I would like to register my extreme disatisfaction with the current level of support for our "regional" servers. In my mind there is no point in having them because our ping was fine to the US servers and our prime time is still interrupted. I will now go and cancel my subscription to emphasize this point.

It should clue you in that World of Warcraft still updates on Tuesday nights during our prime time. Under Bioware's "Copy WoW" policy.../cough what I meant was it makes more economic sense to give Australians/Asians a lower level of service

Obi-wan outright yells at Anakin "You were my brother!" The agony of mind that Obi-wan would have been realistically experiencing would have given him a "mind-wipe" - aka, he wasn't thinking by this point. He'd just defeated his former student, greatest friend and fellow-general of the Republic. Not as a master defeats his student or a trainer defeats a learner, but in martial combat where the stakes were life. He won, and he didn't want to. He most certainly did NOT want to further deface the corpse of his fallen comrade. **Woot, I did it, I used the word "realistically" about a movie with LIGHTSABERS, SPACE-CRAFT and ALIENS!!!** /happy About the whole Anakin/Padme thing - people stay in relationships after far worse things are done to THEM and justify it to themselves. Anakin was protective of his master and anything put in his responsibility and took that VERY seriously. As far as we can tell she was his first love interest so compliments were always going to be awkward for him. He was also a Jedi, and they don't grow on trees you know. Meh, in my opinion she totally got the wrong dude, but Obi-Wan was WAAAAAAAY over HER grade. Like, as in, mountains over the Mariana Trench WAAAAY over. Don't judge.

I'd change it to grouped instances. Like LoL. A bit of 5v5 against players/AI. Tower defense. Maybe like a mini Wintergrasp where you struggle for control of a dungeon/fortress. Actually, that'd be fun - dungeon crawls against other players. 20 v 20, just a massive dungeon full of credit boxes and a new Dungeon Token you can turn in for stim packs and other buffs/recharges/limited ammo weapons. It's space, so maybe add in a few of those Quake maps. Add a third faction of terrorists who just want to kill everyone in the dungeon, implement traps, booby trapped credit boxes, randomized bosses swooping in and slaughtering any unfortunates in their way. Heck, just turn it into LoL Extended Edition.

I am going to give this game a chance and keep subbing for a few months. It feels dead and non-interactive to me, plus there's nothing enormously special about the environments. The War is disconnected (it's not even a war!) and there's nothing else going on. I'm level 28 and so far the conflict is...me and friends vs the Empire we never see? In WoW there was a third NPC faction - dragons, demons, and a lich king. In SW:TOR...nothing. Don't take this as a flame, a criticism. It's sort of a lackluster 'meh' toward MMO's. I expected SWTOR to be awesome, and it was merely good. ~my opinion

This isn't related to SW:TOR except in the "Can't help phishing scams" aspect. So I was a WoW raider right, and liked seeing how good my gear was compared to the other raiders on my server. One day I'm on wowhead and there's a link to wowarmory so I click it. Except it was an ad. And it turns out it probably wasn't wowarmory. I got to the part where you type your character name and it came up with "Sorry, this is the first time your character has been loaded on this server, please enter account credentials for us to bring all your characters over at once." Well I knew wowarmory was a Blizzard website so I did. BAM! NAKED CHARACTERS! Also, 5K gold. Just sayin'. It's not always people doing the wrong thing - unless you count comparing epeens as the wrong thing. Come to think of it, you guys have a point...

Never lagged there - did have some slow-downs on Taris and Nar Shaddaa, but setting graphics to low and back to high always immediately fixed the issue.

That's awful - I would leave the server because as you say, there's no hope of anything being done. I agree with the many others here that nothing will be done, because "it's the culture" or "it's MMO's" or "welcome to the internet" - as harsh as they are, they have a tiny little point, no responsibility for actions takes away the fear of performing such actions. What they SHOULD do, in my opinion, is have an automated monitoring server. They already scan chat, just add a feature - swear or say sexually-inappropriate content in the chat and receive two warnings and then a 15-minute disconnect. It's how we operated on IRC back in the day when we manually (or botted) moderated the chat rooms. Two warnings and you're out. Mistakes are tolerated, repeated mistakes indicate lack of brain functionality. I'm not saying every server, I'm saying one, max two servers. I'd re-roll, I hate swearing. It's an inefficient form of communication :> Think about it: "**** off" vs. "You, sir, are a bully and a cad."

Seriously. Han Solo and Chewbacca were a TEAM. C3-PO and R2-D2 were a TEAM. Obi-Wan and Anakin were a TEAM. Emperor Palpatine and Darth Vader were a TEAM. I think you'll find in Star Wars that the "solo" operators generally died! Darth Maul, Count Dooku and Mace Windu all refused to use their companions and where are they?

Oh...oh god, I think he's on fire, he's burning right up xDDD Good post, OP, I think some of your ratings are too generous and some should have hit 10/10 but overall for what it's worth the game is definitely an 8.5/10 on the "Doing things right" scale. Frankly, I wondered how they'd keep me away from WoW after I invested so heavily in that game with 5 85's, every profession, etc etc. Making everything a cake-walk was the RIGHT decision if they wanted to keep me, and they did. Apparently, my kind are important to them =P

Pretty much my thoughts - I'm going to do some testing with CoreTemp to make sure because I think if a segment of the community believes something that's so easy to test then I may as well look before I dismiss. However, my motherboard warning temps are all set at the lowest and it's never warned/crashed.

Soooo...run that by me again. I'm running my CPU at recommended levels (it's an i7 2600 as well), and you say it's not producing excessive heat or working ridiculously. You're running a CPU beyond its recommended parameters and experiencing heat problems. *scratches head* This is Bioware's problem?

Your first post in this thread told me everything I needed to know. You claimed an i7 2600 at 4.4GHZ - aka, according to my wiki investigation on i7 2600's you've overclocked it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_Core_i7_microprocessors To be on these forums complaining about heat issues is an insult to the developers. To continue is an insult to the community.

So instead of complaining about such behaviour you're going to make them your role model? Brilliant. It's a vicious spiral you're jumping into there - you'll always find WORSE players to make yourself worse than. You know you can leave groups politely right? "Sorry guys, I love the story in this game and want to watch it. Best of luck, cya out in the world!" Feel free to use that exact wording - tell 'em the guy on the forum authorized you to politely leave any group you want. There, you've been liberated from having to play with people with different goals.

Atton makes a comment in KOTOR2 to the effect that he thought the Jedi frowned on them as Sith instruments. That's the only thing in the KOTOR series I remember against dual-wielding or using a double-blade. I think, as a philosophy, double-blades are viewed simply for killing others, whereas the Jedi believe a lightsaber is a tool, therefore a single blade should suffice. Whatever the case, the future Obi-Wan throws his lightsaber to Anakin who then dual-wields - if the council forbid it/disliked it/taught against it wouldn't that make Obi Wan another agent of Anakin's demise, leading him to reject the teachings of the Jedi Order? ;> They're all wrong - REAL Jedi wield TWO double-bladed lightsabers with another one in their TEETH! (Yes, they still wear dresses)