Making an Assasin droid customizable... sorry i would not like that very much... that would not be HK-51 anymore... And by the way, Revan got healing Force... so yeah... you could, their names where Cure, and Heal, if i remember correctly...

And how is that different from the good old Kotor games? I dont remember him Healing me...

You make the mistake of talking in extremes. I doubt that more than a few people would leave the game over this. Surely not 500k. The point is this: Apparently the 500 000 (?) players this game currently has is not enough to keep it profitable. So pleasing those 500 000 players into staying is not enough. Sure if they fix all the things they need to fix in order to keep the players happy, that would get new players interested. BUT this takes time, and A LOT of it. What they are trying to do right now is staling. Because lets agree the first 50 levels of this game are awesome. So most people that are new to this game are bound to enjoy those first 50. So if more people pay to enjoy those first 50, they can spend more money on developers. More developers means faster developends means faster fixing and adding of stuff we want. So step 1 would be getting more players. That is why i totaly agree on facebook campaings, television campaings, hell i dont care how they get new players, as long as it works! The problem is not really that the stuff they put out is bad (there are always people who enjoy it) the problem is there is to little content. Yet. Sure waiting sucks, but it will be worth it. And if free to play gets enough bucks in to get us over the hill, i am all for it!

Does that mean I have to stop playing swtor now? I dont see how people can be so annoyed with this. This whole thing was never about the people that allready play the game, it was about getting new players. They propably had a meeting about how to get a lot of new people to think about their game. How many new players can you reach in the Swtor forums? How many new players can you reach through Facebook? Sure its not a perfect plan, but its not a terrible on either. Just think of it like this: Do you guys want more people to play with or less? Its win win, you get new players and a free item, what that item may be is more or less irrelevant. (Also i would have voted for the Jawa, i like those guys, they sound amusing to my ears) We all have to stop speaking for others like this. (by the way, the irony of that statement is not lost on me) You do not know how many people that play swtor have voted on the jawa, and you do not know how many people would have voted for the jawa if it was forum exclusively. Maybe a few thousand people saw the news about the jawas and danced out of joy. Who knows? Its not very likely that all of them (or any of them) would have posted here. All i am saying is: Chill and let the guys at bioware work their magic, i have a strong feeling that they will suprise us with something awesome!

I think you might underestimate the intelligence of the player base. I doubt that these polls would get 70% of peoplse agreement. I would guess that most people want to enjoy this game and making things worthless by giving them to everyone would certainly ruin the fun for those players as well. But my point would still be that the admins could pick up some ideas from the forums, like 10 a month and have us vote on them. If even 1 of them gets implemented that would be pretty nice, would it not? They could even give special items to the guys with the best ideas. (A title of some sort, or something along those lines)

The forum (polls) should only be used to gather information, heck for all i care they could even ignore the forums for that, what i want is an INGAME poll system where each and every player gets a chance to vote for upcomming content. Yes i said it: I would still see it as an improvement that they ignore the forums IF they let us vote on THEIR ideas, kinda let us pick the best ones. Or the more urgent ones!

Maybe i am naive, but i dont really buy into the whole "hate for the community" thing. It implies that the people at Bioware (and EA for that matter) are crazy and or stupid. Which is hard to believe considering that they managed to stay in business with their multi-million business for years. And therein might lie the problem. They are so big and sucessfull (and financially speaking swtor still did make them money) that they might not feel th need to listen to other people. And hell, maybe they are right. Maybe all our ideas sound good to us, but in reality are terrible, for reasons we dont realize because, well most of us have no experience at all at either programming or managing a game of this scale... That beeing said I still believe that among 50 bad ideas we provide there will be at least one thats decend if not more. The question is: Would the community vote for the good one? or more importantly: Could we be trusted with the Future of "our" game?

am i the only one who thinks that giving you the ability to port to a place that can port you to any other place (and thats what you ship is basically) , makes every other teleportation feature meaningless? Like every single teleportation mecanism that brings you to a planet?

the real problem with community feedback is this: None of us are in the loop. Period. We do not know whats going on behind the curtains, and they continue to ask us to "pay no attention to the man behind the curtain" because it would destroy part of the illusion that this game could be anything and everything. Because for it to be everything they would need lots and lots and looots of money. We are talking money that not even wow made in its prime. So one game can never be everything you ever dreamed of. And the real problem lies there, if it cant be everything it must be something, and that something might not be liked by everyone. That is why they keep us out of the loop. To get even a few player to pay for a while, that would not, if they knew what wasnt waiting for them. But why not replaizing the "man behind the curtain" with the players behind the curtain? Because the answer is not allways: More of what we allready got. Edit: Thank you, i hope so as well. It would be awesome if we would actually get to vote on what the future game will look like... Just think of us as little Investors, and as that we all get a little say in what we want for the future of SWTOR...

