Comments on: E3 2012: Lars Buttler Speaks

By: Cody Banister

Cody Banister — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 16:08:00 +0000

Well, I don’t know about your experience with the LFG Finder, but since it has been released, I haven’t found much difference in the amount of community that was present before it became available, and now. People are still just as friendly as they were before, and I actively talk with people in my groups. I’ve made more than a few friends on the server that I transferred to, which also helped boost the server population.

By: InvaderMig

InvaderMig — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 13:53:00 +0000

Now if only ArenaNet could have been given the IP and budget, I think Swtor would be the best MMO ever made.

By: InvaderMig

InvaderMig — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 13:50:00 +0000

The health of Rift, or lack there of is due to how painfully generic the game is. That being said, you can not deny that from a purely technical standpoint, what Trion accomplished with Rift is commendable. Their game was far more feature rich(AH and quality of life features), and polished than Swtor. Not to mention they were far faster in responding to any problem that occurred in their game, and they have a much smaller team than BioWare does. It certainly does come off as a bit cocky to say what he said, but I know he must be thinking, “If we had your god damn budget to put together an MMO, and the Star Wars IP, we’d blow your fucking game out the water.” I would be inclined to agree with that imaginary statement. =P

By: Nisarg Shah

Nisarg Shah — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 12:15:00 +0000

I wouldn’t say blizzard is getting free pass anymore. They did have net subscription loss during the period of cataclysm. And one of the major reasons for it was lack of content for casual players. And we are seeing that continue in 2012 as well because of lull period with the most lacklustre rehashed raid ever.

People are actually quitting wow instead of only complaining on forums. So yes, I wouldn’t say blizzard is getting a free pass anymore. Its just that their playerbase is so overinflated due to china’s numbers. But wow in NA and Europe is significantly facing a decline.

By: Luke Malcolm

Luke Malcolm — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 19:44:00 +0000

they should just remake the game or shut it down at this point, I loved SWTOR and all but i feel like im playing a beta still.

By: Key Foster

Key Foster — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 17:59:00 +0000

Yeah, i can go with that but im focusing mostly on feel. swtor doesnt feel as alive as wow. But i still love playing both.

By: Luke Malcolm

Luke Malcolm — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 04:27:00 +0000

Trion is scambling to release content to soften the constant sub loses they have, If the game had any success they woudn’t release anything this fast. Look at the light and understand Rift is a dead game and is slowly disappearing and the expansion isn’t gunna help.

By: Luke Malcolm

Luke Malcolm — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 04:09:00 +0000

Bulter will be in the same situation when the Storm Legion Expansion flops after WoW & GW2 own Both P2P & B2P markets. His company has made as many mistakes as SWTOR / BioWare did and they suffered for it.

It may be a dickest way to say it, but BioWare is still a bigger & better company than Trion ever could and he has no right to talk about success and such, when his own companies has had no success in the very same market. Maybe if Blizzard or Arena Net talked about it than you could say “Ya they have had success in the market”.

By: Luke Malcolm

Luke Malcolm — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 03:59:00 +0000

Ya I agree, If you watch over the rift server status from the in-game list and on the website, if you were over 500k subs you wouldn’t ever have low pop servers 24/7 and theres a couple medium and the odd high pop.

Like its dick move to say, but its the truth, Rift is dead and Trion is scrambling to releases stuff to keep pple entertained and the expansion wont help the game, maybe for a 3 months than they flop again. If the game was sem-successful they wouldn’t scramble to release stuff so fast.

By: Old Ben

Old Ben — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 22:20:00 +0000

> you can not only see but feel that lots of people are in WOW

You might have 50 or 100 characters standing by the mailbox in front of the AH (though only in the afternoon – it seems most WoW players go to bed at 10 p.m. these days), but 99% of the game world is completely empty.