Episode 19 - 'The Hype Train' of the Darth Hater podcast is now up for stream and download. Check the bottom of the post for the stream and download links. Podcast notes after the jump.
Intro
Justin Lowe - Sado - @realdarthhater
Pete Trerice - Misenus - @petetrerice
Sleeper - @dhsleeper
Segments
Hint of Star Wars: The Old Republic Release Date?
Comments from the community on the story
Fan Friday, Developer Corner, and Threat of Peace Today
Community Polls
Was the target release date window what you expected it to be?
Now that the target release date window is known, which update do you think would most bring attention back to the game?
Comments from the community on the polls
Voicemail Line
Dediere said: What planets would the Darth Hater team like to see in Star Wars: The Old Republic
Stignos said: The forum outrage about the target release date window has gotten out of hand. Bioware never talked about a release date until now and those that expected them to release it earlier than when they stated should be more disappointed in themselves rather than Bioware.
Anonymous said: Any idea on the Sith clubs (Cantinas) that were shown in the Dromund Kaas concept art.
Intro
Justin Lowe - Sado - @realdarthhater
Pete Trerice - Misenus - @petetrerice
Sleeper - @dhsleeper
Segments
Hint of Star Wars: The Old Republic Release Date?
Comments from the community on the story
- Gudatron said: Hopefully the hype doesnt fade for this game, If Bioware can keep us interested for another year by dangling them carrots. I dont want the most anticipated game slipping off my radar cause i get bored waiting around.
- Boza said: If I had to choose a word to describe my feelings, it would have to be deflated.
- Hives said: With so small amount of information about TOR I havent expected it to be released in 2010. I think that all that stuff we know nothing of is still in PvP, crafting, space combat etc.
- hobowan said: Will this affect Darth Haters work? I would not know why, but DH's activity seemed to be pretty strong in the last few months, so i think they planned on an earlier release. Do you plan to keep up doing weekly podcasts and what not for more than an entire year from now on?
- JediCosmin said: Not sure what to feel at the moment. First of all I'm finally happy that they announced a scheduled period for the release, but I am a bit disappointed of it being another year.However, Sean did say that they will have a lot of surprises for us, and as the year will go by, fans will get even more and more hyped until the moment of truth. I guess we should also be looking forward to the several events in which they will participate.
Fan Friday, Developer Corner, and Threat of Peace Today
Community Polls
Was the target release date window what you expected it to be?
- No (73%, 322 Votes)
- Yes (27%, 121 Votes)
Now that the target release date window is known, which update do you think would most bring attention back to the game?
- 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)
Comments from the community on the polls
- Pinio said: In Making of Coruscant dev diary video, one from BW said that we can go to the highest level and watch sunset. If this wasn't metaphore that could mean BW implement day-night cycles (hard to expect that there is permanent sunset). Follow up to Hobowan's comment
- Heybarn said: I voted for 'Gameplay reveal' as I like to analyze and talk about class talents and skills, strengths and weakness plus what possible builds works best (or general talent tree choices). A testing phase start date would also really help make it kinda feel like it's all moving forward and bring back the excitement of possibly seeing the game in action and giving input.
- Remlish said: I think that not knowing the release window yet helped keep the hype juices flowing. Game Testing announcements might help a little, but since the majority of the community will not get the opportunity to participate within the next year if at all I hope Bioware has a few tricks up their sleeves.
- Pangscar said: Not really buying into the whole 'BioWare needs to do something big' to keep the hype or interest going sentiment. Throughout the development process it's natural for the interest or hype to ebb and flow. Also 99% of the hype is community generated. All BioWare has to do is keep the same pace of updates and info and when the game gets closer to launch I guarantee the hype will be at an all time high. All the naysayers and doom bringers will be back as fast as they left.
Voicemail Line
Dediere said: What planets would the Darth Hater team like to see in Star Wars: The Old Republic
Stignos said: The forum outrage about the target release date window has gotten out of hand. Bioware never talked about a release date until now and those that expected them to release it earlier than when they stated should be more disappointed in themselves rather than Bioware.
Anonymous said: Any idea on the Sith clubs (Cantinas) that were shown in the Dromund Kaas concept art.
Comments
I hope the web comic is hinting at faction switching or maybe even cross faction grouping. The Wookiee bounty hunter with the republic and now Satele possibly on her way to joining the empire.
More worrying than this is the expectations players have for the game now a Spring 2011 release date is know. More and more people think that this release date means the game will be bug free, perfect, include elements in the format they want and of course include space. We have no way of knowing that the added time will bring this to frutition. If we look at WAR, a game many mistakenly believe was rushed out to beat the WOW expansion we see this is the opposite to what people are hoping for. WAR was delayed multiple times and the beta went on for a year. And then we saw classes removed, cities removed and a dev team that either weren't able to make necessary changes to the game in time or not interested in doing so.
By having the player base wait an extended period of time and building hype as they did at E3 2009 long before the game was planed for a release. They risk creating such expectations that they can not deliever and after waiting that length of time for a game that doesn't meet the gamers expectation in 2011. And having already waited 3 and a bit years since the official launch players are unwilling to give the development team more time to get things right.
There is still sooooo much more they can talk about, i think the hype won't die anytime soon.
"Sa-teel" just doesn't click in my mind.
Its no Star Wars but it is fun in the meen time.
http://paralleluniverse.msn.com/features/movies/the-wrap/george-lucas-starwars-3d/story/?Gt1=28140
Look at AION with a good size budget,that game was out for like 6-8 months in asia and they still couldn't pull off a perfect launch.
i personally think they gave us a lot of planet updates...so that now...they can come up with some real great stuff to keep us focused.
As far as fewer on the forum: Good. If I see another tired-ass thread on Microtransactions or Endgame Raiding I'm gonna /writs. We need veteran blood.
Thanks for another great podcast Haters, Re-Tweeted and Up on my facebook, as always.
p.s:it's "fora" not "forums" please don't kill Latin:)