If you don't like MMOs, you won't like SWTOR, if you do - this could be the game we have all been waiting for.haberman13
Or how about "If you liked MMOs but got sick of them as the genre grew stagnant and failed to evolve, you won't like SW:ToR because it does nothing new or interesting".
[QUOTE="Treflis"]If Star Wars the Old republic is a clone of WoW then those who are fans of Star Wars, wouldn't they rather play a game with that setting? Because from what you're saying is that the only difference is the setting and that's it. So why wouldn't this be just as succesful as WoW if it's so identical as you say it is? I'm fairly certain there are more Star Wars fans then Warcraft fans. Because the type of people who like Star Wars aren't necessarily the type of people who like WoW-style gameplay. WoW with a Star Wars skin will not necessarily appeal to the average Star Wars fan, which is why I said the game is only likely to attract die-hards who will play anything that says "Star Wars" on the box. There is definitely a big market for an immersive, deep, interesting, involving Star Wars MMO, but it doesn't look like Bioware is interested in making it.
If you think there are less then 200k die hard Star Wars fans in the world then you'll be in for a shock.Treflis
I didn't say there were less than 200k die-hard Star Wars fans in the world. I said that less than 200k people will be playing TOR after a year. Or do you expect everyone who likes Star Wars to carry on playing the millionth WoW-alike for a whole year despite the game doing nothing new or interesting?
How many WoW-alike MMOs need to fail hard before publishers realise that copying WoW is not their ticket to riches?
And whoop-de-doo! This will be fully voiced! That's gonna get old after about an hour of waiting for NPCs to blurt out text that you could have read in half the time.
This will be popular among kids who never played an MMO before and die-hard Star Wars fans, and that's it.
I predict it'll have less than 200K subs within a year.
[QUOTE="Wasdie"]Anyone who thinks what Realtime Worlds is doing is wrong clearly doesn't understand the difference between a MMO and any other genre. Mystic-G
I think MMO reviews should be redone - say every six months - to keep people up to date on improvements and changes, but since they're all available to buy and play on day one it's important that reviews reflect the state of the game at release. If the review is bad, gamers are smart enough to know to avoid the game but not to write it off permantly.
Reviewers shouldn't be forced or cajoled into reviewing games when it suits the developers... Ever. To insist that this is sensible practice is just utter lunacy.
Or it is an MMO and is going to have a lot of real big problems the first few days that will really look negative.
MMOs shouldn't be reviewed until at least 1-2 months have passed. They are such large games it is unfair to judge them by their launch and their low-level content.
Wasdie
Fair point, but wasn't it always up to the reviewers themselves to make the decision on how long to wait? The fact that RTW are trying to force reviewers to wait until 10 days after release just makes it look like they're not confident in their product, which makes sense since the consensus seems to be that it isn't good.
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