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Star Wars: The Old Republic: Breaking News - Housing Announced
SBFord
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Bioware fans participated in a developer chat with the Star Wars: The Old Republic team. During the chat, housing was revealed, a feature that many players have called for since the game's release. To generate discussion and excitement, Bioware has released a teaser video. Watch the video and let us know what you think in the comments.
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I would love to see a side quest to get the house (somewhat similar to getting ship in class story - meaning reason for getting it).
Smugglers and Bounty hunters should get a house on Nar Shaddaa
, Jedi on Coruscant and Sith on Dromund Kaas
P.S. Hyperspace Beacon from January wrote: A player on Reddit likes to dive deep into the datafiles for SWTOR's test center. In those encrypted files, he found multiple placeholders for a housing vendor.
So question: what these vendors will be selling: are there many kinds of houses/apartments to buy? Or stuff for houses? Can't wait to get answer to that.
Link: http://massively.joystiq.com/2014/01/07/hyperspace-beacon-star-wars-the-old-republic-predictions-for-2/
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Wow, color me impressed. Bioware is churning out some much-needed features. Of course, knowing Bioware, they'll probably **** it up, but still...at least their heart is in the right place.
ETA: Just think of the cash shop possibilities!
Im not a SWtOR hater at all.
But I have this feeling it will have about as much customization as our personal ships.
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Two years too late.
It would have to give something more than what the ships can give.
Better late than never, but it will need to have more customization and purpose as well as be available on many worlds to be a viable reason to return for more than a month.
I'll guarantee almost every item is a cash shop exclusive...
I myself am willing to bet it's both F2P AND SUBS that will have to buy it, either thru a dedicated expansion pack, or thru Cash Shop.
The problem with not releasing this at launch similar to the acievements is that a lot is lost or less significant if just all traced back in their logs.
Housing in themeparks is very important to offer content that can enhance existing content by bringing trophies and lore from the MMO space into the house with character creation.
Still depending on how housing is done, it will add a lot to the game for new players. I have lost so much track in the game the only thing that would bring back at this point including all these nice things are card games.
Sounds simple enough, but it would be a reason to log in, and then once i am logged in, I would try other things... including pvp which the last time i tried, which was recently with still good pvp gear, made me realize how unbalanced the game was with classes. Its either heals and one side or both sides are unbeatable thus a game of watching skill rotation for 15 mins. Or if the side without enough healers or w/e, and there are stealth dps, kills in a few secs even though other non stealth classes which are dps can not do the same. They reward stealth as the dps pvp class and no other based on the illusion it is a hard class to learn which is not... especially with tutorials online. thats why i cant enjoy the game even with all this great content... i play and it feels like i accomplish nothing in pvp.
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I have a feeling that housing will be really restricted for the free to play players, if they even have that option.
I m a SWTOR player now and then but lets be realistic, EA/Bioware are doing a poor job to make this a proper MMO. Instead they are just scanning for epeen weaknesses that vain players have and making a profit out of it. Housing? We already have a ship that is completely non-interactive. Games are supposed to be interactive and not a painting to look at.
It's a legit business but 2 years later, the improvements made on the game are minimal, specially since they promised so much and delivered so little. The game is not bad but its far from good also for a triple AAA title, they're making a profit out of fools and fools happily oblige.
The only good move they made was galactic starfighters which in its own its a shell of a copy of Star Conflict nobody can deny that. Still, it was a good move and added space combat that a Star Wars game need because those space missions the game launched with were nothing short of a big joke.
Again, let's be realistic, this game copied poorly from the successes of other MMO's. Nothing wrong with copying and improving, but copying poorly and using a good license to make a profit out of it just says a lot about Bioware and EA and future "improvements" they ll add to the game.
2 things they brought to the genre that was new and pretty cool: 1_ Tanks are useful and fun in pvp . 2_ Huttball .
But hey, it's free to play, so all good.
They still didn't fix the engine though. I got a gtx 680 with no bottlenecks and still get inconsistent FPS. I start a warzone with 70-90 FPS, after a few minutes it starts going up and down from 70-30 making the camera movement lag a lot.
Nop, that a hassle to fix. Let's just play housing instead and make some moneyh!