Creature Handler Archive
Thread: New Mount (link with non game images inside)
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Ricbr
Wed Mar 09, 2005 8:56 am
#1
Here is your new mount
It is an Episode 3 movie creature like they said it would be...and it is also a mount in the movie...it is a toy coming out to the world as well...I really think it will be in game (again..just my guess..but why wouldnt they do it if they have it as a toy). I cant imagine they would hold out the name of the mount because it is an already existing creature in game...that wouldnt make any sense.
New Mount
Again..dont hold me to it...but it makes sense. I have seen pics for this as a Burger King toy as well. I really think they want to make this fella popular. This is just another way to do it.
It is an Episode 3 movie creature like they said it would be...and it is also a mount in the movie...it is a toy coming out to the world as well...I really think it will be in game (again..just my guess..but why wouldnt they do it if they have it as a toy). I cant imagine they would hold out the name of the mount because it is an already existing creature in game...that wouldnt make any sense.
New Mount
Again..dont hold me to it...but it makes sense. I have seen pics for this as a Burger King toy as well. I really think they want to make this fella popular. This is just another way to do it.
Message Edited by Ricbr on 03-09-2005 10:57 AM
jopenack
Wed Mar 09, 2005 10:06 am
#2
boga. i am not impressed
My take on this news is nothing has changed here with soe, although no dates were ever mentioned the last time they spoke of the alpha testing we were lead to believe it would be soon after the holidays.
Well it is after the holidays and no testing untill both are ready. I am sure the marketing teams are trying to time it for the movie release. will it happen by then probably not unless they can convince us to love the new bugs and client crashes enough so we can kill a wookie and have a new mount.
Misleading information, marketing leading the teams and paying money since launch to find out I must wait for an expansion pack to go live before the combat upgrade can go live because its a good fit. Not to mention the new planet will cost me another 30 bucks.
Not to mention any profession revamps will not happen untill after the curb. /bows to smugglers
This is not good news imo, good news would have been the alpha testing for the curb starts next week, in 3 weeks alpha testing for a new expansion will start and we at soe want to express our gratitude for our loyal customers and thank them for sticking with us during some difficult times by offering them the option to preorder the expansion pack for 30% off the purchase price.
Everyone seems so excited to be told forget anything happening untill after the movie is out because its the best time for us to do anything, so says our marketing team. so let it be done.
P.S. people are misunderstanding the download statement. SWG is downloadable with JTL you do not need CD's you do need a Key number.. Just because you can download it does not mean its free.
The curb is free the expansion is not. keep in mind testing both at the same times means different bugs and diferent problems for those with the curb/expansion and those without. final result will be a mess of bugs effecting different groups of people depending on what they have bought. Even though the curb should have been tested totally seperate and debugged before an expansion was launched. Remember what they said after JTL "but wait everyone please we just have one more expansion for you"
Kitoth
Wed Mar 09, 2005 11:15 am
#3
Nevermind that this creature is from a planet in Ep3 that is NOT Kashyyyk. So makes me wonder where it'll come from.
My question is, this creature has the ability to climb sheer cliffs (like a small lizard climbing a wall).
Think *that* functionality will make it in-game? Or does the fact that we can do that now kinda ruin it as a special ability?
Maybe it'll have super terrain navigation and will go straight up cliffs at full speed instead of going at an angle.
As to the combining of the CU with an expansion... I don't want to go there. Just wondering how much longer I can put up with the stuff they keep doing.
Message Edited by Kitoth on 03-09-2005 10:16 AM
Tristello
Wed Mar 09, 2005 11:46 am
#4
remember that thread "mounts unleashed"?
everyone in the ch-forum got all excited about how the devs wanted to boost up "their" mounts.
or that one patch that said you could now survey on a mount and all chs went crazy because now "their" mounts would become more useful than a normal speeder.
...not realizing that mounts doesn't neccessarily mean creature-mounts.
i expect that new mount to be some new crappy speeder or bike whatever, not a creature.
everyone in the ch-forum got all excited about how the devs wanted to boost up "their" mounts.
or that one patch that said you could now survey on a mount and all chs went crazy because now "their" mounts would become more useful than a normal speeder.
