Out of Pod Experience

New MMOs are just made to make easy money, and they keep getting made since they actually make money. They don't need to be good, just sell enough to make a profit. The ones holding the moeny bags only put money in "safe" things like this. E.g. EA making MMOs, and other titles.

Personally I find this to be sad, and I do not waste my time with any new MMO. EVE still holds my attention becuas it actually focuses on being an MMO doing it's own thing, with a very strong player interaction.

No palyer interaction in MMO = boring grindfest wow clone. They will mske some money, but never duplicate wow's success. Eventually they will realize this, but tehy will milk it for what it is worht first.

This is not just in MMOs however. But in most big new titles form big companies. Like all the boring new fps games they churn out. No innovation, no new things. They just get dumber and dumber. To me, the sadest part is people actually buying them, and playing them. I can understand a kid getting it, since he has no perspective or reference, but folks that have been around a while should know better.

Now and then the odd good game does come out, but the best games are usually by small indie devs these days. They tend to mix things up a bit, or actually want to make new things.

Yup, those summer breaks never ended when you were 10, did they? Now, one month is a few blinks and snooze hits on the alarm clock. I can barely believe xmas and new year are a distant hang-over behind me.

Gamers get replaced.

You will too, one day; when your hair is greyer than your avatar's and the kids playing games will have zero comprehension of game originality.

Not too different than 10 year-olds going to watch 'The Amazing Spiderman' this summer, because when the first one came out - they didn't even exist.

So, so long as people keep having sex, originality will continue to disappear.

AK

just play openttd (www.openttd.org) and all will be well!

And, this.

The problem is, it's just another aspect of the ages-old entertainment industry, milking the sheep for as much product as possible. More generic, easily-digestible-to-more-people product = more volume sold per fiscal cycle = more money. That's never going to change.

Look at it this way:

Most generic MMOs are the equivalent of driving down the motorway at posted-speed, with all the other sheep, listening to ******* Nickelback* in a Chevy Malibu.

EVE is the only MMO I can see that instead puts you in an Aston Martin with some Slayer on the stereo turned up to 11, cruising all day at 200km/h as smoothly and easily as most "normal" cars do at 80.

Like all proper English Grand Tourers, that AM has its' quirks, and it's definitely not for everybody, but which of the two experiences would you find more memorable, rewarding, and look forward to repeating? Yeah, I thought so.

*On behalf of all Canadians everywhere, I hereby offer sincere and heartfelt apologies for unleashing that musical abortion on the world--Clearly, not one of our classier exports.

Well just my 2 cents, but I think TOR is one of the best MMO's I've played -- and I've at least tried many of them since EQ1.

I like it because it is story and choice driven, and I imagine that's probably why its a game you'll either love or hate. When I first tried it during the beta, I thought it sucked because it really wasn't what I was expecting. I knew it was story driven, but, didn't know there was so much damn dialogue to it. (TBH there is too much damn dialogue sometimes.)

Now I don't like the fact that there is no out-of-game features, such as the ability to look at your character info on the web and such. Really, come on dudes. That and the forums suck hard (no search???? what the christ).

I am on the opposite side of that coin, I found the choices in TOR to be laughable at best and irrelevant at its worst because none of them was ever my decision as the game never let me make them.

The story was just a painful experience of absolute and total pointlessness. I pity the people that put six years of their life into developing this trash and if they ever wanted to commit suicide, I'd happily supply the bullets.

People bought in all the hype EA and Bioware served them.

With such huge amounts of hyping, did you expect anything better?

I played a lot of MMO's and I don't think SWTOR even has a right to call themselves an MMO. As far as singleplayer goes, where I live I am suppose to pay almost 70 EURO to be able to play it for only 1 month and the great story is like 2 hours for bounty hunter I played to level 50. The rest is missions/content that are the same for all classes all involving kill this and pick up that. So if I want to experience a "full campaign" again I need to play 1class on republic, then good luck finding someone willing to do it all over again... To put it into perspective, Skyrim comes with 300+-hours out of the box+no limit to when and for how long I can play it, also it supports mods and have a better community lol I got x10times more value and a better single player game from knights of the old republic 1 and 2 each. Also there are no multipleendings anyway, Mass Effect 1 had more content for DLC.

So no I don't hate it being story driven, I doubt you will find people who do, but the story is not good, short and extremly repetitive. Everyone I know pushed through to 50 on one character, not one of them wants to do it again or with a different one and at 50 the PVP is worse than even warhammer online, the PVE content is terrible and mostlybroken and glitched anyway.

You know they just added search function to their forums... That should tell you something about what else that is missing if not even their forum is worth 2 cents.

I am happy you enjoy it, but I doubt anyone can after maximum a month or 2, 60-70 euro+monthly subs later down the drain and their new content coming is about zombies...

I just cancelled my recurring SWTOR subscription. When you cancel the subscription, it gives you a drop down box to answer why you are leaving. I picked "I'm leaving for another game". Another drop down box appeared with a list of games, and EVE Online was the fourth option, so I picked it. Take that, Bioware.

Yep because they did nothing, paid nothing, and made money. Servers are already deader than they were and considering they sharded everything like tards is far more dead than it should be. Is a worse mistake than WAR