The way Bioware talked up Nightmare EC made it sound like all the bosses were going to have completely different mechanics and that they were going to practically be brand new boss fights. Instead, we got inflated HP, tighter enrage timers, trivial minor new mechanics, and a complete gutting of the entire point of one of the encounters (minefield). Kephess was the only boss to see any substantial changes, and most of those are just minor ones that manage to turn the fight into a management nightmare.
- The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (2017, colorized)
I guess I should stop even thinking about this for a while, since I'm just pissed off about it and not thinking it through completely. "Oh, subscribers will get content updates for free! But this here, this is an expansion, so pay up." Ten bucks for a single zone and some mudflation, probably no new raid until at least April or May, probably no more class stories... It just doesn't seem worth it at first blush.
I was going to go crazy about the announcement, but this sums it up nicely. I feel like I'm paying 15 bucks a month to not be punished by the free to play system, and then on top of that I have to pay for content. Whether or not $10 is worth isn't the point to me. Its that whoever is making SWTOR now - I have no idea who is actually left in Bioware - simply doesn't care. I can't bet a monthly subscription on that. I really enjoyed this game. I looked forward to it so freaking much.
I thought that when the game was in development, Bioware was bragging about having recorded tons and tons of extra dialogue for future content specifically so they wouldn't have to bring back the voice actors for a good long time.
e: also, huh. I was kind of expecting more than two of the heroic space missions to be repeatable weekly. That's... uh... rather underwhelming.
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First they came for the Muslims, and we said NOT TODAY, MOTHERFUCKERS
I thought that when the game was in development, Bioware was bragging about having recorded tons and tons of extra dialogue for future content specifically so they wouldn't have to bring back the voice actors for a good long time.
If you haven't noticed, all they've been doing is monetizing existing content... Jedi robe with a hood down that's been in the game for over a year and used on the class creation preview, and is unavailable entirely without paying money? $15.
it should be a full planet mission. And while the planet missions weren't "as good" as the class missions, they weren't bad either with their own dialog options along the way. The dialog for all of this was recorded a long time ago. They had a lot of future content already mapped out and just waiting to be programmed/built.
I thought that when the game was in development, Bioware was bragging about having recorded tons and tons of extra dialogue for future content specifically so they wouldn't have to bring back the voice actors for a good long time.
If you haven't noticed, all they've been doing is monetizing existing content... Jedi robe with a hood down that's been in the game for over a year and used on the class creation preview, and is unavailable entirely without paying money? $15.
Oh yeah, and that bit. They show Jedi Knights in every preview and screenshot with armor that simply does not exist. Then they release 3 armor sets after a year's wait, all only on the market even if you sub. They knew the demand for such items, there has been a non stickied thread for hoodless/ hood down Jedi Knight armor on the first page of the Jedi forums nearly since launch.
Pre-ordered. Saw the spring release, figured that will be a good reason to com back after wrapping up my smuggler in the next week. Might try to run preferred with my knight.
Can you mail money from one character to an alt? I gotta delete someone to start an Inquisitor and I figure I might as well not lose the cash I've got. (Damn I was poor, I'm still over 100k out from the preferred credit cap.)
They couldn't toss together one or two class missions each on the new planet? Seriously? I guess they really don't want to bring in the first string voice actors to record new lines.
I'm looking forward to every single response you can pick for the new story to use the generic canned responses that carefully make no actual reference to what is currently happening.
Murder and mayhem await!
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CambiataCommander ShepardThe likes of which even GAWD has never seenRegistered Userregular
I preordered it as well. I'm no where near being tired of this game yet. I'm hoping the expansion adds more character slots, though.
They couldn't toss together one or two class missions each on the new planet? Seriously? I guess they really don't want to bring in the first string voice actors to record new lines.
I'm looking forward to every single response you can pick for the new story to use the generic canned responses that carefully make no actual reference to what is currently happening.
Murder and mayhem await!
This is a trifling matter, but I will do it.
I wasn't planning on living forever anyway; I'm in.
