Well Bioware took away the 10K affection I spent credits to build up on one of my C2-N2's (to use with the old +Cybertech droid item). So much for Bioware's assurances.

My sub and cartel coin grant (which I've already received and verified in game) are both dated 8/1 even though it is not yet 8/1 PDT even as I post this. It appears that the account info displays only GMT time/dates regardless of your account's Time Zone setting. I suppose this is why they also included the GMT time in the fine print: "...account must be in a Subscriber status as of 11:59PM PDT//6:59AM GMT..."

Tait, is the 30 minute (up from 25 minute) default Quick Travel cooldown fix also included in that patch? Fixing the legacy perks is nice, but if the 30 minutes isn't changed back to 25 minutes, the lowest we'll get with perks is 15 minutes instead of the 10 minutes we had before this patch.

If I remember correctly, wasn't the default cooldown 25 minutes? Each of the 3 legacy unlocks removes 5 minutes. The only way to get down to 10 minutes (which is what I had before this "patch") is 25 - (3 * 5) = 10. So it appears this is 2 bugs. Legacy unlocks not applying and an increase of 5 minutes to the default cooldown. Will the cooldown increase also be fixed I wonder,,,

The Preview window doesn't display this bug (which has apparently existed since at least July!) FIX!!! I'm tired of my robe dragging along the ground.

After finally getting a successful False Emperor run, my wife was only one part away from finally getting HK. She recently started an Empire character to get that final part, but after today's patch *poof* all the parts are gone. She has put in a ticket as you suggested. but I can tell you that her desire to even look at SWTOR at this point is zero. I really hope "CS will take it from there". Bioware, this is really unbelievably bad form.

I'm sure to be in a tiny minority, but if I wanted the expansion, I would've purchased it. I deliberately haven't purchased it yet because I'm not done experiencing level 50 content on level. Perhaps if the expansion were a store item that I could claim at my convenience... Also, while I know expansions are very often reduced in price and eventually (after years) given away, it seems giving it away after only 6 months is very premature. I'm sure it will have some measureable negative impact on purchases of the next expansion as some players opt to wait for it to be made available for free.

Ugh. Can't stand the new Sentinel fx. Ugliest, brightest, eye-strain-iest fx in recent memory. Wish I could turn the effect completely off. As is, I'm constantly right-clicking my Centering off if I'm not planning on using it in the next 2 seconds.

Oh, I completely understand how you determine what goes in the list and when. What boggles my mind is the fact that it's taken, what, 10 days to even acknowledge this? I have tons of schematics on lots of characters. Have I been losing schematics during the past 10 days? I had no idea to even look at it! An official thread should've been started as soon as a few reports were verified. That thread should've started with exactly the kind of post you posted here which would of course show up in the dev tracker. Btw, this is why posting these problems in General makes more sense than posting them in the "appropriate" forum (Crew Skills in this case). Visibility is apparently near zero for the devs as well as the playerbase. I guess I'll need to start taking screenshots of my crafting panel prior to each patch from now on. How tedious.

We pay to beta test this game and have done so since December. Devs just toss stuff out to Live to see what breaks. Another bug I encountered yesterday was while my wife and I were grouped and looting boxes for Vandrayk's Tuning Apparatus. With autoloot on, whoever looted first would get two copies of an item, such as a Receiver. Since these are mission items, they aren't tradeable. We had to turn autoloot off to each properly get our copy of the item rather than just one of us getting both copies. Such a simple thing to test for. BW QA, if it exists, really should be ashamed. Btw, the answer to this problem is to utilize a long term, player populated, closed (permanent NDA) beta program.

You know, once upon a time I would've believed that my bug reports were important. However, in the past couple of days as I've started leveling some new alts, I've rediscovered some Tython bugs that I reported way back during closed beta. The issues are still not fixed. I'm sorry, but 8 or 9 months is plenty long enough to fix these things, even in a complex project such as an MMO. I keep track of every bug I report and there are plenty of bugs that simply aren't being addressed. Some even impact the ability to play the game and yet I only get a "thanks, we've passed it on..." response and nothing ever comes of it. I wish it weren't true, but inaction speaks louder than words. I read patch notes looking specifically for fixes to bugs I've reported. Sure, some bugs are (thankfully) addressed, but it is extremely frustrating for me as a player to keep encountering the same bugs time and again on every character I decide to level. 8, 9 months and nothing? To be honest, I feel like I've been paying to beta test the game all this time, so recently I decided it's just not worth my time to report bugs.

Never played DDO. Didn't think it'd appeal to me. Not everyone likes every game. That stuff with the store will happen and I agree it can be annoying. Since I'm not a LOTRO F2P player, I'd rather not see any of it anywhere, but like many annoying things in life, I accept that's the way it is. Kind of like all those commercials I always skip through on my DVR. Maybe when I get to make my own game someday... Not to say I don't give appropriate negative feedback when required. A recent addition to LOTRO, cosmetic outfit dummies (apparently a player suggestion) are really just in game advertisements for stuff that is sold in the store. These dummies resulted in a good amount of negative feedback from the playerbase. Based on the constructive negative feedback, the dummies are going to be removed from some locations and de-emphasized in locations they remain at. Players spoke, Turbine listened. My point is, it's an ongoing process. It's the price of having a game you enjoy sticking around. Based on the rate SWTOR is shedding subs, F2P was likely inevitable and is likely the right long-term decision. I certainly wouldn't have said that before LOTRO went F2P, but this isn't 2004 or even 2010.

