BW could just cancel the 500 CC monthly stipend and re-design it so that you'll have to earn it through the game instead. And I bet you wouldn't be happy with it. The point is you're complaining not about the lack of feature to earn CC in game but not enough CC attached to the subscription. It's a completely different complaint.

Um... you shouldn't have any problem doing most of lvl 55 SM Ops with top end pvp gear. The problem only comes when you are doing top end NiM and HM ops. If you don't have decent pve gear then you're likely not familiar with the mechanics for those ops. So why bother with NiM/HM when you haven't done enough SM to get simple 69 gear?

Great gesture, but the trolls would probably only stop when they bored rather than when they are reasonably told to stop.

agreed.

You should read your own bold text. You said you need all these features to create THE character to fit your personality. Hence you are clearly talking about creating one unique character requiring all those features. I am intrigued. Please enlighten me on how you plan to do so.

So you are going to create a Cathar character using human white eyes, Chiss customization, Mirialan Tattoos etc? I would love to know how you would do that.

So did I say grinding is not part of the game? If there is a win-win situation for player and BW to go around the grinding for CM stuff then why not do it? Games are there to produce a service and fun for players, not made to pass down traditions...

Don't think you are getting the point. Inflation always benefit the debtor and hurts the creditors. EA/BW would love inflation because it eats away their debts, more specifically the players' claim for items with CC. For example, without inflation x CC can buy 3 suits but with inflation then x CC will only buy less than 3 suits. So the previous CC lose its purchase power meaning people have to earn more CC to buy BW stuff. Thus "ka-ching" more money for BW and players have to pay more for it. You are falling for the money illusion which politicians love to spin for votes. Edit: Btw, in this case, BW/EA is the debtor and the players are the creditors.

Most of the popularly demanded CM sets aren't in the character creation armour. Those character creation armour aren't popularly brought, that's why we had a massive discount of the entire privateer set to below 200 CC. BW is getting huge revenue from stuff previously not shown in game, contrary to your claim. Then make your examples relevant to your concerns. If you think 80 CC is too expensive then asking for more CC for sub hardly solves the issue. Instead ask BW to lower its cost which I would support over asking for more CC for subs which may well just translate to inflation devaluing everyone's currently held CC's value. So you expect people to buy into your argument without criticisms? No, I am not hijacking your thread as I have made my responses specific to what you had said rather than making a rant about your thread being meaningless etc. I am all for making subs more worth while, such as including sub-only feature to buy CM stuff at a higher price for items without gambling for them. Your suggestion might create CC inflation. As like the usual inflation, it benefits the debtor (Bioware) and hurts the creditor (players).

But you just said the stuff in CM has become more appealing? Thus is naturally follows that your CC stipend has increased its value. Surely a currency gain value, not lose value, when there is more to be exchanged with it. You have no proof of that. How do you know stuff like eradicator suit would be in game without CM? In MMO standard, race change is not expensive in ToR. So to the market, the race change is not stupidly overpriced.

So you are trying to say is that CC has become "more" valuable to you because you value CM items more than before. Since you felt previous CM items to not worth much then what happened to your CC from the stipend? I guess you spent them anyway? My point is, no matter how much CC BW gives sub, subs will never feel they have enough CCs to spend on stuff from stipend as long as more appealing things pops up in CM. But its CM team to design desirable stuff. So it's a never ending spiral for subs wanting more for stipend and same request will keep popping up. If BW keeps satisfying people like this then either we will have massive inflation with CC or it will start to lose reasonable amount of revenue. Moral of the story, more appealing stuff in CM is a bad reason to give subs more CC. Save up and pay up from wallet. True, this is why I said they are roughly, not exactly, the same.

Maybe he doesn't have the time to grind the credits to get what he wants? Besides, how does OP being satisfied with buying something for certain and BW earning more money bothers you? Edit: Furthermore, not having credit to buy expensive stuff on GTN is more of a common case than exaggerated case. Most people, who work hard in real life, don't usually have 2 hours everyday just to grind credits.

There haven't been any price increase in CM (the gear set price price has roughly been the same and new pack price has dropped), in terms of CC. And secondly, how does more desirable items on CM makes CC less valuable:confused: Does your dollar/pound/euro lose value every time something new pops up in the market?

Lol, get over yourself. OP made a constructive suggestion about opening a new feature which allows buying CM random stuff at a certain price. This is not another meaningless rant asking for more "free stuff" from the CM, hence it can be more in both players and BW's interest to hear it. If you don't like his suggestions then don't make an exaggerated case out of OP's post. No sensible person wants more drama here.

IMO, they probably can do well with adding a feature like this but they probably find it to much of a hassle to do the relevant calculations to price them correctly. Does the hassle involve the entire feature to not be profitable? Not, necessary.