By all accounts, Swtor is already past its prime and destined to take its place amongst second tier MMOs, basically all the good ones that are not WoW. It’s not really surprising and I believe most people were already predicting such a fate. So, the game is not dead but it’s not the revolution many, myself included, hoped it would be. I think Swtor legacy will be the storytelling which will probably have to be picked up by other MMOs. In short, drab text-based MMOs are in serious danger and yes, there’s a healthy number of people who believe that storytelling is an essential part of the experience. Right up there with loot and raids.
With this I find myself in sort of odd position. I don’t feel all the doom and gloom. I have a healthy guild, we’re raiding, we’re having fun and I’m just enjoying the game. I know not all is well and that some servers are reporting crazy low numbers but me… not seeing one ounce of it.
So here I am today, wishing the best for a game I enjoy a lot and hoping that there won’t be too much damage during the coming transition phase. If ever Swtor was fall apart I would honestly be at a loss as to what to do and I can’t imagine myself going back to a game like WoW.
The only weird thing for me is I am not used to there being a max level. I know this is plenty for me to do, but coming from Eve where you are literally never even close to being done training skills. Most ships that I could fly with maxed out gear still could have benefited from months to years of additional skill training refinement. In SWTOR, I got to 50, and now, even thought I know I am no where near being done, it feels like my character is developed, and that he can’t really get much better. I know this to be very false, but it’s just another example of how I need to break the mindset.
That’s good you’re still enjoying it, it’s a nice solid game. Voice overs are nice for me but not a necessity, I do love them in the BioWare games though! No one does it like BW.
I’m having a similar disjointed feeling about all the SWTOR doom and gloom. I just don’t see the hemorrhage everyone else seems to be lamenting. Our server looks good, our guild is great, and honestly, everything’s rosy from where I sit. But then again, an MMO being “second tier” won’t bother me at all. I played WoW because I loved WoW not because I had to play the “biggest best game” or whatever. If I’m “retiring” to a smaller community, so be it. LOTRO has its dedicated endgame culture, it doesn’t need 10 million subs to do that, and I don’t either. I don’t feel threatened by the “second tier” label I guess. I do miss the lively blogosphere, but that’s about it.
Last night after our raid Conte was telling me his brother said the recent patch was a major let down. I told Conte that I think people expect too much. I guess his brother was real bummed about some PvP stuff that they delayed, but since I don’t PvP I know nothing about it. I told him to remind his brother that a delay is actually better. BioWare could have acted like CCP and rushed the patch, and implemented broken, poorly considered, pointless new stuff just because THEY NEVER DELAY UPDATES (CCP…), or they could delay something in order to try and do it right. I spent 4 years in the world of mega-broken, on time releases, and I’ll take a late good release any day of the week (I am proud to say World of Tanks is going for late, but good not on time but suck). People just expect too much.
What Iyeri said. I’ll concede that my server could use slightly more players, but at the same time I’m enjoying the more tight-knit community feeling I get from the lower population. The only thing that concerns me is that the game might not meet goalposts set by EA and what this would mean for its continued development.
Otherwise I’m having a blast with pretty much every aspect of it.
I enjoy SWTOR very much, and I hate it when people decide to quit purely because they have picked up a lack of confidence from the gaming press/ blogs.
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