Mos Eisley Cantina

[Rain Flames]

Blizzard is a pro when it comes to MMO's, everyone knows this..

 

[Darkened Angel]

Moo.  

[Nelowulf]

Blizzard is like the anti-lucasarts. Blizzard makes quality games, pushing dates back to make sure it's right. Lucas pushs dates forward, to appease a greedy populace and rushed with glitches and bugs.  

[stellarmagic]

You never know... I think TOR appeals more on the same level as Guild Wars does to people. There's a story going on with fully rendered characters which you can enlist and fight against. Whereas with WoW its more of an endless grind fest, questing for stuff not to get to the next chapter of the story.

Lucasarts may find that BioWare is an entity that works well for them if they leave their hands off it... But then again lucasarts can never keep its hands off subcontracted products.

There are three basic models for MMOs.

1. Full PvP Sandbox... You can get ganked anywhere, missions are secondary to PvP. Examples include Conan, EVE Online, and Star Wars: Galaxies.

2. Quester... You complete quests to advance levels and complete more quests. Basically its the quest for more stuff... Examples include WoW, EverQuest, and so on...

3. Coop Epic Storyline... There is one storyline or one storyline per faction, and you cooperatively play with other players to complete levels and get to the next part of the story. Examples include Guild Wars and probably Star Wars: The Old Republic.  

[Ageha-tan]

Nelowulf

Blizzard is like the anti-lucasarts. Blizzard makes quality games, pushing dates back to make sure it's right. Lucas pushs dates forward, to appease a greedy populace and rushed with glitches and bugs.

You have a good point there...  

[Ageha-tan]

stellarmagic

You never know... I think TOR appeals more on the same level as Guild Wars does to people. There's a story going on with fully rendered characters which you can enlist and fight against. Whereas with WoW its more of an endless grind fest, questing for stuff not to get to the next chapter of the story.

Lucasarts may find that BioWare is an entity that works well for them if they leave their hands off it... But then again lucasarts can never keep its hands off subcontracted products.

There are three basic models for MMOs.

1. Full PvP Sandbox... You can get ganked anywhere, missions are secondary to PvP. Examples include Conan, EVE Online, and Star Wars: Galaxies.

2. Quester... You complete quests to advance levels and complete more quests. Basically its the quest for more stuff... Examples include WoW, EverQuest, and so on...

3. Coop Epic Storyline... There is one storyline or one storyline per faction, and you cooperatively play with other players to complete levels and get to the next part of the story. Examples include Guild Wars and probably Star Wars: The Old Republic.

But ToR sounds promising  

[Darkened Angel]

I'd prefer it be like GW in that respect.

GW has PVP for players that want it, but there's special areas for that, so you don't have to worry about anyone being an a*****e anywhere else. The storyline bit is kinda a must, IMO. They're wasting lore potential otherwise.

At the same time, they could do the same deal where you can go anywhere and do anything, but you just have to follow the storyline quests in order to progress the story. Even then, order might not be important. In GW, you don't have to beat mission A just to get to mission B, you're merely encouraged to do them in order, but not forced, and you don't have to do 'em at all except for getting access to certain areas that you can't reach by simply exploring the map.

I'd like it if it follows that same setup.  

[stellarmagic]

They're investing a lot of time in voice acting and scripted mission events if you watch the previews, ala Mass Effect. In short TOR is going to be like a coop campaign for KOTOR with better graphics and voice acting.

Not to say this is necessarily bad, but its not the sort of MMO I'm interested in.  

[Nelowulf]

need to play WotLK then, Stellar. More and more parts of WoW change with the compeltion of quests. Like the death knights starting area, and a bunch of northerend.  

[Darkened Angel]

So someone in SL uploaded a slapped together gesture using sounds from 3 different sources.

The result?

" I want to see your PINGAS mah boi! "  

[ElladanKenet]

Indeed  

[lady_skuld]

What is a pinga?  

[Jaden_Ordo]

WoW was always a PvP fest for me.  

[Darkened Angel]

Something Dr. Robotnik says.

It sounds close enough to " p***s " that it's used in such context as a cheap joke.  

[lady_skuld]

How does Pinga sound like p***s?