Comments on: Amazingly Invested

By: maryvarn

maryvarn — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 22:40:12 +0000

I appreciate that. I kinda dug my own grave when I based Lisa’s life loosely on my own, but I figure I’ll dig my way out if Lisa keeps on being her crazy self.

By: Mehri

Mehri — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 18:45:05 +0000

I love this comic, Mary. It made me laugh. It causes a giggle while touching on some hot topics in the gaming community. It’s funny, contrary to what others are saying, when I was in beta, I was indecisive about the game until I grouped with someone I normally play with, and then we both decided we didn’t care for the grouping experience in SWTOR compared to other MMOs.

But ultimately I’m glad SWTOR is so successful, even if it isn’t the mmo for me (that’s it really, I’ll only pay for one at a time and SWTOR didn’t quite cut it) because it provides competition for other MMOS. Competition is a good thing. It means both old & new MMOs must grow.

Anyway, Lisa’s comment makes sense to me as far as her personality goes. I imagine people are being more defensive about what’s going on outside of this comic, rather than within. And as a “writer” I know frequently what a character says doesn’t necessarily reflect my own opinion.

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 16:22:35 +0000

It’s strange… I’ve always been a solo player. I loved leveling solo in WoW and I was very excited about the solo abiilty of TOR. And yet, the story has made it so that I actually enjoy leveling with my guildies more. We get to share our characters’ smart -ss responses and the social points are yummy and it allows us to easily do heroic quests and take turns sending our companions out to do crew skills without worrying about having them around… I’m on an RP server, too, and I waited for a friend to catch up because we decided that our characters were being put on the same mission by the Jedi council… then we decided to re-roll as knights and a third friend joined us, so the three of us are going through massacreing the Coruscant quests. It’s just so… fun!

At the same time, when they aren’t available, I still have a few toons that I can sneak away on and level by myself.

By: MegaGame

MegaGame — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 08:42:51 +0000

SWTOR can easy be played solo, and it works fine becouse of the compainen system, but over the last week a friend of mine decide to change from REP to SITH, and start to play on the server I had siths on, and we been playing almost most of the game to lvl 30 together, talking over steam or skype, and the game is just more fun that way with a friend.

we always love the big sole games, but always thought it woud be fun if you coud play them with 1 or 2 other ppl.
Game like eldre scrolls, mass effect, dragon age, kotor.

By: Zakka

Zakka — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 18:04:15 +0000

Gee… That brings back memories. I miss Mike and Turpster

By: HardWearJunkie

HardWearJunkie — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 06:24:27 +0000

It could be worse. They could be acting out TF2 Meet the Character movies. (Me thinks Meet the Spy spoof would be good…)

By: Eddie aka Brigwyn

Eddie aka Brigwyn — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 22:40:04 +0000

Yeppers! And I have the pic to prove it. Can’t believe it’s almost been 3yrs! We need to plan some type of reunion.

By: isaac

isaac — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 22:39:14 +0000

i kill everyone who’s says that…then soul trap them

By: maryvarn

maryvarn — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 17:06:09 +0000

No worries – I think it’s great for people to talk about what they like or don’t like about games. It all adds up to a broader variety of fun experiences for everyone. Well, hopefully, if developers hear the discussions.

Is there any data yet on how well SWTOR is doing? I’m under the impression it’s doing really well, but I’m surrounded by the hype of twitter and podcasts and my brother. Never thought to check the population numbers of the servers, good thinking. :O

By: Columbina

Columbina — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 16:26:20 +0000

I guess I’m a little defensive because in many ways SWTOR is exactly the MMO I’ve been looking for for a decade – compelling and doable solo content, but with group content always handy when I want it – and I’m not happy with the numbers; for a game that supposedly had such a phenomenal amount of box sales, the population numbers I’m seeing on the planets every night (and I am on one of the busiest of the East Coast PVE servers – Juyo) seem way too low for me. I think I’m worried that all the naysayers and trash-talkers are killing this game prematurely. So forgive me if I’m jumpy.