Too much hassle. I think I'll just cancel and try my luck hunting for a copy at launch. Not really in any hurry to play, but it would suck to have to be locked out after I started playing because I was waiting for my copy in the mail.
Still no word on the actual game shipments and grace period. What good is early access when you get locked out after the 5 days because your preorder shipment still hasn't arrived and you haven't entered your game key.
It's the holidays too so shipping is gonna be a cluster-f***. I already feel that Bioware/EA is pulling a bit of word-play/scam here with the preorder now and "may play 5 days early" bit and a bunch of other questionable marketing moves. Their servers might be stable and ready for launch but I just hope they won't be remembered as the company that pulled the "MMO Scam of 2011."
I'm a little wary so my finger is itching to hit the abort button. Definitely gonna be keeping an eye out for this new information later in the week. Schnell, schnell!
Oh that, I put forth RIFT as an example as I posit that like RIFT, TOR hasn't got anything especially appealing. Except that TOR at least has the Star Wars brand going for it. RIFT's biggest claim to fame is that it wasn't WoW. Not in Azeroth anymore Indeed.
While both games are quite good and enjoyable, both pretty much ends up as more of the same. Nothing new to see here, move along. I would even announce to the world that Offline Games are making a comeback except it didn't go away at all. Silly me.
For some reason, I keep expecting every new MMO to be as much an improvement on WoW as WoW was on the original EQ. Instead everyone is putting out the same thing again and again hoping to struck gold. Pretty much playing catch up from launch and onward.
You know what would be cool though? If for one day absolutely noone logged on to WoW. Everyone at Blizzard goes "WTF?" And we were all like, "lol." That would be awesome. Honestly though, the last really good MMO to come out was WoW. And that was 7 years ago. How long can they expect us to play the same game over and over again?
That last bit wasn't a dig at CoD fans. Not at all.
Hmm? I'm sorry but that sentence was referring to SWTOR.
"But if for some reason (outside of the context of that paragraph) you were actually curious as to what I think RIFT's brand would be, wouldn't that be actually the RIFT brand itself if RIFT had a brand at all? Seems obvious in that regard and wouldn't actually need to be stated but it is stated nonetheless for posterity."
Not going to be profitable, you say? Well then, that does it I'm not going to buy this. If I'm not going to be making any profits, what am I even spending my money on? Worthless junk!
Wait a minute... This crap doesn't concern me at all. I'm just one player out of many. I have no financial investment in EA-Bioware or even Activision-Blizzard. Unless SWTOR only lasts one month and is shuttered forever I have no care if EA-Bioware is bankrupt from this endeavor. And even then I'm only going to be mildly disappointed.
Just like SWG before it. Yea, I brought it up. I will always hate you SWG. Always! In the future, I will be telling my great-great-great-great-great grandkids how much of a failure SWG was. This will be all possible because 10 years before I die I transfer my consciousness into the realm of the greater interwebs, where I spend most of my eternity trying to piss off strangers by poking fun at things that they like.
Anyway, with regards to KoTOR Online, there doesn't seem to be anything here especially appealing outside of the whole Star Wars thing. It's chances of success is pretty much riding on the brand. It's not another WoW. It's another RIFT.
The real issue here is that they didn't fix a damn thing on their broken game but broke it further by inadvertently disabling 3rd party fixes. Woo hoo, fail patch if ever did I see one.
Ragequits are really lame. The OP never comes off as anything than a whiny crybaby. Especially when you see them posting still weeks afterwards. Whatever message they were trying to convey lost in the sea of crap. Who wants to listen to a sea of crap? It's why I've avoided most of the forums of any MMO I'm currently playing. There's nothing ever useful in them anymore, just a bunch of strangers on the internet trying to annoy each other off.
I'm sure quitting will be the stronger message here than a bunch of pile on their forums. What worth is someone's words without backing them up with action?
And if an MMO doesn't have an exit survey, screw 'em. They obviously don't want your feedback. Either that or incompetent, which is worse.