/shrug Sounds somewhat like I was back then, although I certainly wouldn't have worded it the way you did. Would I have preferred that LOTRO stayed sub-only? Absolutely! Especially since I'm a Lifetime Founder. But given the circumstances, economy, increase of "free" games, FB games, etc., I realize now that Turbine made the right decision. It's better to have a game that has a F2P option than no game at all. Also, I've done the math. Added up everything I've spent on LOTRO over 5+ years, specific TP packages when on sale, etc. I'm already nearly halfway to that figure in SWTOR after only 7 months! And for what? A broke game that I've been paying to beta test for months now (and frankly, I'm a bit tired of that). And since you brought up WoW, aren't they only now, with Panderia, finally going from 10 character slots to 11? I remember having 10 slots way back when I played WoW for a couple of years (since vanilla launch). Still only 10 slots? After nearly 8 years? Yep, that monthly sub really pays for expanding those game features. You know what? I admit I like having the option of purchasing additional character slots years earlier rather than to have to wait all those years... for a single added slot... when the developer deigns to grant me my request. I can have up to 17 slots in LOTRO right now. And believe me, I can earn way more Turbine Points with a single low level character in less than a week than it costs to add that character slot to the account (yes, it's account wide therefore I get that extra slot on all servers). Net TP gain with zero dollars expended if I want. I just choose to pay $ (when deeply discounted) since I have the money. Even then, LOTRO still hasn't cost me anywhere near $15/month even when adding in the various expansions. Less than half that actually. But believe what you will. If enough players here provide appropriate feedback (and trust me on this, I am quite forceful when Turbine tries certain things with their store, and they actually do listen, sometimes; can the same be said here?) then F2P will be successful and SWTOR will have nice updates in a respectable timeframe for the next decade or so. Keep hollerin' it's the end of the world, and it will become a self-fulfilling prophesy because those on the fence won't stick around to see the transition through.

From my perspective as a LOTRO lifetime subscriber since release and extremely severe F2P doubter (borderline hater early on), I can honestly say that LOTRO F2P has been extremely successful. Content is great and in many ways has improved, server populations are very healthy, the game didn't get near as many WoW-rude folks as I feared, and fun, free-to-all content is still being added, such as the brand new Farmer's Faire going on now. And I get to purchase tons of goodies that I always wanted and probably never would have had without F2P: Extra character slots (up to 17 currently), tons of extra vault storage (never have enough!), cool cosmetic outfits (LOTRO's cosmetic system trounces TOR's sort of system) and cosmetic outfit slots, extra legendary item slots, milestones, cooldown reductions, on and on. Now, I'm not 100% thrilled with everything about F2P, but it certainly didn't turn out to be the Great Evil I thought it would be. In hindsight, I'm extremely happy that Turbine went in that direction. I think overall the game is better for it. I was really hoping SWTOR would be the Next Big Thing as I extensively tested the game during closed beta. It wasn't and it isn't. It is bleeding subscribers (including myself and my wife after our current subs are done; our son quit months ago). I can guarantee you that we'll all be back under a F2P model IF they aren't overly restrictive. And I guarantee you that we'll be spending some amount of money to get things we really want. You see, even though I have a lifetime sub in LOTRO and therefore never have to pay any sub fee ever again, since F2P, not only have I purchased each expansion with cash (altho I waited for Isengard to go on sale) as I would've under a sub-only model, I've also purchased 25K Turbine Points over the years for myself and another 15K for my wife. Those Turbine Point purchases equal cash money in Turbine's pocket, cash money they would never have received without F2P. And I'm one of their more stingy customers, always waiting for sales, etc. If Bioware handles this right, they can actually increase revenues while increasing server populations. Time will tell, but I honestly think it's either a successful transition to F2P or limted to no content updates time (maybe even shut down). So for everyone reading this, if you want The Old Republic to be around for years and years to come, I'd suggest providing useful feedback as details are revealed and then welcoming Free Players when it's time.

Mildly interesting (only mildly) until I found out I wouldn't be able to finish due to the event's short length. You know, many people have real life responsibilities that trump gaming; family, work, school, etc. Look to other MMO's (WoW, LOTRO, etc.) for event durations. Weeks minimum. One week tells me that there is a definite lack of concern for players of my playstyle and available gaming time. That by itself killed it for me. In addition, having an event on a mid-level planet where it was necessary to kill cap-level bosses just isn't fun in my opinion. Never could get into a group. Adverts were always "level 50 please!" and I'm not 50 yet. The rakghoul event only left me with a feeling of frustration and disappointment. Lesson learned. If this is the way Bioware will be running their events, then I won't even bother to participate from now on.