They should just have a "Decide your own experience week". At the end of each quest, you just type in how much experience you want from it. Everybody's happy!

Jeez, you people need to lighten up. A few people have expressed mild disappointment in the start time of this event, and it turns into this!

This is true, but today is a holiday for most people in the UK. I was looking forward to playing SWTOR all day. It's not a massive deal in the grand scheme, but I am very disappointed.

I hate having to look at Gault's stupid face. I'd like to use him as a companion on my BH, but I just can't stand that particular idiotic race. Couldn't something be tweeted so that Gault actually shows the helmet you put on him?

You're probably right about SWTOR not needing chat bubbles. Most of the people who really want them have probably left the game by now. Personally, I don't play this game like an MMO any more because it doesn't have chat bubbles. I turn off all chat, ignore all the other players and it's not a bad single player game.

One idea that has been brought up before, is to let classes use the weapons and abilities of their mirror class. It's not total freedom, but it does give the non-force users a lot more freedom without really effecting the game at all. So, for example, a BH could use rifles or cannons depending on their advance class, effectively behaving exactly like troopers. Imperial Agents could use pistols and smugglers could use the abilities, weapons and animations of a sniper or operative.

I honestly can't understand the problem. For me, the biggest problem with leveling in SWTOR is not that I can't do all the quests without overleveling the content. No, the biggest problem is that I have to do the same quests over and over with each character because SWTOR is so linear. In other MMOs I've played, I can level two characters in totally different areas and not repeat any of the same quests for long sections of the leveling process. The fact that people can complete every quest on one character, at the correct level for the quest, actually points to a lack of content for level 10-50 characters. Unlike some other MMOs, SWTOR has never released new areas/planets for low level characters or mid level characters to make the leveling process more interesting and varied. It never will do either, because essentially it can't. It's just too linear to ever have any kind of variety. So, double xp is about the only way to relieve the monotony of doing the same planet for the 3rd or 4th time.

pfft ... I've been subscribed to this game for a year and have Legacy level 17. It's simply because it don't play it that much because; a) I have a full time job. b) I have a family. c) I have other hobbies and interests that I also like to do in the limited free time I have. It is only a certain type of MMO player who would regard having nothing else to do as an "achievement". Now, I've nothing against the idea that this should be for legacy level 40. Just please don't refer to having legacy level 40 as an "achievement". It just means that you've played this game for many many many more hours than I have. That is NOT an "achievement"!

I am one of the people who mocked WoW for being World of Pandas. I don't feel in the slightest bit ashamed that SWTOR is introducing Ewoks, for the simple reason that I am not a SWTOR dev. I am in no way responsible for this move. I will now simply start mocking SWTOR for being Teddy Bear Wars at the same time as laughing at Blizzard's Pandamon.

Perhaps because they mark the point at which Star Wars movies turned into 2 hour long toy commercials. No, I don't have to buy them. I do however have to look at other people's companions and will have to see Ewoks running about all over the freaking place. This game just got worse.

Those games don't have chat bubbles? I'll make a mental note never to play them then. For me, the lack of chat bubbles IS a game breaker. I know I'm in the minority, but I do find it absolutely pathetic that BW can't put them in. I played WoW for years. I was part of the RP community on my server and founded a large and well respected RP guild there. I them played Age of Conan for a couple of years, was part of the RP community and help found a large and well respected RP guild there. I play SWTOR like its a single player game. I feel no loyalty towards it and will drop it the instant something else comes along which interests me. The difference is, I simply cannot get into RPing in a way I enjoy in this game. Chat bubbles give an instant cue as to who is speaking. It's true that you can tell who is speaking from a chat box also. What chat boxes do not tell you however, is where that person is in relation to you. You see a name flash up with their dialogue in the chat box and you have to work out where the speaker is, how far away they are, which direction they are facing etc. It's all an extra level of awkwardness that detracts from the fun. So after several months of trying to RP in this game and finding it more frustrating than fun, I gave up. I play SWTOR just for the stories now and I'm finding fewer and fewer reasons to log in.

The reason you see so much bare digital flesh is that the BW designers don't know the difference between a sexy outfit and dressing like a ******.

Same as I do every weekend, spent some quality time with my wife. I only play this game Monday to Thursday. Double xp Weekends are useless to me.

While what you say here is absolutely correct, it does feel like BW is taking the piss out of all of the people who have been asking for sitting in chairs since launch. I'm expecting the next pack to contain a 10 second animation of a giant chat bubble.

How many people really, actually hate the books and comics? I suspect there are far more people like me, who just have absolutely zero interest in them. I just don't read comics. I might actually like them if I did, but I just don't read comics. It's just one thing on the long list of things I don't do and probably never will. As for the books, I do read quite a bit. I read most days in fact, but it would never occur to me to read a Star Wars book. I tend to read a mixture of modern literature (I've just finished working my way through all of Jo Nesbo's Harry Hole novels. Hopefully they'll release an English translation of book 2 soon) and 20th century classics. I have no interest whatsoever in reading a Star Wars book. One of my passions however is film. I like all kinds of films of all genres. The Star Wars movies are just one franchise among many that I like .... a lot. So basically, I'm excited about the prospect of new movies. I have watched and enjoyed the whole of the Clone Wars series and I am looking forward to Rebellion, but I doubt I will ever read a comic or a Star Wars book as long as I live.