Ladyboys and Gentlemen of /v/, I give you the heart-wrenching tale of Anon's experience with SW:TOR.
Tissues at the ready, manly tears.
Bioware, RIP.
>Go to: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0Z9LS5QgNY >Press play >Replace lyrics with the following Every night in my dreams,
I saw you, I felt youuuu,
couldnt wait for my sub to go onnnn,
Farrrr beyond the free month,
And in patch 1.1
I thought that my sub would go onnnn,
Toooooo farrr,
You took it too far,
No longer will my sub, go onnnn,
Once moooore
You fucked with Star Wars
But the drones will still love you
Their subs wiiiilllll go onnnn aaaand onnn
Forum posts at one time
Get replied - "end ooof riiine",
and the bannu will last till were gooone,
Loved KOTOR 1 and 2
Good games, I hold too,
Two vidya, I'll always replay
Toooooo farrr,
You took it too far,
No longer will my sub, go onnnn,
Once moooore
You fucked with Star Wars
But the drones will still love you
Their subs wiiiilllll go onnnn aaaand onnn
Nooo cheeeeers, there's no high textures heeeeere,
No looonger will my sub go onnnn,
Nooo way, until you gooo free to playyy,
You've been uninstalled
and my sub wont go onnn aaaand onnnnn
Anonymous
Bravo anon, unless you copied and pasted this, then you are an awful person.
Anonymous
>>124923869 This is 100% original content bro.
Anonymous
/v/ needs to turn this into one of those singalong videos on YouTube.
Anonymous
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>>124923987 Then it deserves a bump.
Anonymous
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SHAMEFUR DISPRAY END OF RIIIIIINE!
Anonymous
Anonymous
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pretty good op
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I actually sang this. Was fun.
Anonymous
I can just imagine Leonardo DiCaprio shouting: "I'M THE KING OF THE WOOOOORLD... OF WARCRAFT!" Suddenly the Captain comes charging across the deck shouting "END OF RIIIINE" before plunging Leo into the icy depths.
Anonymous
/v/ mad as fuck cause this game is getting 8/10 10/10 everywhere else and nothing but praise. stay jelly fags :3 question what happens when it doesnt sink? will you go on to the next new game? oh yeah remember that raid you guys did back then, operation iceberg? how did that go? didnt you guys recruit reddit?
Anonymous
>>124923771 somebody better fucking save this
Anonymous
>>124925256 But, it will sink.
They've launched a game that shouldn't have been launched. Even if BioWare recover from this, they're always going to be remembered for making a diabolical MMO.
They should've just made KOTOR 3 and given it a Co Op option and left it at that. Not try and pass it off as an MMO.
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>Forum posts at one time >Get replied - "end ooof riiine", >and the bannu will last till were gooone I chuckled. However 'far' does not rhyme on 'far'. The second rine of the chorus.
Anonymous
>>124925711 i dont see how when so many people love the game. losing subs? add wookiee expansion!
need money? sell mounts and pets!
you know those fags would buy that shit too, just like wowfags.
Anonymous
>>124925256 >>124925256 Obvious Biodrone. Can tell from the use of ':3' and the lack knowledge behind why the game is getting '8/10, 10/10's'.
Anonymous
>>124925404 OP here.
I've got it saved, but the more people that are willing to repost it the better...
As:
>>124924151 needs to happen.
Anonymous
>>124926009 you're trying too hard /10
Anonymous
>>124926004 trolled i dont even play the game, why ar eyou faggots so easy to troll?
sorry but I would never touch a mmo, they all suck. they are the cancer.
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mad jelly fags u mad bro u mad?
Anonymous
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>>124926364 Jesus christ my ears. What the fuck dude.
Anonymous
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>>124926470 What? Never had music class.
Anonymous
>>124924151 I'd be willing to sing this but I'd like to know whether this will get edits or not and I should also test if my microphone is any good for singing. It /should/ be, as it's quite high quality.
Anonymous
Anonymous
>>124926636 y u trolled?
stop being butt devastated bro
Anonymous
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>>124926627 Sing it!
>>124926364 Holy shit, deep vocals.
Anonymous
David Gaydar
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Look guise how many dicks to I have to suck to get you to leave this game alone ok :3
Anonymous
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In ready to repost mode.
