Quit bastardizing the term 'Ninja Looting'. And while you are at it, quit caring about crappy loot that doesn't matter.

The game is still a snoozefest at level 50. Of course, that's an issue in any themepark MMO, it's just SWTOR has especially weak raids and repetative PvP.

It's a beta bug. Movable solid objects in game "resync" on their path and essentially respawn. That's why you fall off. I do not believe any of the popular myths (emotes, companions, etc) have any effect on it, as I have seen it happen with no one riding it. And if you really reported the guy in the other post, something is really wrong with you. I hope no one helps you short cut up there and I pray you fall off every balloon.

Yeah...him....2million+ other folks...EA execs too. lol.

Article is on the money and highlights the greed readily apparent behind F2P. F2P (a la carte purchases) is not a viable option in SWTOR. And the big problem here is -- if 2 million+ players that forked over up to $150 for the client were not willing to pay a subscription fee, how the hell does EA think a crippled version of the same game will do any better? They don't. They just want to squeeze more money out of the already loyal subscribers.

That bug actually still exists, and has existed since beta. Happy Life Day.

Pretty sure you quoted the wrong person or didn't read all of our posts but that aside, you have staff response now. Those looking to pretend the problem doesn't exist can finally quit doing so, lol.

You kinda just answered the reasoning behind it all... EA can either: - get most subscribers to spend a little real money on extra items. There is a cap on profit vs. content. - get some subscribers to spend lots on extra items by including a random factor. There is no cap on profit vs. content. Increases percieved value of items as well. Cleary EA, and history, has shown that there is more profit from the 2nd option. You could always get a 2nd job if you are really interested in these items. /shrug

He's complaining of predicable degraded performance after varying hours of play sessions. I still am not sure what you are aiming at here....that his degraded performance on his gaming computer is....what? To be expected after playing a while? No, it's a memory leak. The OP wasn't complaining about the game using "some more memory", I think his complaint was clear. I am make no assumptions about how he solves the issue when it becomes troublesome. You feel free to.

It matters for the same reason EA selling level 50 pre-made geared toons would matter...sure, you can still do it for "free" but a line has been crossed that severely affects the game/economy/content/players. If that's your personal benchmark for what is acceptable, then EA gets a free pass to add whatever they want to the shop. That may work for you, but I bet most players would be pissed and the game is worse off for it.

All communities eventually turn elitist (SWTOR is pretty low on that scale, as the gear check is minimal for all but pvp). In addition, when content is generally boring or lacking, players quickly turn to chat for drama and fun. Welcome to MMOs, I guess.

I can go hours without a crash, doesn't mean the memory issue doesn't exist. And it's not normal, programs need to properly release resources. If they do not, memory usage steadily increases. I am not sure what point you are trying to make here....you think a memory leak is defined by a crash?

The mods have deleted hundreds of posts today (this one will likely go eventually too ). That makes sense of course, since as the EA staff member said -- they value our feedback and are listening....*cough*damagecontrolsweepundertherug*cough* lol! Anyway, I find the official response here awesome. It's pretty clear that EA has no issue providing end game items in the shop (yes, for a "minigame" but I am not going to explain why that's not relevant again as mods will just delete it). The only issue, as they apparently see it, is that people are mad the alternative method of getting these items contain too extreme artificial barriers (comm grind) vs. store price. Enjoy the ride down the slope, folks.

It does climb and climb. At some point, it will just autoclose/crash after an area transition of any kind and I will need to restart the client. I have a fairly beefy system, so it doesn't effect me often nor is it that noticable until it closes, but I feel bad for people with middling specs that play for extended sessions.

Yeah, geeze you guys. You should be grateful you are allowed to pay to play on special servers EA made for you in whatever remote and unknown country you play from. The fact that they are empty and have been ghost towns for months isn't EAs issue and they don't owe you transfers or merges or anything. They never promised you populated servers or fun. Want it to change, do the simple thing -- move to a country EA cares about. Sheesh... .....