Comments on: Darth Dafydd and the fully voiced trailer

By: Hel

Hel — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 21:54:25 +0000

In MMO’s I’m generally a solo player which prompts a lot of people to ask “so why don’t you just play a single player game?”. Just because I’m not fond of grouping doesn’t mean I don’t want the immersion & the feel of a living world around me. Since playing MMO’s I have difficulty really getting into single player games again. I miss the people around me, not to mention the content updates. MMO’s have more replayability than single player games, more content for your main, events, players roleplaying around you (or even just being idiots).

That’s why I’m not suprised that this game will be an MMO & not a single player game. I’ll be more inclined to get this game, and yes pay them more money, than I would if it was a single player.

By: Tesh

Tesh — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 15:24:57 +0000

As Chris F over at ihaspc has noted, making your game online-only is also a less divisive anti-piracy measure than DRM.

By: Longasc

Longasc — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 19:55:06 +0000

I fear they do not really need voice acting if they do not seriously improve the graphics. Neither style nor technology behind the engine are today’s standard, and the game is not even out yet.

I want to second your notion, it seems to be more like KOTOR than a MMO.

This reminds me on Jeff Kaplan’s statement that players do not want to read text. OK, mainly because quest tasks are usually mundane and boring. But do they want to go back to the “interactive movie” time where gameplay frequently gets paused for video scenes, rendered ingame or not does not matter? I do not think so. This trailer also screams of heavily instanced solo gameplay.

I often thought the same of Age of Conan: This game could have rocked as more open-ended adventure game with tighter story direction.

So I fear We Fly Spitfires is right, money seems to be the answer why SWTOR is a MMO and not single player.

I am afraid Bioware are experts for RPGs, but noobs when it comes to MMO-RPGs.

But I would be happy if they prove me wrong, though I admit I enjoy fantasy settings more than Scifi MMOs.

By: Wiqd

Wiqd — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 19:48:58 +0000

I’m pretty sure I read somewhere that Bioware was looking at RMT for a good portion of SW:TOR so hopefully they’ll do it F2P with a store or some other RMT model and no sub.

By: spinks

spinks — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 19:27:55 +0000

We don’t really know what charging model they’re planning to use though. It may be RMT of some sort.

By: We Fly Spitfires

We Fly Spitfires — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 19:27:19 +0000

The “Darth Maul, but Welsh” comment cracked me up too. I wonder if they just put it into the video for a joke.

As for why SW:TOR is being made as a MMO instead of a single player game… it’s a jolly good question. I guess money is the answer?

By: Tesh

Tesh — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 19:14:01 +0000

smakendahead, if it’s just a money thing, which is entirely possible, I’ll just voice that I would have bought a great KOTOR 3 with little qualms, but absolutely will not buy a subscription version of the same.

By: foolsage

foolsage — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 16:59:44 +0000

I’m hopeful that SWtOR will have good PvP – there’s certainly a good lore basis for it after all. Both ground battles and space battles fit the setting well.

As for deaf players… subtitles aren’t that tough to implement.

By: smakendahed

smakendahed — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 12:30:42 +0000

“But what I haven’t seen yet from the SW:TOR team is any compelling reason they decided to make their game an MMO.”
Money?

By: Zoso

Zoso — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 11:22:24 +0000

It’s definitely looking like KotOR 3 at the moment, going to be interesting to see if there really is a “massive” component, or it’s more a way of getting a subscription fee out of people… Mind you, I’d totally sign up for One Man And His Droid…

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