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Thread: It really sucks to be a casual gamer....
Wicket238 wrote:
Slipp-Wilson wrote:
HitorikiBattousai wrote:
My two cents:
I'm not complaining about the system to get to padawan however...
If you think about it, not that it would make much difference I guess, everyone goes and grinds all day long 24/7 (majority of the players on some servers) That means, less PvP, less RPG...well that wasnt really every big in this "mmorpg" anyways. "hey guys, want to go hunting?" "Sorry i'm busy grinding, I won't be able to do anything for the next few months if I want to finish this grind before I die" "bah, see ya." Sorry"
Ok, maybe a bit exaderated but it's true, I want content. Devs said a quest grind, well, that's not really a quest is it? Maybe it's just me but doing a 1hr quest every 3 weeks to just unlock branches you need to grind...well thats not really quest based..its grind based. Before you start the same old shi* to each one of the posts about how hard the jedi grind is, people know that! Some want it to just say they got Jedi, some want it for fun when they log on after hours of work, and if you start the same shi* about working for it, I hate to say it but, most of us have lives, and going to work and coming home and spending your whole damn night staring at a screen does NOT mean you have a life, it means you are forced to go to work because you need money to CONTINUE to play this game, maybe supportinga family as well, but dont even start that stupid shi* about being a working person and unlocking like you say you do because if you go to work and come home and sit on your probably overweight-obese ass and play this damn game every time you have a spare moment you DONT have a life, I can't stress this enough. I've wasted enough of my life on this post, hate to end it.
/openflame
Uh, is this towards me? Like i said, im a casual gamer that loves starwars.... not a person who needs this game, just trying to have a good time in a game that has not much to offer. Since its the only MMORPG for starwars(that i know) is the only reason i really play it.
slipp. i dont think hitorikibattousai is venting towards you. i think he has a good point and a point i have been trying to make since the jedi craze started back over a year ago with the addition of holocrons. people have lives. they cant (rather shouldnt) play SWG or for that matter any video/computer game all the time and make it their life goal. SWG is a good game to pass the time and have some fun. it is NOT a way of life. jedi is not a way of life. star wars is not a way of life. it is an interest and hobby just life any other fantasy or role playing game. I am a big SW fan myself but i apply my skills and goals towards real life things.
No, I wasn't venting to you, but the public that thinks that, I also agree with what Wicket wrote, no game is or should be a way of life, games are for fun, most people know or should be aware that Jedi is hard, but it's fun to even think you have a lightsaber, as the one poster said above about obi wan and luke, that's all true. They Devs promised a "quest-based" system, we didn't get that, we got another Profession that had to be grinded to lead to another grind profession (the more fun one) this isn't a quest system for jedi, it's work, game's should involve work, but in an MMORPG they need to understand not everyone lives at their computer.
Bottom line, they screwed up yet again and won't fix the problem. They will ignore us, if I got an answer from an actual dev about this that had the cajones to have a debate about it, I may change my mind, but until that good dev comes along....we are just talking to a wall.
Let’s look at this from another perspective.
So are the players to blame for the way Jedi is? Yes
We have all heard and read what people are expecting with the Combat Upgrade/Revamp/WhateverTheyWannaCallIt. Composite Armor will not be as useful as it is now, Doc/Entertainer Buffs will not be as effective, there will be no more defense stacking etc…
Okay I'm done, sorry for the brain dump just another perspective to consider.
Nohoah wrote:
Let’s look at this from another perspective.
This is a long post but it has a point and pardon the typos and gramatical stuff I'm at work, doing 20 other things at the same time. Think of this as a brain dumpAlso if you just wanna read my point it's in blue
When I first started playing I started out as an Artisan, I thought it would be fun to make and sell items. I started going through the process and about a week later I had MAYBE 2/2/2/2 in the artisan tree I was just playing with stuff, crafting various items, surveying for resources etc and I thought ‘Wow it’s going to take me forever to get to Master Artisan, much less any of the other crafting professions I bet Jedi is really a pain in the *ss to get to’
I made a few friends and I decided I wanted to be a fighter, Bounty Hunter would be fun so I got the Novice Marksman skill and Novice Scout skill (Back then you had to be Master Marksman/Master Scout to get to Bounty Hunter) I hung out on Tatooine and killed rats and whatever else I thought I could handle. I had no idea what a buff was had no idea there were weaponsmiths that were able to make weapons 1000 times better than the stuff I was getting from the Bazzar much less afford the good weapons.
