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coming back to WOW after playing old republic..
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here are my views on the game for anyone interested in playing it:
Star wars the old republic is a very well polished game with an epic story line that engages you into your own universe. You learn alot more about the story than WOW ever tried to deliver (thats understandable) The gameplay, even tho there are 6 talent trees per each class seems just as boring as WOWs solo/grinding play. The only thing that keeps you going with the old republic is the story. But when that story ends... then what? no end game content hardly.. people have just stopped playing once they play it. In my honest opinion if your looking for change, dont go to star wars the old republic. the average person is alot more comfortable with WOW. Maybe one day an MMO will come along with a whole new change... and throw us off our !@#. But until that day, wow is fine and had alot of experience with its fanbase and in-game problems. Where star wars the old republic is starting out fresh, the only problem is they havnt give any innovation apart from the story line which immerses you.. fantastic. At the end of the day you are playing a game, not watching a movie as its cool to have this mechanic i dont feel it shouldve been a wow clone with this added innovation. anyway "cool story bro" |
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I don't think people really cares anymore.
No offence, but there has been a lot ... a lot of threads regarding people coming back from SW;TOR. Personally I havn't tried it, simply because I'm not interested. But I do think that if people want to try it out, they won't listen to some random guy on a WoW forum. Let people see for themselves. - And if you are trying to start a discussion on the forum, please do that in one of the billion threads regarding this matter :) - As for the game being boring end game, in all fairness, SW;TOR is still pretty new. And no new MMO will ever be able to compete with an old and popular game as WoW. Just sayin' |
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I'm just telling it from my perspective a random wow player who has tried the old republic...
Some poor consumer may be mislead into the marketing heat as was i. |
I disagree with this bit. SWTOR is only in it's early stages, and as can be expected it has some pretty major bugs in hit. I know they are working to fix them, but I don't think it feels as well polished as WoW. Also, it requires higher specs than WoW. My laptop runs wow fine, about 40 fps out in the world, but in SWTOR I had some framrate lag in all the inside places, and found the imperial fleet very hard to use. Bear in mind I met nearly all the recomended settings, and exceeded all the minimum ones and had my settings turned down to the lowest, but it still did not run smoothly. On the other hand, this thread probably does belong on the SWTOR forums. |
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I am sorry but it is still a new game. After reading some of the content notes for up coming patches it looks like its getting better. Yes it does feel like we are paying a sub to beta test but if it works uot in the long run , im sure people will be happy.
Performance issues are losing them huge numbers, even on good machines the game can lag something awful due to i think no memory dump. You are correct, the story line ends very sharpish. I remember getting to 50, having great fun in the love triangle with vette and jaesa but then after I picked vette over jaesa and she cursed us, nothing...I was hoping to contine the story but maybe that will happen later... I would urge people to either give it a try or wait a bit to see if they improve the game rather than write it off so soon. Personally i think that MoP has to be like a whole new game to keep WoW alive, I cannot even bear to log in for more than 5 minutes atm, teh raiding content is so boring I gave up on it after clearing normal |
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Edited by Elldorff on 18/02/12 13:40 (UTC)
Its not polished at all , still to early to pass any constructive for or against .
But pvp is rubbish as you can't yet clip any of your abilitys . |
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You cant make the excuse that its new, we've seen time and again if you blow the launch its a matter of when not if you go the fremium route.
Laggy UI makes the PvE annoying, the PvP is unbalanced and there's no end game which all means people wont stay past their free month, given that they needed to keep all 2 million people who bought the game for 2 years in order to cover dev costs alone its hard to call this a great launch. But sadly people wont learn from this more than any other time and they'll still rush to call the next MMO to come out a wow killer. |
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Welcome back, I say.
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I will admit WoW is considerably more polished than ToR at the moment.
That said, ToR has no cross realm crap so i actually know people on my server. That alone is enough for ToR to currently have the edge over WoW for me, and as it seems WoW developers care less and less about the game the ToR developers seem to be actually interested in what they are doing and currently have not done anything as monumentally stupid as blizzard have. But, thats my viewpoint, personally the community feeling in ToR more than makes up for the technical shortcomings. |
This was present in the start of WoW too, even up until the end of TBC (for my server atleast) it was present. It is just something normal for MMORPG's starting up, and will eventually die out.
This, the only thing that will kill WoW it itself, and the developers are doing a damn good job of it right now. |
Nope, you really can't. "TOR is really not a very good game, it's missing lots of the core elements that WoW has." "Hey! WoW has had 7 years to develop, at the start it sucked too!" "Yes, it did. So you're saying that Bioware has not bothered to learn any lessons from how WoW has evolved?" |
I'm just telling it from my perspective a random wow player who has tried the old republic... thats your own fault, swtor has many issues to sort out that all new mmo's have to go through. they can't just up and copy what another game does and sit back and say job well done they have to make changes and see what works for their own game. swtor never once declared to be a replacment for wow either, it was forums like this or on other sites that claimed it would be the next wow killer blah blah what they did offer was a different way to play through an mmo game with more focus on story. this is one hell of a stupid debate let swtor be swtor and wow be wow. |
here are my views on the game for anyone interested in playing it: Big load of bull there. Well polished? That game should still be in mid beta. The only polished thing there are the custcenes and voiceovers. The rest is a mess. Don't lie to the people here. SWTOR won't be a good MMO, EA has no talent at making and mentaining MMOs. If you like it good for you but don't pretend it's more than it really is. |
This was present in the start of WoW too, even up until the end of TBC (for my server atleast) it was present. To be honest, considering wow had been going for at least 3 (or more? my memory sucks) years before the community feeling was beaten out of the game i wouldn't say its just "something new MMO's have", its more "Something MMO's have until they introduce cross realm crap". And with ToR the developers have other options if queue times really get annoying.
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Enlighten me on how Blizzard had any talent/experience at making and maintaining an MMO before WoW. That's right, they didn't. |
the other thing to remember here is that blizzard did not expect wow to do as well as it did, it went against everything for no real reason, they themselves openly admit that. they don't even know if they will be able to do it again with another title, so lets say project titan comes and completly flops, will we say blizzard has no experience? or will we finally realise the mmo market is one difficult nut to actually crack. |
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Edited by Draugathiel on 19/02/12 11:13 (UTC)
Guys guys guys.. Even if TOR was a decent MMO, and in fact was better than WoW I still would never leave WoW for TOR because of one simple fact, EA's customer support service.
They first need to stop out-sourcing their customer support. Based on my experience, and I have a lot of experience in that regard, their support service just sucks. Every time I have an issue they either tell me to re-install the game, or they'll give me a new serial key and then tell me to re-install the game. I had tons of troubles with them with my BF2, BFBC2, Mass Effect and ME2, FIFA 11 and 12 and of course SW:TOR during their public stress testings. Support is one of the 1st two factors I consider before I blindly step into a product of advertisement scheme. PS: Yes you too Call of Duty, you too. |
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For me its more a matter of preferring the fantasy genre. The only sci-fi I've ever really enjoyed was the Dune chronicles (books) by Frank Herbert. |
Well, yeah personal preference is the main thing, though I love equally both genre. Yet, when you're planning to play a game for a long time there are going to be issues and technical difficulties and Blizzard were always a strong force in this territory. I played a lot of games, a good number of them MMORPGs of many kind, but my good experiences were only with those titles that handled my tickets as soon as they could and as best as they could, like EVE and GW. I hope you never have to deal with EA support in your life. on an off topic note, Dune is great, pity it's left on the side and gathering dust, no one really did anything with Dune universe, I'd really like to see that. |
