EA's Betting That Bashing WoW Will Sell More Old Republic
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Bashing a game similar to yours does not make me want to get your game, it makes me think that you're trying to cover up some of your own product's flaws by using arguments along the lines of:
"Look at how stupid X is on the dominant company's game" - while secretly meaning: "I hope they notice our improved X and not how we cut costs on Y feature";
Needless to say that I was very hyped for ToR but after hearing this from a man working for the company that brought us the "Sin to Win", "False Christian protests", "Your mom will hate it"; etc. ad-campaigns; I can definitely say that my interest-level took a plunge as well as my expectations for this title.
"Look at how stupid X is on the dominant company's game" - while secretly meaning: "I hope they notice our improved X and not how we cut costs on Y feature";
Needless to say that I was very hyped for ToR but after hearing this from a man working for the company that brought us the "Sin to Win", "False Christian protests", "Your mom will hate it"; etc. ad-campaigns; I can definitely say that my interest-level took a plunge as well as my expectations for this title.
I heard its mainly apparently to be late 2011, since they also expect Beta testing to be this year (granted beta's could also go through 2011 to 2012, like the game MAG, and I think Rift, can't say for sure though) but from the quality of the game already, its hard to imagine a 2012 release date.Woodsey said:
You bastard! I wanted to play it but the line was too long, oh well, at least I can dry my tears with Geoff and Gus's autographs, lolZeroMachine said:
i think releasing the game close to GW2 is kind of a bad idea since GW2 wont have subsciptions and people who play wow will probably more used to fantasy then sci fi fantasy.
Except many dislike the GW idea after the first one, and with GW2 release date seemingly 'soon' there's been awful little details on the game itself. Plenty of promises, plenty of big words but no proofs so far. I personally don't hold my breath for it, as i don't really expect from TOR either.Jegsimmons said:
All this talk about biting on WoW is pretty boring PR tho, im pretty sure the heads at EA as well as other devs/publishers know well that unless they conquer Asian market they won't ever be close to Blizzard's subscription numbers. Why even bother? Make a good game, show it to people and let them decide. Plenty of NA/EU MMO gamers are tired of WoW for quite some time now, and then recently the latest patch even made it more obvious.
It's weird , no other genres really do this balls-out approach of attacking the big dogs within the same genre. I mean yeah, BulletStorm made a few pops at CoD, but it's not like marketing for Medal of Honor was all "IT'S BETTER THAN COD!"
Look, the chances are, your MMO won't be better than WoW. As much as people protest, it's a well built game that keeps 12 million people playing. Yes, eventually someone will compare your game to WoW. But don't embarrass yourself by saying your game is better. And don't do the Fallen Earth approach of taking the piss out of Fantasy MMOs and then you have to fire half your dev team three months later.
Look, the chances are, your MMO won't be better than WoW. As much as people protest, it's a well built game that keeps 12 million people playing. Yes, eventually someone will compare your game to WoW. But don't embarrass yourself by saying your game is better. And don't do the Fallen Earth approach of taking the piss out of Fantasy MMOs and then you have to fire half your dev team three months later.
Heh, I got their autographs too... and Stemage's (the guys that did Metroid Metal)... and I met the lead writer of SWTORdanpascooch said:
Sorry, enough bragging... the only reason I waited in line was because it was my friend's and my primary goal of the weekend. We got there 3 minutes after the Expo center opened and still had to wait 5 1/2 hours
Totally worth it, though. We managed to beat the demo.
So they fail to see why WoW is popular. Quests has nothing to do with it, they help you level and show the world of the game, get reputation with factions, maybe attunements and after that theyre optional.
If you want your MMO to survive more then 3 months besides WoW, pack it with engame content and stuff to do. You can have all your fancy talking, interactive and whatever quests, but if you cant keep your players, youre F-ed.
If you want your MMO to survive more then 3 months besides WoW, pack it with engame content and stuff to do. You can have all your fancy talking, interactive and whatever quests, but if you cant keep your players, youre F-ed.
to quote ben yahtzee " as the friend of the feces powered helicopter said this shit will not fly"
http://toroz.com.au/2010/01/bioware-announce-launch-window-for-swtor-april-2011-at-earliest/Tyyka said:
They have said for months now they are aiming for a spring launch.