SW: The Old Republic, Will you Buy it?

[ShadowsofHope]

Yes I will. I'm enjoying myself playing through the beta, and going through my character's story.

So yeah, since I'm enjoying myself playing it, I'll be buying the game.

Gameplay is weak, but then again every Bioware game except MDK 2 has weak gameplay, so whatever.

Ditto. I am in the beta myself, and so far the Bounty Hunter, the Jedi Knight, the Sith Warrior, and the female Trooper (Jennifer Hale, ftw!) are all greatly written storyline's with multiple venues just to have fun and enjoy yourself the entire (mostly) ride.

I've already got TOR pre-ordered, and get early access on December 15th. Going to miss my current, mid-twenties leveled beta characters, but.. I'll be able to recreate them permanently soon enough!

 

[sinterklaas]

Absolutely not. I'd rather eat my own shit than play a Star Wars game. And what I've seen of it, it looks unbelievably silly and a billion times worse than WoW, which already isn't top notch.

 

[sumanoskae]

I haven't played the beta, and I was reluctant about the game at first, but after what I've seen of the beta, I'm liking the look of it. I'll give it a chance.

 

[DarkhoIlow]

I wanted to buy it at first,but after checking my online shop where I usually buy games from here's something I found out:

"The game won't be released at launch in Romania because the producers didn't put it in the list and decided to release it at a later date." And then on the site it says it will be released in March.

I have a guild friend in WoW which asked if he could buy the game for me and send me the code(his country is eligible at launch).You guys think it would be possible? If it's a legal code of the game it should work right?

Would like a reply to this.

 

[sir.rutthed]

Hellz ya. I'm in my second weekend test right now, and it kicks ass.

 

[Jimbo1212]

Hell yeah I am going to buy it.

Loved the beta weekends.

Why? The game is an utter rip of WoW, from the combat to the stylisation of the graphics. Just play WoW and buy Mass Effect for when you want a story.

Hellz ya. I'm in my second weekend test right now, and it kicks ass.

Same question to you - why?
It is just running, talking, and a tiny bit of combat.

 

[Nimcha]

I don't see this game going f2p anytime soon, especially with the decline of WoW, I bet they smell big subscriptions (though to judge by this thread, very few are actually excited about it)

If there's one thing I've learned is that the Escapist is not a representation of the world of gamers. In any way.

 

[Eventidal]

Ha, pay a subscription fee to play a Star Wars extended universe game, which also happens to be a WoW clone MMORPG with Bioware dialogue attached?

Guild Wars 2 is coming soon. Beta can't be far away now, and I'm willing to bet it'll be out in 6 months or so. GW2 is a MMORPG that fixes everything I hate about MMORPGs, or at least IS TRYING TO. Which earns it a hell of a lot of credit, especially when its competition is a ton of games that are blatantly ripping off the same gameplay style WoW popularized, and happily in step with all the things I hate about MMORPGs. GW2 doesn't even have a subscription fee. I like owning my games, and I'll happily own GW2. But ToR is to me as Final Fantasy 14 was. Dead on arrival.

 

[Ledan]

Nope. I have skyrim and i am waiting for the better game: GW2.
When/If swotor goes free to play ill try it. Just like wow.

 

[iFail69]

Yes. Basically.

Been waiting for Bioware to release an MMO for a while now, and now they are.

 

[Filiecs]

Nope, I'm waiting for The Secret World right now. To me, it looks better than both TOR and GW2 combined.

 

[karkar]

Subscription fee = dealbreaker for me. No matter how much I'd want to play a subscription MMO, using $15 a month to fund playing one game is simply too impractical for me. Although the Star Wars fan in me is dying a little inside

 

[Jedoro]

I'd love to, even after playing WoW for years and eventually just getting sick of it. I've tried going back to WoW but just don't find it fun anymore, yet I'm loving TOR. But, with full-time classes and a full-time job, I don't have the time to justify paying for it.

 

[ecoho]

Hell yeah I am going to buy it.

Loved the beta weekends.

Why? The game is an utter rip of WoW, from the combat to the stylisation of the graphics. Just play WoW and buy Mass Effect for when you want a story.

