Comments on: Star Wars: The Old Republic expands in 2013 with Rise of the Hutt Cartel

By: Triple Zero

Triple Zero — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 23:06:39 +0000

I do believe the author has incorrectly identified Daniel Erickson as the former creative director for Star Wars: The Old Republic. I understand James Ohlen was appointed to be the creative director at BioWare Austin before SW:TOR launched and continues to hold that position. Daniel Erickson was a lead designer for SW:TOR.

By: AceCarlton

AceCarlton — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 10:07:39 +0000

They stated that it had 11 times the content of it's inspiration, Star Wars, Knights of the Old Republic. That was enough to make a MMO universe, but sadly they didn't make it teaming friendly enough. As a single player game it's fantastic and I recommend it to anyone, but from a MMO perspective the overriding lack, which is still a lack, is sidekicking/level control. Every penny they've spent on this new expansion should have gone to fixing that. Without such a feature the default answer when someone wants to team for some content is No (because the content is probably not at your toon's level), with such a feature the default answer is at least "Why not?" Without easy teaming a MMO fails to be a MMO.

They were trying to stand on the shoulders of giants - they should have realised that City of Heroes showed us how teaming should be supported, a lesson GW2 learnt (though implemented differently).

It's not too late to fix it though. When sidekicking was added to City of Heroes it gave it a new lease on life :)

By: mrhacker95

mrhacker95 — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 18:57:35 +0000

I shall Repeat a great phrase: “To Little, To Late”

Why did they make it into a MMO The original games where so much better :,<