Lord no, what a waste of expensive gifts! Use the Artwork from the Jawa vendors, those are grade 6 and the only ones worth giving them. Giving them anything but Artwork is a complete waste.

If there is one thing I've learned by owning my own business for more than 20 years, it is this... "The customer may be right, the customer may be wrong, the customer may be bat-crazy insane... but the customer is always the customer..." A good example of thinking you know best is "New Coke". Management was SO sure of itself that it not only came out with NEW Coke, it STOPPED MAKING THE EXISTING PRODUCT THAT WAS SELLING. It didn't take long to turn that around, and it remains a business case study to this day.

I sadly have to agree with you, the ship has sailed... Game devs seem to be amazingly tone def. Even Microsoft bought a clue after Windows 8 and came back with Windows 10, which while not perfect, was admission that the start screen for desktops was stupid, the start menu is back. NGE destroyed SWG, they even had to give refunds for Trials of Obi-Wan because they sold that, then dropped NGE on everyone shortly after that. Yet in all the years of decline after that, they never turned back, never saw that NGE was a mistake. The game never recovered from what it was, even after they released a free trial version that you could play for the first part of for free. Bioware/EA is highly unlikely to listen now, shame as that is.

Yep.. This entire expansion is all about the "new player". I've posted it before, it seems that EA has decided that it is easier and cheaper to keep bringing in new people and not worrying about anyone who has been around for more than a year or two. Vets here since launch? Too much trouble, they've done the content, let em leave. We have content that was paid for year ago, lets just keep recycling it for an endless stream of new people!

You might, and a few people will... But if you haven't done them for awhile, you might find them rather dull. By comparison the end game areas are interesting, the older leveling stuff is just flat and you will likely find out why no one does it anymore.

I would hold a mirror up to you and suggest you get informed... You can do that heroic at far less than lvl 18 solo today. It is DK, the second starter planet, where nothing is really hard. Had he soloed the +4 in Black Hole, I'd have been more impressed.

I suspect many people posting here either have never done much of this content, or did it so long ago they have forgotten how boring it really is. I've done all the heroics on all the planets now, I took the past few weeks to knock them out for achievements before 4.0 drops. I'll try it out for the heck of it when it drops, but I honestly don't expect to do it more than once each, just for giggles and grins. Why? Because the +2 and +4 stuff was largely tacked on as "filler" for groups and as challenges during the leveling game, none of it was really that interesting in the first place.

I didn't, which is why I've taken the past few weeks to work on knocking out the remaining achvements at lower level planets so I don't have to mess with this when it launches. I pity those in the future who decide to achievement hunt and have to deal with this. Those of us who have gotten them already won't have to bother with it.

I have seen that assumption posted over and over... Maybe... I think it'll happen the first few weeks out of morbid curiosity... then it'll stop... Why? Because that content was never all that interesting anyway, most of it was just "tacked on" to give groups something to do at those levels.

I wouldn't count on it... If you're downscaled to a lvl 18 on DK and you still have your utilities and skills, and you're in PVP gear, you'll still crush newbies with ease. Even if they are 2 in a group. So this does nothing to solve that problem.

We shall see about this one... Knowing that the heroics now pay rewards useful to end game doesn't make me excited about doing them. I might give a few of them a try, but if I can't solo them, I won't bother... I didn't group for them on level before, I'm not going to group for them when level synced now... The only content worth grouping for is that which requires actual groups. I no longer queue for tactical flashpoints because they are boring, it is just 4 people and extra enemies that need lots of damage, HM FP are fun because they require that you work as a group. OPs are fun because they require you work as a group. When 4.0 launches, you'll see a small surge of people trying them out, "just because". I'll be among them. But frankly, they weren't that interesting in the first place, most are just "groups of elites that need more DPS than you can do solo".

Just to follow up... While I'm still bummed about level sync, I will say that I see a number of improvements that I am happy about. Would I give them all up to remove level sync? No, probably not. On balance, I think I'll be happier in 4.0 than 3.0. So I guess I won't love everything, but it'll be ok.

Is Legacy Datacrons confirmed? I know that there is now a tab for it to keep track of them, but does it now apply to all toons in your legacy? That wasn't clear from what I saw and read.

Ok, so I posted that I don't like level sync... however, I am trying to see the upside, and I did just think of one situation where it could be a "good thing". Imagine you're leveling, you're on Tattonine, and you're enjoying the place, you want to do the full planet story, the side missions, everything. Normally you end up outleveling the place, getting just 6 XP per mission after awhile making it kinda depressing to carry on, knowing that you'll have to do the same stuff on the next planet. But instead, with level sync, you'll never quite outlevel Tattonine, instead you'll keep getting XP. So lets say you love Tat but hate Alderann, you can do everything on Tat, level up a bit, then go do just the class missions and blast out Alderann and move on asap since you arrived at Alderann a bit overleveled for it. This does open up options to "level your way", doing extras one place, just the class missions somewhere else, always earning something from it rather than almost nothing. Just trying to see the positive here.