I'm good, what can I say?
I'm a soldier, I get the job done.
[Force Choke].
I might buy this expansion in time to see what happens with it and such, but I think I'll pass on a pre-order.
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FreiA French Prometheus UnboundDeadwoodRegistered Userregular
Up until this point, I had the unbelievable luck and honor to be a beta tester for nearly a year, I bought my two Collector's Editions in July the day they became available for preorder, I stayed subscribed even when I didn't play for months at a time, I bought the Taun Fawn and the disappointing hat they gave out at PAX, and I even bought the "Best Deal!!11!!" $40 package of Cartel Coins, even though there's really nothing I wanted to buy in the market (I ended up wasting them on bullshit Legacy /emotes, unlocked every race even though I have every class represented, and other random Legacy unlocks).
I wanted to support a game I believed in.
In the past month, this game has turned into a completely blatant cash grab. It seems like EA is straight out calling us out as wallets and nothing more.
Almost all the content that has been added to the game recently is exclusive Cartel items. The Legacy system seems to have completely staganted, prices are all over the map (a 10k credit unlock can cost the same amount of Cartel Coins as a million credit unlock), they lowered the Legacy level needed for everything, but hey, you can buy it all with Cartel Coins!
While every single other MMO had some kind of holiday event, TOR simply said "Hey, there's no event, but you can buy festive Life Day items in the Cartel Market for $25!" Why would you? If you only play the game, you'd never even know what the fuck Life Day is, because it's not in the fucking game. Well, except in the Cartel Market. Be festive!
Bugs, memory leaks, and other assorted problems that need to be fixed (and have been acknowledged by the development team) are still prevalent after numerous patches. You know what gets a patch every week? The Cartel Market. If something Market related is glitched, it gets fixed that day.
Armor. Let's talk about armor. All the tiers look alike. There's a shitload of armor that has been shown in every video since TOR's inception that had to have been in the game at some point, but you can't find it anywhere in the game, so we all look like clones. How about that armor on the fucking character creator screen? People want that. A cloak where you can have the hood down? That'd be nice. Do you know where you can get all new sets of armor? Nope, not in a new op or FP. You buy them with Cartel Coins in the Cartel Market! Whee!
On a similar note, the Security Key, VIP, and Collector's Edition vendors have had the same inventory since day 1. One of them has one item. A speeder. That's it. Tons of Cartel Market specific pets, mounts, /emotes/ toys/ etc. continuously spewing out though every week or two.
The new "mini-expansion" just rubs me the wrong way. 1 planet, no class quests, no new races, no new classes, but hey, 5 more levels to gain! To me, that just sounds like a nice little update. A new patch. Nope, EA can't call it that because they said updates will always be free to subscribers, hence the "expansion whoo!" going on. You have to buy it with real money, and you can't even use the fakebucks from the Market to buy it.
This game is not getting the attention it needs. EA is completely focused on the fantastic plan of selling everything, making a crapload of cash short-term, then the game will completely die off because all of these ornately festooned characters riding their $18 Xmas light speeder will get tired of nothing to do. I can't overstate this enough, this is why everyone left in the first place two months after launch.
Listen, I understand. They spent hundreds of millions of dollars to make WoW with lightsabers to get that sweet, sweet WoW money. They failed, and EA wants the money they promised themselves when they backed this game. I understand that, and I know that the Doctors and most of what makes up Bioware have left the company. Everyone that's left has to focus on bringing in cash so they can continue to describe themselves as "employed". I know this. However, following this business plan will find you unemployed or working on the next Sims cell phone game within a year.
Can you just tone it down a notch? We want to give you money. People are blowing hundreds of dollars on those stupid gambling packs, because it scratches multiple OCD itches, but sweet jesus, can you give us something to make us want to give you money without making your attempts to suck the playerbase dry that has supported you this whole time so blatantly obvious? Those packs are fun for a month or two, then everyone will realize the spending/reward ratio is, and everyone will leave.