After what seemed like forever (I wish I could remember exactly how long I figure it was about a month or so of playing) I reached the goal of Master Marksman/Master Scout all without good armor (I made it far enough into the Artisan tree to make a full suit of Bone armor with the bones I had harvested) and without Buffs. One day I was hanging out in Anchorhead looking for a backpack and this Doctor popped in and next thing I know she starts ‘Enhancing’ my stats… I was like ‘Whoah what will this do for me’ she goes ‘Go fight and see’. So I pull out my trusty gun and go fighting and I was blown away how easy things became. No more standing out in the middle of nowhere waiting for my HAM to regenerate.
So then I discovered ubese armor, I had made enough credits from selling the junk I was making on the bazzar and running missions to get a suit, again I was blown away I was able to fight things bigger than I ever imagined and getting pretty decent experience. I finally got brave enough to travel off of Tatooine so Corellia here I come. I see all of these people walking around in this funky looking armor (Composite) and wow I need some of that!
So then someone gave me a holocron and explainedto me what they were for and so on.My first three holocrons were all crafting professions. I mastered two of the holos and I had to do some travling for work. So I spent 4 months on the road without playing SWG. So I come back and find all my resources, vendors, harvesters gone. So I dumped everything and started fighting again. Initially I had enough banked experience so I could get pretty far into the Bounty Hunteragain but I stopped and did some research and thought a melee profession would be fun. The ‘Jedi Revamp’ hit while I was gone so no more Holocrons.
I chose Swordsman, I found a Novice Brawler trainer, two or three buffs later I was ready for Novice Swordsman. I figure it took me maybe 4 days to achieve Master Swords, a few days later I had a hand full of skills in some of the other professions. So now I can get my armor on, get my trusty power hammer out, get a buff and head to Dath and fight Rancors and any other critter for that matter with no problem.
Last Thursday my wife started playing. She wants to be a Doctor. So I gave her all the resources she would need to make Stim packs and stuff so she could heal people, last night she made it to Novice Doctor. She wanted some Scouting skills so I gave her a set of armor and got her buffed, took her out to Dantooine and let her harvest the critters I was killing, Two hours later she had 3/0/3/0 in Scout. So in a span of 3 days she went from having absolutely nothing to Master Medic/Novice Doctor 0/2/0/0 in Artisan and 3/0/3/0 in Scout.
So, the point I’m making is (YES there is a point /cheer), maybe it’s not that achieving Jedi Padiwan takes too long (Sorry I refuse to say it’s hard, its just time consuming). Maybe, just maybe since practically every other profession can be Mastered in a matter of a few days people ‘expect’ Jedi to be achieved just as fast. People have a goal of 'Grinding a profession as fast as possible' instead of enjoying the game. If you think about the process to become 'Glowly' they require you at least to go out and see things that maybe you haven't seen before, do theme park missions that maybe you didn't do because it was faster to just go to Dantooine, kill quankers to get good expereince to level up faster.
I read several posts dating back to when the first Jedi came into the game, everyone was trying to figure out how they did it then that Christmas SOE gave everyone Holocrons then the cat was let out of the bag.
To me, it would have been far more 'magical' if they made acheving Jedi totally and completly random. Think about how cool it would be if you were playing (not grinding) checking out things in the galaxy, helping people kill things doing theme parks/dungeons and all of a sudden you receie a visit from say Luke or Darth asking if you wanted to learn the ways of the force then go from there.
After all, Luke 'bumped' into Obi-wan when he purchased a Droid from Jawa's and the droid had a message to deliver to his owner.
Qui-Gon bumped into Anakin when he was checking out some vendors for a part of his ship.
If this were implemented (Its far to late for something like this to happen) SOE could control the Jedi population and people would actually enjoy the game instead of 'power grinding'.
Don't get me wrong, I'm going through the 'grind' as well as I want to get Jedi as fast as possible, simply because the path is a known path.
So are the developers to blame for the way Jedi is? Yes
So are the players to blame for the way Jedi is? Yes
We have all heard and read what people are expecting with the Combat Upgrade/Revamp/WhateverTheyWannaCallIt. Composite Armor will not be as useful as it is now, Doc/Entertainer Buffs will not be as effective, there will be no more defense stacking etc…
Maybe the Jedi Revamp that occurred is a hint of the changes that will come for the rest of the professions with the Combat Upgrade/Revamp/WhateverTheyWannaCallIt.
Okay I'm done, sorry for the brain dump just another perspective to consider.
That has to have made the most sense outta all the posts thus far..but, to bad our voices probably won't be heard Nohoah..unless they are in the Christmas erm..(holiday) spirit and will actually read and respond to this thread..thanks to jedimasterzero. I agree 110% it should be like that or close to it, plus, the combat balance that will hopefully help us attain our goal and start up a real GCW.....
Btw, did anyone get their 75k? I didn't