SWTOR Explosion!!
January 7, 2012 Leave a comment
I have been away from my usual blog posts due to the holidays and the new Star Wars The Old Republic Game that has came out which has sucked my life away these past few weeks. But now i am getting around to a new post and i find SWTOR to be a definite awesome post for the awesome meaning blog!
I have been a big MMORPG buff for years, back since Project 99 with the original EverQuest. Then to City of Heroes (horrible game btw) then World of Warcraft then Rift and now Star Wars: The Old Republic.
Out of all these games i still gotta say the original EverQuest has my vote for best MMO but with todays modern day MMO’s SWTOR is by far my favorite. I went ahead and rolled a Bounty Hunter class because i just knew everyone and there dog would be playing as a Jedi or Sith. Just after Christmas this game has received an insanely amount of new players from all over. Here is something i pulled off the SWTOR.com homepage all about the games popularity.
“Over a million gamers worldwide celebrated the holidays in front of their PCs with lightsabers, Sith lords and Jedi knights as BioWare™, a Label of Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: EA), continued to see an unprecedented amount of player engagement for Star Wars™: The Old Republic™. Over this past weekend, players continued to flood the servers of the fastest-growing subscription MMO in history, immersing themselves in the game for over 5.5 million hours. Star Wars: The Old Republic is also proving to be a critical smash hit, with an average review score of 88*, making it the highest rated MMO of 2011, while also winning over 105 industry awards, including “Best Multiplayer Game of 2011” from MSNBC. Enthusiasm for The Old Republic has also gone viral, as over 1.6 million fans have viewed the Jedi vs. Sith Freeze Mob in Times Square on launch day, making it one of the most viewed videos on YouTube during this past weekend.”
Now the hardest decision i found about this game honestly had to be which class will i choose, and more importantly which advanced class will i choose (option available at level 10). So after a lot of research and the different types of gameplay i enjoy in MMO’s i went with a Bounty Hunter and rolled as a Mercenary. Now Mercenary class is DPS/Heal class, but i just went all out DPS. I have always liked the Bounty Hunter in the Star Wars universe, all the way from the card game to the movies/books and now the video games.
Now this game has been so big it definitely earned it’s spotlight on my blog and to all those awesome readers out there and if you enjoy gaming pick this title up. If you want to play on my server i am on Mandalore the Indomitable and rolled Empire. So come check it out!!!
Cool youtube vid with a flash mob i found, check it out!:
