I just submitted a ticket about this in-game as I didn't read anything about this change in the notes and others I've talked to said theirs still works like it used to. Glad to know I'm not to the only one I guess. All of a sudden my aug slots show a locked symbol and like you, now I need to use the station to add/remove the augments. I assumed this change happened with 6.0 but I've been away a while and wasn't sure if this was a change prior to this.

Was just wondering this as well. I wonder if they have some plan for them to be made available in some directly purchased way from the CM or something. They wouldn't do something like that though, would they?

I had a piece of Victorious Pioneer's gear set restored a couple weeks back, the Greaves piece. When they restored it for me, because I'm dumb and deleted it by mistake, it didn't show the set bonus on the piece. I equipped it, just tested it again after they sent me a 2nd response saying to equip it, and the XP is the same as before because it's no longer hitting the next tier for the xtra 15% XP. But, this happened literally 2 weeks ago and I'm on my 3rd ticket trying to get it resolved. And it's not a 252/258 armoring either. Is this possibly related to this issue?

I don't know. I'm not sure I'd plunk down that kinda money for an outfit by itself. Basically, for them to sell stuff individually in addition to offering them in the packs, I imagine they'd have to ask a pretty steep price. Now true, people who didn't want to buy it directly could still buy the crates/packs but having this option might change my desire to gamble for it. In this situation (without a direct purchase ability), these items could still be considered pretty rare and the cost I could charge on the GTN would validate this... but if people could just buy it outright, it could make the value plummet on the GTN so I wouldn't feel compelled to buy the packs. I think that makes sense but I just can't see how they could have both options work out simultaneously without affecting each other in some negative way. I think many people use the CM simply as a tool to get in-game credits and this could adversely affect the market - I think. And BW would feel it as well.

Thanks for having a calm response. I re-read what I wrote and came across rather rude and harsh so my apologies. And you have a valid point which I didn't consider. Sadly though I just can't see them changing since they're clearly raking in tons of money as it is and until they see it decline, they're in no position to change what seems to be working.

That's one of the big problems with these 'targeted' promotions. People might actually see the promotion in the launcher even though they weren't supposed to. On BW's end, they don't see the player as eligible for it yet the player sees the promo in the launcher. Player says they saw it, BW says they shouldn't have. I can't believe it would come down to something like that but in the end, it's the player's word against BW's and I don't know if they'd willingly 'give in' and just believe anyone who claims to have seen it. Either way, this has been handled very poorly overall with so little communication.

There isn't one. Never has been as the game wasn't designed to be played that way.

You say you don't mind spending the money and that you at least expect a decent chance to get what you want. Well you got the chance and didn't get it - you can still not get something even with a 99% chance. I'm all for discussing the mistakes they make with regards to the CM but this isn't one of them. All of these items can be listed on the GTN so no one is forced to buy them with real money. edit: I was quite a douche with the above message so my apologies now that I read it over again. Hopefully my point came across still but in a less jerk-ish kinda way.

Got mine as well. Posted a link to a screenshot of it in the other main thread about the promotion.

I got my 500 CC reward and wanted to post a screenshot of it since some of the friendly folk on Harbinger (Nar chat) didn't believe me. Here ya go guys! http://i.imgur.com/8eXSGKD.jpg

You don't even know what you're talking about. Where did they say they're no longer giving the 500 CC's and instead doing something else? It's amazing how people don't even think before they complain.

Happy gobble gobble day guys! Enjoy and cherish those with you today because tomorrow is never a guarantee. Yeah I know it's a bit dramatic but it's true...

1.5hrs to go still

Was it really as long ago as people were saying, like more than a couple years? They really need to bring that back. 25% off all existing packs is a pretty dull and boring sale...

Starts at 12pm CST which is 2hrs 20min from now.