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>>124925992 You have to have a fanbase to be able to sell shit to people. I think the 200 players left when the free month expires aren't going to be enough to finance the game via buying mounts.
Also.
>Wookiee expansion >Not Rodian expansion >Greentext to emphasize my point Anonymous
Hilarious, but I can't stop thinking about the movie itself ;_;
Anonymous
So. this is what a TOR thread looks like without reposts and people saying the same tortanic quotes over and over again. Kind of sad. More original material so we can make fun of biodrones please.
Anonymous
Remember when people said that this would be the WoW-killer? Now TOR is among the ranks of rift, age of conan, and other mmorpgs.
Atrus' Homeboy !RiVEN4j6Fw
>>124923771 >Ladyboys WE THAILAND NOW
Anonymous
>>124928041 >WoW-Killer I will never get tired of that, never.
Anonymous
Anonymous
As much as I hate to feed the hate machine, I captured this today and feel compelled to share.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAs7mASZbMk Anonymous
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>>124928515 you do gods work son
Anonymous
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>>124928116 WoW is the video game industry's most successful troll. It's fucking hilarious.
>mfw I still play it every day Anonymous
>>124928515 You know for a Speeder, it's pretty fucking slow
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>>124929028 That's the thing, I wasn't actually on my speeder. I was on foot. I don't know what the fuck was up with the walk animation.
Anonymous
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>"Yeah get in that lifeboat, go back to WoW! We don't want you here on our multimillion dollar unsinkable ship."
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>>124928101 >implying this board isn't made up of fat neckbeards and traps >WE ALWAYS BEEN THAILAND Anonymous
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>>124928515 >all those invisible people IT'S LIKE I'M SEEING NO ONE AT ALL
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>>124923771 >But the drones will still love you >Their subs wiiiilllll go onnnn aaaand onnn Oh god, my sides. It fits so perfectly.
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I'll admit I hate MMOs and don't play them, but ever since these threads started it's been amazing to read them. I'll be cheering along with you guys when the free sub period runs out.
Anonymous
Toosting in potentially epic bread. Someone best vocaroo this.
Anonymous
http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=175099 Biodrones realized they were lied to.
This gonna get good.
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Anyone save those Stanley Woo impersonator images?
Anonymous
Keep calling it the Titanic OP, I'm sure it'll come true [sarcasm][/sarcasm]. Meanwhile SWTor is rapidly approaching 4 million units sold and if their rumored development costs are correct they've already broken even. Now it's all profit baby.
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>>124929658 >Vocaroo Wouldn't do. Too low quality
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guys i have something nice to say about TOR...the intro scenes pretty cool
Anonymous
>>124929674 >Who cares what it looks like when it plays like wet, retarded spaghetti? Can any confirm what sort of pasta ToR plays like?
Anonymous
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http://www.swtor.com/community/forumdisplay.php?f=255 Nearly 50% of the threads on main page are
1) disappoints
2) slamming the game for being shit
This is a stark contrast from a few weeks ago
Anonymous
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>>124929890 >implying i'm trolling For all it's worth, they made a good game. /v/ just doesn't like seeing an established company succeed. They reacted the same way when MW3 reached $1bn faster than any other game and when SC2 won 2010's award for being the best PC game.
Anonymous
if TOR is so good, why did it only sell 10 copies worldwide
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>>124930052 Imagine the most delicious alfredo pasta ever. Covered in rich, delicious cheese. Mmm.
Then some asshole made the pasta out of wet cardboard with shards of glass in it. Also, the cheese is made of shit. >>124930266 Forgot my picture.
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>>124929794 >4 million units sold >3.9 cancelled subscriptions within the next month >You know it to be true gb2 your citadel, biodrone.
Anonymous
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>>124929674 Can anyone provide comparison screenshots?
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This would make a great /v/ sings video. And have an instrumental version if you don't want your TOR experience defiled by Celine Dion.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWR9kvplP14 Anonymous
"Maybe it's because I understand now all items in trailers will be in the product that they advertise for? What worked in Beta doesn't work for Live. They're working on a way to allow people to view higher resolution graphics. There is no ETA on it, so if it's that big of a deal to you, move on. For me, it's not that big of a deal. As I stated above, the graphics are far better than other games I've played in the same genre, so it really doesn't bother me. " It's gold, Jerry! Gold!
