Category Archives: SWTOR

Star Wars: The Old Republic

Nolstagia leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering

Star Wars: the Old Republic has been out over a year now and I’ve been getting a bit nostalgic.  Even with many of the issues I’ve discussed over the past year remaining.  A few weeks ago a buddy of mine … Continue reading

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F2P Hasn’t Changed My Mind on SWTOR

Indeed, there are several reasons to check out SWTOR, but merely going F2P doesn’t change the dynamics which drove so many players — including me — away from SWTOR in the first place.  F2P, and especially with the restrictions now … Continue reading

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Bioware Think’s Their Subscription Model Drove Away Their Customers?

I hadn’t paid a great deal of attention to SWTOR since I last gave it a go back in July but the game hit my radar again recently as it’s transition to F2P has become imminent and I’ve started to … Continue reading

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The Force Is With Disney

I was as stunned as everyone else yesterday to read that Disney had agreed to purchase Lucasfilm, which includes control of Industrial Light and Magic, Lucasarts, and Skywalker Sound, for a reported $4.05 Billion. Half of which will be in … Continue reading

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Why I’m back playing WoW

It’s been a few weeks but a friend of mine actually asked me why I was playing WoW.  We’d been playing EVE Online together a couple months ago but real life got in his way and we haven’t talked since.  … Continue reading

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SWTOR Free to Play Coming

I knew that was coming.  I haven’t heard EA’s report today but it must be horrible.  I present to you, SWTOR Free To Play!  Bioware promises more frequent Game Updates, including group content like Flashpoints, Warzones, Operations, and dynamic in-game … Continue reading

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Hanging up SWTOR for good

I’ve recently given SWTOR another good go after my last visit back in April, and I’m sorry to say I’ve unsubbed again and went the further step of uninstalling the game from my computer.  That’s three strikes for SWTOR and … Continue reading

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Anything new with SWTOR? Nope.

I haven’t traditionally been an MMO hopper, but I feel extraordinarily liberated these days.  I’m playing EVE Online but also have been keeping my eye on SWTOR and to a much lesser extent WoW as well.  I actually logged into … Continue reading

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Unsubbed from SWTOR

I’ve been slacking lately, and haven’t posted anything meaningful to my blog in a while.  I’ve been a bit busy, but had been meaning to write about SWTOR for a few weeks.  Fact is I haven’t been playing SWTOR in … Continue reading

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Darth Nox, I

I was beginning to wonder if the day would ever come, but I finally leveled my first character to level 50 Monday. I started playing SWTOR during the first day of the early access on my Bounty Hunter and did … Continue reading

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Speed leveling crafting professions in SWTOR

Like many others yesterday I was busily watching the NFL Wild Card games, and I must add, thoroughly enjoying the stunning Denver Bronco triumph over the Pittsburgh Steelers.  If you were to step foot into my cubicle at work you’d … Continue reading

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Lower Discovered Mission Rewards from Slicing?

I started noticing earlier in the week that I had been getting fewer Discovered Mission Rewards from my Slicing missions than I recalled getting previously.  But because I hadn’t really been keeping track I decided I finally was going to … Continue reading

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Slicing nerf uncovered the ugly truth about the SWTOR economy

Last week I was focused on the recent Slicing nerf, wanting to determine how bad the possible impact was on me.  While I think Bioware definitely toned Slicing down, over all I found I wasn’t as affected as perhaps others … Continue reading

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Lack of LFG system in SWTOR a sad panda makes

If there is one thing I absolutely want Bioware to fix, it is the lack of a Looking For Group (LFG) system in SWTOR.  I’ve been trying to run the Foundry for two days now, standing around in the fleet … Continue reading

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PVP Imbalance

I admit I’m a PVP fanatic.  Not really in a one-on-one sense, though I do enjoy that when an opportunity presents.  But I do greatly enjoy group PVP, so I’m a big fan of open-world and instanced PVP in small … Continue reading

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