Sith pureblood shadow on jedi cov. Flashpoint group responses are always funny.

I started in the basic planetary comm gear you can upgrade to at 50 from the Makeb vendor on my Jugg dps, as well as 3 partisan pieces which were easy to save up for while leveling (2x implants + earpiece), and a campaign saber. I was killing things faster than the sniper with better gear I ran in to on my first 55 HM. People seem to think you absolutely must have 66 mods or xyz slots of whatever item rating... Honestly, if you have planetary comm gear, and you KNOW YOUR CLASS, you will be perfectly FINE. A little bit of intelligence goes a long way and can in many ways compensate SOMEWHAT for a lack of gear. I'd rather have the Assassin DPS in Makeb greens (lol) who goes weak -> strong, and has perfected his rotation, than the Sorc in super duper epic gear that focuses elites and uses Force Storm on one mob. Competence at class >gear.

1: Use your enter key. Giant, angry walls of text are painful to read. 2: You seem mad, are you mad? 3: There are approximately 13125 billion cartel bash threads, go elongate one of those, instead of mucking up the forums with a new one. Here is a fixed version of your post: Doesn't that seem easier to read to you?

Why does this thread still exist? It's Black Talon / Ess. New players to an FP will choose whatever the hell they want and watch the cutscenes. I will choose whatever I want and spacebar cutscenes but not whine when one person wants to see it. There are other people in the group than just the OP, and they can do whatever choice they want. Deal with it or play solo.

I would like to add, that starting up my SWTOR launcher, and seeing a patch fix for XP (I was using 7) users NOT EVEN A DAY after 2.1 released, is a pleasant surprise. From my opinion of EAWare's habit on fixing issues, I expected this to be an issue for at least a couple weeks. It's nice to see a fix this quickly, so thumbs up from me.

I saw nothing indicating cathar, or the kiosk, would be free. I saw "subs will get a free character rename" which I'm waiting for, and I saw a tweet from a dev confirming we'll get it very soon, but there were some bugs with the implementation so they chose to push that to later, which I am fine with. I guess you can argue semantics and tell me that buying cathar with my monthly grant makes it technically free, but that's a little much.

I on the opposite end have yet to use the collections system. I too buy most of my CC market stuff off the GTN, and save my coins for new content and such. I'm happy about this patch because I got to: 1: Change a main character's name which I have HATED since launch but not wanted to recreate (note I enjoyed buying my character rename off the GTM. Made it that much cooler). 2: Unlock a new species with CC I saved up for this sole purpose. 3: Use the new human hair styles to breathe life into a toon I disliked the look of. All of this I did without paying more than I do every month. If I have to plan ahead and not buy large things to have the CC to play around with little stuff, fine. If they refuse to give me a monthly grant and THEN release GAMEPLAY content for only CC, then I have a problem. Yeah but most people don't want to research things. I know what EA is like, and I made sure what was gonna cost what before I went ahead and spent all my CC, and as such my experience has been more positive than most people posting in the rage threads. Mindless? Not so much. The whole capslock mouth breathing thing I haven't seen here yet, and people have every right to be annoyed this feature costs real money to use. Hell, maybe the people that rage about it will actually get it to move to credits. Either way, good for me. As a feature, or forum entertainment.

Thank you for a well constructed reply to the OT. Although I do feel like I technically paid for the cathar and the modifications I made with part of my sub fee, based on the fact that it does indeed cost CC, which I'm not necessarily against. On the whole I think that the kiosk, as well as fixing lolbolster, made for a _decent_ patch. It can only really be improved upon in the future. To be fair, after I made my changes, I sat around the kiosk for a while and observed what changes people made, just for fun. I mostly saw the new human hairstyles being applied, some changing to cathar, one or two taking an odd combo, and almost nobody using the freaky hair colors.

