Pretty much. I, too, despise arenas, and beforehand, when I got them, I tried to ascertain whether my teammates knew what they were doing, and try to make up the shortfall. Now...heck with it. If their craniums appear to be placed firmly behind them and in a sunlight-deprived upwards-reaching locale, I'll walk into a lightsaber chop or a stream of blaster bolts, and get it over with quickly. If I'm in a particularly foul mood, I'll drop as soon as I warp into the arena, and eat the lockout timer. Better to sit tapping my spacebar every couple of minutes than have to put up with numbskull number-farmers. If I get an actual warzone, I'll stick it out rather than get a lockout timer, but there are fewer scenarios than before where I'll give it my all if I'm stuck in a team of complete yutzes who don't savvy such things as " 2 Incoming West pylon", the fact that, no, you are NOT supposed to let that opposing player plant a bomb on that door, or yes, you ARE supposed to move the ball into the opposing team's end zone, or no, you are NOT supposed to cap the pylon and then run away (granted, this last example has always been a problem). If all they want to do is farm, fine. One way or another, maximum effort or otherwise, I will gauge my effort to theirs. If I'm going to be forced to eat a loss, I'm not going to have my blood pressure spike doing it.

A heartfelt +1. Excellently put.

I would log in every day just to (at least) do my daily PVP matches. Even arena matches, which I hate with the intensity of a billion burning suns. Depending on how the day was going, I would stay long after I'd turned in my dailies and weeklies. And I would always try my best. I am far from a PVP deity, but maximum effort was always owed, even if the other team was brutally scalping us. Now, I auto-drop from arenas before they even start, because I have no real reason to stay , and in those cases where I get an actual warzone, the first match has invariably set the tone for the day. I understand EAWare wants to sell us stuff, and I don't expect any grand rewards for a loss, but I'm not forking over CC's or credits simply to keep adrenals and warzone meds at hand. This change, in my opinion, is one of the most fabulously myopic decisions I have experienced.

With few exceptions, most people aren't too worried about Faction specifics if such things inhibit their ability to play. I would rather have warzone pops than strict adherence to faction (and this could have been avoided with cross-server warzones). Same goes for choosing the color of my lightsaber crystals (though there are so many oddly-colored ones these days, it's pretty much irrelevant) I'm not dismissing your concerns - I simply don't share them. Plus I doubt EAWare is going to backtrack any time soon.

For...pretty much any character I have: 1) Lana Beniko (position, intelligence skills, and contacts) 2) Elara Dorne (medicine) 3) Theran Cedrax (tech/engineering skills) 4) Yuun (pretty much THE most versatile companion, at least lore-wise) 5) HK-51 (For loyalty and "communication" skills)

I am completely eclectic when it comes to outfitting my toons. I'll think "Hey, <character name> would look really good in this outfit!">, and then spend however long it takes tracking down the articles to assemble said outfi (one of the reasons I'm a fan of direct-buy off of the Cartel Market...I can now give my IA's a proper uniform, and my SW's and JK's nice weapons that aren't lightsabers). My one hiccup is Dancer/Slave Girl outfits. If someone complains about how these things aren't respectful, or mutter about how they break immersion, or <insert another argument I think is irrelevant here>, then I have no choice - none - but to buy another slot on a toon and stuff her into a dancer's get-up. I don't start out seeking to have them wear one, but I am more than willing to have my toons scoot along on Hoth or Ilum looking like multi-species Maxim models in lieu of actually trying to convince someone of an argument that differs from their own (kinda like politics, except about Jedi in bathing suits).

Either Light or Dark is determined by the in-story choices that you make as a Sith Warrior during that character's interaction with Jaesa, from the moment... As far as I am aware, however, only Sith warriors may have Jaesa as a companion.

I had to suppress a sob of joy when I popped into Vandin the first time. All I've been getting in lowbies is 4x4 arenas, and I despise those. So if it means I'm not in an execrable 4x4, bring it on, and I won't complain.

I'm no programmer, but I would imagine it shouldn't be all that difficult to alter the 8x8 maps to accept fewer people on each side. Granted, a 4x4 Hypergate would be...interesting...but a 4x4 Huttball would be completely worth the time, and a 4x4 Novare Coast would require some fast thinking and creative decisions. Even if it wasn't the most optimum of experiences, I would greatly prefer this to a 4x4 arena (I loathe arenas - bad enough that 4x4 is all we get for Ranked). BioWare seems to just keep kicking the Huttball. We certainly aren't being given the opportunity to do that (until we hit 70, it seems).

Wouldn't that skip a day and be Revenge of the Sixth?

I agree. It isn't being handed out like candy on All Hallows, so I don't see the issue. So someone else managed to get Darth Hexid. That's nice. Doesn't affect how I play my game one way or the other.

I can't possibly agree more. My LS trooper was willing to so I think the option should be there to have her as a companion. As for Koth? I'm probably one of those rare souls who doesn't care either way. His constant excuse-making for Vitiate (Valkorian) pretty much caused me to switch him off as someone to even worry about. My LS characters will do LS things regardless of his opinion, my DS characters will do DS things, up to and including putting Koth in whatever passes for a pine box, regardless of his opinion. Whatever the Austin studio does with him, they don't have to worry about giving me a heads-up first.

Agree with everything here. It's probably best to just make them available to all, and be done with it. I can't say in all honesty that I'd use either one, but if someone else wants to use them, who am I to say "no, you can't"? Doesn't affect my game in the least who uses which companion. Their nickel.

This wasn't a premade, it was completely random. If that sort of thing works out for you and your mates, I suppose that's one thing, so I can't really speak to your example, but to randomly use it on someone in a PUG is, well, an opinion that might get me banned from the forums. Even if you already have the codex entry, being the one to hit the datacore still adds to your score. I would not blame the one (keeping this post at least marginally on-topic) being yanked back for dropping out of any group they found themselves in that also contained the one who would do such a thing. Messing with your friends is one thing - doing it to a randomly-placed PUG teammate is poor manners, at best.

Yes...and that's borne out every day, with Massive Multiples of players online at any given time. But that isn't what he's referring to. That, however, is accurate.