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Well, yes. But also, this game was so poorly designed it was never going to hold players. It's in the same state DAoC is really, where they have a skeleton crew trying to keep the game alive. They probably have some basic content creation tools, but they can't fiddle with the code much, now that there are barely any engineers left on the team. And they can't hire more people because the game is barely making a profit.
And how many people do you think were drawn to this game because of the Star Wars logo?
There are 2 things keeping this game alive:
1. Star Wars title
2. EA
WoW expansions are usually game changing and huge. SWTOR sells patches and calls them expansions
Don't sweat it, it the same people as have been proclaiming the death of WoW, and so far they have been wrong about that too, SW;TOR will probably be doing quite well for years to come, and as long as Bioware keeps adding content, then that's unlikely to change.
This is excelent news actually, I'm glad to see EA won't be squandering resources on things I don't care about or want to see. Granted all the technical difficulties are concerning but everyone by now is aware that the engine sucks.
Why do people want a new class so badly? They can't even balance the classes they do have and adding a whole new 1-50 class story + companions when they can't even update the existing ones is ridiculous to suggest. I think just about everyone who plays this game would rather see their existing character stories updated rather than making additional 1-50 stories.
Didn't BW specifically state there will be no more character story expansions. They are only going to do generic story xpacs from now on.
I was one of those that bought the physical CE (two of them). I was so excited about this game. It turned out to be a highly un-optimized WoW clone w/ lightsabers. I still played it for quite a while after release. I left prior to it going f2p. Gave it another shot after. The Hutt cartel 'xpac' was kind of a slap in the face. I've seen game patches with more content that that. I'm positive the ONLY reason for the Galactic Starfighter 'xpac' was because it was already in the works...at least they had the decency to make it free, though they really need to redefine what they consider an xpac and major content patches.
Anyway, it seems like 80% of their resources now are dedicated to the cash shop...not actual content. I really wish they would have listened to the community/beta testers and even before that....CHOSEN A REAL ENGINE. The Hero engine CAN'T EVEN HANDLE CHAT BUBBLES. ugh. Why, WHY did they have to pick the fucking HERO ENGINE? Was their budget truly THAT bad?
SWTOR may be profitable, but it could have been soooo much more than just a cash grab. Sadly, though, SWTOR is why the doctors are no longer in the games industry. All of their hard work over the years, and it had to end by EA destroying what could have been a great game. SWTOR is now, and will forever be, stuck in mediocrity hence forth. The way SWTOR turned out was so very disappointing to me. I don't care if the game makes more money in a month than Apple, Google, MS combined...IT'S STILL NOT A GREAT GAME. It could have been, but it is ok at best. My personal prediction is that SWTOR is going to start seeing a decline in profits and players very soon. WildStar is coming out for the gear grinders and sci-fi people, ESO for the story, EQN for sandbox, WoW xpac will obviously hurt all MMO sub numbers for a while, I imagine GW2 is about to have an xpac, and just to many more to list. The only saving grace for SWTOR is the Star Wars IP.
Maybe one day we will have a great Star Wars MMO. We can only hope.
Well one expansion was free and the other is now free. So maybe the next two expansions that I was referring to originally might be free also , well at least the smaller one probably will be.
As to the more classes talk , well yeah I would prefer an advancement on my class stories ( 50+ or 55+ , but probably cap increase this year anyway so 60+) and they actually said . "Never say never" not just a plain "No". SO yeah the big announcement at the end of this next up and coming story arc might just be a boxed expansion next year. Who knows.
Cheers,
BadOrb.
PSO 4 years , EQOA 4 months , PSU 7 years , SWTOR launch ongoing , PSO2 SEA launch ongoing , Destiny 360 launch ongoing.
"SWG was not fun. Let it go buddy." quote from iiNoSkillzii 10/18/13
The original propoganda pixie dust villain :[]
This...so much this. If this mediocre mmo did not have the Star wars name attached to it, it would have been shut down a while back.
i must say that those questions wasnt so precise or in need asap.
the game has serious bugs from start of the game, lot of achievements are bugged too
and that annoying camera shake,... they dont understand that some people have headache from that ^^ (what kids they put as devs??? these days??)
It's rather upsetting to go back and read Cantina Q&A a month back after hearing about the Housing announcement yesterday.
"Things that make you go hmmmm...."
It was only on page 2, and this forum is pretty slow, I thought it was more relevant to bump rather than start a new thread to revisit the Cantina Q&A.
The game that was expected to shut down within first year is already moving forward with healthy subscriber base and regular stream of content. It is well beyond that mark now where people would say stuff like 'its beyond hope'.
I think it is just very hard for some people to digest the fact that game isn't dead as they predicted..hence this topic.
"The problem is that the hardcore folks always want the same thing: 'We want exactly what you gave us before, but it has to be completely different.'
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Do you actually blame them ? After the horrendous backlash of no ranked WZ's in that patch last year ? So yeah no conspiracy they just can't tell us everything too early , things change and some things might not be able to be implemented. At least they tell us some information now via road maps. A little paranoid methinks ImpactHound.
Bring on the huge announcement at the end of the year , can't wait.
Cheers,
BadOrb.
PSO 4 years , EQOA 4 months , PSU 7 years , SWTOR launch ongoing , PSO2 SEA launch ongoing , Destiny 360 launch ongoing.
"SWG was not fun. Let it go buddy." quote from iiNoSkillzii 10/18/13
The original propoganda pixie dust villain :[]
even when this thread was first made it wasn't "relevant"
Then it's the second bulletpoint, why bother holding these Q&A community events if they won't answer questions? The Cantina Tour is run specifically to connect to the players and communicate openly. It's pretty disappointing and not worth reading them going forward if they're not going to truthfully answer real questions. Realistically, they should have answered both questions I underlined with "they're something we're interested in, but don't have any concrete info to share at this time," not "too challenging, technically difficult."
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