I feel like EA is openly taunting us, testing our limits, and seeing what we will fall for, and I morally can't support that. I actually feel dirty logging in nowadays.
Jesus, Blizzard and all of their shenanigans are downright endearing compared to what TOR has turned into.
Sorry for the random whining, people still love the game, but I no longer do, and I see it as that girlfriend you once had and cared for, but she ran away to be a BDSM slave and got in over her head. You want to help, but she made her choices, and she only sees you as client #366504. I don't want the game (or the imaginary ex) to fail, but they're hauling ass down that road with no brakes.
TL;DR: I'm a whiny self-entitled bitch, and I'm bad, and I should feel bad. Also, I smell like poo.
I'll probably get it, but without class content I consider it something I ought to be getting as part of my subscription. With both the new space missions and the holiday stuff basically being behind a pay wall, it is becoming less clear what I'm paying them $15 a month for.
Every class storyline comes to a full and complete conclusion at the end of chapter 3, though. There's no good room for a chapter 4. It'd have to be chapter 1 of a sequel story, and getting that delivered piecemeal would suck.
As for voice clips, be serious. New voicing for Kaon, Lost Island, Black Hole, Explosive Conflict, Terror From Beyond, Section X ... there isn't a single piece of post-launch content that's been pieced together out of generic lines.
I felt the exact same way with LOTRO a couple years back. Only there it went more like:
1) Release a 5-level "Expansion" that had originally been intended as a free content update in order to reset everyone's gear and get a quick cash infusion
2) Get bought out by Warner Brothers
3) Go Free to Play
I guess I have more tolerance for F2P shit since I continued playing that for about a year after the switch. Maybe it's just the six month break I took from TOR when my guild and all my friends stopped logging in. But I get what you're saying about the cash shop; I look over it and can't find a thing worth spending my funbucks on, or the only things that look enticing just feel wrong that they should only be available this way (those damn Jedi outfits).
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CorehealerThe ApothecaryThe softer edge of the universe.Registered Userregular
Well, at least I got what I wanted from returning and had some genuine fun for a time. And I am still chugging along with the Trooper and IA stories.
Bioware is going to go the way of Mythic at this rate, money making aside.
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CambiataCommander ShepardThe likes of which even GAWD has never seenRegistered Userregular
I don't feel like anyone is being too whiny, truly. I think Bioware is handling this as wrong as can be. The thing is I still have hope that they'll pull their heads out of their asses before too long. And I'm still enjoying the game. We'll see where I am when it's time to renew my subscription in April, but I think it'll be a year at least before I'm done with this game, unless they really fuck things up on the expansion.
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It probably helps that I really, really like the battlemaster gear set, and that I got that gear set for my main and first alt, as well as all the schematics for my synthweaver to make once I finally have one. So the gear problems don't bother me as much.
Every class storyline comes to a full and complete conclusion at the end of chapter 3, though. There's no good room for a chapter 4. It'd have to be chapter 1 of a sequel story, and getting that delivered piecemeal would suck.
As for voice clips, be serious. New voicing for Kaon, Lost Island, Black Hole, Explosive Conflict, Terror From Beyond, Section X ... there isn't a single piece of post-launch content that's been pieced together out of generic lines.
I don't remember having any lines in Explosive Conflict. Just dodging some missiles from the tanks. On Black Hole, you get, what...four lines on the one and only quest that gives no companion affection? Never done the others, but I don't remember any player dialogue in the other two Operations.
I do agree that it's a bit unrealistic to expect another fully developed class story chapter, but it'd be pretty disappointing if the only continuation of your character's story was a few throwaway lines. It seems like some middle ground where there are class specific missions that involve your companions and/or other characters from your arc ought to be possible.
hold your head high soldier, it ain't over yet
that's why we call it the struggle, you're supposed to sweat
Every class storyline comes to a full and complete conclusion at the end of chapter 3, though. There's no good room for a chapter 4. It'd have to be chapter 1 of a sequel story, and getting that delivered piecemeal would suck.
