It is essential that it happens or it becomes too difficult for people to catch up to current content later on. If you started the game in two years you would to do three years worth of gearing your character to participate with high level guilds running ops for example. It also becomes impossible to make alts down the line because it would take so long to gear them up. It also divides the player base to heavily. I imagine finding a group for Karraga's Palace would be pretty difficult in 2014.

I did Korriban with a f2p friend who was and inquistor and he got to level 11. We did both class quests together but it was almost all the same areas you went and just picked up different things to and could not have accounted for 3 levels.

I didn't really think so, seemed about right.

In that case there will be no issue making US transfers an option. I think merging with option to transfer to US is best. It is impossible for the Dalborra to get any smaller even if everyone chooses US and if after that the pop is still too low then its time to think about shutting servers down.

Several classes do need at least 3 bars to perform properly. Guardian/juggernaut tanks for example.

I'd say its free to play unless you are a tank in which case you need to buy another action bar, so in that way it is pay to win.

I'm all for the merge. Give an option to transfer to a US server if you want to stay PvP or RP. The population still isn't that close to where it needs to be and I wouldn't expect it to increase too much over the next few weeks but we'll see.

I agree, not as extremely as you but the action bars are pretty stupid. With all the complaints about them though I don't think it will be long before it is changed (read: fixed).

Thank you just what I was looking for.

I just wanted to know if there was any word on when the flashpoints like Athiss and Hammer Station which don't have hard modes will be given them. I am assuming it will happen eventually because its a cost efficient way to get some new(ish) content into the endgame. I also assume/hope they will be made tier 2 cause lost island must be getting lonely up there. Anyway just wondering if anyone knew whether or not Bioware has commented on this recently.

I agree 1 million is too much for each character. 1 million as a global unlock seems to much make much more sense to me. It too heavily discourages using HK while levelling which is when a companion character is of the most interest/use.

I'm actually subscribed at the moment and I've got 1700 coins so I'll buy the bars if I want to unsubscribe, however I still think that three should be the absolute minimum even for a completely free player or at the very least preferred should get them automatically. Maybe three for free and four for preferred could be reasonable. Once that's changed I'll be very happy with F2P. I intend on going on and off subscription as I already do, but now I can use F2P to play alts and my main more casually when I've got less time to justify the sub.

Just thought I'd chuck a thread in here that was positive towards F2P. I think that for the most part its pretty cool and I know a couple people who are trying out and enjoying the game because of it. However... 2 ACTION BARS IS RIDICULOUS PLEASE MAKE IT 3 OR EVEN 4. BIOWARE HAVE YOU TRIED TO TANK WITH 2 BARS? TURNS OUT ITS ABSOLUTELY MISERABLE. But yeah, other than that I think most of the restrictions are pretty fair and there a good level of incentive to throw down some cash if you want more.

Edit: haha just read the thread again and found I had completely misunderstood it

My guardian tank easily uses more than two bars at 50 in most any fight of decent length. Two bars is not really enough even for a free player, three would be much more acceptable. I understand that you can't expect too much for free but its pretty annoying to have to gimp yourself by leaving out useful abilities or using the ability menu frequently in combat.