Bioware Austin.. damm more Dragons.. or Lightsabers?

[geldonyetich2]

Which version of you stops making the threads about me?

[Velorath]

Which version of you stops making the threads about me?

One line doesn't make a thread about you.  On the other hand you did make a noble attempt at that very thing about half a page back.

[geldonyetich2]

You'll recover.  One day.

Anywho, the thing is I really can't disagree with what Ubiq is saying there.  He has written up a pretty good point that the third time may, in fact, be the charm of the thing.

[Velorath]

It's the 3rd/4th time doing an MMO for some of the team, and the 1st time for the old school Bioware guys on the team.  I think the question, at least for me, isn't so much whether or not they can actually make a decent MMO, as it is whether or not they can make an MMO that actually feels like a Bioware game (and if it is a KoToR game, whether or not it feels liike a good Star Wars MMO).

[Endie]

Well, they say the third time is the charm.

In that case, maybe I'll just skip over your posts until you leave and come back as geldonyetich3.

This isn't just a brilliant burn, but is also suffused with truth.

[geldonyetich2]

They have truth on the Internet now?

[WayAbvPar]

They have truth on the Internet now?

Seriously.

[Yegolev]

IT WILL BE AWESOME.

Pee.  It exited my bladder.

[BigBlack]

Just give me a stealth ganker class and a galactic civil war and you have my $10 a month.

[tmp]

To be fair, Jesus himself could announce he was developing an MMO and people here would be cynical.

No one wants to play "let's make a bench" or "let's craft some wine" or "hippy bullshit."

Not to mention having to get group of 12 to get anything done would be quite a bitch...

[Megrim]

I was always under the impression that we were the mmo, as far as God was concerned.

[tmp]

I was always under the impression that we were the mmo, as far as God was concerned.

Well if that's the case it just goes to show posting only the FAQ and refusing to maintain official forum alienates your player base...

[geldonyetich2]

I keep saying that we were nerfed way too hard after the Tower of Babel, but his GMs say I just don't understand The Vision (tm).

[UnSub]

I keep saying that we were nerfed way too hard after the Tower of Babel, but his GMs say I just don't understand The Vision (tm).

I think the constant threat of characater and server wipes are too frequent for me to feel really comfortable playing.

[Rendakor]

It was bullshit when he let Noah and his guild keep their characters from beta, but at least we have  FFA PVP with permadeath.

[Surlyboi]

Yeah, but the gear sucks for everyone but the powergamers and they're all hoarding the good shit and not letting anyone else get a chance.

Don't get me started on the in-game economy. (Or lack thereof)

[Count Nerfedalot]

The second system effect is usually a direct result of over-innovation and misfocused innovation. 
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When these programmers and designers design the next game, they approach every system with a 'here's what we've learned' from the first game, with an emphasis on every system being the 'best XXXX system EVAR!!1!'.  What usually results is a hilariously overly complex design and an enormously overly engineered codebase.  The number of code interactions explodes, the QA testline goes insane, the designers usually do a poor job of planning how systems touch each other, and usually what ships is a game with a lot of good ideas, but without an overall sense of coherency or purpose, and especially with a true lack of customer hands-on play focus.  I'm sure you all can think of games that fall into this category.

Wow.  That might be the best explanation I've heard yet for SWG as it existed on release.  (Not talking about post-release train-wrecks, just the clusterfuck that was the game at release.)

[Morat20]

To be fair, Jesus himself could announce he was developing an MMO and people here would be cynical.

No one wants to play "let's make a bench" or "let's craft some wine" or "hippy bullshit."

Jesus belives in Force Lightning Spam. (His charisma is high enough to ignore the penalties for using Dark Side powers).

[stray]

Wine crafting is a better idea than anything that's been in any mmo ever.

[stray]

I have a knack for killing threads. 

[Ratman_tf]

I have a knack for killing threads. 

Who is that in your avatar?

[schild]

Rosario Dawson.

[Morat20]

It was bullshit when he let Noah and his guild keep their characters from beta, but at least we have  FFA PVP with permadeath.

Fucking care bears locked up most of the zones as non-combat, though. Pussies.

[Sky]

Eh, you can still gank people. Just watch out for the town guards.

I just yell "bank vendor buy sell guards" when I walk down the sidewalk....just to be safe.

[Ratman_tf]

Rosario Dawson.

Ah. I totally didn't recognize her. 

[shiznitz]

Rosario Dawson.

Ah. I totally didn't recognize her. 

Because she looks hot in that picture.

[stray]

There isn't a moment when she isn't hot.

[stu]

She's gonna be awesome in KoTORO

[stray]

Oh, my bad. The thread subject is actually interesting? Huh.

[SnakeCharmer]

Surprised noone has mentioned this:



The MMO that BioWare has had in development for the last couple of years doesn't appear to be one and the same of the LA/BioWare project.

[stu]

Oh, my bad. The thread subject is actually interesting? Huh.

I was looking for balance. 

[geldonyetich2]

The MMO that BioWare has had in development for the last couple of years doesn't appear to be one and the same of the LA/BioWare project.

A solid point of evidence, but I'm choosing to disregard that out of sheer overoptimism for KOTORO. 

[schild]

Interactive product doesn't even sound like a game.

[stray]

Virtual tour guide to Tatooine.

That's SOOO 90's.

[Megrim]

Interactive product doesn't even sound like a game.

Who wants to bet that, as a sick joke, their "interactive product" is going to mean a single-player pay-for-content rpg. So like, Kotor3, but they charge you 19.99 for every chapter.