Anonymous
I got bored in the first 10 days. Made it to level 30 before I asked myself; "lol wtf am i doing" (insert spiderman pic here) As a long-time player of WoW and consumer of many triple-A MMO games since 2003, ToR is actually a step backwards in terms of depth. There are many other reasons why I quit but TL;DR: It's a shallow experience.
Anonymous
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>faggots getting troleld easily why?
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And I though /v/ was just trolling because it was a bioware game, holy shit buyers remorse within 2 hours of gameplay.
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I'M A TORFAG SON OF A BITCH WOWFAG WOWFAG IS PIG DO YOU WANT A PANDA EXPANSION? DO YOU WANT A PIECE OF DOG SHIT? WOWFAG IS PIG DISGUSTING BOBBY KOTICK IS THE DEVIL FUCKING WOW
Anonymous
>releasing hi-res in a later patch
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>>124929674 Is that youtube link for real? This kind of shit footage was out in May and people STILL bought this game?
Anonymous
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>mfw I work with a guy who bought the huge $150 collector's edition and had it delivered to the studio.
Anonymous
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>>124930796 I like how even the quit message gives you a "B B BUT THE STORY!!!"
Anonymous
>swtor will sell like hotcakes and shoot ea past blizzard >ea stock down over 7.5% today >tfw
Anonymous
i can safely say this is the first game that has killed wow
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>>124931408 >mfw hamburger helper Anonymous
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>>124930913 Hope they don't sell it as DLC
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>>124931408 lost it at helper as molly brown
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>>124931408 >>124931408 >>124931408 >>124931408 >>124931408 I never laughed so hard at a tortanic video holy shit nigga 5*
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>>124931408 >helper O god my sides
Anonymous
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I honestly feel that nobody truly defends BioWare anymore. Its all just the guys who bought the CE and are now suffering from extreme denial brought on by buyers remorse. $150 for a game that failed after only 3 weeks? thats gotta hurt
Anonymous
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>>124931408 >di caprio and lady get on ea origin >people falling off tor into gw2 >stanley woo firing a weapon to ban people The subtleties.
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>>124928241 EVERYONE STAND BACK, ITS THE UNHOLY WARRIORS
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posting in an epic thread
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>>124931408 >>124931408 MY SIDES THEY HURT... they hurt!!!!
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so i recorded it from vocaroo, and im too ashamed to post it.
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>>124931408 that is fucking 10/10
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>>124932556 I never knew hippos sprayed poo like that
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>>124929674 >>124929674 >>124929674 >>124929674 >>124929674 OH BOY HERE WE GO
The 1 Biodrone who knows how to use a computer is about to start some SHIT.
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>this thread Oh lawd /v/ I love you guys
Anonymous
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>>124931408 HOLY FUCK MY SIDES
POST IT ON THE FORUMS
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>>124932556 >Hamburger Helper in her backyard.mp4 Anonymous
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>>124931408 We need a new thread with this at the top, my god.
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>>124929674 >>124929674 >Just take a look at the video linked on Youtube which was released originally by Bioware prior to release. Fast forward to about 1:10. You'll see how defined and sharp the texture looks for the Bounty Hunter armor. You'll never see this sort of clarity in gameplay with what you bought from Bioware, what you "expected" to get. Instead, we are forced to see the game at medium texture only, and the only time you truly get to enjoy your character's detail is during a cutscene. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Eu0tFcZM6w&feature=related Anonymous
>>124927863 I know, James Cameron being a greedy arrogant egotistical prick makes me really sad too.
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http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/titanic/ In Theaters: Apr 6, 2012 Wide
In Theaters: Apr 6, 2012 Wide
YOU HEARD IT HERE FIRST
Anonymous
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>>124931408 >hamburger hepler Anonymous
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>>124931408 Goddamn it /v/ there is tea all over my keyboard
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>>124929674 >TOR client is horrible at displaying multiple dynamic objects (players.) And because they, for whatever reason, haven't provided the engine with the ability to dynamically adjust to lower-res graphics when in a busy area, you have to run lower-res graphics all the time. Otherwise, being in a raid would knock you down to 12 FPS. Anonymous
SMEONE POST THIS ONT HE BIODRONE FORUMS
Anonymous
>>124933716 Isn't Lucas going to rerelease the prequels in 3D as well?
