Jesus Christ why are people complaining about a TEN DOLLAR expansion that gives a new planet and 5 levels? Do you seriously need to know every little detail about an expansion that is only ten bucks, which is 1/15th what some people payed for this game? What do you need to know about it that is so vitally important that might prevent you from paying what amounts to 3 gallons worth of gas? You know what I would agree with you if this was a 39.99 full blown expansion, but this is a really good deal to pay $10 for more levels gear skills and a new planet

The DDE was like half the price, and it got most all the CE got in game, which was exactly what it was supposed to get. If you wanted your son to receive the things promised in the future for CE owners, you should have bought him the CE. It's called Digital DELUXE Edition not Digital Collector's Edition.

That is ridiculous. Why would they allow you to access all content so far free if youre not paying a sub? These are MMOs, not console game where you pay once and boom youre done. It doesn't make practical sense or business sense. Have you EVER come across and MMO that went F2P but allowed the subbers and non-subbers access to the exact same content? No of course not.

logging in now, servers ARE up

After you finish chapter 1 of your story, usually around lvl 30

How do you know how long it should take? do you have any idea whats involved? nope.

You have to go with Naboo. Such a beautiful planet, you could make it an amazing place to explore and I can only imagine how awesome Theed would be. You guys need to make a sandbox-like planet, or just a planet different from the typical theme-park hold your hand guided thing. Lok would be very cool also. Would make for a great story line.

lol it's not difficult to micromanage at all? whats so hard about buying x of this armoring, x of this mod, and x of this enchancement?

He is saying that why as a DPS scoundrel can he only get a rank 9 armoring from planetary com vendors when the other DPS classes may get rank 11 from the same vendor. Correct me if I'm wrong OP.

No you will not because madness is not a tanking tree and you wear light armor. You have to go Darkness spec if you want to tank. Madness is a DPS spec and has no extra defensive abilities.

You can argue the success but it stayed open for 8 years, much longer than most MMOs do.

Elitist? More like realist. Do you really think EQ/ultima/swg etc were successful for such a long time because of the casual players? Nope, it's because they had a solid base and a core vision of the game. Casuals by definition do not play as much, and since they don't have time to accomplish certain things they think everything should be attainable for them as a casual player. That isn't how MMOs work and it isn't how successful ones stay open forever. Never before have I seen such vitriol and crudeness in an MMO like this before because of the base Bioware has attempted to attract. Casuals are like wham bam thank you maam and move on to the next game. You can't expect to build a long term MMO off of them.

They ruin every MMO they come to. They whine and whine and want you to make everything easier but then complain about whatever you do, even if you accomplish what they wanted. You CANNOT sustain a sizable player base with a majority of casuals. They are the type of people who beat a game and then move on to the next. If you keep trying to please people who can't be pleased, nothing will work out.

Why should Bioware have to accommodate your choices? This companion is not needed, necessary, required, or mandatory. So what if you have 8 imperials on the same server and don't feel like doing it. Since when was Bioware required to make every cool item or piece of content you like available to your specific, redundant playstyle? What if you wanted to be able to do the new Op Explosive Conflict? That is only open to people who have completed specific content and gotten specific gear. PVP players can't experience it without doing what the PVE players did, and neither can the "soloers". You have a simple choice. Delete one of your five level 10 and under characters (lets be honest, most of you are complaining about having to delete a character you've only logged on once) and create an opposite faction player and level it for a few days, or not get HK-51. Bioware doesn't have to make everything open to everyone. This is an MMO, not a single player game. People are going to have things others don't have because THEY put in the work.

That's why it's not fair. It's a PVP nerf but it only drastically affects PVE. They need to make it so when you go into PVP your moves do different things than in PVE.