Do they put the server down for maintenance every Monday at the same time? That really sucks for me if true since I have long work weeks doing a graveyard shift and early Tuesday morning is one of the best times for me to play. Is it always four hours? Or sometimes less?

I'm not a huge fan of the Marvel movies, not a huge fan of Marvel Comics in general, but they are good and they are true to the original comics in ways that I appreciate. I would love it, and I think it would be wise, for Disney to buy X-Men off Fox and make a Pixar animated TV show but I digress.. They have wisely been hands-off with Marvel Entertainment and they have been rewarded massively with lots of cash for staying away and letting a no-brainer like true Marvel movies happen. Disney has been making really smart decisions all across the board except for their own Animation studio which hasn't made a great movie in Decades, it seems. I think they also need to loosen up with their hold on Pixar and let them up the maturity level a bit, at least for every other movie- which to their credit they at least sort of do anyways. John Carter was a huge mistake as well but the movie itself was okay at the end of the day. They are very aware of the disappointment people have had for the last three Star Wars movies and how they have under performed financially compared to the original trilogy. They learned a valuable lesson with Marvel to *STAY AWAY* and they have only made a lot of money in the process. I am convinced they will do the same with the next movies and TV shows for decades to come. Merchandising on the other hand will be ruled with a white glove iron fist People will probably always love Star Wars. I can't really think of another studio which I'd rather own Star Wars than Disney. Sony? Fox? MGM? You have to admit there has always been a friendship between George Lucas and Disney. At the end of the day I really like that Disney owns Star Wars now. Star Wars theme park. Pixar animated Star Wars show. Movies without ANY involvement from George Lucas.. only good things will come of this.

Ugh.. My MacBook plays Flash content just fine... News to me. Mac supporters exist because Macs just are better for a certain kind of person. The build quality on my MacBook is excellent. Ya know: there are a lot of Windows laptops and ultra books floating around. Some of them have excellent keyboards; some of them have excellent trackpads. Some of them also have excellent screens. None of them nail all three. There is a reason why Apple products retain a high resale value. With that said, PCs are good to. I'm just tired of them myself. As for Mac OSX: I think all operating systems are annoying in their own little ways. I've used Windows, Linux and Mac OSX. I just prefer Mac OSX's version of annoying over the other ones. I'm playing TOR on a Mac as well. Bootcamp is annoying so a Mac client would be ACE

Game: I love it. I'm definitely under a honeymoon period since I'm a recent first time subscriber but I'm very happy with everything. To say the game needs improvement is moot point as any of us can create a grocery list of small little wishes and wants that *SHOULD!!!!* be in the game. The UI needs some improvement, but only some: I can't find the Centering bar or it's stacks- but the ability to customize the UI yourself to a certain degree is very welcomed. I'm going to keep myself positive and expect the space combat and new chapters in the future. I really want this game to have LEGS- I'm not an MMO kind of guy but I've always dug Bioware and the MMO game mechanics are slowly starting to really appeal to me. New story content is a non-issue for me since I still have tons of stuff to do, in terms of Months of game time ahead of me. I understand why people could feel the game is in stasis once you reach level 50 but I think that only after a year since release the amount of gameplay you get from TOR is staggering before you reach that point. I finished Dragon Age 2 in about a week or two and that game cost me the equivalent of 4 months of TOR, plus tax. Also, maybe I'm crazy, but at $15 a month the game is GREAT VALUE until you reach that point. I do intend to eventually play as every class and that will probably take me more than 6-8 months or longer- I have almost 60 hour work weeks :( Basically: Keep up the good work Bioware and I hope for great things from you guys in the near future! F2P: Ya know: I'm very aware of how a lot of people are complaining about the so-called stingy, greedy , corrupt and retarded F2P model EA has released for this game and I don't really understand what people are actually expecting from a very generous move, I think, on the Devs part to give away the best part of the game , which is the story, for free. F2P was my first experience with the game and I found it very enjoyable. Enjoyable enough, in fact, to buy two months worth of a subscription. The moment when I decided to actually pay for the game as a subscriber was the first time I didn't get a quest reward item. My first reaction was that I was annoyed but the more I thought about it the more I realized that it was worth it to unlock the game and pay for it. An MMO is in constant development and the only way that kind of business model is feasible for anyone, evil monolithic corporations or small time good guy indies both, is to make money off the venture. I'm very aware of the gripes a lot of people on the internet have with TOR's F2P and the media reaction (negative, yet mostly hopeful that it works to keep the game going) but it worked for me and hooked me as a subscriber. I think the F2P is very fair and gives players a very generous taste of what the game is. Not being able to sprint, for example, *is* an obvious and somewhat arbitrary move to annoy people into paying for it because people should be paying for a game they are playing. No one deserves the entire game unlocked for free and if sprinting or anything else is really getting in the way that much of someone having fun, well, that person should stop and think about how the game actually is fun and worth paying for. Game: 9/10 F2P: 7/10

It's the weekend?

I'm playing it on a 2012 MacBook Pro 13 base model. Medium graphics, but low looks just as good. I'm using bootcamp, though- and yes it is a little annoying!! The game does run well in Parallels 8 but I think running 2 operating systems simultaneously while playing a reasonably involved game is pushing it a bit. I also have a Nostromo and Naga, but that's another thing.

*none of these are demands, just idle wishes/wants* 1. Missions, or even just mini games, directed at specific players (randomly selected based on location) which affect other real players who are also currently playing. An example would be: you are playing as a Jedi and you have been instructed to speak to (real world player's name) who is a smuggler. You know their general location and you must find them to start a short quest played together as a group. Ideally, voice acted and somewhat involved. Also, an option to turn on or off your availability for a joined quest. 2. New situations affecting zones not tied to main story. Raider NPCs are attacking the Jedi Temple. Jedi are attacking a sith base. A coordinated effort is being planned to attack such and such a place, do you accept the quest via holo call? Choose to respond or ignore. A failure to defend can have long term effects on the zone. 3. Architectural expansions and destruction to locations. A dynamic zone will always undergo changes, over time. Traveling merchants, etc.

I think the game is awesome and I also think it will only improve. That "other" MMO's long time players almost unanimously agree that year one SWToR is way better than year one that other MMO. EA and Bioware structured their business model as "lucrative" with a lot less than the number of subscribed players they currently have. Whiners cry the loudest. That is all.

I was F2P for about 4 days last week before I got a 2 month subscription. I'm seriously digging it as well I plan to stay for a good long while, level 50 in each story, as a subscriber. This game is GREAT VALUE at $15 a month.

Criticism is vital, I agree, to keep the devs on their toes and try harder but there is a difference between awareness and civil discussion of flaws and weird, violent entitlement issues and a bad attitude that drags everyone down.

Who cares what some mainstream magazine says about a game you enjoy playing- I mean I have to assume you people actually enjoy playing SWTOR since you are very active on the forum and keep a subscription. Why does a low score make you people happy? 4/10 feels really low and biased to me. The game isn't perfect but I have a blast playing it. I kind of hate "gamer" culture; some of the most spoiled and easily disappointed people on the planet. If you *HATE* the game so much just quit and stop spreading negativity and all-out sh*tiness everywhere.