**OFFICIAL** Star Wars: The Old Republic Thread

[Wordplay]

We did some PVP last night and we got smoked, obliterated twice in a row. There are clearly some skilled and well rounded guilds out there at PVP. These 'super' servers really have brought the best from each server into one. So we are playing the best of the best and we are clearly not the best.

Yep, went from being known on the server, even with recruiter gear, to getting my ass handed on a silver platter.

Very fun though.

 

[lupi]

That makes it sound like they are only leaving a couple servers up.

 

[Wordplay]

That makes it sound like they are only leaving a couple servers up.

With them upping the server caps wouldn't doubt it.

 

[darkewaffle]

They really don't need nearly as many servers as they had. I think they definitely overallocated for release.

 

[diesbudt]

They really don't need nearly as many servers as they had. I think they definitely overallocated for release.

This, and unfortunately it is a dual-edged sword.

Too little servers, then they have to work hard to make more servers as players complain that they have a que to wait in.

Too many servers, some fall by the way side having too few players per server causing server merges/transfers to bulk the population up on some servers.

 

[gothamhunter]

Has the possible f2p transition been discussed in here yet?

 

[lupi]

Just went to check and looks like east coast pvp is going from 23 servers to 2, seems pretty massive. Whether I take action or not, looks like ill be on prophecy of the five.

 

[Anomaly1964]

I had such high hopes for this game...sigh.

 

[aphelion02]

The game is still great - and will get even more fantastic with 1.3 and the move to massive servers. Mean while, congrats to Aris for hitting his personal high dps in a voidstar tonight:

 

[KentState]

The game is dead and 1.3 will only be a short term fix. I know that after 1.2, the Imp side on Shii Cho was booming and a lot of good PvP players where out. About 3 weeks later, there was barely anyone on and getting a PvP win was impossible.

 

[zinfamous]

Sounds like this is their response to GW2.

I always thought the legacy system would be their MT system, along with any content updates.

well, it's the only thing that would keep me playing. My sub is laxed, I think, while on vacation. I will renew it until GW2 is released, and then done. I have little desire to play a game that has less than half the fun factor of a game that I don't have to pay to access regularly.

If they did something like making it Free until level 15, as suggested, I think that would be a good idea--it's what got me into the game and actually convinced me to pay for a sub--this is a major coup.

F2P until "end game" is a bad idea. Being that "premium" content for this game consists of repetitive daily and FP grind for better gear to grind dailies and FP a little quicker to get better gear a ltitle quicker, to grind even quicker, to get better gear, to grind even more....no thanks. that gets old after a week.

I love this game until about level 50. Then it becomes nothing but elitist pricks judging on how geared you are. That's the WoW way, isn't it?

 

[coloumb]

Uhoh...

BioWare considering free-to-play for Star Wars: The Old Republic [Updated]

http://massively.joystiq.com/2012/0...-free-to-play-for-star-wars-the-old-republic/

 

[lupi]

Uhoh...

BioWare considering free-to-play for Star Wars: The Old Republic [Updated]

http://massively.joystiq.com/2012/0...-free-to-play-for-star-wars-the-old-republic/

first time that was mentioned!

 

[IeraseU]

Then it becomes nothing but elitist pricks judging on how geared you are. That's the WoW way, isn't it?

Yeah, pretty much why I left. Also spent way too long trying to find either a tank or healer to do FPs, because I think most people just seem to prefer playing DPS. I think the 'trilogy' thing needs to die. I am starting to believe the GW2 hype that any group of classes should be viable together.

 

[zinfamous]

Yeah, pretty much why I left. Also spent way too long trying to find either a tank or healer to do FPs, because I think most people just seem to prefer playing DPS. I think the 'trilogy' thing needs to die. I am starting to believe the GW2 hype that any group of classes should be viable together.

yup and yup! GW2 destroys it quite effectively, haha.

but my main in ToR is a tank--of coruse, I expected my class to be more along the lines of spike damage--Assassin--being, you know...what one expects something like an assassin to do. i realized soon off, though, that i'd be best off playing a sponge, and learned from others that sins are pretty much the uber tank in ToR--so I went that way.

I don't mind tanking--but i'd like to actually put out some damage, as well (like GW1 warrior can do with a mere 8 skills on a bar and standard armor).

I like playing through ToR--I like it quite a bit. But then one runs into the community, speaking charts and gear and what you must do to be "accepted" to keep doing that one thing over and over again.

This is a single player game, that should have been KoTOR3, because it simply dies when one finishes the game and starts doing this end game MMO stuff (at least with Sin, the game is entirely soloable, so no need to bother with the community)

 

[coloumb]

first time that was mentioned!

oops..didn't look at the previous page.

 

[darkewaffle]

I like playing through ToR--I like it quite a bit. But then one runs into the community, speaking charts and gear and what you must do to be "accepted" to keep doing that one thing over and over again.

It's the online gaming 'community', really no fault of the game itself. It's everywhere.

1.3 doesn't have a lot for me, though I do really appreciate the server transfers. I think with people finally being able to be around other players en masse and with the eventual growth of content the game will finally reach the more stable, mature state of WoW, FFXI, etc. I don't think it's going to have as large a user base as they may have hoped/anticipated, but it's definitely not going anywhere either.

I'm hoping once they flesh out the framework of some further game 'functions' and they get round to the rated warzones we see more balance changes, I quite enjoy the PVP in general but it's pretty slanted still lol.

 

[lupi]

Logged on yesterday to check my mail and process the transfer. Was the only char in fleet and it looked like only 25 chars on the server. Didn't find much as far as official statements about these transfers, but hope/expect them to start dumping these ghost yard servers at some point soon if all the transfer from ones are like this.

 

[Dahak]

anyone that plays on Jedi Convenant server or know some that does? just want to get a feel of how populated it is. looks like the shii-cho server characters can xfer to there, got email notification today

 

[s44]

~150 people on the Republic fleet at noon, ~250 at 6pm... at least today.

The native PvP talent doesn't seem as impressive as the imports.

 

[KentState]

My entire guild has moved over, but my sub is not currently active. Not sure if I want to pay $15 to move or just let the game die out.

 

[andylawcc]

i am on Dark Reaper and my guild just moved to the Bastion. peak hour the Imp Fleet has 300 chars. pretty good.

 

[andylawcc]

oh, curious, what happen when you transfer to another server, and there's someone else with the same character name as you do?

 

[lupi]

you have to rename when you log in

 

[Dahak]

well jumped ship, now I just got to figure a new name for my legacy, as someone already has it ...

although it is is nice to see a full fleet at the middle of the day.