Nevermind. Reading comprehension needs work.

This whole thing is one gigantic example of Poe's Law at work.

Harbinger is the most heavily populated server and has the largest raiding community.

It wouldn't surprise me if they were being phased out in favor of EA gift cards: it's less hassle to create one type of card for the entire publisher's line up. Plus, that drives traffic to EA's Origin store so they can try to sell you games from their crappy version of Steam instead of just making nice with Valve and selling their product via real Steam instead.

Compared to the Star Trek movies there wasn't any lol

7/10 It' is fun and entertaining, and definitely has some of the best laughs out of any of the Star Wars films. I thought that John Boyega was quite good (a little concerned that Finn and Poe might end up too similar as characters, but we still have two more movies to see where they go with their personalities). Adam Driver made Kylo Ren interesting, and not a complete Darth Vader clone. And overall a decent balance between exposition and action sequences (although perhaps a little bit more splainin' wouldn't have hurt: this is the one movie where the state of the galaxy isn't as clear as it should have been for certain major plot events to have their proper effect on the audience). However, the best way I can describe it in a spoiler free manner is to say that it is to "Star Wars" as "Super 8" is to "ET": a JJ Abrams homage/recreation of another director's work, which means it hits all the correct spots on "the checklist", but feels a bit soulless. This is still a lot better than many of the blockbuster films that are designed by committee that we see every year, but it still feels like it's kind of paint by numbers: flawlessly within the lines, and all the colors in their proper spots, but all done mechanically with no real feeling for the work.

People tried this back when the NGE happened to Star Wars Galaxies (complaining to LucasArts at that time). Even after stories ran on basically every gaming news site, and even the CBS News site, the response was "we are satisfied that the game meets our licensing requirements: go complain to the game's makers." If you think that complaining to Disney's customer service will somehow get them to force EA or BioWare to respond to whatever your particular issue is, then fill your boots; just don't be surprised when you get told to go complain to EA and BioWare.

If this was just the first time, I believe that you'll still have a couple more opportunities to choose the flirt option before getting friendzoned.

I've tried courting gifts on multiple toons with companions I've romanced, and they're all busted right now. Hopefully this gets patched soon because I'm banking a lot of courting gifts at the moment.

OP, you are obviously the exact right amount of upset about this. The fact that it is happening to everyone is unimportant: this is a direct attack from EA and BioWare on you in order to drive you to cancel your subscription so they longer have to serve you specifically of all players. They have absolutely no excuse for this bug, clearly targeted at you, to be in the game because human beings don't work on this game, perfect robots do. Go to customer service and get your refund: I guarantee you that they'll issue it immediately and beg for your forgiveness.

I've run several tacticals over the last couple days (or at least attempted to: only managed to complete one), and I'm finding that they're not balanced for a role-less group: you need the holy trinity if you actually want complete one (which is what kind of group I was in when I managed to finish a tactical flashpoint). A lot of the bosses have had their damage cranked up through the roof. There's also certain "choke points" that exist in various flashpoints where there's a large number of mobs that crank out obscene focused damage, meaning that the player who fires the first shot that the group will probably get cut down in four or five seconds. I've never encountered this type of difficulty on tactical flashpoints before, and I'm not the only one in my guild finding this to be the case either: there's members in my guild now who simply won't do them anymore. These are supposed to be quick, simple, and easily pug-able group instances, but they are most definitely not that at the moment. This is out of whack: the "tactic" for beating a role-less flashpoint shouldn't have to be have a trinity based group.

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55 to 60 at regular XP rates will always be there; 12x XP will only be here until Oct 19. I'd get every toon that you want to get to 55 now while you can. Plus, by all indications, there is not much you can do to "get ready" for level 60.

I'm going to level up a brand new toon (probably a Soth Warrior; most likely Juggernaut) in order to check out the new streamlined leveling process. Honestly, it's likely to be two or three weeks before I spend any significant time on a level 60 character doing the new story content.

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