Jews everywhere
Anonymous
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>>124934231 thats probably a bio employee, theres a few of them in there trying to downplay it by replaying every 4-5 posts
Anonymous
HOLY SHIT THAT NIGGA PAPAZOOKI IS EVEN BASHING SWTOR. SHIT IS DONE IS OVER. BIOWARE IS FINISHED
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>>124934519 Papazooki, rings a bell.
Is he in one of the screenshots that gets posted around or somethin?
Anonymous
haha guys all the meme dropping and awesome photo shoop were sick . XD EPIC WIN but seriously, you guys are worse than the bio drones themselves
Anonymous
>>124930791 >As I stated above, the graphics are far better than other games I've played in the same genre Are these people blind AND retarded? Virtually every MMO released since WoW looks substantially better than TOR. To say nothing of the ones that are coming out soon
Anonymous
>mfw I hate bioware but realize how cancerous you people are making these threads every 10 minutes
Anonymous
>>124934648 what the fuck are you?/10
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>>124934763 Some sort of a hybrid? Troll/Pretending to be retarded/Biodrone/Hater?
!BAD/HbB9UU
Anonymous
>>124934655 Even WoW looks better
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>>124925056 Wait a minute, the captain of the titanic was Theoden?
Anonymous
>>124934742 sadly these threads are one of the few that are actually vidya on this board ...
Anonymous
Speaking of Stanrey Woo, notice anything here?Taken from Bungie's forums, the poster is a Bungie employee. Are these tendencies REALLY that common?
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>>124929674 >Who cares what it looks like when it plays like wet, retarded spaghetti? Anonymous
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>>124931467 It killed WoW by making it laugh so hard its lungs ripped out of its ribcage and went flying in opposite directions
Anonymous
SOMEBODY ARCHIVE THIS SHIT MY SIDES
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>>124931408 Holy fucking shit
Marlech !!C/kokg2lgEh
>>124935122 I had a dream last night. In it, /v/ was dead. But it was alright. Anonymous
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>>124931408 >bum tickley 10/10
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>>124934209 Yeah, I think Episode 1 is getting rereleased imminently
Fuck Lucas, if you HAVE to do this at least do it for the original movies. Who the fuck wants to spend 15 bucks to see the Phantom Menace again?
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>>124935422 I'd take tor hate over KS and "Whos your favorite porn star" any day.
Anonymous
>>124935134 Ever see Tron? That's how the "program" characters say when they're done speaking. It's also an older style of programming notation to denote... guess what? THE ENDS OF LINES!
So it's a nerdy/douchey/ironic/meme-ish sort of thing.
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10/10 song OP. I rejoiced heartily.
Anonymous
>>124923771 >As Seen On: "Guild Wars 2: News and Discussion." Anonymous
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>>124934655 They don't acknowledge modern MMO's because they make SWTOR look bad.
You don't know enough about biodrones if that surprises you.
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logged in, but shitty forums won't let me post. Sorution? Haven't even made a single post yet.
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>>124935564 Only the Master Control Program, the fucking main villain of the movie, says end of line.
So it's like he's admitting he's evil.
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>>124935625 too bad for you, you're wrong
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>>124929794 I'm not sure you know how tags works....
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>>124929674 Biodrones...coming to their senses
THANK YOU BASED GOD
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>>124935858 I kind of liken it to the plot of ME1. Bioware has indoctrinated their fanbase and this is that small scrap of rational independent thought they have left screaming out for help
Anonymous
Anonymous
"Several of the designers were watching the Metacritic page when it finally came up and what happened was there is a community out there, and we don't know who they are - it could be a bunch of different people - who aren't really playing the game but have a vested interest in hating the game. And we saw literally hundreds of 0/10s come up within the first couple of hours of Metacritic coming on. So it was people who weren't even playing the game basically putting on that they hated it."
