It is podcast time this week, and as always, we're looking for questions from the community. This week is special community centric podcast. We are looking for comments and questions regarding the latest news about the release date. Also, if you have any Star Wars: The Old Republic or website related questions you would like to have answered on the podcast, then feel free to ask them in the comment section of this post.
This week's community poll/discussion after the jump.
Was the target release date window what you expected it to be?
Total Voters: 443
Now that the target release date window is known, which update do you think would most bring attention back to the game?
Total Voters: 441
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This week's community poll/discussion after the jump.
- No (73%, 322 Votes)
- Yes (27%, 121 Votes)
- Testing Phase reveal (55%, 243 Votes)
- Gameplay reveal (26%, 116 Votes)
- Holonet Tab reveal (10%, 45 Votes)
- Character reveal (4%, 19 Votes)
- Timeline Video (4%, 16 Votes)
- Planet reveal (1%, 2 Votes)
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Comments
Generally people hate to accepted responsibility for their actions, so they blame it on the other class that beat them.
Also unless you make the game right, which is pretty hard to do, balance in PvP never really works. You can get it the right size but it is still like trying to fit a square into a circle.
Other gameplay footage like more interaction with other players, the vastness of cities, raids, open-world content would be a lot more welcome then PvP.
Since PvP is completely optional in TOR and it is not the key aspect that drives the game I do not see them releasing to much footage on it.
Also do you really want to look at bad animations all of the time? People would be more up in arms about something that usually does not get fixed until the end of development [Animations] then being thankfully for some footage.
All in all, I'm a bit dissapointed, I'm stuck with solo games for another whole year at least... Guess I'll just have to complete Dragon Age and ME2 at 100% a couple times over, oh well.
But I'm certain the player wasn't in some sort of underground dungeon.
The upcoming release should be gameplay systems or beta. They are getting very close to the testing phase. Other times, the timeline would be nice to update more of the game's history. I am a lore guy and a pvp fighter, I like to see some balance of updates in the upcoming months. Once beta comes out, the qqing, the crying, the whinning, and so on will still rage people anyways as they are very selective about that stuff. Patience my friends. Stay positive and reach out for the game, and you will grant good luck in getting beta. :)
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Still 100% waiting for TOR and I’ll be there in 2011 without doubt. However, I’ve run outta steam to say much on the official forums now, especially with some topics making there 15th round onto the boards since the beginning… it’s a little tiresome. I check back Saturday am for the Friday updates over a hot cuppa and DH & TOROcast keep me enthusiastic with hearing other fans chatting.
But for now, feel like I need a substitute MMO to have an affair with for a year and a bit as I wait. BW have a plan, good on them, but for me the hype has gone for now – I want something like what the Deceived video did to rev me up again for 2010!
Do you think that BW knew that EA would give details on the Spring 2011? It seems like a bit of a cock-up somehow for some very important information ie one hand not knowing what the other is doing?
In the meen time you will be able to find me patrolling the boarders of Borg space....
Sto announced 7/28/08 - SWTOR announced 10/21/08
Sto Beta signups announced 10/22/09 - SWTOR "game testing" announced 9/29/09
Sto release 2/2/10 - SWTOR release " late enough in 2011 to not be included in fiscal projections"
Personally I find myself going from checking the official site forums every day to now I just have no desire to look at them and barely spend anytime at all anymore looking at SWTOR info.
IMO way to go EA for ruining the next 3-6 months of SWTOR Hype. What I really hope Bioware does is like AION did and give us a open beta like 2 weeks before release and have that last any where from 3-10 days then close everything down again, delete the characters and then have us wait 4-7 days until release to play, possibly a character name reserve type deal. Just a wish though.
In some screenshots we can see that the backround of the terrain is not made using the game engine but kinda painted. Do you think it may indicate players won't be able to run freely around a planet ?
Examples here:
http://swtor.com/media/screens/alderaan-0
http://swtor.com/news/news-article/20100115_002 (clearly visible at 8-12th second.)