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An Open Letter to BioWare on The Old Republic MMO
As a single consumer, I have very little impact as to what goes on and into TOR. I am writing this letter to voice concerns over the development of the game and more personally, what would make me happy and want to purchase the game.
My concerns are twofold. Perhaps the most troubling is the lack of a third faction playable Faction in the TOR universe. I would like think that the EA-Overmind would have seen the dynamicism a third faction brings to player versus player (PvP) interactions. The prime example would be Mythic’s Dark Age of Camelot that you swallowed not to long ago. The three way conflict in DAOC virtually guaranteed that some sort of action was going on somewhere in the virtual world. Certainly, it was not perfect and even tri-faction PvP gets tiresome after awhile. However, the novelty of two faction PvP wears off even more quickly as there are simply less options available to work with. TOR seems destined to head down the well worn and unimaginative binary path of good vs. evil, light vs. dark, red vs. blue etc. You speak of story and characterization as a key part of this MMO, yet when it comes to PvP, all the depth of character and backstory goes down the tubes and it is back to binary basics. Read the rest of this entry »
Around Fathers’ Day, the heteronormative masculinity enforcing messages involved in the associated marketing push absolutely drive me up a wall. According to the marketing that bombards us, “Father” seems to be some kind of monolithic hive-minded creature that only likes and does certain Very Manly things, and should only want certain kinds of gifts, and should only do certain kinds of Fathers’ Day activities. And I get angry on behalf of my dad, because I feel like it’s wrong to burden and confine him, and all men for that matter, with the expectation that fathers have to be a mix of Tim the Tool Man, Homer Simpson, and a randomly selected epic role acted by Mel Gibson, or else they don’t count.
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