SWTOR game director, James Ohlen
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-01-12-bioware-swtor-post-mortem-its-more-innovative-than-an-f ps
old news, I know, just loved the quote
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In other news, we will be adding a wordfilter to the official Star Wars the Old Republic forums. The following words will no longer be allowed on our website.>World of Warcraft >Warcraft >WoW >Blizzard >Activision >Guild Wars >GW2 >Titanic >Tortanic >Quit >Unsub >Socialism >Socialist >Marx >Marxist >North Korea >4chan Thank You.You know this is coming
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This is perfect Biodrones are starting to wipe shit from their eyes TOR will be F2P And /v/ came together, for hate.
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>>124934986 This.
>Mfw they remake all races to be on par with Thrall's new model Anonymous
Anonymous
>>124936070 Of course these same guys were taking a three week vacation after releasing an unfinished product. They had to do SOMETHING with their times.
Anonymous
Anonymous
>The spider Star Wars>The Child Bioware
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>>124936070 I'd been away from /v/ for a few days. I'm laughing so hard at that article, thanks for the link.
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Neckbeard hivemind general? Neckbeard hivemind general
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>>124936559 The child is DEFINITELY Lucas. Bioware may have raped the series, but Lucas will always have infinitely done worse.
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>>124935134 No fucking way.
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>>124936070 >Eurogamer is one of the few big sites to openly bash SW:TOR >BioWare send them a hurt feelings response Anonymous
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Lost it at Once moooore You fucked with Star Wars
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>>124936559 >The spider 300 million dollars of EA and Lucas's money
>The Child Bioware
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INB4 someone posts this on Reddit
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Goddamn /v/ gets it shit together once again.
Anonymous
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>>124936859 >implying Lucas didn't make a HUGE profit already Lucas ALWAYS makes profit. No matter what star wars game it is.
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>>124936968 It pains me to say this.
Kotick was right.
Anonymous
>>124936859 Lucas gets a THIRD of the profits and he didn't put money into this!
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>>124935564 Well, I feel enlightened!
Look in the second cap (the one with the picture) and look at the third sentence of the third paragraph. It seems coincidental that both of them would use that ridiculous phrase.
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>>124936968 Of course, he didn't have to be involved in the game at all but he gets a cut from them just using the Star Wars universe. Getting paid for doing nothing is pretty good.
Anonymous
I haven't followed a bit of TOR info since the whole thing got popular. Tell me what happened anon.
Anonymous
>"Oh that's easy," he retorted. "Several of the designers were watching the Metacritic page when it finally came up and what happened was there is a community out there, and we don't know who they are - it could be a bunch of different people - who aren't really playing the game but have a vested interest in hating the game. And we saw literally hundreds of 0/10s come up within the first couple of hours of Metacritic coming on. So it was people who weren't even playing the game basically putting on that they hated it. C'MON JUST SAY IT. IT'S THOSE DAMN 4CHAINS!
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>>124937317 Yeah i mean ignoring the fact that the game was in beta for so long and that they let everyone into the stress test weekend, it's must be hard to realize some people already knew all they needed from the game.
Anonymous
>>124937081 >1/3 the profit >NO investment Holy shit
That means he probably made 40 mil just off of sales.
Too bad he won't be getting any
subscription money Anonymous
>>124937209 >multiple exploits discovered to kill the leveling, combat and economy >bioware going full socialist on anyone trying to monopolize the AH >biodrones saying completely retarded things like usual in defense of this game >despite over 2 million initial sales, figures on a weekend peak average now show the game with about 300k people active at once >/v/ mocking everyone You're now caught up.
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>>124937209 Population dropping sharply.
TOR forums have given up hope on the game.
BIoware can't even support high quality textures.
Zombie raid.
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>>124936070 >So it was people who weren't even playing the game basically putting on that they hated it That might have something to do with the fact we all saw this game for what it was before it was even released.
Don't shit in a bowl and tell me it's chocolate ice cream.
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>>124937532 But he wi... OH. I see what you did there.
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>>124936959 That's like finding hay in a hay pile anon, go to Escapist forums, they're even worse than that!
>>124937209 More like what didn't happen, the current highlighted fuck-up is that Bioware just flicked the middle finger at their fans (again) turning medium res textures into the high res and pretended like medium was a "bug" and promised "oh yeah....we're.....we're working on it....?". Fans realized the textures were there just not being allowed (thanks to a, lol, bug which let them see high res textures) and Bioware has yet to respond other than "we're.................working on it....?"
