Most of us could invest all the free time we wanted into raiding in WoW and we wouldn't see a heroic Deathwing kill until they nerfed the difficulty down to our level. You may like to think that MMOs are somehow different than any other game, they are not though.
Nonsense. Given enough time even the worst players will beat any content. Also, given enough time you WILL develop skills. Skills are learned, nobody is born a master video game player. There are differences in learning speed and absolute potential, but no blizzard encounter is hard enough to be limited by natural potential.
Lol, I didn't even know SWTOR launched.
This, but then again once I hear "MMO" my interest meter drops to about 3/10, and the 3 is just to keep up with what's going on. There may come a day with a game so good, so awesome, so amazingly brilliant that it could compel me to pay a monthly subscription. Unfortunately I doubt such a game could exist on current technology.
In the meantime I'll enjoy about 40 hours of gameplay (per playthrough) on the Witcher 2; with relatively minimal grind, adult plot, intelligent gameplay, beautiful graphics, better voice acting, sex, and overall higher production values.
Having played both, besides nudity, there's more sex in TOR and the voice acting is much better in TOR as well. The graphics in the Witcher 2 however are much better.
Skyrim is still way better than W2 though.
You are missing the point. The point is that he COULDN'T invest enough time, until Blizzard made is easier.
Some people are only willing to put in so much time, so the highest level of content will never be reached by them. Which I think is fine.
The problem is that the people who only put in an hour a day still want to feel like they are the best (for some reason...it didn't used to be like this). TOR's solution is to make it super easy to max level and other things. This hurts the 'hardcore' crowd though.
Subscribers are dropping fast. EA and Bioware are desperate to keep them, but the crappy testing, customer support, and game mechanics are driving customers away.
Even selling 2 million boxed copies isn't enough to recoup the losses from making the game. The only way to do that is to keep a lot of subscribers for a good amount of time. But the way things are looking, this is going the way of warhammer where everyone will be gone in a few months.
Remember
We all know what happened with AoC and Warhammer.
And then the shenanigans and crazy things that happen in the forums! EA/Bioware hide the cancellation button the day before free month ends? And then close threads and warn thread-makers that try to show people where it is? Not to mention that any constructive criticism of the game is met with "stop playing then" or "go bk2 WoW".
I think the most fascinating thing about that chart is EVE online started off slow and continues to gain subs.
So SWTOR has several-minute long sex cutscenes with full nudity, and a part where, during a critical quest, you just happen to walk in on a full-blown dominatrix scene and the characters are all hilariously chill about it? Quality over quantity my friend. And voice acting is relatively subjective I guess.
And haven't played Skyrim, but it's on my to-buy list.
One thing I always liked about EVE was that everyone played in the same world.
You can't trust EVE numbers though. I wouldn't be surprised if the average EVE player has 3 separate accounts.
There's plenty of porn out there if that's what you want. I already stated besides the nudity. Play the Imperial Agent and you get to bang about every female character you come across.
And if the domination thing is your bit, you get a little slave girl that you can shock if she's a bad girl... :whiste:
And none of the sex scenes in W2 are a few minutes. The Witcher doesn't have that kind of stamina. :awe:
Probably, I have two. But the game is a niche market that has been growing its sub base over the course of its lifetime. It didnt spike to 1 million subs day 1 and go into free fall on day 2.
Having played both, besides nudity, there's more sex in TOR and the voice acting is much better in TOR as well. The graphics in the Witcher 2 however are much better..
Just one comment/question and yes I do still like the game. As long as I'm having fun, I will play, when it stops, I'll leave
My question is where are the hard numbers on copies sold, current subs and lost subs?
I see a lot of anecdotal," game suck", "I, we , they quit" "my server is mt", "game x is now more populated" etc posts here and on the SWTOR forums but no hard numbers.
Anyone?
See my bold in your quote above. Any hard numbers or just your opinion?
Forgive me if I withhold judgement until I see sources for those charts.
TOR doesn't even have good voice acting. British accent != good voice acting. Every voice in TOR is mediocre, probably because they have so much VA. Voices in the W2 were much better, especially in Polish.
Also the sex in TOR doesn't count. It is simply a innuendo followed by a black screen.
"Hey..wanna...you know?"
"Ok"
*cut to black screen*
"Well that was fun!"
The whole aspect stinks of immaturity. It serves no point, really. It would be better if they just left that part out.
You do understand that TW2 was a closed-environment game that only has maybe 1% of the story that TOR has, right? That's like asking a TV show to have better production-quality than a 100-minute $300 million doller blockbuster.
I liked TW2, but comparing the two games is rediculous, at best.
Play it, pay the fee, and stop paying when your done
One thing I always liked about EVE was that everyone played in the same world.
You can't trust EVE numbers though. I wouldn't be surprised if the average EVE player has 3 separate accounts.
haha, i was just going to say I bet most eve players have multiple accounts because it would be too boring to just play 1.
the other thing also is that eve's leveling system is real-time based. you can't go in and grind on 1000 orcs to level up a skill, you have to wait days, weeks, or months to level up a skill.
haha, i was just going to say I bet most eve players have multiple accounts because it would be too boring to just play 1.
the other thing also is that eve's leveling system is real-time based. you can't go in and grind on 1000 orcs to level up a skill, you have to wait days, weeks, or months to level up a skill.