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Offline Kurtt

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Impressions From Weekend Beta
« on: November 14, 2011, 01:08:06 PM »
Just read an interesting thread on reddit/r/SWTOR:

http://www.reddit.com/r/swtor/comments/mbel4/so_as_the_beta_weekend_is_coming_to_a_close_lets/

Not a great deal in there as far as spoilers go, but some very positive impressions of the game so far. Worth a read.
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Re: Impressions From Weekend Beta
« Reply #1 on: November 14, 2011, 09:49:27 PM »
Oh, and something from that thread for Chug and anyone else planning on rolling Sith:

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Something I noticed that I suppose is worth pointing out - When I was playing Empire side, the general chat was horrific. To give it a comparison, I can only say "Barrens chat". The tone was very much about SWTOR either being a WoW killer, or SWTOR being a complete sack of shite compared to WoW. There was a solid 4 hours that, wherever I went, people solely spoke about other MMO's, and not in what I would call civilized fashion. In the wooded area outside Dromund Kass, some rich kid was telling everybody how the Alienware laptop his father bought him one year ago could out preform any desktop rig built today, and basically started a shitstorm. However, I rolled a smuggler for about an hour or so, and the Republic general chat was in a completely different class. Players were friendly, helpful, and all around nice guys. Hopefully there won't be one faction laden down with idiot's come launch.
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Re: Impressions From Weekend Beta
« Reply #2 on: November 14, 2011, 10:02:44 PM »
Quote from: Kurtt on November 14, 2011, 09:49:27 PM
Oh, and something from that thread for Chug and anyone else planning on rolling Sith:

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Something I noticed that I suppose is worth pointing out - When I was playing Empire side, the general chat was horrific. To give it a comparison, I can only say "Barrens chat". The tone was very much about SWTOR either being a WoW killer, or SWTOR being a complete sack of shite compared to WoW. There was a solid 4 hours that, wherever I went, people solely spoke about other MMO's, and not in what I would call civilized fashion. In the wooded area outside Dromund Kass, some rich kid was telling everybody how the Alienware laptop his father bought him one year ago could out preform any desktop rig built today, and basically started a shitstorm. However, I rolled a smuggler for about an hour or so, and the Republic general chat was in a completely different class. Players were friendly, helpful, and all around nice guys. Hopefully there won't be one faction laden down with idiot's come launch.

no surprises there, kiddies always want to be bad ass
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Re: Impressions From Weekend Beta
« Reply #3 on: November 14, 2011, 10:10:32 PM »
When Barrens Chat grew up, it became City Trade on RP servers.
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Re: Impressions From Weekend Beta
« Reply #4 on: November 15, 2011, 08:59:17 AM »
To be honest, Dan, I think you'll get that on either side. 15k players on each side per server (i think that'll be about right), you're gonna get a number of complete asshats in the same vein judged purely by the laws of probability. And not just kids either. Half of em will be 30+  ;)

I've never used general chat in games anyway so usually just ignore it. If anything, it's a decent tool to judge what...erm...tools never to group with.
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Re: Impressions From Weekend Beta
« Reply #5 on: November 15, 2011, 10:01:22 AM »
Quote from: Chug on November 15, 2011, 08:59:17 AM
To be honest, Dan, I think you'll get that on either side. 15k players on each side per server (i think that'll be about right), you're gonna get a number of complete asshats in the same vein judged purely by the laws of probability. And not just kids either. Half of em will be 30+  ;)

I've never used general chat in games anyway so usually just ignore it. If anything, it's a decent tool to judge what...erm...tools never to group with.

You're probably right our kid, but I cannot shake the feeling that the herp derps will all be rolling Sith, because of all that repressed anger they've got going on.

We'll see.
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Re: Impressions From Weekend Beta
« Reply #6 on: November 15, 2011, 10:51:53 AM »
Quote from: Kurtt on November 15, 2011, 10:01:22 AM
Quote from: Chug on November 15, 2011, 08:59:17 AM
To be honest, Dan, I think you'll get that on either side. 15k players on each side per server (i think that'll be about right), you're gonna get a number of complete asshats in the same vein judged purely by the laws of probability. And not just kids either. Half of em will be 30+  ;)

I've never used general chat in games anyway so usually just ignore it. If anything, it's a decent tool to judge what...erm...tools never to group with.

You're probably right our kid, but I cannot shake the feeling that the herp derps will all be rolling Sith, because of all that repressed anger they've got going on.

We'll see.

Chug's right, the retards will be everywhere while they wait for dancing pandas with pokemon to be released. Then they'll go quiet.
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