Anonymous
Is anyone else kind of disappointed that it was the stupid graphics of all things that finally got the biodrones noticing the hole in the ship?
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>>124937698 *by turned, I meant renamed and I just realized I did the response thing twice. Pardon me, gents.
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Let's make a similar video to this:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wk8TEujsJNc Anonymous
>>124937209 Imagine a game with 2003 graphics that's more hardware demanding than crysis where characters are randomly 3 inches tall and shit breaks because they used the worst engine on the market.
They had to revoke allot of the graphics to make it run, it looks allot different from the advertisements and it looks worse than the older KOTOR's.
That's just the graphics side of it, the bullshit with the rest of the game is too much to describe in one post.
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>>124937700 Time did.
The grapfix only sped things up.
This flop just serves as an example of what not to do involving video games.
Anonymous
>>124937558 At that rate it will take them 5 and a half years to break even.
>mfw assumming their budget was 300 mil Anonymous
>>124938066 And also they have to instance the shit out of everything so people didn't crash all the time.
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>>124937894 Not really. This generation of gamers is all about the graphics.
Why do you think people 20+ saw Mega Man 9 and went "Oh! That's a neat throwback!" and the kids went "those graphics suck"?
Anonymous
>>124938187 Instance like crazy and constrain servers to a few thousand players max.
Even then since a week ago there hasn't been any full servers and the count of heavy servers has fallen too.
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>>124938168 They have to do their best to keep those 300k people.
So if you figure in an expansion or two and the costs involved you can probably set it to about 6-7 years before they start making money off this game.
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>>124938356 I believe the max player on a server is 4.5k? In WoW it's over 50k.
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Bioware bought shit servers and an underdeveloped engine. This was their doing.
Anonymous
Oh God I hope Bioware goes under.
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Living in the city where most of the Titanic's recovered bodies were processed and buried, I'm finding this whole debacle hilarious AND locally relevant!
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>>124938458 The super populated WoW servers cap at 25k.
The average WoW server caps at 10k.
Blackrock and Proudmoore would be the 25k types.
Bonechewer or Dragonblight would be the 10k types.
I say Dragonblight cause I was on that for 7 years Anonymous
>>124938675 They aren't going under.
Think of it like indoctrination, EA has so thoroughly corrupted Bioware by this point it can barely be constituted as 'alive' in the first place. It's like a marionette being played around with to satisfy EA's desire to be the most evil video game company in the buisness.
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>>124938762 >>124938458 And I believe Illidan is in the 30-40k range.
But there are servers as low as 2k.
Anonymous
http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=175363 Holy shit I haven't laughed this hard in ages. Troll or biodrone? You decide!
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>>124938893 Bioware is a marketting brand name at this point. They will use it as long as people recognize it and it makes them money.
BioWare that people knew is gone, just like Blizzard North.
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>>124939072 Capped.
Can't even let your "fans(drones)" have fun anymore.
Nice Bioware... nice
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Unlike /v/ that has always hated on TOR, the vast majority of comments on several MMO sites I frequent were praising it a month ago, and negative comments and criticisms were downvoted to oblivion. Now? It's a complete reversal. All the comments are nothing but criticizing the game, and they're all up-voted. Seriously, go to Massively and read the comments on any of the recent TOR articles. Then compare those to articles from a month ago.
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>>124938893 >Wander Bioware
>Dormin EA
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>>124939453 /v/ isn't crazy.
It's just ahead of the curve
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>>124939453 It's because we are anonymous posters. We have nothing to gain or lose by exposing our oppinions.
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>>124939317 >>124939317 >>124939317 See also:
>going to /v/ >SWTOR >GW2 >TERA Now that's just too noticeable now
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>>124938762 Ah, Proudmoore - really crowded server, and unbalanced as fuck.
Made WSG queues for the Horde super-fast though!
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>>124939453 Massively articles on TOR are fun for that exact reason.
I liked it how, for a while, SWTOR news got posted on Joystiq and not Massively.
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>>124939599 And funnily enough we are still nearly hivemind on a lot of issues.
And if I ever read something I know /v/ as a whole would disagree with, I almost instantly lose respect for the source.
