What Made You Buy Defiance? (Question Of The Day)

[Arsenic_Touch]

Didn't go to the store, preordered it on amazon like a few weeks before the game went live, but was playing the beta.

It was being presented as an mmo third person shooter with RPG elements and a tv show tie in where the show would reflect in the game and the game would reflect in the show. I saw that the company was Trion and I enjoyed Rift. So I expected the same level of content and dedication. I enjoy the scifi drama and enjoy most scifi dramas that come out of syfy, so I figured this would be great. They didn't deliver. It's a great concept, but poorly delivered. The transmedia experience was a dud.

Tv show kept my interest, the game? not so much.

[TwwiX]

Because i used to have faith in Trion once.

[Etaew]

Heard about it on launch day, impulse bought.

[Orbital]

I was bored with Diablo 3, Starcraft 2, Fallout, and X-Com, and was looking on steam for something new. I checked into it some and it looked promising, it kinda reminded me of Tabula Rasa-esque which also had promise but failed. I really want to see a good sci-fi theme shooter/mmo succeed. I also saw that it was going to have a TV show tied in with it, so I decided to give it a try. I pre-ordered the day before release on Steam so I got quite a few little extras with it. Hopefully things turn around from the current state though, I am unlikely to get anymore Trion games at launch though.

[Darx]

Bought it when it was on sale from Steam about a month ago. Played it for 2 days, ordered the DVD Box of the TV show, have 90 hours on it since. Simply can't put it away anymore. I'm horribly addicted.

Edit1: Just like Orbital I still got a bunch of good memories of Tabula Rasa. It was a fantastic game and I still mourn it.

[DarknessEyes PT]

Why did you go to a store for this game? A friend? Reccomendation? etc

The music

[Gomly]

Heard about it a while ago, planned on buying it on release. My wife wanted a holiday on this games release day so we went away and I forgot about it completely until I saw it in the Steam sale a few weeks ago.

[Mojavemike]

WoW kept me entertained for 6 years, but I was getting tired of medieval themes (played UO for 7 years). Tried Never Winter for a couple of weeks, but that was too WoW'ish. My friend suggested Defiance, so we went ahead and purchased the game...got mine from Amazon for about $49. This was my first shooter.
Sad to say, but I've just about stopped playing Defiance after 4 months...I like the game, but there is way too little content, and the map is tiny, with no variance in the landscape.
I'm looking forward to the DLC, but I have my doubts that the game will keep me occupied for a year or two.

[Orbital]

I like the game, but there is way too little content, and the map is tiny, with no variance in the landscape. I'm looking forward to the DLC, but I have my doubts that the game will keep me occupied for a year or two.

There is alot of greyed/blacked out area to expand the game map, I'm thinking they plan to do so eventually. Hopefully in one of the upcoming season one DLC's. For Defiance will probably be coming, but that isn't that big of an area I don't think.

[agiantmudcrab]

Sega closed the doors on Phantasy Star Universe........