Absolutely. I do the same. However, I also peruse the forums to enjoy the rage threads that get generated with every patch. "But see, I don't need everything to be perfect or exactly the way I would like. I actually enjoy working through constraints and limits (and even bugs) in the game. Every MMO has them.. might was well play with them rather then against them" I wish to give you a cookie. Is there a way I can do that? There are some HILARIOUS bugs in ToR that I hope NEVER get fixed. Things that give the game life to me. Companions occasionally running off of elevators and falling to their deaths being a hilarious example. Even things like comps neaver sheathing their weapons (which bugged the sh*t out of my ocd) I lived with because it made no impact on gameplay, and I still enjoyed the game even with that bug very much.

It helps if you actually quote the person you're attempting to insult. Also, people are entitled to have any opinion they wish, and voice it here, within reason. The guy that feels his $15 is absolutely worth it is just as right as the guy who unsubbed 2 weeks after launch because he thought the opposite. Opinions are opinions, not facts, and should not be taken as such.

Yes, and every internet community for anything is like this. Go from controversy to controversy slamming whatever's the most recent. Give it 6 months and barely anyone will remember this issue. To be honest that's what it feels like EA wants. Get away with something, let it sit for a while and be forgotten about, then do something else they can get away with. However, the good still outweighs the bad to me, and I'm looking forward to the upcoming content patch, where once again, I shall ask myself if my sub fee is worth the game I play.

I'd also proof read my posts if I'm telling someone to get better educated. Also, your 1 negative trend point: If I get a hair in my fries, does it mean everybody is going to get the same thing? Absolutely not. But that one guy that does is gonna voice his opinion, you better believe it. Statistics matter over time. While the initial surge of people using the feature will dwindle, the fact that people are using it at all is a testament to the fact that not all subs or even people in general consider this feature or its implementation bad. I also form my own opinion about games. Reviews are generally not the same as my opinion, friends' opinions of games are not my own personal view, and networking brings out more people that want to cry about everything they don't like than anything else. Also, statistics classes bore me, because numbers, and I am horrible at math.

This is 100% accurate. The forums for any game are THE WORST PLACE to figure out if it's worth buying or not. Forum posters, particularly negative ones, are absolutely the vocal minority. They may see themselves as the 99%, but it's not how it really is. Logging on to fleet, I see piles of people around the kiosk, and many applying changes. I was one of them last night, and will continue to enjoy the new stuff as much as my monthly grant allows. Beyond that, I play for gameplay, not how pretty my toon looks. I also sub based on how the game is now, not how I want it to be. If you sub for future content, you're going to be universally disappointed. Instead, figure out if current implementation is worth your money, and consider future content fun bonuses. You'll be a lot happier.

Business psychology is over the heads of most people, and they would rather simply say if they don't get enough free stuff for their sub they feel undervalued. There is no rationalization for what you're ACTUALLY paying for. It's all about how much stuff they implement without charging you. Not saying it's correct, but it seems to be how most people think.

Precisely this. I don't necessarily feel like they pamper me as a sub, but I feel the content at this moment is enough to be worth my approximately $11 a month. If people would stop basing their opinions of the game on promises and upcoming stuff, rather than how it is right now, then there wouldn't be this much fuss over things like CC market money grubbing. Yeah it's added in, but I don't HAVE to buy it. I pay for no lolrestrictions, not the ability to change how fat my toons are for free whenever I want. I have said this in every 2.1 bash thread: I support making simple changes cost credits for subs, and making character physical structure changes CC. This is the same as any other MMO, besides my beloved EVE Online which lets me do anything under the sun other than change species for completely free. Yeah. In that game I even buy my monthly game time using in-game currency. Now that is a baller way of being told you matter - "if you love this game enough, you don't even have to pay to play it, and still get every perk. Oh, and while we're on it, we're holding a new CSM soon, in which we fly community nominated players to OUR DEV STUDIO to help us decide which features players would want us to put into the game, so go vote". Seriously, CCP business model = fu*king amazing company. That, and they've personally apologized for every mess they've ever made, and KEPT their promise that new features will never be implemented at the cost of letting bugs go unfixed. This is something EA could learn from.