http://oceanicgamer.com/2012/08/swtor-grinding-the-gears/
A snippet:
There’s nothing so embarrassing as trying to go up a hill in the wrong gear. You can hear the engine struggle and have to endure the amused smiles from passengers in other cars as they bomb past you. Unless you are a complete idiot, you will change down gears.
This is clearly BioWare Austin’s revised philosophy as Bioware’s Executive Producer for Live Services, Jeff Hickman, has pointed out in a recent interview with Zam.com. Lets face it, BW has become notorious for offering up big promises of things ‘coming soon’ but for the most part it’s been a bad case of over-promising and under-delivering. It look like this is changing – hopefully.