Wow that was a nice post that told us nothing.....

There is a huge difference between gear and companions... You assume that we keep those buffs.. and I already stated I have plenty of alts.. I have 2 more that I plane to make when the new race comes out.. so it does not change the fact that I want to know if we are losing those companions. If we are then I wont even bother trying to max these last 2 alts I'm making. It's a simple request that they should answer.. I don't need to know details on how or why.. just if we are or not. The cats already out of the bag so there is no reason for them not to confirm we are going to be losing them or not.

Ok.. but then why make new level 60 outlander characters locked out of 1-60 class story's if we are getting some of them back? If are companions are being made into npc's then all it takes is a small dialog change to a outlander character saying "we have not met".

I have 14 alts.. I know what it does.. and I also know that after the 1st time you max it you do not get anything for maxing them more then one time again.. Doesn't change the anything.. I still want to know now if there is a point to gain favor. Also the story content from 1-60 will not be able to be done with the new level toons.. so this points to having no old companions as the "outlander" 60's have no way to get them. Just want confirmation that we are losing are current companions or not.

Ya I would like to know as well.. I rather not waste trying to max out companions favor if there just going to be gone in a few months... this is one of those things that even though its part of there "story" for game play now and public relations later may as well let us know.

Lack of endgame MMO content is what lead to SWTORS downfall and move to f2p after launch. I'm sure they have to be aware of that.. Story is great and happy they are adding it.. but unless its 100's of hours of story content people we burn through it pretty fast.. so there will need to be after the story content or history will repeat it self.

Hmm.. well I don't think they would remove a companion over a voice acting contract... they would just get a different actor to voice it like they did with Revan.. As far as losing are companions for good.. hmm.. I really hope that's just for the newly created toons and not all of them. They already said that newly created toons would not be able to go back and do the 1-60 story arcs so for them it would make sense... but for our mains that were frozen for 5 years... arbitrarily removing them.. I could see a back lash from that. Granted it could be that if you want one of the new companions to permanently join you have to give up a old companion... maybe? Also I I'm pretty sure Treek wont be going anywhere as she is a paid for companion.. if they do remove her I want my money back.

There is lack of open world content ill agree.. there is no real reason to be out on planets other then doing some really easy and quick daily's.. there is no reason to be out there.. that leaves waiting around for a long time for groups to do flashpoints.. and if your a dps this can mean hours depending on the time of day. Things they can do to help with this in the future. Give incentives to stay on end game planets such as. Rare mobs and items to farm for rare crafting, public events... Star Wars screams public events.. random things like force of empire or republic npc's attacking an out post the players can jump in and fight and get a reward for saving the base etc. Change the groups from 4 man to 5 man or give more incentive to role tank healer roles. As a dps waiting hours to get a group sucks.. and makes it almost not worth queing. Before you say role a healer or tank.. some class's do not have tank/healer role. Also many people do not want to gear up for both roles.. As well as the fact even with field respecing, swapping gear and talent points is not user friendly. Switching to a 5 man group would just open up more slots for dps to get in a group.. though this would take a huge rework of current heroics. Another thing is stop giving away gear.. you can get a full set of 186 the moment you hit 60.. I understand this was to make it more easy to get into heroics.. The issue is that it removes the incentive to keep doing heroics if you get full set of gear the makes any open world content trivial. There is no reason to get gear beyond 186 if your doing open world content.. I'm hoping with new expansion that open world content is cranked up in difficulty and make planets worth staying on to farm and fight on.. no more of these 30 min daily hubs.....

For one I already posted my specs....] Your post out right shows why you have issue.. your using a 8 core AMD cpu.. that right there is your issue. The game was never made to take advantage of 8 core cpu's. Think of it this way you have 8 1" pipes coming out of your computer. The game only supports 4 pipes... well in that case you only able to use 4 1" pipes.. while a quad core has four 1 1/2 inch pipes is able to plug all 4 pipes in. There for the Quad core cpu would perform better for the game then your 8 core. There are very few programs that support 8 core cpu's.. and hardly any older engines have been upgraded to support them. So for what the game engine was designed to use it works fine. They did not do a trade off.. you just bought tech that wasn't as compatible with the game.. that's not the games fault. Should Bioware upgrade the game engine to take advantage of new tech.. ya I think they should. With windows 10 around the corner it maybe a good time for them up upgrade to that OS and get there client up to par to use newer tech.

Your stupidity on the subject and inability to maximize your system to run swtor has no baring on my systems ability to run it just fine. I do not get frame rate lag/stutter in 16man ops.... The fact you cant get your system to run the game well is your issue not mine... so you can sit here and whine and cry about your inability to get good frame rates... while I LoL at you, while I play the game just fine.

Well I have a I7 2700k 3.5 ghz with 8 gigs of ddr3 ram with a 5900gtx 2 gig vid card and I run everything max and I do not get frame rate issues in warzones. So yes it could be his and your computer issues. Setting, AV, drivers, 3rd party programs, back ground programs a whole host of issues can and do effect a PC's ability's to run programs. I do 16 man ops with no issues as well. Also 6 cores will do you no good in swtor. As it doesn't make use of that many cores. Multi core CPU's only work if programs makes use of the extra cores. So even though you may have 6 cores if each one is running slower per core then lets say a 4 core with each core running faster that 4 core will perform better unless the program is optimized to take advantage of the extra cores. That's why the AMD bulldozer chips were rated poor for gaming as no game takes advantage of 8 core processing.

http://www.swtorstrategies.com/2014/07/swtor-earns-165-million-last-year.html Granted this was fiscal year 2014, so that would make it the physical year 2013 numbers.. as most companies fiscal earnings coming out in June we don't have fiscal year 2014 for another few months. http://www.swtorstrategies.com/2014/10/swtor-revenues-climb-over-100-million-for-2014.html Swtor was 8th over all in micro transactions also for the same fiscal year. There is also a post of when of the producers of Swtor in February that said that right now swtor is averaging a million different account logging in per month. Though I cant remember where I read that.

This game isn't even close to ending. Its like the 9th most profitable mmo right now.. not mmorpg.. mmo. Its these forms that need a wipe.. Its the toxic bunch that troll this form that want to make people feel its dead. This game still has years of life still in it.. in fact I doubt you will see this game close until there is a new Star Wars mmorpg to take its place.

It takes less then 20 mins to do the daily's there.. and there is no reason other then to get a few vanity items. So of course its going to be low population.

Constructive feedback and review is not being negative. As I stated the story part was well done. The fact that the best part of the DLC was something that we get to do one time.. all that art and layout of Ziost is wasted for a one time run through. This is what I meant about was it wasted development time. After the story part... they could of done a lot more with the new zones. Such as. Going back underground to the city in search of a relic or information. New monolith mobs maybe different types forming after the release of that much death and destruction. They could of made a lot of new daily missions in there.. with the destruction the atmosphere would of been dark with you know these new force type of monsters roaming about.. small fires and such the only light other then your flash light droid. There are many ways to of expanded the daily hub to be worth spending the time there... as I said right now what they gave us is underwhelming as far as daily hub part. This isn't content that going to tide us over for a month or two.