Before it becomes a political discussion between those who see it as a US-only holiday and those who see it as a display of military propaganda...and I can do without either.

Can someone please move this to off-topic before it gets ugly ?!

Not really. I does not answer anything about the time this will happen. Before or after maintenance.

You are so wrong that I don't even know where to start: Recent theme parks mmos: Rift - theme park mmo, good game, lost a huge numbers of subs, had to go f2p and they laid off some staff. The Secret World - theme park mmo, some really great quests....f2p within 6 months and now on the backburner TERA - saved by going f2p and is doing ok thanks to it's unique action combat system ... EVE Online - rising subscriber numbers since years...

Maybe read the OP before you copy&paste irrelevant info ? The OP wants to know when the names will be available - will it be after maintenance or will it be a running process over the 12th ? The dev tracker provides no info whatsoever regarding these questions. @ OP: so far we know nothing, I posted the same questions days ago and got no useful reply.

Das ist einer der Gründe warum ich lieber auf internationalen Servern spiele. Traurig aber wahr - wenn es um Online Verhalten geht, ist der deutschsprachige Raum leider etwas hinten nach. Natürlich gibt es international auch genug Opfer, aber das pro Kopf Aufkommen ist nach meinen Erfahrungen in deutschen Communities größer. Aber egal - setz solche Leute einfach auf deine Ignore Liste und lach über ihre Dummheit, auf solche Debatten lässt sich ein intelligenter Mensch doch gar nicht ein.

I think the WoW vs Swtor issue has been debated ad nauseam. WoW will have a slow death and will still be around with a few million subs for another decade. Especially because it has such a large player base, some of which have committed a ton of time into their accounts and are reluctant to give up such an investment. Swtor made the mistake of creating a WoW-style mmo when this type of mmos started to run out of fashion. We still have mechanics which would be more appropriate for an mmo from 2005-2007, but not 2013. The game just shows the long development cycle and the lack of vision. Considering expansion. Their house version of the Hero engine is kinda limited, so I don't expect any big changes to the game. Swtor will hang around for many years as a niche game, just like Everquest 2, and I think EA will pull the plug as soon as they can get out of their contract to create something more profitable from an expensive license like Star Wars. All in all Swtor can be compared to the last great steamliner, launched in a time when steamliners were becoming obsolete.

I think the class stories are the best part of the game and are the only reason why I still come back once in a while to play for a few hours, until I have finished all of them. Other mmos offer better raiding, pvp or crafting. The big drawback of Swtor are the antiquated mechanics, if this game had an action-combat system like Tera, Guild Wars 2 or Neverwinter then it would be far more enjoyable. Instead we get the old WoW combat mechanics which are just no longer enjoyable in 2013.

It sounds like a medley mixed together from different soundtracks, it even has a part of the Imperial March in it. I guess this will be hard to track down unless someone has extracted it from the game files. Some parts remind me of the music during space battles, but these should be on the soundtrack.

How is this going to happen on the 12th ? Will the names become available after the patching or will the database be cleaned up over the course of the day with names becoming available gradually ? Does anyone know ?

The cartel packs are a scam, like in any form of gambling only the bank wins at the end. If you really want something that bad you should just buy some account unlocks and sell them for credits. And then use said credits to buy the stuff you want from other players. It will save you a lot of money in the end. You wouldn't dump a few hundred $ into some slot machine in Vegas, would you ? Cartel packs are the same thing, don't buy them.

Is it so hard to google that yourself ? Took me 3 minutes. The lyrics are based on a fragment of an archaic Welsh poem Cad Goddeu (Battle of the Trees), and sung in Sanskrit. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cad_Goddeu The line that was translated to Sanskrit from Welsh when translated to English instead says "Under the tongue root a fight most dread, and another raging, behind, in the head."

Well, they have promised server transfers since last year's April when the servers started dying and becoming ghost towns. Instead we got a server merge which cost most of us many of their favorite characters names. I have 26 days left on my sub, next week a new mmo comes out, I'm done...

Seriously, the hero engine sucks for this kind of pinpoint jumping. And I was never good at Prince of Persia, give me some puzzles to solve or a boss to fight, but jumping shenanigans only keep me away from the game.