I agree, and would recomment to use the forums only to gether ideas. As i tried to say earlier, use the forums to gather ideas and then put them up for voting "in game" you could even reward players for voting with... i dont know a title, oder sparkle-powder of a certain color or I dont know...

Wow... those where some quick replies... I dont think its necesarry to give people aside from the Admins the ability to post Polls. Its their job after all to find the feedback and bringing it to the progammers. But for them to be able to do their job more efficently, it would be nice to get a better idea of how many people actually want a given feature. That way they would still have the option of staying away from those features that are just, lets face it, to plain complicated to implement as of yet. I would guess the programmers allready have a loooong list of things they are supposed to write. Why not put some of those things up to a vote to start with. Lets just put ourselfes in their shoes for a second here: They write code all day for a feature they think will be awesome and then a lot of people complain about it. That cannot be a good feeling! So if they put the future features up to a vote before sitting down and "wasting" time and money, they would already know that they are working on something that people want and will enjoy.

You know what, I just did... ^^ Thank you for the encouragement! Now I only hope that people will actually visit it, and that it might actually change something. That would be awesome.

First of, i do not claim to be the first one to have thought of this! I have been browsing through the Forums lately and i saw all thos threads about what people dont like about this game, compairing it to other games and stuff. Some of those Threads where really aggresive and demanding (give us q! Or this sucks, unlike game W. which got 123) , others where more question based ( could we have x? Why dont you guys implement y?) And after reading more of them i realized two things. 1: People have a lot of ideas for the future of this game. 2: Nearly all of them claim to be the majority. ( Most players in this game want thingy A! Where someone else replies to, NO! Have you been online lately?! Everyone wants gimmick B!) So the real problem here is not that the Admins are not reading your posts, or that the developers dont care about this game or something like that. The problem is that there are just to many ideas out there! We as a community have to realize that this puts the developers in a really tight spot. When they choose to implement certain features, they have to pay people to do it, who then have to spend time on it. Time in which they cant programm anything else! So the hardest thing to do is to find out which ideas fullfill 3 criterias: 1. They have to be doable with as little financial and timely effort as possible. 2. A large percent of the player base must actually want them. 3. They have to carry little to no risk of making people stop playing the game. That is why we only see changes that everyone can agree on, and that people still complain about. Which is why i propose this: We need 2 Pollsystems. 1. For the forums to gather the top 10 ideas for the future of swtor. 2. An ingame pollsystem that lets the Players vote for the changes they want most. That way the producers would know which changes carry the least risks and the biggest demands, and the players would get the feeling that swtor is their game! That they can change things, and expand this epic universe! I would even go as far as to say: Without a way to vote on the suggestions for this game, the whole point of beeing able to make suggestions becomes meaningless. What do you guys think? ( I have read enough in this Forums to realize that the Admins DO read our posts, so hearing the thoughts of one of you would be awesome and keep up the good work, i realize how hard it must be to keep up with all the complaints!)

If we would get a poll system to decide which features we should get, I do agree that they should put him ingame. They should put that guy on the Fleets, propably somewhere near the Sozial Vendor... They could even give out little rewards vor Voting... like i dont know yellow sparkle powder or something along those lines. What i wonder about is: Should those votes be "one per account" or "one per Charakter (of certain level maybe)" ? PS: i wonder if the Admins are reading this... Maybe we should start (yet another "complain") thread, about the idea of getting a poll-system. What do you guys think?

Thats because i am pure awesomeness, and everything i say is worth gold. At all times. Period. Aside from that, what we really need is a poll system, that way we could vote on what changes we want made, and the admins could see how many people actually want a certain change. Just think of it: Every month we get to vote on the 10 things we want changed, and the top 5 get done, the bottom 5 get put into the next poll. That way they could no longer think that just a small percentage of players want a certain change, but that at least the number of votees want something done. The best part about it: It would finally stop all those people in the forums that write stuff like: Most players want thing A! To which someone (always!) replies: NO! YOU IDIOT, MOST PEOPLE IN THIS GAME WANT THING B! GO THING B!!! ONLY NOOBS WANT THING A! ... Where do all these people get their numbers from? Like everyone on here claims to be part of the majority but still (verbally) attacks everyone else....