SWTOR

[Reg]

Why would anyone want to rush to level in SWTOR? Not that I'm discouraging it mind you. The faster the "I'm in too much of a hurry to even read the quest text" crowd loses interest and quits the better.

[Lucas]

Heh, don't tell me: I would love to see an option (just an option, of course) to disable both combat experience and rested xp, but to each its own.

[Murgos]

I don't know about at launch.  I don't imagine there will be a lot of 'extra' stuff to explore right away.  After a few expansions though?  Certainly.

[Mosesandstick]

Missing out content isn't necessarily a bad thing, you can then have a fresh experience with an alt.

[Lantyssa]

Some people like to do it all on their main.

That was one of the huge debate points with Emmert on CoH.  He insisted people need to see that extra content on their alts to enjoy it.  Having enough content for several characters is important, but whether they see it with one or two isn't, as it's entirely dependent upon the person.

As stories are class-based, I'm not interested in running through with a second character of the same profession.  I am interested in taking my time to explore every nook and cranny they can throw at me.

[Malakili]

Why would anyone want to rush to level in SWTOR? Not that I'm discouraging it mind you. The faster the "I'm in too much of a hurry to even read the quest text" crowd loses interest and quits the better.

Its just the mentality MMO developers have created in the past.  The players have come to assume that this is the way to play.  Yes, not EVERYONE.  My point is that among my more casual friends who maybe played WoW but don't really think about game design or in fact ever really think about games very much at all except when they actually play them, SWTOR is just Star Wars WoW to them.  They want to collect loot because its STAR WARS loot.  They want to slice and dice shit with a light saber or set things on fire with a bounty hunter.  They aren't concerned about uncovering the subtle parts of the galactic civil war because they've been trained not to care about that stuff in an MMO.

I think Bioware is going to have a tough time with that mentality.   I don't want to play TOR that way, especially not when Diablo 3 is around the corner for all my loot collecting needs, but its easy for me to see why people see TOR and don't really care too much about the story or the leveling, etc.

[luckton]

I'm sure at least 1/3 of all TOR complaints from the get-go will be "WHY CAN'T WE SKIP THE CUTSCENES?!  OMG I'M CANCELLING!"

[Nebu]

I'm sure at least 1/3 of all TOR complaints from the get-go will be "WHY CAN'T WE SKIP THE CUTSCENES?!  OMG I'M CANCELLING!"

If I have an hour to play, I don't want to spend it sitting with my hands in my lap watching cutscenes.  That's why I have netflix.  If I pay for a game, I want to play a game.  I at least hope that we'll have the option to skip them after watching them once. 

[Margalis]

Why would anyone want to rush to level in SWTOR?

Because MMO devs have taught players the horrible lesson that the entire leveling game is a hurdle to getting to the real game, rather than the meat of the game.

[Malakili]

I'm sure at least 1/3 of all TOR complaints from the get-go will be "WHY CAN'T WE SKIP THE CUTSCENES?!  OMG I'M CANCELLING!"

If I have an hour to play, I don't want to spend it sitting with my hands in my lap watching cutscenes.  That's why I have netflix.  If I pay for a game, I want to play a game.  I at least hope that we'll have the option to skip them after watching them once. 

I really have to imagine you'll be able to skip listening to all the audio.  It solves this problem and it lets people who want to listen actually listen.  Unless they pull a "We spent 100 million on this, you'll listen and like it"  Not out of the question, but I hope they are smarter than that.

[eldaec]

I'm sure at least 1/3 of all TOR complaints from the get-go will be "WHY CAN'T WE SKIP THE CUTSCENES?!  OMG I'M CANCELLING!"

When you fail any specific thing for the 5th time it's not unreasonable to want to skip cutscenes.

[Sky]

You can skip them, but you have to wait for the others who haven't. I'm a definite non-skipper; but it just makes sense to skip if you're running an instance for the nth time for whatever reason.

[luckton]

You can skip them, but you have to wait for the others who haven't. I'm a definite non-skipper; but it just makes sense to skip if you're running an instance for the nth time for whatever reason.

This I'm cool with...I wish WoW did this with dungeons, as I got into the ToC party after they added the skips.

[eldaec]

Guild Wars did the same, and literally the only enjoyable aspect of the original pve campaign was pissing people off by not skipping the cutscenes.

Guild Wars had an added bonus in some cases where the mobs didn't stop attacking you during mid-mission cutscenes. I would usually pussy out and vote skip those, but the rage if someone in the team didn't press skip when you could see the team being attacked during the scene was truly glorious.

[Sobelius]

What I'd love (well, maybe not LOVE but like in an amused wry smile way), is for text-to-speech implementation so that we could create our own cut scenes. Hilarity ensues when the jedi says "I so pwned that imperial douche" out loud.

[Evildrider]

We can all sound like Stephen Hawking!   

[UnSub]

Why would anyone want to rush to level in SWTOR? Not that I'm discouraging it mind you. The faster the "I'm in too much of a hurry to even read the quest text" crowd loses interest and quits the better.

Perhaps you don't want to rush the story, but you do want to play on EZ mode.

[Modern Angel]

The faster the "I'm in too much of a hurry to even read the quest text" crowd loses interest and quits the better.

Yes. I'm certain that this is the way to keep the 150mil behemoth afloat.

[Mrbloodworth]

Perhaps you will have to pay Star wars "bucks" to skip cut scenes and or quest text.

[luckton]

Escapist is reporting that there's still one big "OMG!!1!" announcement (other than the release date) left in their arsenal regarding gameplay features.

[Malakili]

Escapist is reporting that there's still one big "OMG!!1!" announcement (other than the release date) left in their arsenal regarding gameplay features.

If its ranked Arena PvP I'm going to smack a bitch.

[luckton]

Escapist is reporting that there's still one big "OMG!!1!" announcement (other than the release date) left in their arsenal regarding gameplay features.

If its ranked Arena PvP I'm going to smack a bitch.

Perish the thought...I really don't see arena play coming to TOR.  BW doesn't seem like the Pro Gaming league-type of dev.

I'll put my money on some end-game revelation that makes Daily Questing see antiquated.

[Khaldun]

I think they're going to announce that you'll have to sit in cantinas watching dancers to heal mind wounds.

[luckton]

I think they're going to announce that you'll have to sit in cantinas watching dancers to heal mind wounds.

 

[Kirth]

Droid as a playable class.

[01101010]

Droid as a playable class.

[Mrbloodworth]

Not on rails space combat.

[Merusk]

Fully interactive companion cybering mode.

It's Bioware after all. Home of the digital sex game. 

[Kirth]

Fully interactive companion cybering mode.

It's Bioware after all. Home of the digital sex game. 

[Lantyssa]

[Surlyboi]

[tmp]

Fully interactive companion cybering mode.

Ah, Kinect intergration, then?

[Malakili]

As a "real" guess -

Maybe capital ships as guild housing?

[Sky]

Are races considered gameplay features? They still haven't announced the last race, though it's not exactly a reveal at this point. Also, they haven't formally announced the companion AI system.

[Mrbloodworth]

"Its really a sandbox".