Clips and Facts in One Place

Found this video through the GTC site, during my romp around. It gets a lot of the clips found in the offical site (aswell as some you may not have seen) while underneath, it gathers all the facts from interviews and displays them with neat substections. Worth a visit:
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Ah yes I saw that the other day. Some of the facts underneath are a little bit presumptious but they could be right I guess.

Yeah, not bad. I agree the 'collection of info' is a bit dubious. At lest they're not calling them 'facts'. I wish they would properly cite the source of each piece of info with a link to the original article or something because this caught my eye:

"Mixed Party Quests, If a Smuggler and Jedi group to go do the Smuggler quest line there will be quests for the Jedi to do while helping Smuggler - MMOGAmer"

This aspect of TOR is of big news to our little guild and I want to know more. Guess I'll go hunt around 'MMOGAmer' for the original article...

Yeah I saw information on that a while back but it never went into detail. Of course you're right mate that would be fantastic for our guild!

This excerpt is taken from mmogamer.com (the full article, published June 11, can be found here) and pertains to the "Mixed Party Quests" as discussed above.

MMOGamer wrote:

The MMO Gamer: Well, that brings up all sorts of issues.

If you have five friends, and they’re all playing different classes, do four have to follow around one while they do the Smuggler quest, and then the Smuggler has to help the other four while they do their quests in turn?

And would those other party member just be standing idle by the sidelines?

Or, can you become actively involved in the storylines of other characters?

Daniel Erickson: If you go back to the Star Wars analogy, it’s pretty much dead on.

If you want to let Han go try to pay off Jabba by himself, there he goes.

James Ohlen: Or you can go with him.

Daniel Erickson: If you want to go with him, and be part of his story, and…


James Ohlen: One of the things our Lead World Designer is always doing, because he plays all of the MMOs in a party…

Daniel Erickson: He’s mister multiplayer guy.

James Ohlen: So, whenever he’s setting up the worlds, he’s very conscious of the fact that all the points of interest for the different class stories are set up in such a way that the flow of your party, you’re going to be able to move around the world in such a way that you can still stay together easily.

Plus, there’s activities to do like for example, if you’re going to help the Smuggler, and you’re a Jedi-I can’t talk about the specific Jedi class, but there will be Jedi-there’ll be activities for that Jedi to do while the Smuggler is doing his quest, that will help him out.

Daniel Erickson: Yeah, they can actually help him out and accomplish his goals.

One of the things we always talk about is we are trying to cover multiple camps…

The two big ones are the MMO players, who may not care about story at all. A lot of the people, for example, who played Baldur’s Gate to death were not story people.

They were people who liked the D&D combat, you know, and especially on their second playthrough they were like “Groooaaaaaan.”

And we’ve always known that those people have to be comfortable there, as well. If they want to form guilds, and have groups, and go after the best loot, and run around together… we have to make all of that available, we never want to take that away from them.

At the same time, if you are a big BioWare fan, and you love the single-player RPGs, this really is the RPG forever. You can play through this game, your actual story mode to the end, all of your characters, single-player. You can play solo all the way through if you want.

Then you can stop, and you can reload, and you can play another BioWare game, all the way through solo, totally different content.

So that really wasn’t worth my time tracking down. But who knew? lol

hehe, still a nice read though and at least we can confirm the "fact".