Would you have 5k cartel points without giving Bioware money? It's always astonishing that a simple realization like 'if I have to pay for it, then it isn't free' is not obvious to all our fellow brothers and sisters. You may have a bargain, but it isn't free.

You did pay to get those 5k cartel coins, don't you remember? As a rule: if you have to pay to get something, it isn't free.

Did you read somewhere that they would try to get more money from subscribers? All I read was about getting new players into the game by lowering the entry costs. I guess if they announced to raise the subscription fee month by month by a margin, you would still say 'A for-profit company trying to make money? Say it ain't so!'. And as a reminder, subscribers do already pay.

I feel the same way: Yes, Bioware is trying to get new people into the game with their F2Play option and their so called 'tailored gameplay experience' via the cartel market. At the same time (and this is what they didn't tell us!) they try to get more money from the subscribers. So this is basically their business mantra: Annoy F2P people into buying stuff and get more money from subscribers. It's just disgusting.

In 16 man operations and when you are doing world bosses or warzones?

In 16 man operations and while doing warzones/World Bosses?

i7 2600 and gtx 570 sli@ max settings/1080p here. As soon as there are more than 8 players (Warzones, 16 man operations), fps drop below 30. Worldbosses are especially bad. I once got a reply from a CSR telling me that my cpu is the culprit.

My fellow blaster/rifle/assault weapon users, if you are like me then you are thouroughly annoyed by some weapon sounds, especially if it is paired with a weapon model you'd like to use. So here is a quality of life featuer I would like to see: customzizable weapon sounds. Plain and simple!

I as a subscriber feel treated worse than before the free 2 play change. Your design philosophy changed from 'getting the subscribers their money's worth' to 'get more money from the subscribers'. It's not comfortable any more.

STOP making content subscribers have to pay for ON TOP of their subscription fee. We are NOT getting our money's worth!

You, Sir, know nothing about the man, the company or the way the game is made. In your small minded world you drew connections between this man and your perceptions of this game's health. You did this in a way a conspiracy theorist does it because he is too simple to digest a complexer truth. It's still astonishing how spiteful simpletons like the OP get their crap in every forum.

I think Bioware broke this rule: 'Don't develop free2play content which relies on making subscribers pay real money ON TOP of their subscription". We do not get our money's worth anymore, we'd have to pay on top of our monthly fee.

Still have the feeling you get your money's worth as a subscriber? Or does it start to feel ANNOYING by all this effort being made by Bioware's part to get you to pay more money on top of your subscription? The "it's not mandatory" argument doesn't work anymore, if it ever did. Nothing is mandatory so why not charge for that too on top of the suscription? Honestly, if your free 2 play model works by milking the subscribers for more money, then there is something awfully wrong. I can see charging the free players for something, but the subscsribers? No, Bioware, simply no. I was open minded about the whole free2play thing, but you're permanently crossing the line and slapping YOUR SUBSCRIBERS.

I was checking darthhater and found this: http://db-ptr.darthhater.com/items/57138/chapter_4_rise_of_the_hutt_cartel/ Is this related to Makeb?

You never actually fly your ship and the planets feel more like levels without choice between questhubs.Having played Dark Age of Camelot, Star Wars Galaxies and World of Warcraft, Swtor's planets really do feel least open for exploration. They are comparativley small, linear and offer no choice where to got or sense of exploration (again, compared to those games listed above).