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RePLAY: Star Wars: The Old Republic’s new patch breaks PvP and Nintendo won’t fix Mario Kart 7's Maka Wuhu Island.
Patches are like
Rancors of the MMO world—they rampage around with content and they end up
breaking things, like, Star Wars: The Old Republic’s PvP.
Players of the
Republic were in for a nasty surprise once Patch 1.1 launched, in the form of
being camped by legions of the Empire. And when by legions, I mean the bulk of
a server’s Empire population.
In efforts to
encourage PvP on Ilum, BioWare added daily and weekly mission objectives based
on killing players of the opposite faction. And to make it even more attractive,
the amount of Valor, the game’s PvP currency, was increased from killing enemy
players.
Now, add in the fact
that on most servers the Empire outnumbers the Republic by a significant margin
and you get a recipe for disaster, like the scene portrayed above.
BioWare responded by
creating an official forum thread to consolidate issues and complaints for
discussion.
*Source: The SWTORForums via Kotaku
Maka Wuhu Island. Don’t
be deceived by its beaches and idyllic scenery, you’ll never find a more
wretched hive of scum and Mario Kart villainy. Kart drivers are in for
disappointment as Nintendo acknowledged an exploit that allowed cheaters to bypass
most of the course but have no plans to remove the “shortcut”.
“We are aware that it
is possible to navigate a certain part of the track in Wuhu Island in a way
that allows a large part of the course to be bypassed,” said Buddy Roemer, a
Nintendo representative.
“There are no plans to
update the game to remove this shortcut,” he continued, but then throws a
wrench into the usual customer service spiel by adding that removing the glitch
would “create an unfair advantage for the users of the original release of the
game.”
Wait, what?
I cannot fathom how
removing a glitch that allows players to exploit a course creates an unfair
advantage when there already is one, but, Roemer does note that “comments”
about the situation were “added to our records for Mario Kart 7.”
*Source: Joystiq
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