This Week in the Forums (4/15/09)
Greetings! Welcome to another week of This Week in the Forums. Today we will be looking at some of the highlights over in the Star Wars: The Old Republic forums at Lucasforums.com. If you haven’t registered yet, please be sure to do so!
Forum vet Xirion teased everyone with an image that depicts a supposed galaxy map from SWTOR with planets divided between the Republic and those under Sith control. Forumite adamqd claims that the picture does not line up with EU and KotoR planet locations and hypothesizes that ” it was just drawn (Minus names) for the Time-line and isn’t actually scaled/matched to a current Map.” To answer these raised questions, forum user Hallucination humorously responded that “The planets moved”. Tommycat sums up the debate by stating “More or less, I want to know where they got their information. I won’t trust it until there’s proof.”
Boxed Copy or Digital Download?
With the ever increasing popularity of content streaming services such as VALVe software’s Steam, Darth Moeller posts the following “currently do you buy your PC games from a retail store like GameStop or Amazon, or do you prefer digital downloads from services like Steam or Direct2Drive?” A good question indeed. At the time of this writing 59% of you responded that you prefer boxed games, 9% direct download, and 31% of you will buy depending on whichever format is cheaper! forum vet PastrimiX purchases boxed copies so that he may “always have an archive that will last me forever, and can be resold, and does not need a constant Internet connection and background app to “authenticate” my copy”. Other users cited bandwidth caps placed by some Broadband ISPs, limiting the ability to download games without going over their limit and user Miltiades points out that one must possess a credit card to purchase digital copies. Forum mum leXX sides with her wallet and says “I do prefer a boxed copy, but I’ll download a good Steam deal.”
Forum-dweller maverick187, video game music aficionado, wonders what video game music (aside from Star Wars, of course) his fellow SWTOR fans enjoy. Golden Sun, Deux Ex, Castlevania, and Super Smash Bros. are just some notable examples. Join in!
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