SWTOR going pay to gay

[Father Torque]

"Star Wars Game Segregates Gay Characters onto 'Gay Planet”



http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/423849/20130114/star-wars-old-republic-sgr-gay-planet.htm



A future expansion is in the works to be released by years end that will give players the ability to build Death Star like battle stations to blow up said planet.

 

[SunnyD]

Okay, I lol'd as the title. Thanks for that! :thumbsup:

 

[tHa ShIzNiT]

this...is hard to believe.

 

[s44]

this...is hard to believe.

That's cause he made up the last part. (It's not in the article, anyway.)

 

[blackened23]

Watching the implosion and aftermath of SWTOR is way more fun than the game ever was.

I deeply regret paying full price for it at release.

 

[Fanatical Meat]

^^I feel for you man. I'm not trying to flame you but what made it look good? The pictures, videos and beta access looked pretty horrible to me. I'm interested was it just the star wars universe or something else?

 

[Nintendesert]

Watching the implosion and aftermath of SWTOR is way more fun than the game ever was.

I deeply regret paying full price for it at release.

'eh. I stopped playing after doing a few of the class story lines. I approached it as a single player game that I had some multiplayer fun with my brother and got my money's worth. Time wise I got more out of it along with the story than I do with most single player games.

What I really hope this heralds in though is a death to the WoW clones and themepark nonsense so we can get back to UO and what these games were originally designed as, living, breathing virtual worlds to explore and live in.

 

[blackened23]

^^I feel for you man. I'm not trying to flame you but what made it look good? The pictures, videos and beta access looked pretty horrible to me. I'm interested was it just the star wars universe or something else?

I'm a bit of a star wars fanboy and was a fanatical World of Warcraft player for several years. I was kind of hoping SWTOR would be the next big, amazing MMO but it wasn't really. I was also looking for something new and fresh, and SWTOR really disappointed in that respect - Definitely more of a refinement/copy of existing MMO trends instead of the radical change that everquest / WoW brought to the table upon their release.

 

[BrightCandle]

I had so many technical problems with this game that it was unplayable. In the end I enjoyed what little I played of the story but it was not the MMO side that interested me. Glad to see its dying, the way they treated their paying customers was disgusting and stupid decisions like this have been their standard operating since before the game was released.

 

[Clinkster]

Watching the implosion and aftermath of SWTOR is way more fun than the game ever was.

I deeply regret paying full price for it at release.

I don't regret it, only in so I had to play it to realize how bad it was.

Easily the best example of Bioware's downward spiral.

 

[SunnyD]

SWTOR was a great single player Star Wars RPG. Shame they didn't make it into an MMO.

 

[clok1966]

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What I really hope this heralds in though is a death to the WoW clones and themepark nonsense so we can get back to UO and what these games were originally designed as, living, breathing virtual worlds to explore and live in.

I been playing since the early 90's and MUDS, then the first true graphic ones Drakkar, then meridian 59 and then UO (and many other sudo ones, gemstone, etc..).. you seem to think UO is different then WoW? I do understand isometric to 3D.. that is quite a difference.. but otherwise.. what major difference is there? level, quest and kill. Reward those who can sit at the PC 24/7, annoy those that can only put in 2-4 hours weekly. reward large guilds, punish anybody who doesn't want to grind to a guild leaders wims. I wont start on how unforgiving the games are when the long term players start ganking anything in view that wont pose a challenge of any kind (UO holds this crown hands down).

Dont get me wrong UO was fun in its day.. but that day is long gone.. as is WoW's.. and the 200 copy's of it.. And I am real.. where do you see some differences besides cosmetically (and yes the ability to uber a single character instead of class ). nothing new under the sun...

 

[Dijeangenie]

Reward those who can sit at the PC 24/7, annoy those that can only put in 2-4 hours weekly.

I don't understand this point of view. In any game, playing for more hours will give you an advantage. Whats wrong with a game rewarding those who play more hours?

