http://www.swtor.com/free/features
Look upon Bioware's works, ye mighty, and despair.
Callsign's been sending me several sad messages about how he was really excited in the days leading up to SWTOR going free to play. Then he sends me some messages this morning pissed at how the exp rate is half for free players. But that's only the tip of the iceberg--the SWTOR free to play model is riddled with mind-boggling shit like emotes and the ability to toggle off your helmet being options that require real money transactions.
Every so often I peek at the MoX Mumble server's user numbers and they're always pretty high, which I guess is good for them. I was actually so tempted to find someone to ask whether the latest patch and/or the free to play conversion has managed to wreck the game even further that I went and signed up for the MoX Facebook group again. I was really tempted to make a post to that effect, but was dismayed to find that I recognized virtually nobody from the group any more (think I recognized Clausy and Darkhorse, but that's basically it).
Actually, I thought I had more to say about SWTOR, but maybe not.
Oh, they JUST RECENTLY released Nightmare Mode Denova. It is now early November. 1.2 was released on 4/12/2012. Holy shitfuck that was about 7 months ago. Jesus tittyfucking Christ on a stick, that's outrageous.
I still get a weird number of hits on my Denova loot list page despite having it hidden on this blog except for direct linking.
Hit me up in mumble some time if you wanna chat :). You would be welcome. Agreed that most of the F2P stuff is unfortunately pretty abysmal, but it is bringing people into the game. Whether it retains anyone remains to be seen.
ReplyDeleteAs for the guild, we are doing great, 5 raid groups (including 1 16 man) and our 16m is "world second" on two bosses in Denova NiM. As far as people still around from when you played, not a ton, but still me, Clausy, Rover, Ginnai, Naiad, maybe some others. We've (obviously) grown tremendously.
Anyway stop by some time, don't be shy ;). -Darkhorse
That's great to hear, if there's any guild that deserves the success they've achieved in SWTOR it's MoX. Wish they'd put together some reasonable new raid content together instead of craft this trainwreck of a free to play model.
DeleteI'll pop into Mumble sometime to see what's new, I'm curious to hear more about Bioware's slow descent into madness.
TFB HM is/was pretty fun actually. Of course Denova NiM sucks because well... Denova was never that awesome to begin with and we did it for 6 months or whatever before TFB hit. Top that off with the fact that 16m vs. 8m is completely imbalanced. Case in point: 8m was finished in one day, 16m has yet to be cleared by a single guild in the world.
DeleteAnyway most PVPers in guild are excited for 1.6 and the new WZ and PVP tier but outside of that we really haven't heard much about the future of the game.
Minor rumors of level cap raises etc. but nothing concrete. Makes me very nervous.