As for voice clips, be serious. New voicing for Kaon, Lost Island, Black Hole, Explosive Conflict, Terror From Beyond, Section X ... there isn't a single piece of post-launch content that's been pieced together out of generic lines.
I don't remember having any lines in Explosive Conflict. Just dodging some missiles from the tanks. On Black Hole, you get, what...four lines on the one and only quest that gives no companion affection? Never done the others, but I don't remember any player dialogue in the other two Operations.
Republic Black Hole doesn't even have any lines. All their quests are solely from mission terminals.
- The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (2017, colorized)
I do agree that it's a bit unrealistic to expect another fully developed class story chapter, but it'd be pretty disappointing if the only continuation of your character's story was a few throwaway lines. It seems like some middle ground where there are class specific missions that involve your companions and/or other characters from your arc ought to be possible.
Something like one mission where you arrive on the planet or are invited there, and they bring up the events at the end of your story and let you comment on them. Then you kill some stragglers or wrap up some other loose end in a mission with a few parts to it. Then I'd say one companion mission for your first companion, and then one of those where you actually get to see all your companions in a cutscene. Doesn't have to introduce new story, even, it could just help wrap things up a bit more tidily.
Only one I've finished completely is BH, so something like...
You're approached to hunt down a new bounty on Makeb, and the Imperials either trust you completely or are wary of you, depending on if you killed that last Sith, let the Republic guy go free, etc. It could be another of that final Jedi's apprentices or friends (I think you can spare a few in the last fight, or they run away, or something?). Have a quest where Mako finds out more about the whole Republic cloning thing, maybe the head doctor has shown up on Makeb. I forget how it ended, I think you only ever met the 'real' Mako and never any of the people actually behind the whole thing. At the end have the Jedi/bounty trap you alone somehow, all your friends show up to save the day, final boss, another cool cutscene, done.
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AssuranIs swinging on the SpiralRegistered Userregular
So that is why we've ('mercs and 'mandos) been left to rot.
They're raising the level cap and will "fix" us then.
Color me unimpressed.
Anyways, 5 levels and NOT adding to our class story is stupid.
I do agree that it's a bit unrealistic to expect another fully developed class story chapter, but it'd be pretty disappointing if the only continuation of your character's story was a few throwaway lines. It seems like some middle ground where there are class specific missions that involve your companions and/or other characters from your arc ought to be possible.
Something like one mission where you arrive on the planet or are invited there, and they bring up the events at the end of your story and let you comment on them. Then you kill some stragglers or wrap up some other loose end in a mission with a few parts to it. Then I'd say one companion mission for your first companion, and then one of those where you actually get to see all your companions in a cutscene. Doesn't have to introduce new story, even, it could just help wrap things up a bit more tidily.
Only one I've finished completely is BH, so something like...
You're approached to hunt down a new bounty on Makeb, and the Imperials either trust you completely or are wary of you, depending on if you killed that last Sith, let the Republic guy go free, etc. It could be another of that final Jedi's apprentices or friends (I think you can spare a few in the last fight, or they run away, or something?). Have a quest where Mako finds out more about the whole Republic cloning thing, maybe the head doctor has shown up on Makeb. I forget how it ended, I think you only ever met the 'real' Mako and never any of the people actually behind the whole thing. At the end have the Jedi/bounty trap you alone somehow, all your friends show up to save the day, final boss, another cool cutscene, done.
in an earlier interview, they said that a lot of your past decisions are being taken into account in the new makeb stuff. Supposedly a few branching storylines are also involved. I take this as meaning there's a bit more involved than just "recycling" old lines.
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FreiA French Prometheus UnboundDeadwoodRegistered Userregular
Yeah, I will do what I always do... drop out of the game for months and then come back when I'm not tired of it anymore. In the mean time, I think my starship is missing me in STO.
Can you mail money from one character to an alt? I gotta delete someone to start an Inquisitor and I figure I might as well not lose the cash I've got. (Damn I was poor, I'm still over 100k out from the preferred credit cap.)
