Posted July 16, 2013
...but I'm playing them.
As you probably know by now, I don't do that out of masochistic pleasure, no I'm too sadistic for that, rather I want to give "multiplaying" a fair chance to change my quite negative stance.
So these are my experiences so far:
Installed the Free To Play Star Wars The Old Republic MMORPG
First impression:
"MMORPG" this horrible abbreviation already makes me want to puke
Second impression:
Installer failed to find c:/ and thus couldn't install the client. You've got to be kidding me, EA? Only because my main hard drive isn't following mainstream rules and is named e:/ not c:/ I'm not entitled to play your game? You just deserve to burn in hell for twice the eternity - just for that.
Thankfully I know how to use google and google knows what to do to install that shitty client.
Shitty client took hours to install from the internet. Well, I barely keep my rage controlled but this would be a perfect prelude of playing a Sith Lord.
Several hours later…
The game works.
Took me almost 30 minutes to figure out which server I wanted to play on.
Awkward beginnings of an awkwardly designed character on Planet Korriban.
A rather weird experience in general. Quite overwhelming at first.
Got invited in a group, lost the group, got lost in the tombs, got lost outside the tombs, got shortchanged by NPC merchants, misclicked the dialogue options, died several times because blaster fire passes through solid rock apparently.
Felt like a overstrained tourist in a foreign country. Just like holidays gone wrong.
Experiences with this MMO in General:
I took a fat Afro-American Sithlord with a cybernetic eye patch. His name should have been Bubba but that was already taken so he ended up being Bubba-ray.
I hate it when those eMail Name restrictions are passed on to your character's name.
No space or freaky characters are allowed but the NPC all have spaces and Middle names and bullshit. This limit mostly happens to console ports and MMOs sadly.
A couple of days later…
Sometimes I have the urge to buy some stuff with real money to get more content out of the game, but as soon as I see the big fat EA logo I'm healed of any previous temptation. I hope this stays this way.
The really tease you with their mindfuck about Cartel Credits and the advances you get spending them.
Open Questions:
Why are there social points? Why do SITH of all the Bad-Mutha's out there need Social Points?
Experiences with other players:
I didn't like Bubba-ray anymore, so I looked for a Role-Playing server, found a German one and started a new Character named him Bîll-Clînton.
Made his appearance to resemble him as close as possible.
Favourite Character thus far.
I enter the Role-Playing Server Chat, each time saying:
"Vote for me!"
Some started trolling immediately, others understood my humor better.
Not much talk, apart from the usual trolling suspects, I took the least populated servers playing at the most unpopular game time. Some bots wanting me to buy from bestauction.com nothing unusual, picked a good time where most of the idiot where already sleeping. Still I had some chat experience I like to share:
Worst Chat Experience:
As Bîll-Clînton I got into a general discussion with someone claiming that I should be playing for the Republic not for the Empire. I answered that I'm not a Republican thus I fit right in the Empire. Republicans can join the Republic (hence the name!!!) if they want. He then started to troll about being a Democrat isn't the Sith's way and that he personally is a Republican Sith (On a German server talking German and considering that German doesn't really have Republicans this didn't make much sense but well) he even asked if there were any Democrats online and while some answered yes, I had to reply that Bîll-Clînton is a Democrat and a Sith in agenda. He insulted my "juvenile behaviour" and officially announce to ignore me (via chat function)
I somehow felt upset about this, haven't figured out why yet. Guess because I won the argument but no "gentleman" was there to admit defeat - I don't know. Yet it bothers me…
Another Bad Chat Experience: Playing a group mission together with others we had to split loot. You can pick "need","greed" or abstain to roll for the item. Highest roll wins - I got some items I didn't really need but just because I clicked on greed. Considering that I'm an evil Sith Lord on a Sever that especially encourages ROLE-PLAY, I found this the right thing to do. As a Jedi, I should have abstained even if it would be the perfect item for me.
But then someone asked me every time why I got this item. Why did you want item x? Why did you want item y? Why did you want item z? Only because they didn't get it and probably were upset that they didn't win it.
Quite annoying but in the end I could grin sadistically when I sold the Items under-priced to an NPC vendor.
Best Chat Experience:
Back as Bîll Clînton, someone who saw my character whispered to me: "You really look like him!"
Well, that's why it's called Role Playing. I think people still don't understand the meaning of that but that simple line really felt good.
[edit]
Today night I had some help with some difficult quests in StarWars MMO with some random strangers.
Meeting altruistic empire agents is always a sight to behold.
I enjoyed it. I felt a bit under pressure, performing right and being judged by my peers. As a perfectionist this can be rather unnervering but this was a rather pleasant encounter.
[edit 2]
Today I played CO-OP with P1ña from our GOG forums.
We played Orcs Must Die 2
It was really a good experience. Considering that my character had a far lower level it didn't feel unbalanced one bit.
I must say I really enjoyed it and look forward for more CO-OP in the future. Yet P1ña isn't an anonymous stranger (just a semi anonymous pineapple from gog) and I sincerely hope that P1ña enjoyed it as much as I did.
[edit 3]
Well there some factors which really spoil the multiplayer co-op thing.
Bad Internet connection. You try to figure out which side of the connection is bad, then you play for a couple of minutes, the connection resets, no savepoints, nothing gained just time wasted and you have to restart everything just to lose the connection 5 min later again. That's even more frustrating than trolling Sith-Lords...
