Are you buying Star Wars the Old Republic?

[Rednog]

I preorderd the collectors way back in august when I was still playing wow, I quit MMORPGs in september, sadly my preorder was nonrefundable and I'm somewhat stuck with it. But from the beta I really wasn't impressed, I might just play the 30 days free and not touch it again.

 

[Kyrinn]

Maybe. I'm going to wait and see if the endgame is worth it. So far not impressed with the pvp exploiting to level 50 in less than a day. If it goes free to play I might play it for the story.

 

[Dularn]

I played in the beta up to level 25 and loved it.

The heavy focus on an individual story is refreshing in a mmo. I would consider it worth the purchase based on the strength and sheer amount of content available - 8 stories that are at least 100 hours each. I have no idea what endgame is like but I love what I experienced so far. I enjoyed leveling which is rare for me in an mmo and I love the range of choices available. Being able to play a light side sith for example.

The one thing stopping me is that they havn't even announced a release date for it in Australia. I understand wanting a staggered release to make it as smooth as possible but the lack of news regarding when we are going to get it has been seriously disheartening. Even a rough eta or an explanation of the factors that will determine when they start opening it up to other territories will be appreciated.

It is ironic that the only time I have ever considered purchasing a game on Origin, a store I despise in many ways, I have been unable to. I can't think of any other time EA has refused to take my money. I'm sure when they finally open it to Australian's we will be price gouged as usual and expected to pay $100.

 

[Supernova2000]

no, I love KotOR I and II but I won't play MMO's

if only they could have made KotOR III like they said

(oh and George Lucas keeps ruining Star Wars.... nnnooooooooo!)

Not only that but they actually had the sheer gall to say that making TOR is equivalent to making KoTOR 3-10 and shipping them all at once! How can that be the case, I ask you, when - from what I've seen and read about it so far - TOR doesn't even acknowledge the existence of KoTOR 2?

http://www.swtor.com/news/bwblog/developer-blog-how-content-team-makes-it-happen Second paragraph.

I love KoTOR 2 because it boldly attempts to evolve beyond the tired, clichéd, 2-dinentional light vs dark moral choice system that games in general are now steadily outgrowing (ala The Witcher 2!) and have been for a few years now, even though this is undermined by still being - at heart - a game in which you, as soon as you start, have to decide whether you're going for a saint or Satan playthrough and stick with it throughout since you only get the best gameplay bonuses when you're all the way good or evil but nevertheless it was a step forward! That's the advance that Bioware should be capitalising on, not burying their heads in the sand of the 70's but then, since EA are the masterminds behind this, I'll just say FUCK YOU EA!!

And just to be more nit-picky, why the FUCK is it that the dueling animations are worse than in KoTOR 1-2? http://www.swtor.com/media/trailers/designing-light-side 1:40-2:10

 

[ckriley]

I'm definitely going to be playing it, but I'm gonna wait. I never applied for the beta and didn't pre-order. So I'll probably play it next month some time after the initial hype dies down a bit.

The community is absolutely unbearable. A complete turn off and it actually does affect the game itself. It's far worse than WoW's. It's one thing to be passionate about the game, but the level of whining and crying on the SWTOR forums is the worst I've seen. And I played WoW for six years. Part of it is BioWare's fault for not doing a better job of communicating, but it seems as though the majority of the SWTOR playerbase are petulant children.

I can't imagine what's going to happen after people have been playing for a while and FOTM classes are identified and you start seeing the inevitable nerf/buff threads. Every MMO has that, but in SWTOR it will look something like this:

"Wife left me because of how OP powertechs are. She said I'm too emotionally distraught. I also may lose my job because of the depression powertechs are causing me. BW you failed at class balance and have lied to us. It's also false advertising. Worst MMO in history."

I am dead serious.

 

[shado_temple]

I'm still on the fence about it. I've never played a subscription-based MMO before, and while I did play through the stress test and thoroughly enjoyed it, I'm just not sure if I'm willing to pay $15 a month for it. It'll probably rest on whether or not my MMO-playing friends switch over.

