This has been an ongoing trend of EA and its only getting worse because people are buying into it. The next generation of gamers won't think twice about, and that's what the end game is. Even LEGO got in on it with their Minifigures collections that parents buy for kids not knowing the best ones are a 1/100 chance. John Riccitiello gave away the farm when he talked about charging a $1 for ammo 4 hours into a Battlefield 3 session as an example of what he had planned for greater revenue generation. It isn't going to stop until people get fed up and stop buying into it, and I don't see that happening anytime soon.

Whoa, I came here to bash Cathar and the stupid dye pack lottery, but some of the nonsense I'm reading is going to force me to jump in. From the game FAQ: "Windows XP Service Pack 3 or later" That's it, end of story, that is what the game is advertised to run on, so it damn well better run on it. Second, I can see a boatload of people who don't know crap about how an operating system works. The only real differences between XP and 7 is the amount of bloatware that Microsoft has stuffed into in order to give you the illusion you are buying something new. They are like EA in that way. Microsoft would love nothing more than to get you to drop $100 a year on their "franchise" and make little to know progress in efficiency. The fact that the game doesn't run on XP is not because XP is old, but due to a coding mistake by Bioware. They will fix it, I'm sure, but to hear people suggesting players should go out and buy 7 is the height of ridiculous comments. Where the game first came out, there was problems running it on Windows 7 and they had to put out a workaround, should those people have been told "Maybe you should fall back to XP (nobody would ever suggest anyone fall back to Vista, not even Bioware and EA)?

I'd really love to see the Neo-Crusader Mandalorian set released some time soon, I'd even pay 2K cartel coins if I could decide what color it was going to be.

Empirical evidence and gaming trends would suggest your attempt to label it a fallacy is fallacious. If we are talking about A - Z, we've already experienced A - W, he was just making a prediction on X and Y, which, as your own link says "is by no means invariably fallacious."

A SWTOR Dev said something that turned out to be untrue? Say it ain't so. Yeah, that's a pretty freaking common occurrence going back to October 2008.

I guess sense danger doesn't work when you are looking right at it. Like when Jango Fett shot that Jedi dead on the balcony of the Geonosian arena. How many Jedi were killed in that battle against battle droids? What does the Republic even need an army for if the almighty Jedi can take on all comers without blinking. Why did Mace flee the scene in the face of Super Battle Droids? Who left the Kamino landing pad in their ship and who left after barely escaping death after he was tossed off the platform? Luke into the trap door. Ki Adi Mundi faced his Clone Troopers and still died. Luke didn't even see Boba Fett coming and the only reason Fett didn't kill him was the stupid accidental death because of George's awful writing and hatred for a bit character becoming so popular with the fans. On top of all that, how many Jedi WERE killed by Mandalorians in the Mandalorian wars?

Please show me in the FILM where it espouses that? That is purely fanboi apology. And people want to use the pejorative fandalorians, Jedi fanbois make us look well adjusted.

Lot of good that did Luke when that trap door opened, eh?

Well of the males only the Smuggler and the IA have more than one choice for romance, and you really have to have a fetish to go after Akaavi.

No, I can hold it! Arghhhhhhh! ~ Jek Porkins

It seems that many who complain about the Mary Sue'ing of Mandalorians, and it does happen, are all to keen to turn Sith Lords into virtual gods. If you look back to the first three movies, even Yoda was a bit winded after lifting that X-wing, and he didn't do it in a big hurry. Faster forward and we have The Force Unleashed, which did irreparable damage to the Jedi concept by having one pull a Star Destroyer out of orbit. At that point, they are pretty much invincible. Yay, everyone mentally m@sterb8 about super force users. Snooze. Don't get me wrong, a lot of damage has been done to the Mandalorians as well. They too are often rendered free of weakness and pure as the driven snow. A warrior culture normally relies on slaves to do the jobs that warriors think they are too good to do. If everyone is a warrior, who is going to cook the food? A Mandalorian one on one against a fully trained Jedi should be an unlikely scenario, but a team of Mandos working together should be a threat to a Jedi. That's the trade-off. Jedi are more powerful, but Mandos have greater numbers. Jedi lead good troops, Mandos are elite troops. It can all work in balance if it is written right.

While there are workarounds, aren't all companion droids thus far Aim based? I know Scorpio and T7 are, but I'm not sure about the Trooper companion. If they are, it just seems like another one of those "lack of attention to detail" moments by BioWare, to suddenly change him to Cunning.

Neo crusader Mandalorian armor Jedi Armor (KOTOR 2) Better selection of jackets. (The life vests suck, Bioware) The light armor look.

So I logged in an had ZERO cartel coins. I'm a recurring subscriber since launch, and a Collector's edition holder and I have ZERO cartel coins. Anyone else have this issue? EDIT: So, I was like -4500 in the hole for no reason. I bought 5500 coins and ended up with a positive 1000. Really, Bioware, this is how you want to start this, screwing over a loyal customer.

Happened to me a couple nights ago, I logged into my smuggler and a consular was running around my bridge.