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• • Death blow to MMO as virtual world

  • Originally posted by nariusseldon
    

    Originally posted by Kylrathin
    

    Originally posted by nariusseldon
    

    
    

    You need to wake up. Why do we want to live in a virtual world? Why we want it to hold our interests for a long time?  Because we don't all have ADHD.  We don't all want to hop from MMO to MMO like locusts, consuming content and moving on.  Some of us want to like an environment enough to call it home.

    There are so many games out there that it is more important for a game to deliver good entertainment for a while. We can always move on. MMO is not different from SP games in this aspect.  See above.  There are some single player games I still play over and over that have almost no replay value, simply because I like the environment.

    It is much better to deliver a good structured experienced than an empty virtual world. People don't want another life, they want good entertianment in this one.  For people with zero imagination and creativity, sure.  But what's entertaining to you isn't entertaining to everyone.  Ask the people playing Second Life if they don't want a second life. An "empty virtual world" fills up quickly, and isn't so empty after a short time.

     

    LOL .. you are so sad and need to get a life. Games are entertainment. With so many coming out, y do you want to play even SP games again and again?

    Yeah sure, there are no-lifers who want to live in Second Life, but you don't see millions and millions of those people, do you?

    Let me give you a hint .. people who want to live in a virtual world is in the minute minority and good luck finding one. Meanwhile, i will just enjoy whatever neat, nice entertainment comes along.

     

     

     

     

    You lose.  Thanks for playing and attacking me instead of coming up with anything even remotely resembling an argument.

  • Posted: 10/26/08 2:10 AM
    Star Wars: The Old Republic
• • I'm not sure which is sadder

  • Well, anyone still paying to play that game is asking to be abused.  At some point, the lies and deceit have to just be too much for anyone with self-respect.  Obviously they have a few people still playing, and while you can't blame the players who were new to SWG with NGE, the ones who lost everything with CU or NGE and kept plugging away but still play today probably wouldn't respond with anything the Iraqi Information Minister wouldn't say himself.  Which is pretty much what I expect from SOE anyway, so they'd just be toting the company line, as always.

  • Posted: 10/24/08 4:54 PM
    Star Wars Galaxies
• • Death blow to MMO as virtual world

  • Originally posted by nariusseldon
    

    Originally posted by Terranah   
    

    This is exactly what is happening.  What is confusing to me is how many people not only accept this fact but embrace it.  You can LIVE in a virtual world....it is the pinnacle of escapism.  It is immersive and has depth that holds your interest for a long time.

     

    Wake up people.  I understand the honeymoon phase but come on.  It's like people are in a coma and they don't see what Bioware are most likely giving us:  a highly polished, stylized, story driven, highly instanced, single player game with occasional cooperative play.  This is the most likely assumption, based on what we know at this point.

     

    You need to wake up. Why do we want to live in a virtual world? Why we want it to hold our interests for a long time?  Because we don't all have ADHD.  We don't all want to hop from MMO to MMO like locusts, consuming content and moving on.  Some of us want to like an environment enough to call it home.

    There are so many games out there that it is more important for a game to deliver good entertainment for a while. We can always move on. MMO is not different from SP games in this aspect.  See above.  There are some single player games I still play over and over that have almost no replay value, simply because I like the environment.

    It is much better to deliver a good structured experienced than an empty virtual world. People don't want another life, they want good entertianment in this one.  For people with zero imagination and creativity, sure.  But what's entertaining to you isn't entertaining to everyone.  Ask the people playing Second Life if they don't want a second life. An "empty virtual world" fills up quickly, and isn't so empty after a short time.

     

    What made SWG pre-cu so great was it WAS a virtual world.  They could have put in epic storylines and led you around by the nose as well, nothing was stopping them.  But people like you don't want to just have your cake and eat it too, you want to make sure nobody else gets any cake either.

  • Posted: 10/24/08 1:56 PM
    Star Wars: The Old Republic
• • SWTOR doesnt make me feel like the game is in the star wars universe

  • Good Lord, man!  Haven't you people ever played World of Warcraft?!  Big, fake, cartoony graphics that cater to 10 year olds are even more immersive than photorealism!  It'll be great when we're all swinging our oversized lightsabers at droids with huge, over-proportioned heads and tiny bodies, swatting them to the ground in a splash of color and particle effects!  WEEEEEEEEEE!!! 

  • Posted: 10/22/08 3:17 PM
    Star Wars Galaxies
• • True Death of SWG?

  • Originally posted by Sharkypal
    

    Originally posted by Scalebane
    

    Wont this happen with the new game? seems jedi are gonna be playable right away in that game, curious on this point.

    
     

    Shhhh, don't ruin it for the whiners ROFL.

    There'll all embracing a game that is even WORSE than the NGE.

    Enjoy your Cartoon KoWoWtoro you "VETS" you.

    SWG will be around long after this travesty is released. You heard it here first.

    S

     

    There hasn't been a game ever made - and I include browser-based Javascript or Flash games - that are worse than the NGE.  First game I ever played was on a Commodore VIC-20 called "Blue Meanies from Outer Space".  It was a Space Invaders clone.  It had twice the depth of gameplay that NGE has.  And considering it was single-player, the community was considerably better (and larger) as well.

  • Posted: 10/21/08 10:10 PM
    Star Wars Galaxies