Sopa.

I sense your 45$ will be crucial in hiring the extra workforce required to meet your demands and timeline.

Next time the OP is forced to buy something at gunpoint, I'll make sure to rush in and save him.

I had a hilarous case of this last night. Wanted to run Esseles with my new alt, I start asking "LFM Esseles" but being extremely late and since everyone is running Prison on 50s right now, I was struggling to find people. I move to the instance entrance and there's 6 people just standing there. I start whispering "are you looking for a group to Esseles?", and in around 30 seconds pick 3 of those people and start running the instance. When we move in, one guy goes "Man, this game really needs a LFG tool, been waiting all night for this". Brilliance.

By the way, my character is called Kaon (it's my legacy name in most MMOs). I really need to make a "1.1: Come at me, bros" signature.

His midichlorian count was abundantly below 9000.

The second...?

Interesting how the mood of the forums is changing quickly. A lot of the vocal quitters, well, quit. And now while whine threads are still common (even if still too few to be relevant) the reaction to them becomes more and more onesided. The war must be looking pretty grim from the "haters'" fence. I expect something drastic in the next few hours. A flood of pictures of Gungans wearing Slave Outfits maybe.

We have no way to gauge dissatisfaction. We have a several hundred thousands strong community of silent gamers vs a few dozens whine threads posted daily often by what has been proved to be the same individual. Even if Bioware could spot 100 different customers coming each day to complain at the game, after a month it would be 3000 people. Less than 0.5% of the game's userbase. Not representative of the state of the game. I'm sorry, but you're just a vocal minority for now. If in 5-6 months the game's userbase has shrunk, THAN we will be able to talk about widespread dissatisfaction. Most people vote with their dollar, not with forum posts.

This has to be one of the most amazing thread backfires I've ever had the priviledge to witness.

No, what I'm saying is that if people's posting habits changed we wouldn't need a search function so much. The good threads (character responsiveness, fps problems etc) proliferated with no need for a search function. What's crapping the forums is the "I quit!" posts, which people reacts to creating a "Me too!" thread. Or the 20000 "Will not resub and here's my wall of text" post. If the mods keep being aggressive toward this kind of post, these posters (who wouldn't change their behaviour with a search function) will be forced to stick to extabilished threads.

I absolutely disagree with the OP. The prolification of similar threads is EXACTLY the reason for which a search tool feels so necessary. Mods should continue closing and redirecting threads even faster and more aggressively, so we can actually achieve some form of forum consolidation. Besides, let's not fool ourselves: even with a search tool, most people would still open a new thread to be sure their Amazing Opinion™ isn't lost in a thread where the same concerns are lifted.

I'm loving the game and still playing only 2-3 days a week now and less than I did 2 weeks ago. It's called work, and it sucks. Deeply.

I can live without Recount, but a combat log I'd really like to have. On one hand, I do appreciate the idea of a game where people can't really make out what is better and personal preference (and ultimate performance) are the deciding factors, tho.

Over time, we'll learn to cope with the loss. It will be hard at first, but life ain't always sugar and rainbows.