Except the guy in charge of TOR has Baldur's Gate, BG2, and KOTOR on his resume.
It's hilarious how many people see this non-news as a chance to confirm their own biases. You may be right, but this rant isn't evidence.
Except the guy in charge of TOR has Baldur's Gate, BG2, and KOTOR on his resume.The problem with these companies? They put people in positions to make decisions who don't have a true love for gaming, and who's gaming resume includes some classic NES games, and one of those 500 in one arcade PC discs you can pick up for $5.
The thing is, this story sounds so absurdly plausible, and frankly, you could probably copy and paste this onto almost any failed game.
I think you may be confusing "proof" with "unsubstantiated speculation from an anonymous person on the internet." I'm pretty sure those two things aren't the same.Further proof EA is the anti-Midas.
Except the guy in charge of TOR has Baldur's Gate, BG2, and KOTOR on his resume.
Even if it does run them $300M, I still have a hard time seeing it as a flop. It's an incredibly popular, mainstream franchise coming from a renowned developer in an alive and well genre that's gained and still is gaining a lot of mainstream acceptance itself. It's not going to be WoW overnight, but neither was WoW, and with EA + Bioware behind it I sincerely doubt it's going to pull an APB on us.
To all the idiots here saying It's a Bioware game so I trust them whatever they make with their track record of ME2/ Dragon Age.
Bioware is NOT making this game. Mythic Entertainment, formerly makers of Warhammer Online, are in charge of development. Bioware's dev team in Austin, TX is focused on Mass Effect 3 and Dragon Age 2. They have their hands full. The ONLY involvement that they have in this game is that Ray Muzka the director is in charge of both studios after EA fired the director of Mythic. In addition they are coordinating voice acting work with logistical help from EA.
Do not be fooled by EA's marketing team saying Bioware is the dev team. They realize the fan support for Bioware and are simply placing the Bioware name on this game.
http://kotaku.com/5302069/ea-combines-mythic-and-bioware-into-a-giant-rpg-robot
Bioware is NOT making this game. Mythic Entertainment, formerly makers of Warhammer Online, are in charge of development. Bioware's dev team in Austin, TX is focused on Mass Effect 3 and Dragon Age 2.
But an audio book accomplishes the same thing. This is a game. If the audio is the best thing going for it, then the game itself will be a huge disappointmment.
Everyone needs to wait until we get some more footage and some reviewers get some more in-depth hands on to even TRY to pass judgment on this game.
Wrath of the Lich King got a 91- millions of users quit due to how bad it is
Unsurprisingly, you have no f'in clue what you're talking about. All of Bioware's single-player development is and always has been at their original home base in frozen Edmonton. (With some stuff now in Montreal, not Austin.) TOR was and is the only thing being done at Bio Austin, which is and always has been the only studio developing TOR.To all the idiots here saying It's a Bioware game so I trust them whatever they make with their track record of ME2/ Dragon Age.
Bioware is NOT making this game. Mythic Entertainment, formerly makers of Warhammer Online, are in charge of development. Bioware's dev team in Austin, TX is focused on Mass Effect 3 and Dragon Age 2.
i've been playing lotro for over 2 years now and barely have 1000 hours into the game. leveling is fun, good story, but once you're out of content you're just grinding the same old same old. up until they were bought by warner last year turbine added content at a fairly regular clip. but then it took almost a year between mirkwood's release and the latest "free" new zone. hopefully now that they've converted to the f2p model they'll be adding content at their old quick pace (almost to the gap of rohan, how they handle the battle of helm's deep will be interesting). they're also updating all the old raids which had been passed by the level cap to the skirmish model, so the level cap can be adjusted and you can run the old raids on-level.There are many reasons why, but you can't reasonable do a proper review on a MMO, in order to properly evaluate it you should normally have a thousand hours or more into the game. Terrible leveling but awe inspiring end game? I'd take that any day over great leveling and no end game when looking at MMOs. Don't get me wrong, I'd rather have it good all the way around, but the overwhelming majority of MMO players time is spent on end game content and very rarely do reviewers come close to reaching that point in the game before they release a review for simple real world reasons(if I run a site or print publication I can't have my guy spending two and a half months writing a review for a game that came out months ago).