Hellz ya. I'm in my second weekend test right now, and it kicks ass.

Same question to you - why?
It is just running, talking, and a tiny bit of combat.

you know i doubt theyll answer you i will TOR is what wow should still be..... FUN!
WOW is now ether too casual or too hardcore theyve lost their balance and well its just not fun to play anymore.....

 

[Korten12]

Looks dull and boring, the art style is decent, but feels old... Not because it's bad graphics, it just looks dull and the gameplay looks like WoW, which is fun, for a bit.

I am looking forward to GW2 tho.

 

[Jimbo1212]

Hell yeah I am going to buy it.

Loved the beta weekends.

Why? The game is an utter rip of WoW, from the combat to the stylisation of the graphics. Just play WoW and buy Mass Effect for when you want a story.

Hellz ya. I'm in my second weekend test right now, and it kicks ass.

Same question to you - why?
It is just running, talking, and a tiny bit of combat.

you know i doubt theyll answer you i will TOR is what wow should still be..... FUN!
WOW is now ether too casual or too hardcore theyve lost their balance and well its just not fun to play anymore.....

Well from what I saw, neither is SWTOR. The missions are so far apart with such a large area that the majority of the game is spent running, then listening to shitty little side missions arcs which no one could care about, and then maybe, just maybe, you might level and the combat changes ever so slightly from very dull to less dull.

Hell yeah I am going to buy it.

Loved the beta weekends.

Why? The game is an utter rip of WoW, from the combat to the stylisation of the graphics. Just play WoW and buy Mass Effect for when you want a story.

Because I played WoW and it is better than it.

In some areas it is, but in others it is not.
The levelling slows horribly making the game very tedious.
Also, the end game looks identical to WoW - pointless about about whos dressed up barbie makes the biggest numbers.

Looks dull and boring, the art style is decent, but feels old... Not because it's bad graphics, it just looks dull and the gameplay looks like WoW, which is fun, for a bit.

I am looking forward to GW2 tho.

I beg to differ. The art style is a completely rip from WoW and utterly misplaced.
Every aspect of the game is serious, from the storylines to the combat, so why the fuck do the characters look straight out of a kids cartoon?
Also, the graphics are very poor and before anyone cries "But it is meant to be low specs so everyone can play", they could just add in more option settings for the graphics eg DX10/11 options, HD textures etc.

 

[Googenstien]

Gameplay wise its super easy, especially with companions.. usually MMOs are tossing in the towel when they add NPCs that aid you to make it a SOLO game.

Classes seem very typical, nothing you havent seen before..specs and talent trees very unoriginal.

Storymode is ok, but its Mass Effect 2 all over again and you get sucked into longass speeches where you look for Red (Evil) or Blue (Good) responses not caring what they say and the few words that they have you chose arent even what you actually say to the NPC (Dragon Age2) This is also bad if you happen to be in a group, your group mates are stuck waiting as you "converse"

PVP.. seems to be an afterthought and its the same old typical modes thrown in once again like any FPS game. I am sure they will be in a constant balancing mode with classes and people will of course focus on 1 vs 1 and not the overall team aspect balance.

That being said.. the game will sell alot to start and we shall see if there is enough content there to support the masses.. I doubt it tho.

Oh its hard to judge graphics in these public weekend betas where things are cranked down and many features such as AA arent even on. To me there was hardly a difference from lowest settings to max settings other than shadows filling things out more. Spell effects did stand out to me tho, they can look pretty good cranked up.

 

[The Human Torch]

It's basically WoW with a Star Wars skin and voice-over, and I am so done with MMO's of that kind. Eagerly awaiting Guild Wars 2 though.

If your expecting something radically different from GW2... oh dear. Certainly the Eurogamer Expo demo that was playable wasn't that special or different.

To the people bitching about SW:tOR needing Origin... only if you buy it from Origin...

I am not expecting Guild Wars 2 to reinvent the wheel, however, the changes it has made, do speak to me.
Mainly; dynamic combat, ever-changing world, quests are given on the fly (no need to find an NPC) and it's a monstrous improvement when it comes to the graphics.