eldaec
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Also, it is christmas, followed by summer holidays. I will probably grab a copy in December, but I seriously doubt I'm going to make any effort to play it properly till Feb. 5 day headstart at a time of the year when you should all seriously be drunk as hell every night.  Unless you have enough gaming rl friends that you can play it *while* getting drunk - in which case well cool. |
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Evildrider
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5 day headstart at a time of the year when you should all seriously be drunk as hell every night. What if you don't drink or aren't a teenager or in their 20's? The holidays for me consists of mostly keeping to myself and avoiding as much family as possible except on Christmas Day and New Years. |
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Furiously
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Uncle Frank?
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Evildrider
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Uncle Frank?
I am not...  |
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CmdrSlack
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So I got an email saying, "Hey, you're in!"
It also says that further info is coming. What's the general wait time on this alleged further info?
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Thrawn
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So I got an email saying, "Hey, you're in!"
It also says that further info is coming. What's the general wait time on this alleged further info?
Sometime before Dec. 20th. |
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Sky
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Sometime before Dec. 20 15th.
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Trippy
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No it's Dec 20th in North America.
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luckton
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No it's Dec 20th in North America.
Sky is correct. 5-day head start counts as 'release time'. |
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Amaron
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At this point after getting a spaceship on one guy I feel like stopping beta. I can tell I'm going to end up playing all 8 storylines at release so spoiling would just be counterproductive.
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Lucas
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Further proof that Italians have suspect taste in games.
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While we've always known that "story", at least in the Devs eyes, is probably their strongest selling point, I think it's interesting to read (both here and in various other forums) "I don't want to spoil myself" and similar sentences when it comes to a MMO: naturally, it makes me think that, at least at the moment, they're (already?) achieving one of their main objectives, which is make the player interested and engaged in the plot (something we witnessed only in LOTRO before; WoW, especially with the first two expansions, was more about pure zone progression, and along the way you could find interesting and funny quests), along with the other sub-activities and playing styles typical for this kind of game.
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Viin
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PvP servers just auto flag you for PvP past like level 15-20 or so (similar to WoW if you are familiar with that). There aren't many spots where you actually run across the opposing faction for the first 30-35 levels though, so if you are just wanting to beat a Queue for the weekend, feel free, the noob planets themselves are total safe zones, the opposing faction can't even land on them.
Can you flag yourself for PvP on non-PvP servers? Or just battlegrounds or the RvR planet? |
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Fordel
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You can flag yourself yea, just like WoW PvE servers.
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and the gate is like I TOO AM CAPABLE OF SPEECH
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Surlyboi
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eat a bag of dicks
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Uncle Frank?
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Montague
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While we've always known that "story", at least in the Devs eyes, is probably their strongest selling point, I think it's interesting to read (both here and in various other forums) "I don't want to spoil myself" and similar sentences when it comes to a MMO: naturally, it makes me think that, at least at the moment, they're (already?) achieving one of their main objectives, which is make the player interested and engaged in the plot (something we witnessed only in LOTRO before; WoW, especially with the first two expansions, was more about pure zone progression, and along the way you could find interesting and funny quests), along with the other sub-activities and playing styles typical for this kind of game.
If you're willing to be immersed, it'll suck you right in. If you go in hating DIKU, hating Star Wars, or hating post-WoW MMO's the story won't do anything for you. |
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TripleDES
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I wanted to ask whether this continues the KOTOR story in anyway, but then I stumbled across this: Q:How does Star Wars: The Old Republic relate to Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic?
A:Star Wars: The Old Republic takes place approximately three hundred years after the events of Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic (KOTOR). At the conclusion of the Jedi Civil War in KOTOR, Revan disappeared into unknown space in search of a great threat to the Republic, an expanding Sith Empire led by a mysterious Emperor who planned vengeance for his ancient Jedi enemies. Revan never returned from unknown space, but the Sith Empire did, kicking off a war with the Republic that lasted for decades. Now, despite the uneasy truce created by the Treaty of Coruscant, the tension among the divided star systems is threatening to once again tear the galaxy apart. |
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Furiously
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At this point after getting a spaceship on one guy I feel like stopping beta. I can tell I'm going to end up playing all 8 storylines at release so spoiling would just be counterproductive.
I find I only like listening to myself with several of the voice actors. |
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Sjofn
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Ingmar is lucky I like the smuggler voice actress (the consular voice actress is ... okay. The fact she has three potential boyfriends helps her cause, though.  ), because otherwise I would totally be nothing but dudes. ESPECIALLY after they patch the gay in. I saw like five male twileks total during the weekend, and I was the only one not a beefalo. |
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Evildrider
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Ingmar is lucky I like the smuggler voice actress (the consular voice actress is ... okay. The fact she has three potential boyfriends helps her cause, though. ), because otherwise I would totally be nothing but dudes. ESPECIALLY after they patch the gay in. I saw like five male twileks total during the weekend, and I was the only one not a beefalo. That's because fat Twi'leks are |
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Soln
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the opportunity for evil is just delicious
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So weekend testing is over and no more play for me?
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Sjofn
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Ingmar is lucky I like the smuggler voice actress (the consular voice actress is ... okay. The fact she has three potential boyfriends helps her cause, though. ), because otherwise I would totally be nothing but dudes. ESPECIALLY after they patch the gay in. I saw like five male twileks total during the weekend, and I was the only one not a beefalo. That's because fat Twi'leks are They totally are, I almost made one myself. |
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Evildrider
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Yep it ended like 30 minutes ago. You have the next weekend though, everyone got invited for that one.
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At this point after getting a spaceship on one guy I feel like stopping beta. I can tell I'm going to end up playing all 8 storylines at release so spoiling would just be counterproductive.
Did pretty much the same thing, although I did also play the first few quests on Imperial Agent as well just to give myself a taste of the class I'm going to play first come launch. |
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Murgos
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If you knew enough about reality to build the a perfect simulation, then you wouldn't need the simulation in the first place.
This is probably zen.
No, it's tautological and not even new. For reference see every Virtual Reality paper/book/movie/  for the last 45 years. |
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murdoc
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They really need to drop the NDA.
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Have you tried the internet? It's made out of millions of people missing the point of everything and then getting angry about it
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Mosesandstick
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I think they're waiting for us to hit 400.
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Shatter
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I think they're waiting for us to hit 400.
At the current rate of this thread the NDA will drop after launch if we wait for 400 :( Just realized the earliest head starters start to play in 1 month(Dec 15th) |
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Evildrider
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They really need to drop the NDA.
I've heard rumors of Dec. 1st. And that would be about right if they drop the NDA with the next beta weekend. I mean it's pretty much an "open beta" weekend anyway with all the people they are letting in. |
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Fordel
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and the gate is like I TOO AM CAPABLE OF SPEECH
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Nebu
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The winner is: The class being played by the most people. At the 3 month mark, they will alter class balance so the other wins and people will then reroll a new toon to play that side. They continue this balance game to maximize the number of people hanging on to subscriptions. So goes the legacy of the 3 month reroll. |
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Sky
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I think it's fairly obvious who wins this fight.   |
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Furiously
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Nah - everyone knows the teris ki class is going to pwn in the expansion.
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01101010
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You call it an accident. I call it justice.
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Monk > all.
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Nevermore
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Why have you not made some version of that pic your avatar yet? |
Over and out.
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Amaron
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Why have you not made some version of that pic your avatar yet?
Maybe he thinks a Smiling Communist Potato will beat even a trooper? |
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