@Digito You can mail money if you are subscribed, if not, just pop a crappy level 5 green on the exchange for a bit over you want to transfer, then buy it with your richer character. You will loose a bit of money in AH fees, but it is fairly easy. Bonus points if someone else buys your green pistol for 250k or something.
Can you mail money from one character to an alt? I gotta delete someone to start an Inquisitor and I figure I might as well not lose the cash I've got. (Damn I was poor, I'm still over 100k out from the preferred credit cap.)
@ Digito You can mail money if you are subscribed, if not, just pop a crappy level 5 green on the exchange for a bit over you want to transfer, then buy it with your richer character. You will loose a bit of money in AH fees, but it is fairly easy. Bonus points if someone else buys your green pistol for 250k or something.
Subscribers are supposed to have full access to all of the emotes right? Including things like /superflex and /intimidate? Because when I try to use either of those Im told I either need to subscribe or find one in a cartel pack. Not sure if bug.
I didn't know you could buy your own auctions. Nearly every other MMO prevents you from doing that.
TOR is very strange about the way it treats characters in the same legacy. It acts very much as if each character were a completely separate account. For example when I'm writing emails to other characters in my legacy, the from box starts to autofill the names of other people in my guild, including my alts, so I usually only have to type a few letters and I have the name (this is helpful because one of my toons uses a special character in the name, something I've regretted doing ever since). But it does not autofill for my alts on the imp side. It seems like it would be an easy thing to impliment, to make autofill work on alts as well as guildies, but no.
Subscribers are supposed to have full access to all of the emotes right? Including things like /superflex and /intimidate? Because when I try to use either of those Im told I either need to subscribe or find one in a cartel pack. Not sure if bug.
No, those two you have to get via Cartel Packs or on the AH.
- The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (2017, colorized)
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NocrenLt Futz, Back in ActionNorth CarolinaRegistered Userregular
Cam, don't regret using special characters. Have you ever gotta a spam /tell or email on that character?
Also, although this doesn't work cross-faction, you can just add your alts to your friends list. That will also quickly pull up their names when sending mail.
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CambiataCommander ShepardThe likes of which even GAWD has never seenRegistered Userregular
Also, although this doesn't work cross-faction, you can just add your alts to your friends list. That will also quickly pull up their names when sending mail.
Well the only toons I need it for are cross-faction so
Subscribers are supposed to have full access to all of the emotes right? Including things like /superflex and /intimidate? Because when I try to use either of those Im told I either need to subscribe or find one in a cartel pack. Not sure if bug.
No, those two you have to get via Cartel Packs or on the AH.
Then the ingame message when you try to use /superflex and /intimidate shouldnt say:
"This emote us restricted and accessed through either Subscription or an item unlock. Mood and Emote unlocks are often found in Packs available on the Cartel Market."
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I was going to go crazy about the announcement, but this sums it up nicely. I feel like I'm paying 15 bucks a month to not be punished by the free to play system, and then on top of that I have to pay for content. Whether or not $10 is worth isn't the point to me. Its that whoever is making SWTOR now - I have no idea who is actually left in Bioware - simply doesn't care. I can't bet a monthly subscription on that. I really enjoyed this game. I looked forward to it so freaking much.
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e: also, huh. I was kind of expecting more than two of the heroic space missions to be repeatable weekly. That's... uh... rather underwhelming.
If you haven't noticed, all they've been doing is monetizing existing content... Jedi robe with a hood down that's been in the game for over a year and used on the class creation preview, and is unavailable entirely without paying money? $15.
Oh yeah, and that bit. They show Jedi Knights in every preview and screenshot with armor that simply does not exist. Then they release 3 armor sets after a year's wait, all only on the market even if you sub. They knew the demand for such items, there has been a non stickied thread for hoodless/ hood down Jedi Knight armor on the first page of the Jedi forums nearly since launch.
PSN: ShinyRedKnight Xbox Live: ShinyRedKnight
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Murder and mayhem await!
This is a trifling matter, but I will do it.
I wasn't planning on living forever anyway; I'm in.
