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Definition of "Polished"
Tyvolus
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to me polished isnt just bug free. It is an immersive, living, breathing world. How can this game be constantly heralded as "Polished" when it doesnt have the basic stuff, like rain and other weather patterns, or even the basic of all -- A night/day cycle. I am sorry but polished would have to include these as well. EQ in 1999 had all this -- now in 2011, we get games that dont even have the level of immersion as an MMO that came out in.... 1999 ? really ??? and people want to call it "polished?"
sorry, not in my book.
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It's getting harder and harder to tell who's joking and who's serious when it comes to the SWTOR bashing.
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Polished in my opinion is an entertaining and mostly bug free game.
Weather is fluff not polish
the little things like weather effects, night/day cycles, etc are what help create a living/breathing world. otherwise, you have a static, sterile, soulless world that some of todays MMOs are pushing out the door...including swtor. Although you dont care for these basic elements that add a polished look and feel to a game, many do. One of the coolest parts of Skyrim are the intense weather patterns throughout the game, especially the harsh and unforgiving mountain ranges. It adds a polished very real feel to a game. shows the devs care about their craft.
They might still implement weather. Remember it took WOW a few years to add weather too and we played it nevertheless.
pol·ished
adjective
1.
made smooth and glossy: a figurine of polished mahogany.
2.
naturally smooth and glossy: polished pebbles on the beach.
3.
refined, cultured, or elegant: a polished manner.
4.
flawless; skillful; excellent: a polished conversationalist.
adjectivecom·plete
1.
having all parts or elements; lacking nothing; whole; entire; full: a complete set of Mark Twain's writings.
2.
finished; ended; concluded: a complete orbit.
3.
having all the required or customary characteristics, skills, or the like; consummate; perfect in kind or quality: a complete scholar.
4.
thorough; entire; total; undivided, uncompromised, or unmodified: a complete victory; a complete mess.
People get the two words mixed up.
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Skyrim is a bug infested pos game utterly unoptimized for ANY platform. The interface is an abortion of the nth degree even for the shitbox 360 controller much less the PC. How bout that always set to 360 controller default for the PC????. Texture bugs, your npc bugs, dragons bugged out main quest line fukd up, absolute JOKE inventory management system.... on and on..
Skyrim is FUN but its far from polished. After about a fucking year or two of modding will skyrim be "polished"
You dont like star wars becuase you dont like star wars fine. But to compare it to Skyrim in the "polish" department {mod edit}
That was a minor gripe with me how ever my one of my biggest gripes was the NPCS, those guys look ready to stuff, but never did it or hell the leader of the groups of people kept walking back and forth saying nothing, it was weird as hell. Then killing 2 of the renegade soldiers, the Renegade leader standing the middle, killed me, and then went back to talking(wasn't really saying aything) to himself
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I don't know if it's intended to have stale azz npcs but I guess that is well polished.
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SWTOR is less polished than an Elder Scrolls game.
Relative to other MMORPGs (its peers), SWTOR is fairly polished for a newly released game.
It is lacking a lot of features that people expect though.
Are you team Azeroth, team Tyria, or team Jacob?
you need to spend mroe time in game because EXCUSE ME but it RAINS!
Basically this. TOR released with the same auction house as Aion released with back in 09' that made you want to kill a furry rabbit. Some of the stuff proves the devs have been a bubble for the past 4 years as the mmo genre changed around them. They have come out of the bubble and can not figure out why people are pissed.
These guys are talking about a legacy system when everyone is asking about dual spec, ability delays, or character customization. I seriously doubt they expect people to see a Full server and roll there, so they never considered transfers being needed or hell making them free.
Polish isn't about the feature set. It's about doing well what the game set out to do. If what the game set out to do is really boring, then the game can be highly polished and still terrible.
All "fluff" is a form of polish. Polishing is about fixing/smoothening out the small details in bigger systems. Bug fixes are therefore often a form of polish, since although the large systems are set, they may still have a number of small bugs which need to be smoothened out.
Adding "fluff" is a way to smooth out a larger system as well and thus falls under the category of polish.
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one thing it has is pvp zone (lot of them)i remember we had those in wow before they got thorn down!i am happy there are pvp zone now only thing missing is that each of those zone can be owned and once a month or so they can change hand !
Lot's of people have heralded SWTOR as a very polished product, in some ways it is, but in other ways it is buggy as crap. A lot of the main game systems are polished. They work as intended. Game is very playable.
The launch was relatively smooth, despite the occasional forum freak out over queues, a maintenance that went over schedule by 2 hours, credit cards, and staggered Early Access.
However, there are an absolute crapton of bugs in this game. Some of them are very minor, some of them are very major. I think it would be hard to call this game "very polished" right now.
I love the game, don't get me wrong, but there are some really freaking annoying bugs out there. The interface bugs are the worst. Sometimes in Huttball my raid frames don't accurately report anyone else's health. The health bar shows full, but they are actually half dead. I'm a freaking healer and THIS DRIVES ME ABSOLUTELY INSANE.
Anyways, for me, a polished game has to be relatively bug free. Bugs, this game has lots of them. Lots.
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bet this is one of those guys who just watched some previews (doesnt have game). And is fan boy of another game.
Polished means that it is well coded.
The life like world thing is also important but not the same thing as polished.
Wasn't talking about darkpony (maybe quoting him was little mind confusing).
Commenting @ dark pony :About @Thread OP.
Comment was towards OP, agreeing with dark pony using the knowledge. And yes kass does get a lil stormy.
Being 'polished' has nothing to do with how many features a game has, or whether or not it feels 'feature complete'. All it is, is that the features that do exist in the game are tweaked to be as smooth as possible. Most of this has to do w/ coding, but some of it has to do w/ the art / textures and animations as well. (or the case of this game, voice overs).
Unfortunately, like every other important aspect of the MMO, it has been turned into both a Buzz Word and Stigma. Because it's being missused for both positive and negative reinforcement, I think you'll find an increasing number of people within the MMO community which fail to understand the proper meaning of this word as well. (Just add it to list with terms like graphics, beta, etc.)
Exactly. For example, the list of things to 'polish' during the last few weeks before release can include
class tweaks
combat tweaks
animation tweaking
bug fixing - lots of it
verifying quest locations, data, triggers are all in place
updating textual and visual indicators for clarity and correctness
moving content to make it more intuitive, accessible or challenging
rearranging the many world objects to create a more even flow
integrating user feedback
While rain can be nice (I found it rather well done in both LOTRO and AC), it just seems a real reach to use it as an example of 'the basic stuff' needed for an MMO.
There isn't a "right" or "wrong" way to play, if you want to use a screwdriver to put nails into wood, have at it, simply don't complain when the guy next to you with the hammer is doing it much better and easier. - Allein
"Graphics are often supplied by Engines that (some) MMORPG's are built in" - Spuffyre
Dude you don't even have to go as far as to hit up weather or a day / night cycle - just look at the damn npc's in cities, they are all mimes! Can't even click on them, and they just sit there doing their mime routine forever. Then there are the world creatures (which basically don't exist) and the mobs, who 95% just sit there in their little tri or duo and wait for the slaughter. Seeing a patrol is like a blue moon half the time. The most lifeless world I've ever seen in a AAA mmo.
and even that weather was implemented poorly...to say it VERY nicely.
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