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Honestly, I'm a little disappointed at this point. I basically built a whole new computer in late November because my old one died and I knew I'd need upgrades anyway if I was going to play TOR.

At this point, despite the Phenom II X6 1090T, 16GB of DDR3 1600, and Nvidia GTX 560 I still get massive FPS drops at random that are completely game breaking. I didn't submit a ticket because I figured they'd get around to fixing the issue, but looks like I'm going to be spending time dealing with them directly now.

Hmm... Interesting question.

Marry: Star Wars: The Old Republic.
Why? Pretty much every Bioware RPG ever has been amazing. For me a game has to survive on the story and the setting. PvP is a total turnoff, so the PvE storyline has to be amazing. Plus, I like the setting.

Kiss: Guild Wars 2, The Secret World.
Why? I absolutely hated Guild Wars. I'm skeptical of Guild Wars 2. I'm hopeful it will be better but remain skeptical, but the lack of a subscription cost makes it worth at least tryin. Maybe. The Secret World just has a cool setting.

Kill: World of Warcraft, EVE Online, anything ever by Nexon.
Why? World of Warcraft wasn't always a bad game. That said, it's gettign a bit long in the tooth and really just needs to die so that other newer and better titles can live. Maybe Blizzard kill the original client and relaunch it on a new engine and make it better, but a large part of my issue is the community and the fact that PvP plays such a big role in their development choices. EVE is a visually stunning game, but it's boring as shit, and the anarcho-capitalist model lends itself to largescale griefing. Pretty but pointless. Nexon? Well... that whole company needs to die in a fire. So far I've yet to see a single title of theirs that isn't horrible, visually and mechanically. I'm over 12 and have taste and more than $5 a month to spend on gaming, ergo no appeal.

In a word? Yes.

Well, for SWTOR I went ahead and used my day 2 early access to grab some names I wanted that are real names (Like "Henry" and "Sven" and such) mostly because they're characters I've played in other games or in non-MMO RPGs and I like the character as well as the name.

That said, I also used some of my character slots to make placeholders for a few friends who I knew would want names that would disappear quickly as well.

The idea that either Battlefield 3 or Modern Warfare 3 is better than the other is stupid. Lets be realistic here, they serve the same general audience and genre and a lot of us would play and will play them both (as long as we don't get banned for 13+ years) given the chance.

Well, I've already made my human Imperial Agent via the pre-launch access. He's a calculating man who doesn't particularly like his superiors at Imperial Intelligence, the Dark Council, or most other people; however he is committed to protecting the Empire no matter what it takes if only because one does not let one's neighborhood go down the toilet as it were. If I won I could give my original copy to my boyfriend and he and I could play together in which case I KNOW he'd wind up making a Sith Inquisitor, likely a human, and then my agent would disparagingly call him "slave" all the time behind his back (or maybe to his face).

I'd drag my friends back into LOTRO kicking and screaming again, because its one of the best fantasy setting MMOs I've ever played but I haven't been able to justify the VIP status with the few hours a week I have to play between other games and RL commitments.

Too little, too late.

Which is sad, since I loved FFXI and wanted to play FFXIV until it actually came out. Oh well...

@mezzb The problem with 2 being that most games are pirated BEFORE official release due to supply-chain issues. It's really easy for a store manager at [GAME RETAILER] to slit a case, copy an ISO of a disk and then shrinkwrap it all back up for 'new' sale in the week between the shipment coming in and the actual street date. How many CDs leak before official release? Or movies that sometimes aren't even in theaters?

The simpler solution is to realize that people are always going to pirate things and as long as they're not stealing your physical retail copies they're not cutting into our profits.

The huge fallacy that publishers of all sorts of media try to push on the public is that piracy cuts into actual sales numbers. Most of the people who pirate games either don't want to risk the $50-60 it costs to just try it and therefore wont, or they don't have the money in the first place. Schemes like this won't generate substantial sales increases because most people who pirated the game likely were never going to spend $2 on it much less $30, $40 or $50.

@Khalus I didn't get a chance to see the CE store during the beta. I just plum forgot to check. What's it like anyway?

On an aside, I would so not have canceled. I'd just have picked my copy up and tossed it on eBay offering next-day air for the Holidays at the buyer's cost of course. I still might do that with mine if prices go high enough. lol

While a lot of the game-related novelizations aren't the best writing in the world, I tend to pick them up if I really like the game. That said, the last ones I read prior to the SW:TOR ones were the Star Wars: Republic Commando novels by Karen Traviss.

With both the RC and TOR novelizations, the books take the base setting and expand it, filling in backstory and flavor. I played in three of the weekend betas and the fact that I'd read the novels that had come out at each point really made me feel more like a part of the setting. I got some subtle references to the novels, and vice versa. They matched up well with what I saw of both Imperial and Republic in-game lore.