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It's hilarious. We actually need to create new stages in the four stage mmo process just for biowares boards as it is now. It's a bunch of people calling Bioware on their crap and the other people are posting GREATEST GAME EVER, BIOWARE DOES IT AGAIN, I LOVE YOU SCREW HATERS They've ceased "general discussion" of the game in order to yell over each other. By the way, do we have a name for the 20-whateverth, when the iceburg initially hits as free month ends?
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>>124940007 The thing is, with all the bias, the cinism, the bigotry, with ALL THAT, we set our bar high. TOO FUCKING HIGH SOMETIMES. But high still.
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With the free month coming to an end, it's obvious that TORtanic is sinking. >More complaints than usual on the forums >Even biodrones calling bioware out on their bullshit >Servers having low populations during peak times
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>>124940179 Better it's too high than not high enough. There's always something to reach for that way.
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>>124940387 Plus biodrones being overpowered by regular pissed of SWTOR players.
Their own forums aren't even safe to drone in anymore.
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>>124940148 When the free month ends, that will be 'Impact'
When the 1.1 update hits it will be the moment where those violin players perform 'One Last Song'
When they release a graphics update to appease people unhappy with the shit-tier medium it'll be the 'I'll Never Let You Go, Jack' part.
and finally when the game goes F2P that will be 'Fetching the Necklace from the Bottom of the Ocean'
Anonymous
You think any of the game reviewers from these sites would respond to an email asking "what were you thinking?" in a month or two from now when everyone looks at TOR in hindsight and goes "yikes" ?
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>>124940715 And when it finally goes F2P, I will play it.
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>>124940827 Did they do that for DA2?
Exactly. They know no shame.
they could possibly respond with "fuck you guys, I got 850 dollars worth of ugly swag and an early copy of Mass Effect/Dragon Age 3. So there." Anonymous
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>>124940827 Fucking this. I usually respect the opinions of most of the Massively staff, but a lot of them suddenly softened up to TOR right before it officially launched.
At least Jef Reahard is still a bro. He never did really said anything good about it.
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>I used to have a signature, but then I took an arrow to the knee
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you heard it here first, folks
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http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=174399 Here's the official zombie patch thread, check it out for a nice look at the community at the moment. Initially it's hurr hurr hurr and then it turns into FIX YOUR GAME, FUCK ZOMBIES IN EVERY GAME
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>>124941662 God damn is reality going to bite that poor sod in the ass.
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>>124941662 >mfw >lol I'm going to being singing that quote for now on! Anonymous
>>124942291 It will be epic, though. Just not in the way this dickwizard thinks it'll be.
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>>124941944 >Posting about not wanting to get into the whole "EA sucks" discussion >not just ignoring the thread Everyone's retarded
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>>124941662 >2million sales Warhammer Online was considered a total failure with 1.5 million sales
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>>124937317 >declining to mention they were all waiting to shit out 10/10 "user" reviews Anonymous
I think its time for a new thread, start it up fags.
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>>124942432 Oh definitely. This is going to be one of the single most historic MMO failures.
I think the only way a game could surpass SWTOR as blunder of all human existence is if it gave anyone who bought it genital warts.
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>>124942723 But we still got another good 60 posts before we reach the limit...
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>>124942723 Not even close.
>>124942779 ST:O was a horrid failure, not sure if it's bigger than TORtanic though.
Lord of the Rings Online
April 2007 - LOTRO becomes the best selling PC game of the year
December 2007 - LOTRO dwindles but holds steady at 300,000 subscriptions
September 2010 - LOTRO becomes free to play
http://westkarana.com/index.php/2007/12/22/is-lord-of-the-rings-online-a-failure/ Age of Conan
June 2008 – Age of Conan sells over 1 million copies
February 2009 – Age of Conan drops below 100,000 subscriptions
May 2011 - Age of Conan becomes free to play
http://www.shacknews.com/article/57362/funcom-loses-23m-age-of Warhammer Online
October 2008 - Warhammer reaches 750,000 players in less than a month
January 2009 - Warhammer's subscriptions dwindle to 300,000
November 2009 - Warhammer becomes free to play
http://www.maximumpc.com/article/news/warhammer_online_slips_300000_subscribers_layoffs_rumored Star Trek Online
February 2010 - Star Trek Online launches with over 1 million accounts created and is the #1 selling PC game on Amazon
April 2010 - Star Trek Online has reportedly dwindled to 100,000 subscriptions.