As you probably know by now, I don't do that out of masochistic pleasure, no I'm too sadistic for that, rather I want to give "multiplaying" a fair chance to change my quite negative stance.
So these are my experiences so far:
Installed the Free To Play Star Wars The Old Republic MMORPG
First impression:
"MMORPG" this horrible abbreviation already makes me want to puke
Second impression:
Installer failed to find c:/ and thus couldn't install the client. You've got to be kidding me, EA? Only because my main hard drive isn't following mainstream rules and is named e:/ not c:/ I'm not entitled to play your game? You just deserve to burn in hell for twice the eternity - just for that.
Thankfully I know how to use google and google knows what to do to install that shitty client.
Shitty client took hours to install from the internet. Well, I barely keep my rage controlled but this would be a perfect prelude of playing a Sith Lord.
Several hours later…
The game works.
Took me almost 30 minutes to figure out which server I wanted to play on.
Awkward beginnings of an awkwardly designed character on Planet Korriban.
A rather weird experience in general. Quite overwhelming at first.
Got invited in a group, lost the group, got lost in the tombs, got lost outside the tombs, got shortchanged by NPC merchants, misclicked the dialogue options, died several times because blaster fire passes through solid rock apparently.
Felt like a overstrained tourist in a foreign country. Just like holidays gone wrong.
Experiences with this MMO in General:
I took a fat Afro-American Sithlord with a cybernetic eye patch. His name should have been Bubba but that was already taken so he ended up being Bubba-ray.
I hate it when those eMail Name restrictions are passed on to your character's name.
No space or freaky characters are allowed but the NPC all have spaces and Middle names and bullshit. This limit mostly happens to console ports and MMOs sadly.
A couple of days later…
Sometimes I have the urge to buy some stuff with real money to get more content out of the game, but as soon as I see the big fat EA logo I'm healed of any previous temptation. I hope this stays this way.
The really tease you with their mindfuck about Cartel Credits and the advances you get spending them.
Open Questions:
Why are there social points? Why do SITH of all the Bad-Mutha's out there need Social Points?
Experiences with other players:
I didn't like Bubba-ray anymore, so I looked for a Role-Playing server, found a German one and started a new Character named him Bîll-Clînton.
Made his appearance to resemble him as close as possible.
Favourite Character thus far.
I enter the Role-Playing Server Chat, each time saying:
"Vote for me!"
Some started trolling immediately, others understood my humor better.
Not much talk, apart from the usual trolling suspects, I took the least populated servers playing at the most unpopular game time. Some bots wanting me to buy from bestauction.com nothing unusual, picked a good time where most of the idiot where already sleeping. Still I had some chat experience I like to share:
Worst Chat Experience:
As Bîll-Clînton I got into a general discussion with someone claiming that I should be playing for the Republic not for the Empire. I answered that I'm not a Republican thus I fit right in the Empire. Republicans can join the Republic (hence the name!!!) if they want. He then started to troll about being a Democrat isn't the Sith's way and that he personally is a Republican Sith (On a German server talking German and considering that German doesn't really have Republicans this didn't make much sense but well) he even asked if there were any Democrats online and while some answered yes, I had to reply that Bîll-Clînton is a Democrat and a Sith in agenda. He insulted my "juvenile behaviour" and officially announce to ignore me (via chat function)
I somehow felt upset about this, haven't figured out why yet. Guess because I won the argument but no "gentleman" was there to admit defeat - I don't know. Yet it bothers me…
Another Bad Chat Experience: Playing a group mission together with others we had to split loot. You can pick "need","greed" or abstain to roll for the item. Highest roll wins - I got some items I didn't really need but just because I clicked on greed. Considering that I'm an evil Sith Lord on a Sever that especially encourages ROLE-PLAY, I found this the right thing to do. As a Jedi, I should have abstained even if it would be the perfect item for me.
But then someone asked me every time why I got this item. Why did you want item x? Why did you want item y? Why did you want item z? Only because they didn't get it and probably were upset that they didn't win it.
Quite annoying but in the end I could grin sadistically when I sold the Items under-priced to an NPC vendor.
Best Chat Experience:
Back as Bîll Clînton, someone who saw my character whispered to me: "You really look like him!"
Well, that's why it's called Role Playing. I think people still don't understand the meaning of that but that simple line really felt good.
[edit]
Today night I had some help with some difficult quests in StarWars MMO with some random strangers.
Meeting altruistic empire agents is always a sight to behold.
I enjoyed it. I felt a bit under pressure, performing right and being judged by my peers. As a perfectionist this can be rather unnervering but this was a rather pleasant encounter.
[edit 2]
Today I played CO-OP with P1ña from our GOG forums.
We played Orcs Must Die 2
It was really a good experience. Considering that my character had a far lower level it didn't feel unbalanced one bit.
I must say I really enjoyed it and look forward for more CO-OP in the future. Yet P1ña isn't an anonymous stranger (just a semi anonymous pineapple from gog) and I sincerely hope that P1ña enjoyed it as much as I did.
[edit 3]
Well there some factors which really spoil the multiplayer co-op thing.
Bad Internet connection. You try to figure out which side of the connection is bad, then you play for a couple of minutes, the connection resets, no savepoints, nothing gained just time wasted and you have to restart everything just to lose the connection 5 min later again. That's even more frustrating than trolling Sith-Lords...
Post edited July 20, 2013 by Khadgar42