...not realizing that mounts doesn't neccessarily mean creature-mounts.
i expect that new mount to be some new crappy speeder or bike whatever, not a creature.
velm
Wed Mar 09, 2005 2:30 pm
#5
I don't get it, ONE freakin planet. I am really disappointed by that. I just do not see that much being added, yes a planet and some other things, but I think they could do more. Like, oh, fix some of the issues with the game now, perhaps.
Saxiff
Wed Mar 09, 2005 2:44 pm
#7
$30 for 1 planet and some quests. Thats pitiful.
How about you fix the game as it stands now and quit with the Curb and expansions. Dev's tell us things are fixed, knowing good and well that they were and are still broken on the damned test center but have the audacity to say "Look we fixed it!" If I ran my business like this I would be living under a bridge. heh
PITIFUL
Straker_Atrella
Wed Mar 09, 2005 5:30 pm
#8
I thought the new mount was a Wookie.
Isn't that what they are raging against? 
Odro
Wed Mar 09, 2005 5:46 pm
#9
$30 for 1 planet and some quests. Thats pitiful
The have not said everything about it yet. Also, have you ever thought of how hard and how much work/time it would take to create one of these huge planets?? Plus add in the creatures, spawns, cities, terrain, and other things? Not the easiest thing in the world. You can one star me and flame me all you want, but shut the f*ck up until you know all the details and you know how hard it is to make. I'm done, /shutup.
ana-mo-cara
Wed Mar 09, 2005 6:01 pm
#10
Okay this is officially gotten retarded 1 planet does not an expansion make. Lets forget the fact that most of the planets in the game are sorely devoid of content. Rori naboo talus corellia yavin dathomir. These planets have what 1 selling point and thats it. Meanwhile we have twenty dungeons that are not worth a wet sock.
Where is the freaking logic here are we all being robbed. Is the CURB just another blowhard story. They get 15 bucks a month from us and all it apparantly goes to is them makeing another expansionto get another thirty bucks out of us. Mind you I am starting to see galaxies on shelves for as low as 20 bucks.
The base game needs its gameplay mechanics fixed. The GCW needs real content. The PVE dynamic needs new content. We have dungeons in the game that need overhauled. I am talking the cave dungeons that are not only boreing but are not in the list bit rewarding. We need real roleplay elements introduced story arcs for pete sakes. We need professions fixed to be dynamic. Hell the entire crafting system needs an overhaul.
Oh this is ridiculous. I hope its a joke.
Odro
Wed Mar 09, 2005 6:23 pm
#11
SOE sets a minimum price stores can sell a game for. They can't just set it anywhere they want. I agree that the GCW needs more content, obviously they are working on that with 13.1. As mentioned above, they have not said everything about this expansion pack yet!!!
ana-mo-cara wrote:
Okay this is officially gotten retarded 1 planet does not an expansion make. Lets forget the fact that most of the planets in the game are sorely devoid of content. Rori naboo talus corellia yavin dathomir. These planets have what 1 selling point and thats it. Meanwhile we have twenty dungeons that are not worth a wet sock.
Where is the freaking logic here are we all being robbed. Is the CURB just another blowhard story. They get 15 bucks a month from us and all it apparantly goes to is them makeing another expansionto get another thirty bucks out of us. Mind you I am starting to see galaxies on shelves for as low as 20 bucks.
The base game needs its gameplay mechanics fixed. The GCW needs real content. The PVE dynamic needs new content. We have dungeons in the game that need overhauled. I am talking the cave dungeons that are not only boreing but are not in the list bit rewarding. We need real roleplay elements introduced story arcs for pete sakes. We need professions fixed to be dynamic. Hell the entire crafting system needs an overhaul.
Oh this is ridiculous. I hope its a joke.
Kitoth
Wed Mar 09, 2005 6:25 pm
#12
LucasArts press release lists it as a May 5th release for $24.95
Odro
Wed Mar 09, 2005 6:35 pm
#13
Whoa, nobody one starred me yet for defending the DEVS! 
Now that I mentioned it, they will now 
Now that I mentioned it, they will now
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