January 2012 - Star Trek Online becomes free to play
http://trekmovie.com/2010/02/02/star-trek-online-launches-with-over-1-million-accounts-new-ground-vi deo/
http://www.gamespot.com/news/star-trek-online-engages-free-to-play-january-17-6344718 !BAD/HbB9UU
>>124942923 Aion
August 2009 - Aion has the biggest MMO pre-launch of the year with over 400,000 pre-orders
September 2009 - Aion becomes the best selling PC game of the year, with 1 million units sold on its western release
Now - Aion has 3.5 million subscribers in Asia but faces dwindling numbers in the Western World which has never reached even 1/3 that many subscribers
Now - Aion has gone F2P in Europe with US soon to follow.
http://www.gamespot.com/news/aion-preorders-near-400000-6228635 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aion:_The_Tower_of_Eternity Rift
March 2011 - Rift launches, sells 1 million copies
August 2011 - Rift opens free week in what was rumoured to be an attempt to boost dwindling subscriptions
Now - Trion has suspiciously never stated actual subscription numbers, but instead chose to "boast" that they took (a measly) 600k subscribers of WoW's then 12 million
http://news.mmosite.com/content/2011-06-08/rift_has_cost_50m_sold_1m_units_and_taken_6000000_players _from_wow.shtml
Not sure yet:
Star Wars: The Old Republic
December 2011 - SWTOR sells just over 1 million copies
January 2012 - SWTOR retains 350k concurrent users, "little impact" on WoW
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-01-03-swtor-has-350-000-peak-concurrent-users-report http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/entertainmentnewsbuzz/2011/12/star-wars-the-old-republic-game.html Anonymous
>>124942989 You should update that pasta with an article on SWTOR dropping 20 something places in the UK rankings.
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>>124928241 >"He will join us or die, my master." >Darth Vader >A New Hope Wait, the Emperor was in Episode IV?
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>>124943309 Probably mentioned at one point, but no he was never on screen in that one.
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>>124943309 He has the single most horrendous choice of quotes I have ever fucking seen.
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>>124928241 Whoa. It's like they have no fucking idea how multiplayer games work. I don't even think you'd find wow players claiming class balance isn't necessary. That's a new level of stupid.
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>>124943523 So that guy's full of shit on multiple levels?
>>124943810 Yeah, man. I'm a pretty big star wars dork, and I don't recall Vader even saying that shit.
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>>124943878 Have you seen that one guy who said that multiplayer is not the only part of an MMO? Of course they have no fucking clue what they are talking about.
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>>124943937 Clarity: in Episode IV.
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The thing about it is, even if bioware adds higher texture quality it won't change the fact that everything looks like clay.
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>>124944802 it's called stylization LOL
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With these kind of fans, EA doesn't even need to worry.
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>>124931408 AAAAAH MY PANTS WHAAAATS HAPPENIHNNNNNNNNNG lol
Marlech !!C/kokg2lgEh
>Part of your comment isn't allowed to be posted :( >Have no idea why >Wonder why this happens to me so often
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>>124945267 Almost as bad as the Biodrones saying "we already got a response from the devs" and not acknowledging that said response made no sense and was filled with PR speak
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>>124945366 you linking streaming channels?
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>>124945267 This person's never seen another MMO, has he.
Great Grey Wolf Sif !DIReMoGErg
Hey, what was that other game that got great reviews? You know, the one that had fantastic opening day sales, and then had plummeting sales figures immediately after? It's on the tip of my tongue...
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>>124946131 Elder Scrolls 5 Anonymous
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>>124946362 Skyrim still has insanely strong sales, so that joke really doesn't fit here.
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>>124946016 No, no he's seen WoW, TBC, and Wrath! We,, maybe not TBC. Only good people played that game. He's not a good person.
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>>124946614 don't be a dick Anonymous
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>>124946628 Even WoW has better goddamn graphics than this shit right now, thanks to that low-rez 'feature'.
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>>124946607 But that's not from SWTOR.
Right?
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>>124949443 looks like Ryzom