Hopefully SWTOR learns from this launch! (was game=268)Follow

Thanks to this game, I will never criticize another launch delay ever again. XD I do think this game has potential to be a good game someday, but it wont be any time in the next 6+ months.

I have been looking forward to this game and SWTOR for years. After wasting my money on this game, all I can do now is hope for a clean SWTOR launch. No MMORPG will be perfectly polished, but it should at least be fun!

I'll come back to this game after the first expansion/console launched, assuming they fix... everything. If SWTOR comes out and is really awesome though, SE will lose a paying customer.

Edited, Oct 12th 2010 10:08pm by Velgauder

Because posting here is more fun than playing this game. :P Sad, but true.

Mostly, just to talk about SWTOR with the FF community, who are mostly cool peeps. I'm wondering if any other people who wasted their money on this beta, are now looking at SWTOR to show the MMO world how you launch a game.

Why do you ask questions when you don't even care about the answer? You are one confusing troll.

Hmmm. Agree on most points here:

Posting on these boards IS more fun the XIV.

I'm also looking forward to TOR now the XIV has failed to live up to expectations (in truth I've been following TOR since early this year but with FFXIV on the horizon, never did I think I'd seriously be considering picking it up at launch).

The only thing I'm afraid of going into it: starwars nerds (not just fans but the really hardcore one). The SWTOR forums seem to have a fair share of them. Can't put my finger on it but I get a really elitist vibe from a lot there.

I'm a bit of a Star Wars fanboy I must admit.

There is however no way in hell, that I will be playing their MMO.

The amount of sorry excuses for homosapians i'd have to associate with on that game would be mind blowing.

People think this launch was bad.. get ready to be inundated with posts of:

"OMGWTF THE JEDEYE ARE 2 POWERFOOL AND KILL MY SIFF LORD. SIFFS NEED MOAR POWARS NOW!!!!"

Edited, Oct 13th 2010 8:58am by M0RZA

And the best part is that EA gave them a lot of the developers from Warhammer Online to help. Joy

omfg!lol
dont want to spoil anything but read pls
(long text but shows expectations about swtor/bioware from a warhammer dev):

http://www.gamerevolution.com/manifesto/ea-artist-soon-to-be-laid-off-burns-ea-management-1903

There was a difference back many many years ago when the market wasnt saturated in MMOs.
Also warcraft fudges there numbers greatly on how many actual subscribers they have(about half of what they claim to have are trials and rmt). Granted they do still have alot, no denying that.

But yes, even the smoothest launches loose a ton of people now.
Gamers for MMOs especialy have put a standard so high that no one can reach it, they literaly expect all these games, at launch, to have just as much content as a game thats been out 8+ years. They expect no bugs(which even those games out 8+ years still have hundreds of). No crashes, no nothing. Hell they even complain about every little bit of maintenence.
Its just kinda sad. They want, what they have in their mind as the perfect MMO, and they expect it for every one that comes out, yet its unrealistic and wont happen.


as for SWTOR, i know alot about it that im not allowed to say, and let me just say, when it comes out, expect just as much if not more complaining then you see here. I for one will not be playing it.

Edited, Oct 13th 2010 7:53am by Vedis

Of course sweety. I bet you know where Jimmy Hoffa is burried as well, who shot J.R., and you'r really a member of a secret band of ninja assassins.

Anyhow in SWTOR standing in one spot looking at my light sabre will be 10000 times more fun than anything in FFXIV.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSqwPu6SeDY

Compare that to FFXIV leves where you kill 4 moles. And combat where you click like 1 or 2 buttons till a mob is dead. And you are fighting ladybugs and mushrooms.

I like how people think all MMO launches were rough and bad...

I was in the WoW beta, also bought the game for launch, and I seem to remember a very playable game. In fact, after spending 5 minutes in the beta, I remember saying to my friend "This game just feels natural" The movement was fluid, the story was fluid. I had a purpose, a direction, and I was shown all of the basic features... that was in BETA for god sakes. Granted, it of course had flaws, but that went down as one of the smoothest launches I have ever seen. It's no surprise to me that the game is what it is today partly due to that.

Don't take this post as me saying WoW is the best game ever, because it's not. I am simply saying that the game was polished from the start. Not nearly as polished as it is today of course, but it was polished, and it was fun. Forum trolls were few and far between.

I was there at launch too, and I do remember the loot lag. It wasn't a UI lag, the UI was also fluid and responsive. It was server lag from all of the incoming players. The beta had received such hype (mostly from being so polished) that the game was a hit from the start. They didn't have enough servers to handle the mass amounts of players. I remember it took them a few weeks to purchase some more server space and the game eventually leveled out.

It wasn't a flawless launch, but as far as MMOs go, they set the standard. FFXIV is a year behind in production. They should still be in Alpha with the state of the game like this. Instead, it was pushed to launch, and they will pay dearly for it. I do think it will get better eventually, but I think all of this negative press, will hurt it. It's an uphill battle at this point for SE.

Edited, Oct 14th 2010 12:50am by Velgauder

no ammount of helpful advice can make a star wars game fun. that franchise was tired and boring 20 years ago, give it up already.


even with perfect gameplay and a 100% smooth launch the basis of star wars is still obnoxiously boring and you'll have a thousand trekkies drooling about who gets to be a chewbacka trying to hump the cinnamon bun hairdoo princess.