 

[kasperbbs]

Nope. Not a big fan of star wars and the gemplay doesnt look so great either.

 

[Marcus Kehoe]

Yes, currently playing the early access and I really enjoy it. I never liked the grind of mmo's but It never gets bad in swtor, and the story elements are enjoyable. Its quality is top notch and pretty much major glitch free.
It is really nice that healers or tanks aren't necessary. Though they make it a lot easier you never need one and it makes finding groups a lot easier.

 

[Jadak]

I'm a little torn. On one hand, I don't play MMO's a whole lot, and haven't played a subscription-based one in forever. On the other hand, so far it seems like it'll have excellent single player elements and will be perfectly enjoyable to play simply as a new KOTOR game that just happens to have other players jogging around in the background.

So... Maybe?

Speaking as someone who's been playing it for 2 days now and was hoping the exact same thing, you can enjoy it that way just fine.

Plenty of issues where they actually designed it like an mmo in the sense that you might get sent off on a quest that you to be much higher level for if you don't want to work with a group, but that's less of an issue as you get Companions, and doesn't really apply to the main quests which from what I've seen so far are scaled just fine in difficulty for a single person.

But yeah, anyways. Ignoring the mmo elements as much as possible, it holds up pretty well if all you waneted out of it is Kotor 3, as I did.

 

[Dunkhelzahn]

I'm definitely looking forward to it. Sucks that the release date here in Aus is sometime in January.

 

[The Pinray]

I would, but MMOs with subscriptions are gross wastes of money. In a year of playing one game I've bought it three times over.

Then they make me pay for expansions.

Yeah, no thanks.

Sucks because it looks pretty good, but no game is worth over a hundred dollars a year.

 

[loc978]

I'll get it eventually... I imagine I'll have the free time to sink into it soon enough. For now, though, my job is too erratic and taking up too much of my time.

 

[kouriichi]

Installing right now for my early access.

So no, im not "buying" it. Ive bought it!

 

[Vrach]

Already pre-ordered it and playing Early Access, loving it so far. Story's fantastic, voice acting's way above what I expected and really good, combat's really fun and engaging and there's plenty of content, with quite a decent challenge for group stuff as well.

The game's only just started so there are some things missing (personally for me, UI control, the sooner they allow add ons the better) and in need of improvement, but the base is there and it's more than solid.

 

[2xDouble]

Nope. I might have picked it up for a few months, but the beta was pretty "meh".

 

[Funkysandwich]

No servers here in Australia, so no. Probably won't play it even if it does come out here anyway. I would've put down a pre order for it ages ago if it had launched here on the same day as everywhere else. Now I just don't have the interest anymore.

 

[Denariax]

No.

Bioware makes stories. Their games are generally littered with bugs. They're going to hype story over gameplay, when in terms of an MMORPG, is not humanely possible. I give it a year before people realize they're playing Galaxies all over again.

 

[kortin]

Nope, its terrible. It makes me puke. They should have just made kotor 3 and kept it fucking single player.

And yes, I am mad about that god damn mmo.

 

[Jadak]

No.

Bioware makes stories. Their games are generally littered with bugs. They're going to hype story over gameplay, when in terms of an MMORPG, is not humanely possible. I give it a year before people realize they're playing Galaxies all over again.

I don't know about you, but I'm quite happy if I can enjoy the game for a year before getting to that stage.

So far, it's holding up just fine as a quality, story driven experience. Well enough so that it just annoys me that it is an mmo, as it would be just fine if I could play it alone and offline just like it is, without having to deal with my problematic internet and crowded to full servers.

 

[babinro]

Yes. I gave in to my hatred of subscription models and bought the game.

It's fantastic so far and plays much like WoW with far better story in my opinion. I wish I could eliminate the MMO aspects of the game and simply play it as KOTOR 3, but this is as close as I'm ever going to get.

If the game can keep up the quality of the first 8 levels without slowing to a grinding halt, it'll be my new 2011 GOTY. Although right now it's simply too early to tell.