Post by Steve Farrelly @ 04:38pm 11/09/12 | 22 Comments
"We’re committed to: about every six weeks, doing a major update for the game -- which would be a new Warzone, a new Operation, a new Flashpoint, a new event -- and to doing that on a really frequent cadence, every six weeks. So we’re going to stick to that," Bromberg told us regarding the team's plans moving forward.
"As well as the free-to-play launch -- which is coming in the fall -- we announced that subscribers who have lapsed are already qualified to get Cartel Coins, which will be the in-game currency in the game once free-to-play launches," he added of bringing back lost players. "So you get credit, not just for becoming a subscriber now, going forward, but also for all the time that you were a subscriber, you get more credits and more coin. So we’re hoping that that will encourage people to come back to the game and try it now."
The rest of the interview talks about free-to-play hurdles, the current vibe out at BioWare and hints at new developments on the horizon.
Click here for the full video interview and transcript.
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Posted 05:01pm 11/9/12
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Posted 05:36pm 11/9/12
And nothing they're adding is really enough to keep me occupied enough long term to have me consider going back to it. Hopefully they're working on a big expansion or something that has a tonne of new content, I'd come back to it for that.
Posted 05:55pm 11/9/12
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Posted 08:43pm 11/9/12
The world design just blows a big one, especially for an mmo. It's just a series of mission spaces which you will never ever return to, and could be a procedurally generated set of hallways for all that I can tell. There's nowhere interesting or memorable, it's just tents with droids and mission givers in slightly different biome themes depending on the planet. No memorable towns/cities/landmarks/vistas/etc, just flat rat-maze right angled paths, quest hubs, slow ass speeders getting around and if you try to go off the path, you're generally f***ed by the terrain and mobs. And as I mentioned, the hubs blow a big one.
And who the hell builds all these giant walls which players have to spend ages backtracking around, and amazing paths with street lamps and all, which only ever lead to more tents? It's like the entire galaxy lives in war tents and has no actual buildings.
Still a very good game, but piss poor world building. The only thing I remember about each planet aside from the story, was whether or not it had visual lag.
Posted 06:38pm 11/9/12
Posted 06:44pm 11/9/12
The big problem for me though, as in cataclysmically big, the space combat blew it was not very fun and required not a great deal of skill. I hope they do a JTLS style expansion for space, as that was the best part of SWG for me.
Posted 07:33pm 11/9/12
vs
If you stare you eventually realise that there are walls on the map, endless walls around the road which they never want you to go off... All leading to just more tents...
Balmorra and Voss were pretty decent.
Posted 08:36pm 11/9/12
Main thing for me tho was the lame space element, its star wars ffs and you give me an arcade game I could play on my phone?
Posted 09:05pm 11/9/12
I don't know why but every time they release a new game I'm surprised to still see the overly restrictive maps as though for some reason I just assume that they would have noticed how bad they were in the last game and fixed it for the next.
Posted 09:15pm 11/9/12
Still a f*****g awesome game though, for the usual bioware reasons. The classes which I've tried are awesome too, tons of abilities to use in interesting rotations. The gameplay somehow feels more repetitive than WoW though, it's just either kill a pack of weak mobs, a weak mob and a silver difficulty mob, or an elite mob, over and over, which you can always deal with. There's seemingly no quests except kill your way through a s***load of stuff quests, and very little goofy/fun stuff.
Then because of the constrictive hallway pathway nature of it (every cave is just a winding linear path) you have to fight your way back out through all the same spawns after talking to somebody at the end of the cave (had to go through the same long hallway cave both ways twice for one quest, but want to see this story ended dammit).
Posted 09:37pm 11/9/12
Posted 09:49pm 11/9/12
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Posted 12:11am 12/9/12
In other unrelated MMO news, played some Secret World tonight during WoW maintenance and holy s***, its completely dead, and I'm on one of the busiest servers too (or at least, it was at launch). Same deal as ToR though, fun game, just not enough to do. They probably should have looked at a free to play model right from the start imo, because they didn't really have the content to keep people subscribed long-term.
Posted 10:02am 12/9/12
Posted 10:04am 12/9/12
Haha, you out?
Posted 10:26am 12/9/12
yeah i have to agree, i really liked nar shaddaa but i think they could have done more with it.
Posted 10:59pm 12/9/12
Just a friendly language tip Steve: "moving forward" means nothing when used this way. It's just business world weasel words to try and make something sound like it's "being actioned".
If you try the same sentence without those words, you'll see what I mean: "and what the team plans to do with their new free-to-play model." Same meaning, less words, less bulls***. ;)
Anyway, thanks for the report.
Posted 11:31pm 12/9/12
Nah I'm still floating around. Just jealous that Ausgamers has never interviewed me! I guess they don't realize how important I am ... oh wait, on second thoughts seems like they know exactly how important I am.
Posted 11:33pm 12/9/12