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09/30/09
SOLD. SoldSoldSOLD. When can I play?
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09/30/09
Now that that's over with, here's my issue: There has not been an MMO that has really tackled on full two game systems (I.E. Ship-based combat AND Land based Gameplay) that hasn't managed to make one section or the other complete balls. It REALLY concerns me that a company that frankly isn't that big is trying.
09/30/09
It's all handled "real-time", each with a unique set of game mechanics that actually fit the setting.
I cannot wait to give this game a spin.
09/30/09
09/30/09
I plan on having at least seven hot-keys dedicated to the self-destruct sequence.
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09/30/09
That being said, this looks a bit like another space MMO that I absolutely loved, Earth and Beyond. I mean, maybe I'm just seeing things in this game that I loved about that game, but if they're there, they're there. It just makes me look forward to ST:O that much more.
Here's hoping they manage to pull it off.
09/30/09
06/02/09
Yes, it's a trailer. Yes it's CG. Yes the gameplay won't look like that. Okay, now that we're over that, how many other forms of entertainment have been introduced to us using trailers that show us things that may or may not make it into the actual product when it's completed?
06/02/09
Think about it. They keep an archive of every single thing that ever happens ever in the universe, and then somehow, like clockwork, every couple of hundred years they seem to get "surprised" by a Sith uprising.
You'd think at least once, one of these "peaceful, meditative scholars" would take a break from lopping off criminal heads with their sabers, and maybe crack open a book and say to themselves "hmmmm... maybe the Sith AREN'T gone, as perhaps can be evidenced by the past 78 Sith uprisings."
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06/02/09
is it impossible to have a game with epic single player content that takes place in a persistant world with other players that are predomanently there to trade with? and i don't mean random shouting to everyone in a town or the trade channel waiting for someone to come along with the item you need that happens to need the item you have nor do i mean a swirling vortex of market prices and goods in a constant state of flux due to player tampering masqurading as an auction house. i want a system where every good is traded by an NPC at a market price determined by a supply and demand algorithm that forces every seller to be a price taker.
06/03/09
It was never hard to "convince" other ppl to play in groups at the highest level either. If you were having to "convince" people to play with you, then that typically meant that you weren't very good and that word had gotten around :)
06/03/09
@thepirateking: cornering the market, monopolies, and cartels are not 'the market' they're artifical strategies that are largely illegal in the real world. it would be nice to see an in game market that actually functioned instead of one driven by what would be, in the real world, illicit activities.
06/03/09
You need a glass for all that whine?
Don't like it? Don't play MMO's. It's inherently the way they are.
06/03/09
Furthermore there are MMOs without those flaws; Guild wars, as an example, has several items that are traded in exactly the manner i discribed i.e. primarily through an intermediary (an NPC vendor) that sets prices based on a supply and demand algorithm. Obtaining the market price for a given crafting supply in guild wars is as easy as walking up to the NPC and asking for it. It would be nice if all items worked this way and given the incomplete status of this game it's entirely possible they will in this title.
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04/08/09
Good luck.
04/08/09
"Team members" "Development team"
The euphemisms are a dead giveaway. How many people are on this development team exactly? Balentine's answer, being as vague as it is and evasive as it is... I'm not surprised Gateworld passed on following up the story.
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12/17/08
It's really sad. I desperately wanted to like this game.