The Old Republic Population Shrinking
- Thread starter Greg Tito
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A lot of people seem to think 1.3 million means 'dying'. If they continue to decay subs at this rate they'll die, but 1.3 million is still very strong for an MMO.
Hopefully they'll merge servers soon. I suspect the bleed won't stop until they do.
Hopefully they'll merge servers soon. I suspect the bleed won't stop until they do.
It will be free-to-play within the year, I garentee it.
You just can't do subscription base MMO's anymore. People don't want to spend 90 dollars a year to play a single game when their are so many cheaper alternatives, ones that actually have more active combat than "click hotkey for auto attack on selected enemy." WoW won't be killed by a single MMO coming to meet the challenge in an epic clash of MMOs, it will die as a whimper, with the player base slowly shrinking to nothing.
You just can't do subscription base MMO's anymore. People don't want to spend 90 dollars a year to play a single game when their are so many cheaper alternatives, ones that actually have more active combat than "click hotkey for auto attack on selected enemy." WoW won't be killed by a single MMO coming to meet the challenge in an epic clash of MMOs, it will die as a whimper, with the player base slowly shrinking to nothing.
How about, "non-MMO priced MMO," since every other game that isn't a MMO is that price or less, and nobody calls that free to play.kortin said:
the game is basically like playing a crappier version of kotor, but with co-op. witch is good.
but you'll play once then you'll move on... like kotor.
as a mmorpg its lame. there's really no need for the massive multiplayer aspect. actually all it does is give away who your companions will be. so the only thing having millions of other people running around adds is story spoiler's and immersion breaks.
I know WoW has established what a mmorpg is, but honestly I think ultama-online way back in the day was the only mmorpg to do anything with having millions of people on a game.
the level of freedom and reliance on people to populate the world led to a lot of emergent fun.
now all mmorpgs seem to try and focus on the "oooo.. piece of candy" addiction elements. witch just don't seem to work on me.
but you'll play once then you'll move on... like kotor.
as a mmorpg its lame. there's really no need for the massive multiplayer aspect. actually all it does is give away who your companions will be. so the only thing having millions of other people running around adds is story spoiler's and immersion breaks.
I know WoW has established what a mmorpg is, but honestly I think ultama-online way back in the day was the only mmorpg to do anything with having millions of people on a game.
the level of freedom and reliance on people to populate the world led to a lot of emergent fun.
now all mmorpgs seem to try and focus on the "oooo.. piece of candy" addiction elements. witch just don't seem to work on me.
not really 'false' so much as not remembering. but i spent most my time as a Sith Warrior so that might have something to do with it to.animehermit said:
(and I'll take my Brutes over my Sith Warrior any day)
*shrugs* i like how CoH dose it more. just feels better to me
oh ... your republic ... your argument is now invalid /jokenever could get into the republic stuff, wasn't really that interesting to me, though, i can't seem to make my self care enough to finish act 1 on my rerolled warrior, let alone start act 2 on the server i left.
where as i have >.> *logs into CoH real quick to confirm* 25 characters on one server, with an average lvl of 20. sorta speaks greater volumes that I'm willing to repeat a lot of content that many times in one game, but i can't even force my self to care about content for characters i've never played, or only done once before.
course that only compared to ONE of the MMO's i play.
though compared to the other two, ToR wins on story, shallow as it is, but loses HORRIBLY [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NX83IoehAGE] on combat [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4SRXsiQCB4]
but over all, i've figured out, ToR is not for me, my prior post was based on my time with it and what i ended up leaving it with. which, was not a favorable opinion of it, and the legacy system is no inspiration to return after having a look at it.
Indeed. It's like calling Portal 2 'Free to play'. I highly doubt anyone would ever claim that's the case.animehermit said:
How about just 'subscription-based MMO' like all the rest? Amazon.co.uk has TOR new for £22, which is just about what I paid for WoW and each expansion pack (18-25 area). Initial buying price differs from place to place.Not G. Ivingname said:
TOR? I thought the other person was talking about the pricing of Guild Wars 2.Amnestic said:
Edit: Yes, I looked how that line of converstation was about GW2, not TOR, which has a $60 price tag and no subscription fees.
I've heard from multiple sources that it was terrible.Filiecs said:
I realize how negative and blunt that sounded, so here's a picture of a cat doing people things.
It was funny to me when half a dozen of my wow playing friends left to play TOR. I did not partly because of how invested I was in WoW and because my computer simply couldn't run it. it wasn't a loss to me, I love wow.
Within a month, every last one of them was back to playing WoW. and I had a month's worth of better gear then them
Within a month, every last one of them was back to playing WoW. and I had a month's worth of better gear then them