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Dec 10th 2011 11:34PM (Joystiq)Lock and (re)load: BioWare preps us for The Old Republic's launch
Dec 6th 2011 6:54PM (Massively)Too much hassle. I think I'll just cancel and try my luck hunting for a copy at launch. Not really in any hurry to play, but it would suck to have to be locked out after I started playing because I was waiting for my copy in the mail.
Lock and (re)load: BioWare preps us for The Old Republic's launch
Dec 5th 2011 7:14PM (Massively)It's the holidays too so shipping is gonna be a cluster-f***. I already feel that Bioware/EA is pulling a bit of word-play/scam here with the preorder now and "may play 5 days early" bit and a bunch of other questionable marketing moves. Their servers might be stable and ready for launch but I just hope they won't be remembered as the company that pulled the "MMO Scam of 2011."
I'm a little wary so my finger is itching to hit the abort button. Definitely gonna be keeping an eye out for this new information later in the week. Schnell, schnell!
Kotick questions how SWTOR will benefit EA
Nov 29th 2011 7:41PM (Massively)JanChel Posssts:
Oh that, I put forth RIFT as an example as I posit that like RIFT, TOR hasn't got anything especially appealing. Except that TOR at least has the Star Wars brand going for it. RIFT's biggest claim to fame is that it wasn't WoW. Not in Azeroth anymore Indeed.
While both games are quite good and enjoyable, both pretty much ends up as more of the same. Nothing new to see here, move along. I would even announce to the world that Offline Games are making a comeback except it didn't go away at all. Silly me.
For some reason, I keep expecting every new MMO to be as much an improvement on WoW as WoW was on the original EQ. Instead everyone is putting out the same thing again and again hoping to struck gold. Pretty much playing catch up from launch and onward.
You know what would be cool though? If for one day absolutely noone logged on to WoW. Everyone at Blizzard goes "WTF?" And we were all like, "lol." That would be awesome. Honestly though, the last really good MMO to come out was WoW. And that was 7 years ago. How long can they expect us to play the same game over and over again?
That last bit wasn't a dig at CoD fans. Not at all.
Kotick questions how SWTOR will benefit EA
Nov 29th 2011 3:26PM (Massively)Don't be silly. Of course, WoW was leagues better than EQ. It wouldn't have been successful otherwise.
Kotick questions how SWTOR will benefit EA
Nov 29th 2011 3:21PM (Massively)Hmm? I'm sorry but that sentence was referring to SWTOR.
"But if for some reason (outside of the context of that paragraph) you were actually curious as to what I think RIFT's brand would be, wouldn't that be actually the RIFT brand itself if RIFT had a brand at all? Seems obvious in that regard and wouldn't actually need to be stated but it is stated nonetheless for posterity."
-JanChel's Non-Cyber Consciousness circa 2011
Kotick questions how SWTOR will benefit EA
Nov 29th 2011 2:10PM (Massively)Wait a minute... This crap doesn't concern me at all. I'm just one player out of many. I have no financial investment in EA-Bioware or even Activision-Blizzard. Unless SWTOR only lasts one month and is shuttered forever I have no care if EA-Bioware is bankrupt from this endeavor. And even then I'm only going to be mildly disappointed.
Just like SWG before it. Yea, I brought it up. I will always hate you SWG. Always! In the future, I will be telling my great-great-great-great-great grandkids how much of a failure SWG was. This will be all possible because 10 years before I die I transfer my consciousness into the realm of the greater interwebs, where I spend most of my eternity trying to piss off strangers by poking fun at things that they like.
Anyway, with regards to KoTOR Online, there doesn't seem to be anything here especially appealing outside of the whole Star Wars thing. It's chances of success is pretty much riding on the brand. It's not another WoW. It's another RIFT.
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Nov 27th 2011 5:03PM (Massively)Skyrim PC patch arrives, adds mandatory Steam DRM, kills some tweaks
Nov 23rd 2011 12:57AM (Joystiq)The Soapbox: The best complaint is an empty seat
Nov 22nd 2011 8:44PM (Massively)I'm sure quitting will be the stronger message here than a bunch of pile on their forums. What worth is someone's words without backing them up with action?
And if an MMO doesn't have an exit survey, screw 'em. They obviously don't want your feedback. Either that or incompetent, which is worse.