I'm good, what can I say?
I'm a soldier, I get the job done.
[Force Choke].
I might buy this expansion in time to see what happens with it and such, but I think I'll pass on a pre-order.
ed: also, did the extra character slots for preferred players go in yet? They were gonna give us what, two more or something?
that's why we call it the struggle, you're supposed to sweat
Up until this point, I had the unbelievable luck and honor to be a beta tester for nearly a year, I bought my two Collector's Editions in July the day they became available for preorder, I stayed subscribed even when I didn't play for months at a time, I bought the Taun Fawn and the disappointing hat they gave out at PAX, and I even bought the "Best Deal!!11!!" $40 package of Cartel Coins, even though there's really nothing I wanted to buy in the market (I ended up wasting them on bullshit Legacy /emotes, unlocked every race even though I have every class represented, and other random Legacy unlocks).
I wanted to support a game I believed in.
In the past month, this game has turned into a completely blatant cash grab. It seems like EA is straight out calling us out as wallets and nothing more.
Almost all the content that has been added to the game recently is exclusive Cartel items. The Legacy system seems to have completely staganted, prices are all over the map (a 10k credit unlock can cost the same amount of Cartel Coins as a million credit unlock), they lowered the Legacy level needed for everything, but hey, you can buy it all with Cartel Coins!
While every single other MMO had some kind of holiday event, TOR simply said "Hey, there's no event, but you can buy festive Life Day items in the Cartel Market for $25!" Why would you? If you only play the game, you'd never even know what the fuck Life Day is, because it's not in the fucking game. Well, except in the Cartel Market. Be festive!
Bugs, memory leaks, and other assorted problems that need to be fixed (and have been acknowledged by the development team) are still prevalent after numerous patches. You know what gets a patch every week? The Cartel Market. If something Market related is glitched, it gets fixed that day.
Armor. Let's talk about armor. All the tiers look alike. There's a shitload of armor that has been shown in every video since TOR's inception that had to have been in the game at some point, but you can't find it anywhere in the game, so we all look like clones. How about that armor on the fucking character creator screen? People want that. A cloak where you can have the hood down? That'd be nice. Do you know where you can get all new sets of armor? Nope, not in a new op or FP. You buy them with Cartel Coins in the Cartel Market! Whee!
On a similar note, the Security Key, VIP, and Collector's Edition vendors have had the same inventory since day 1. One of them has one item. A speeder. That's it. Tons of Cartel Market specific pets, mounts, /emotes/ toys/ etc. continuously spewing out though every week or two.
The new "mini-expansion" just rubs me the wrong way. 1 planet, no class quests, no new races, no new classes, but hey, 5 more levels to gain! To me, that just sounds like a nice little update. A new patch. Nope, EA can't call it that because they said updates will always be free to subscribers, hence the "expansion whoo!" going on. You have to buy it with real money, and you can't even use the fakebucks from the Market to buy it.
This game is not getting the attention it needs. EA is completely focused on the fantastic plan of selling everything, making a crapload of cash short-term, then the game will completely die off because all of these ornately festooned characters riding their $18 Xmas light speeder will get tired of nothing to do. I can't overstate this enough, this is why everyone left in the first place two months after launch.
Listen, I understand. They spent hundreds of millions of dollars to make WoW with lightsabers to get that sweet, sweet WoW money. They failed, and EA wants the money they promised themselves when they backed this game. I understand that, and I know that the Doctors and most of what makes up Bioware have left the company. Everyone that's left has to focus on bringing in cash so they can continue to describe themselves as "employed". I know this. However, following this business plan will find you unemployed or working on the next Sims cell phone game within a year.
Can you just tone it down a notch? We want to give you money. People are blowing hundreds of dollars on those stupid gambling packs, because it scratches multiple OCD itches, but sweet jesus, can you give us something to make us want to give you money without making your attempts to suck the playerbase dry that has supported you this whole time so blatantly obvious? Those packs are fun for a month or two, then everyone will realize the spending/reward ratio is, and everyone will leave.
