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derretimos wrote:everyone is entitled to their own opinions and ideas. no need to get all hostile just because someone wants to try a game you don't like :)
There are opinions and misconceptions.

For example
nublet wrote: Im sorry pantho.. but the new star wars is run by the people who are running warhammer online... and theres already reports of even more huge cutbacks at EA... the new star wars is GOING to suck giant hairy donkey balls.
This is a misconception.
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Re: It only took 12 years... Duke Nukem Forever on 5/3

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Pantho wrote:
derretimos wrote:everyone is entitled to their own opinions and ideas. no need to get all hostile just because someone wants to try a game you don't like :)
There are opinions and misconceptions and i left out ideas because i'm a noob.

For example
nublet wrote: Im sorry pantho.. but the new star wars is run by the people who are running warhammer online... and theres already reports of even more huge cutbacks at EA... the new star wars is GOING to suck giant hairy donkey balls.
This is a misconception / ideas.
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Re: Bitching at WAR and Weird Pot Shots at SWTOR

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Certainly isnt uncommon to reasign the lead members of a dev team some time after a game has launched.
Yup. After launch you don't need nearly the same amount of to maintain a game as you do to build it from scratch. The game is often left in the hands of the "Live Team" which are usual not the same people that made it.
You might expect that the people who spent five years making the game would be excited to run it after it ships. Turns out, not really. After five years of working on the same project, they’re so sick of it they never want to work on it again. They want it to be in good hands, certainly. And they want to have some oversight to keep people from damaging their vision of how the game should run. But they sure as hell don’t want to have to do that tedious maintenance stuff themselves. So companies tend to pull the experienced staff off of the live game pretty quickly, leaving behind junior people.
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Re: Bitching at WAR and Weird Pot Shots at SWTOR

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Oh solid.. yes they released major content in november.. which everybody hates and wishes they would undo and included making people pay $20 to transfer 1 character to another server and a $20 pack which increased the level cap in a game which already had a HUGE power gap thus making things a billion times worse. So basically yet they added content in november.. and since then everybodys been screaming for them to remove all of it
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Re: Bitching at WAR and Weird Pot Shots at SWTOR

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and lets not forget, EA makes madden and most of all the other top sports games on the market. those are the games most people think of when u say EA, not some mmorpg. so eliminating EA from the equation would result in alot of unhappy sports game players. :mrgreen:
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Re: Bitching at WAR and Weird Pot Shots at SWTOR

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mace wrote:and lets not forget, EA makes madden and most of all the other top sports games on the market. those are the games most people think of when u say EA, not some mmorpg. so eliminating EA from the equation would result in alot of unhappy sports game players. :mrgreen:
EA sports is the one of the few things they run directly. And it shows, the whole thing with cutting online support for old titles when new ones come out is classic EA evil. The vast majority of what EA puts out is good though. EA owns some of the best studios around, and they put out some of the best games on the market. Regardless of what you might think of their business practice there is no reason that EA involvement would indicate a lack of quality.
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Re: Bitching at WAR and Weird Pot Shots at SWTOR

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It does from what iv seen, when it comes to MMOs anyway, WAR was shoddy and swtor is looking very shoddy as well
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Re: Bitching at WAR and Weird Pot Shots at SWTOR

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war-barney wrote:It does from what iv seen, when it comes to MMOs anyway, WAR was shoddy and swtor is looking very shoddy as well
How is swtor looking shoddy? We won't know until it's out or you've tested it. I can't see how you can claim swtor is looking shoddy.

Didn't we already agree that WAR & SWTOR are made by different studios?
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Re: Bitching at WAR and Weird Pot Shots at SWTOR

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Cos iv seen some footage of it which looked god awful, a bit like an old ps1 game and mostly seems to be a complete copy of the old failed one. Not to mention the share holders seem to be counting on swtor failing...
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war-barney wrote:Cos iv seen some footage of it which looked god awful, a bit like an old ps1 game and mostly seems to be a complete copy of the old failed one. Not to mention the share holders seem to be counting on swtor failing...
I played Galaxies when it first came out, can't say I've noticed many similarities at all. Which by the way was a great game at launch and was spoiled with updates.

Share holders are counting on a game they would make money off to fail? Source?
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Re: Bitching at WAR and Weird Pot Shots at SWTOR

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war-barney wrote:http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/3260 ... _SWTOR.php

Was investors i meant
Sounds like there just looking at figures and are hating that it's not Free2Play. I hate Free2Play myself, but that's another story. I don't see why the investors should be so worried, the sheer title itself will cause massive sales. I can't see them making a loss from SWTOR.
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Re: Bitching at WAR and Weird Pot Shots at SWTOR

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The title of warhammer brought with it a LOT of players who loved the game, and in fact they are about the only ones still giving it a chance despite its many failings. people mite sub to start with cos of the name but if its not good then like warhammer they will loose them all in a couple of moths
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