunny ears and a cotton tail, with no pants on. How the fuck can they get away with this shit?

Anyway I get in game as a sorc and start blowing shit up. Then I realize i can't fucking move while I shoot fireballs. What the fucking fuck. I have to stay rooted while I shoot everything. This "action" mmo just turned into something far less awesome, and i'm only level one. I can't fathom how they wanted to go full action and not have moving while shooting. I think I had more fun playing Dragon Nest.

The second turn off was the generic old school MMO quest system. Seriously disappointed that they went this route. Not only is it old and boring, but having to run back breaks up the flow of me flinging fireballs at shit. Disappoint. I will say at this point though that I was in love with the graphics. TERA is truly gorgeous, and that was apparently without HD textures. So I reach a point where I come up to this dude for the main story quests, and I get this little boring cinematic where the camera zooms into this Tree eating cute little piggies, accompanied by god awful voice acting. My second recessive memory from Aion comes back to haunt me. Then I reach the tower where all the NPCs are and looked at their armor. The third recessive memory from Aion comes back to haunt me.

I got to the mission where I had to kill some rocks and they started to roll into me, and at this point I was actually happy that some mechanic needed me to think, rather then just use my jump back ability when they got close to me.

Yeah it was about there that I stopped. The horrendous asian nature just got to me at that point and I started hating it more and more with every Elin that I saw.

[Dantrag]

EVERY CHARACTER IN TOR IS A NORMAL BORING HUMAN VRUMPT.

I do have to ask though, what about the game is over exaggerated?

[Lucavi]

Its alright, Vrumpt. Everyone is a fanboy of one game and a hater of another. I don't know what MMO I'd be a fanboy of at this point, considering I can't be a fanboy of a MMO that doesn't exist(lookin' at YOU, GW2). I've seen enough of SW to know that its not my cup of tea, and that was before I saw the awesome in-motion clip of one of the Raids, with about 15 spinning lightsabers all whacking on one big boss, which got me to thinking about that awesome quote from a dev talking about how other, shitty MMOs of the past were all about 15 DPS whacking on a single big mob, but how Star Wars was gonna be ooooh so different.

I don't get swept up into hype, because I realize that every dev is a liar. Its all a bunch of PR, and its each individual's job to sort through the bullshit and find the truth within, and base their judgements on that. Based on my judgements, I could enjoy SW for awhile, but the bugs, the similarity to games in the past, and the confined nature of the game would drive me away.

Not to mention the shitty customer service.

[Meko]

Its alright, Vrumpt. Everyone is a fanboy of one game and a hater of another. I don't know what MMO I'd be a fanboy of at this point, considering I can't be a fanboy of a MMO that doesn't exist(lookin' at YOU, GW2). I've seen enough of SW to know that its not my cup of tea, and that was before I saw the awesome in-motion clip of one of the Raids, with about 15 spinning lightsabers all whacking on one big boss, which got me to thinking about that awesome quote from a dev talking about how other, shitty MMOs of the past were all about 15 DPS whacking on a single big mob, but how Star Wars was gonna be ooooh so different.

I don't get swept up into hype, because I realize that every dev is a liar. Its all a bunch of PR, and its each individual's job to sort through the bullshit and find the truth within, and base their judgements on that. Based on my judgements, I could enjoy SW for awhile, but the bugs, the similarity to games in the past, and the confined nature of the game would drive me away.

Not to mention the shitty customer service.

This.

[ringthree]

This is your senior writer:

Spoiler: show

Yeah, Bioware is totally the most innovative company ever!

They could have included Issac Asimov and Frank Herbert for the Star Wars comparison.

[vrumpt]

Just had to lol @ this



From this guy (spoilered for your convenience)

I don't see how me not liking an Asian mmo where gratuitous use of titties is everywhere and little girls wear bunny ears so grown men with a creepy furry/pedo fetish can fap to them has to do with anything here.

And ring3. I'll be the first to admit they took innovation back 5 years by putting a sub par single player game in an mmo. That's not the way to go and that's why I like gw2 so much.

[madpersian]

I think the issue is you said you couldn't get past level ten and explaining that generic looking races and the standard quest model were a reason why.

The you say swtor which features only reskinned humans for races and a generic quest model (with pretend they matter choices) is not that bad.

So Tera is so bad you can't stand more than a few hours at zero cost, while swtor is not that bad despite the $60+ cost when it has substantially more flaws (all the bugs, shitty graphics, etc).

[The Blackrose]

This is your senior writer:

Spoiler: show

A pox or two upon that bitch's house.

[Trichocyst]

Lost about 10% crit multiplier with the surge nerf. That could totally fuck up my entire play style.

[Rulke]

This is your senior writer:

Spoiler: show

Yeah, Bioware is totally the most innovative company ever!

They could have included Issac Asimov and Frank Herbert for the Star Wars comparison.

Ok, maybe I missed this on a page or two ago, but is this quote/insinuation for real? wtf?!

[madpersian]

Wait, this crazy bitch readily admits she wants to write to the lowest common denominator and hates playing video games and she's BW's head writer?!

[Intervention]

Wait, this crazy bitch readily admits she wants to write to the lowest common denominator and hates playing video games and she's BW's head writer?!

Cause her job is to write not to design games. I can imagine the accounting people at bioware give a rats about gaming. People act like she has direct control over what gets finalled into the games, I'm quite sure the directors have final say.

[samalis]

She isn't even the head writer. The only thing she wrote for TOR is 1-20 smuggler class quest. She is pretty retarded though but she definitely isn't BW's head writer. I have no idea what she did for DA2, didn't touch that game.

[vrumpt]

I think the issue is you said you couldn't get past level ten and explaining that generic looking races and the standard quest model were a reason why.

The you say swtor which features only reskinned humans for races and a generic quest model (with pretend they matter choices) is not that bad.

So Tera is so bad you can't stand more than a few hours at zero cost, while swtor is not that bad despite the $60+ cost when it has substantially more flaws (all the bugs, shitty graphics, etc).

SWTOR isn't made by code stealing criminals who support child pornography. Excuse me for not jumping into the Tera circle jerk (literally and figuratively). I have some moral standards, to live up to.