 

[smackababy]

I been playing since the early 90's and MUDS, then the first true graphic ones Drakkar, then meridian 59 and then UO (and many other sudo ones, gemstone, etc..).. you seem to think UO is different then WoW? I do understand isometric to 3D.. that is quite a difference.. but otherwise.. what major difference is there? level, quest and kill. Reward those who can sit at the PC 24/7, annoy those that can only put in 2-4 hours weekly. reward large guilds, punish anybody who doesn't want to grind to a guild leaders wims. I wont start on how unforgiving the games are when the long term players start ganking anything in view that wont pose a challenge of any kind (UO holds this crown hands down).

Dont get me wrong UO was fun in its day.. but that day is long gone.. as is WoW's.. and the 200 copy's of it.. And I am real.. where do you see some differences besides cosmetically (and yes the ability to uber a single character instead of class ). nothing new under the sun...

Except UO didn't have quests. It also didn't have a "leveling" system. You just had skills you improved to the cap. Also, it was never about gear and what items you had until Age of Shadows destroyed that. The risk vs reward for pks was a great system. The complete player run economy. WoW had very little in common with UO.

 

[waggy]

Watching the implosion and aftermath of SWTOR is way more fun than the game ever was.

I deeply regret paying full price for it at release.

same. i regret paying the $60 i paid. what a waste of money the game sucked major balls.

 

[Rinaun]

Doesn't some of that $60 go straight to Lucasarts? It would of been nice if they had taken a different route with the game. I think if it had stayed PVE it would of been pretty successful. They tried adding pvp content when it clearly wasn't their strongest skill. I left close to max level because I started seeing all the hardcore pvpers vanish one by one a week or two after cap.

 

[HippyChippy]

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What I really hope this heralds in though is a death to the WoW clones and themepark nonsense so we can get back to UO and what these games were originally designed as, living, breathing virtual worlds to explore and live in.

+1

Sucks they killed SWG. It had most everything except the nice graphics.

 

[obidamnkenobi]

Forcefully relocating gay people to a segregated area? Are they desperately trying to tap into the lucrative "middle aged white male republican" MMO-player market?

on the other hand it will be interesting to see what the star wars version of San Francisco looks like..

 

[Jaskalas]

Watching the implosion and aftermath of SWTOR is way more fun than the game ever was.

I deeply regret paying full price for it at release.

Did you play through the storyline? Then you got as much out of it as you would from any single player game, right?

 

[s44]

Forcefully relocating gay people to a segregated area?

Um, no. The OP totally misrepresents the actual article/announcement.

 

[darkewaffle]

Um, no. The OP totally misrepresents the actual article/announcement.

No way, that never happens with articles relating to EA!

 

[SlickSnake]

I honestly thought this was a joke post, now I don't know what I think about it, quite honestly.

And I bumped this necro because the shock factor was strong with this one.

A better link about it HERE:
http://www.pcgamesn.com/swtor/say-hello-old-republics-gay-planet

 

[allisolm]

This thread is 2 1/2 yrs old and the article SlickSnake links to is also 2 1/2 yrs old. A quick google search shows no new information on this subject so it looks like any "shock factor" was very short lived. If anyone has new information on this, please post it.
admin allisolm

 

[Dahak]

About the only new information is, that Bioware will be keeping this in mind when doing new content as with the Shadow of Revan expansion, those options are there as well

 

[SlickSnake]

This thread is 2 1/2 yrs old and the article SlickSnake links to is also 2 1/2 yrs old. A quick google search shows no new information on this subject so it looks like any "shock factor" was very short lived. If anyone has new information on this, please post it.
admin allisolm

That was precisely why I bumped it and said it was a necro. You would think in that time they would have attempted to make good on the promise. Otherwise, why did Bioware make this meaningless statement at all? At any rate, I still somehow missed this bit when it came out.