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Thread: WOW! Whatz up SOE!?
StarNick wrote:
I think you're confusing easy with accessible and fun
May I ask, was it fun to miss your shuttle as a group leader while in Theed trying to recruit a hunting group? Thus your group was delayed. Everyone would have had to wait another 5 mins to go out.
JTL allows us to instantly travel thus eliminating that...if someone's late, they can group across the galaxy...so ppl don't have to wait. We don't pay 15 dollars a month to sit around waiting for people. We pay 15 dollars to have fun.
Theed had 0 wait time so you should have thought that out a bit more, and I for one enjoyed meeting people. Few of us are left, but back when shuttle times where 10 (yes 10) minutes long you would generally strike up a conversation at the ticket droid. How can you do that now? By the time you can start to say anything the shuttle is there. Hell I even missed the next shuttle because I was enjoying talking to some people I had justmet. It may be an awful time sink if that's how you want to look at it, but it's also a way to expand your horizons.
And I do spend 15 bucks a month to generally wait around for people or things. Solo'ing everything = dull. I'd rather spend 30 minutes waiting for a friend and have fun for the last half hour than an hour of krayt slaying by my lonesome.
StarNick wrote:
I think you're confusing easy with accessible and fun
May I ask, was it fun to miss your shuttle as a group leader while in Theed trying to recruit a hunting group? Thus your group was delayed. Everyone would have had to wait another 5 mins to go out.
JTL allows us to instantly travel thus eliminating that...if someone's late, they can group across the galaxy...so ppl don't have to wait. We don't pay 15 dollars a month to sit around waiting for people. We pay 15 dollars to have fun.
Yes, theres a difference between accessiblity and fun...but not between a fast paced FUN game and a slow paced BORING game. With the coming CURB and GCW, the game will be complex enough. With the new removals of time sinks, the dev's are helping to create a better game that IS accessible to the casual gamer, and cuts down on boredom time...so theres no confusion of the two. They're not dumbing the game down by reducing travel times from 5 minutes to 1 minute...hell, thats not dumbing the game down at all.
Imagine if a part of Halo 2 had a 5 minute "downtime" you had to sit and do nothing except mumble to yourself as a door slowly opened. That would suck....but if bungie changed that and made the door open in 30 seconds, and allow a player to get to the squad of convenant slime to smite...thats fun! Same thing applies to SWG.
Now...if they made Combat like: Only 1 special per profession, 2 guns in the game...no counters or state attacks and defenses...then yes, the devs would be dumbing the game down to a Barney-esque level. Removal of the uneeded time sinks lets us actually play....
Dude, did you even read my post? We agree. The orignal poster was saying the changes make the game too easy. I was saying there's a difference between difficulty and tedious timesinks.
DarthScin wrote:
Psychologically speaking, constant "fun" would be boring. With down time between each Awesome Event (sic), though, these things become more interesting, even if the content itself hasn't changed.
PsychoticChipmunk wrote:
StarNick wrote:
I think you're confusing easy with accessible and fun
May I ask, was it fun to miss your shuttle as a group leader while in Theed trying to recruit a hunting group? Thus your group was delayed. Everyone would have had to wait another 5 mins to go out.
JTL allows us to instantly travel thus eliminating that...if someone's late, they can group across the galaxy...so ppl don't have to wait. We don't pay 15 dollars a month to sit around waiting for people. We pay 15 dollars to have fun.
Theed had 0 wait time so you should have thought that out a bit more, and I for one enjoyed meeting people. Few of us are left, but back when shuttle times where 10 (yes 10) minutes long you would generally strike up a conversation at the ticket droid. How can you do that now? By the time you can start to say anything the shuttle is there. Hell I even missed the next shuttle because I was enjoying talking to some people I had justmet. It may be an awful time sink if that's how you want to look at it, but it's also a way to expand your horizons.
And I do spend 15 bucks a month to generally wait around for people or things. Solo'ing everything = dull. I'd rather spend 30 minutes waiting for a friend and have fun for the last half hour than an hour of krayt slaying by my lonesome.
I appreciate your point. But you can socialize anywhere. Starports and shuttleports are for travelling, not making friends.
