Star Wars: The Old Republic Random Question/Discussion thread - F2P

[Alderaan]

here is the short version:

• It is more or less like WoW w/the main difference being that it is extremely heavily story focused. The story is a good thing, but it gets to the point where a good deal of stuff doesn't need to have such a story focus... I mean do you really want to listen to 5-10 minutes of dialogue for a regular quest when it ends with you killing 10 of w/e mob or gathering 20 things.

• Some story elements are very strong and overall its a plus.

• Flashpoints are fun at first, but doing group flashpoint instances over and over again for grinding dungeons just makes em take longer. Have you done a WoW RP instance? How long did it take for you to wish you could skip all that RP and finish said instances 10 minutes faster. Don't get me wrong, its a blast the first few times you do an instance... but then you just press enter over and over again to skip everything yet still have to afk for 5 minutes because of that one person who wants to listen to it all. And trust me, there is a LOT of RP in every instance.

• While awesome deflecting stuff w/ a lightsaber, combat is still rather clunky and stiff.

• While its awesome to have giant landscapes that remind you of XI awesomeness, map UI is terrible and makes it hard to find anything in cities. Literally, you get a quest to talk to somebody in a city, then spend the next 15 minutes running across the city to talk to the next npc... then going outside of the city to kill 10 mobs... to only need to run, once back in the city, another 15 minutes to talk to the npc to turn it in.

• The best way to put things into perspective is that it overall has the flow of an offline Bioware RPG. In DA/MA/ect... spending 30 minutes to 2 hours running around a town to talk to ppl is fine. But in a mmo it feels out of place. But that's what happens in the game... you often spend more time talking to ppl and traveling then killing mobs (least once you get out of the noob island).

• While alts seem like it would be perfect for all the different stories. Outside of the noob island, 90% of the progression is the same outside of the main mission quests. So you will be wanting to skip 90% of the conversations.

• the game does a good job of immersion because of all the story elements. But repeating all that stuff or grinding instances gets really boring. It's just not very different then what is already out there outside of the story focus and the Star Wars universe. It's fun to level in since you can basically treat it as any offline Bioware RPG, but at the end of the day your gonna be left w/ the typical Raid/instance/BG PvP/World PvP area grind. In that respect it doesn't try to differ from the already very generic mold of stuff.


there is more but that should give you an idea

Pretty much sums up how i feel. I'm really enjoying the story aspect and absolutely love the large scale of the worlds. My biggest gripe at the moment is trying to do instances with friends and the amount of time it takes to group up if everyone is on separate worlds. I can't imagine trying to organize a pug for these.

[Zerocool]

Well, at the very least it will be something to play until GW2 and D3 come out next year. And at best, it is an MMO, so things can still be added and changed.

[Man0warr]

So you mean Bioware can be lazy where every other mmo w/ multiple races isn't? And your argument is it allows em to spend more time on other stuff... really? You really gotta find better ways to defend the game.

When every race in a good looks the exact same outside the little "addons" each race gets.. thats just plain lazy and boring. It's boring that every race looks like a human and no race has a unique figure

Do you know of an MMO that uses non humanoid playable races? What other races did you want them to use exactly? Anything non humanoid that can't wear armor or wield weapons just doesn't fit in an MMO, even if it is Star Wars.

[Ohemgee]

http://www.istaria.com/Play_as_a_Dra...G_Istaria.html

[jmc]

Did anyone get a email about doing a survey, asking you to answer questions about how you enjoyed the different phases of the beta?

I just received one asking me to answer some questions............. only problem is, I never got a invite for any of the beta phases. lol

[Vandole]

did everyone get this email? cause i never got a beta invite.

[Insanecyclone]

Got it but no beta invite.

[Eanae]

Bug in the system, looks like they sent it to everyone who opted into beta and not just the testers. Whoops!

[jmc]

lol, figures

[Nitrous24]

yea i got it as well. now the site is down from the traffic of everyone that did get it lol... Bioware trolled me /rage

[Doombear]

Got it but no beta invite.

Same here. JERKS! Learn to eMarket!

[EternityEnd]

I got that email and was incredibly confused. lol

[Agito]

Fuckers, i don't want to trudge through the thick mud that is shitty drawn out story coupled with horrible voice acting anyway.

[vrumpt]

Yeah those emails were a mistake

http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=514549

Earlier today, two e-mails were sent to members of the Star Wars: The Old Republic community. These e-mails were sent to a larger group than intended, and have caused some confusion in the community. We can confirm that these e-mails were from EA and BioWare and apologize for any confusion they have caused. Please note that receiving these e-mails does not affect your chances to be invited to test the game. Thank you all for your understanding!

meh.

[Insanecyclone]

How about giving us a fucking invite as redemption.

[Gokulo]

I actually heard that a new wave of invites went out actually.

[Bombur]

I herd someone hit the wrong button and sent out the beta survey to people not in beta...woops..lol

People were so confused that they went to the main website and I herd it got shut down from all the people trying to access it all at once. Man Dec.20 is gonna be a nightmare.

[Draylo]

Yeah... I got the email too and was like wtf. Gimme an invite

[Hyan]

there's no blue mage in this game, why did you even apply in the first place

[DeathbySnoosnoo]

Do you know of an MMO that uses non humanoid playable races? What other races did you want them to use exactly? Anything non humanoid that can't wear armor or wield weapons just doesn't fit in an MMO, even if it is Star Wars.

world of warcraft.....