I feel like EA is openly taunting us, testing our limits, and seeing what we will fall for, and I morally can't support that. I actually feel dirty logging in nowadays.
Jesus, Blizzard and all of their shenanigans are downright endearing compared to what TOR has turned into.
Sorry for the random whining, people still love the game, but I no longer do, and I see it as that girlfriend you once had and cared for, but she ran away to be a BDSM slave and got in over her head. You want to help, but she made her choices, and she only sees you as client #366504. I don't want the game (or the imaginary ex) to fail, but they're hauling ass down that road with no brakes.
TL;DR: I'm a whiny self-entitled bitch, and I'm bad, and I should feel bad. Also, I smell like poo.
As for voice clips, be serious. New voicing for Kaon, Lost Island, Black Hole, Explosive Conflict, Terror From Beyond, Section X ... there isn't a single piece of post-launch content that's been pieced together out of generic lines.
I felt the exact same way with LOTRO a couple years back. Only there it went more like:
1) Release a 5-level "Expansion" that had originally been intended as a free content update in order to reset everyone's gear and get a quick cash infusion
2) Get bought out by Warner Brothers
3) Go Free to Play
I guess I have more tolerance for F2P shit since I continued playing that for about a year after the switch. Maybe it's just the six month break I took from TOR when my guild and all my friends stopped logging in. But I get what you're saying about the cash shop; I look over it and can't find a thing worth spending my funbucks on, or the only things that look enticing just feel wrong that they should only be available this way (those damn Jedi outfits).
Bioware is going to go the way of Mythic at this rate, money making aside.
I don't remember having any lines in Explosive Conflict. Just dodging some missiles from the tanks. On Black Hole, you get, what...four lines on the one and only quest that gives no companion affection? Never done the others, but I don't remember any player dialogue in the other two Operations.
that's why we call it the struggle, you're supposed to sweat
Republic Black Hole doesn't even have any lines. All their quests are solely from mission terminals.
- The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (2017, colorized)
Something like one mission where you arrive on the planet or are invited there, and they bring up the events at the end of your story and let you comment on them. Then you kill some stragglers or wrap up some other loose end in a mission with a few parts to it. Then I'd say one companion mission for your first companion, and then one of those where you actually get to see all your companions in a cutscene. Doesn't have to introduce new story, even, it could just help wrap things up a bit more tidily.
Only one I've finished completely is BH, so something like...
They're raising the level cap and will "fix" us then.
Color me unimpressed.
Anyways, 5 levels and NOT adding to our class story is stupid.
I am an unhappy panda.
in an earlier interview, they said that a lot of your past decisions are being taken into account in the new makeb stuff. Supposedly a few branching storylines are also involved. I take this as meaning there's a bit more involved than just "recycling" old lines.
I believe that's all of it, now. Used to be you needed a mix of Crystals and Comms to buy Tionese gear.
@Digito You can mail money if you are subscribed, if not, just pop a crappy level 5 green on the exchange for a bit over you want to transfer, then buy it with your richer character. You will loose a bit of money in AH fees, but it is fairly easy. Bonus points if someone else buys your green pistol for 250k or something.
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Clever!
- The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (2017, colorized)
TOR is very strange about the way it treats characters in the same legacy. It acts very much as if each character were a completely separate account. For example when I'm writing emails to other characters in my legacy, the from box starts to autofill the names of other people in my guild, including my alts, so I usually only have to type a few letters and I have the name (this is helpful because one of my toons uses a special character in the name, something I've regretted doing ever since). But it does not autofill for my alts on the imp side. It seems like it would be an easy thing to impliment, to make autofill work on alts as well as guildies, but no.
No, those two you have to get via Cartel Packs or on the AH.
- The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (2017, colorized)
Well the only toons I need it for are cross-faction so
Then the ingame message when you try to use /superflex and /intimidate shouldnt say:
"This emote us restricted and accessed through either Subscription or an item unlock. Mood and Emote unlocks are often found in Packs available on the Cartel Market."
Bolding mine.