Lame? Are you serious?

Look at what they showed us in the 3 pages.
Lord Baras tries to lure Satele to the dark side - meaning either it is possible however unlikely to have a faction change or just plain showing an example of the "moral" system of the game

When Satele refuses and her Master Dar'Nala is raging with hate, obviously showing signs of dark side herself, she orders the wookie - obviously her companion! (Jedi Knight - Wookie companion!) to kill the Sith - The wookie does not only disagree with her but strikes her down, her own "Master" - meaning the companion can and will turn on you at some point if you chose a path that he/she doesn't like.

This is awesome!

[...] Segments Friday Update: Threat of Peace 25 [...]

Disappointing...

podcast this week?

Lame.

Just seems like a timing problem overall to me. The marketing/hype push started a bit too soon. It got too high, too fast, with no real means to sustain such a level for another 15 months.
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The E3 super-trailer of last year probably should have come out this year in preparation for release in under a year from then. Basically, the build up started too soon, but nothing they can do about it now but make a good, polished product, and try to get some good hype off the actual gameplay of late beta pre-launch.
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If it's a really good game when a lot of people are doing that final testing Q1 next year, the hype will get huge again (and naturally be bigger than it ever was last year). Just seems like a good bit of the hype machine last year was wasted energy though. Could have easily saved all of last year's marketing energy for 2010. /shrug

As a management/marketing minor student, this is a pure strategy to focus all the power toward Mass Effect 2 and promote the game's technology to all of its media, consumers, and to the investors to keep BioWare's reputation on top. The game is now successful with record awards and superb reviews to deliver all the attention it needs while SW:TOR needs to tone down a little bit when it is still under development.

Now that the Mass Effect "after party" marketing party is over with, BioWare can now form a target plan to shift towards its new product, SW:TOR. The conventions, the media outlets, the sponsored events, and so on to promote this game is out there for this game, and they will put so much money and ideas that will rock the interest to its targeted audience to high scales. They will reveal many crucial parts to the game and impress the crowd by targeting their powerful marketing tool: Demonstration Presentations.

From there, the game will be working its custom schedule to grasp as much community as possible to get people testing for it and grab more consumers that way. Then, whether it will be early 2011 or late 2011 will determine the finished product. PEOPLE MUST UNDERSTAND THAT THEY HAVE NOT SET A COMPLETION DATE, ONLY AN ESTIMATION OR SPECULATIVE RELEASE!!!

As usual, ignore SW:TOR forums as your opinions and whatnot are trashed anyways. Let them rant and deal with their lowlife ambitions in getting so clogged into the hatred and poor speculation.

I end this note with a quote from myself. "The wise and open-minded will forever retain the best knowledge and power over the close-minded... do not let the weak lure you in." "Your given eyes to not only see but to retain information that seeks truth to anything that your mind can open up to." "The hardest thing as a young person, like yourself, is patience... patience is the hardest ability to conquer." "If you can conquer that, the things you want most in life will be fulfilled in good manner, without no harm done to yourself."

3 DH Team

-Macer

im starting to get pissed at tor i still want it but atm i hate marketing of tor lets send hate mail :P

Look at it this way, updates are mostly passed by marketing. 90% marketing and 10% community pressure. PvP is a good example, while it was a small clip, we saw it in Designing the Darkside video. Was it needed? No. But they threw us a bone. Same thing with the voice acting video a long while back, they gave us our first look at auctual gameplay in combat

I am still very suprised that they did not start the year off with some big announcment. I am glad they are being honest. I can't remember a devloper ever saying don't expect anything for awhile.

The forums are looking fairly grim. I hope DH sticks to it. I also hope that this isn't the "idiot" move that causes shareholders to move away. Then again, with this climate, knowing what is to come, it is probably a great time to buy stock in BW.

I thought they said the comic would no longer be "stand alone" on Fridays?
I thought every Friday would be exciting and full of information from BW?

eh- I suppose they shouldn't release the hype before the hype itself is fine tuned and ready to be released.

No new info until March and GDC then. Well I guess its not that long to wait. Christmas seems like yesterday to me...

I agree with their sentiment about only discussing stuff when its set in stone. Although, as I've said before, the cynic - born of experience - in me, says that the marketing guys also have a big say when it comes to when info is released. I don't believe that everything we know about at the moment is the only stuff thats decided for certain, for example. One reason I think that: because it wouldn't leave a lot of time to finish stuff before Spring 2011 (assuming thats not an optimistic ball-park date).

Whatever I am just happy that the next story arc for Threat of Peace is probably going to start in February.

I'm not surprised in the slightest. I've been saying for a few weeks now that we won't see anything big until convention season starting with GDC and PAX East in March. Although, while I'm not angry, as Sean intimated that some of us may be, I am a little disappointed.

I was pretty sure a dry time was coming. It's just, well, I've been wrong about almost everything when it comes to this game, I was hoping I'd be wrong again this time too. I mean seriously, this would be the one I get right.

Stupid Murphy's Law. I need a Guinness.

Not really to upset with the threat of peace thing, just disappointed at the fact that they wont be posting for the next few weeks... this means pretty much all of Feb. TOR will be dead to me. Kinda sucks because Ive been following these updates pretty steadily for 8 months now.

Thanks for the prompt news. I try to navigate the forums regardless, but it is always pleasant to know I can come here and get it in one focused shot. Keep up the great work and great site guys.

Another letdown after the accidentally uncovered release window. Something tells me that a few things inside BW are not going according to plan...