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  1. I refuse to hug any developers until they fix the huge hug imbalance introduced in 4.6. Why should they get hugs when they haven't even acknowledged the issue exists? If we don't have a dev comment on the great hug disparity by the end of the day, I'm going to cancel my sub, and the game will be doomed. Furthermore, I'm struggling with figuring out why anyone would even try to get the hug-a-dev achievement when you know they are going to put hugs up on the CM in a month anyway. I mean, why work for a hug when you can just buy them? Hugs are OP! They are breaking the economy, raiding, PvP and my ability to meditate at the fleet without interruption. Bring balance to hugs or else!
  2. I contemplated not writing one of these, but decided to post in this thread after all. (At least I'm not making my own thread. ) I've been here since the weekend betas, and played this game consistently for over three years now, starting my first character on the first day of early access about 15 minutes after I got home from work. I've survived the shaky launch, abandoned servers, mergers, FTP conversion and every patch since, and I've managed to find enjoyment in the game at every turn, but today is my last day as a subscriber. This isn't a rage quite. No single incident in recent or distant memory made me suddenly decide to stop paying and playing. It's more or less been a gradual build as I've finally exhausted my personal enjoyment. As I look through all the areas of the game, I just don't see one to move into to get the fun back. So although it doesn't exactly line up with the original "5 reasons" request, here are my "5 areas" of SWTOR I feel I've exhausted myself on. Story, a big staple in SWTOR, has failed to keep up my interest due to the merging of 8 individual class stories into a single unified storyline across both factions and all 8 classes. I understand the reasons, and recognize the original vision was just not viable, but that doesn't change the fact that there's no longer enough content to keep even a dedicated casual like myself going. PvP, although fun in short bursts, has never been deep enough in SWTOR to hold my interest. So although I've started many a toon on the valor grind, I never exceeded level 60, and instead get my PvP enjoyment mostly from other games. GSF - Once a great hope of mine to rejuvenate the game, it's more or less dead due to neglect. I still enjoy matches when they pop, but I'm realistic enough to understand it is all it will ever be now, and I find that sad. Raiding\Achievement grinding has always been a social thing for me, meaning I enjoy them only when playing with friends and/or guild mates. (See below for more.) Social - Although this is more of a combination of all of the above, my current guild has more or less fallen apart recently, and I find I no longer have the energy to go looking for another active and fun guild I can play in. With no new major content or systems upcoming I just don't see any area worth my sub rate. I've always said I would continue to pay, and play, The Old Republic until it was no longer fun, and for me, that's now. I've enjoyed my three years, and begrudge Bioware not one cent I've spent on the game, but I think I'm done. I may still log in and play from time to time, and you never know, someday something might grab my attention and bring me back in, but I don't expect it to happen. Not this time anyway. Thanks to Bioware, all the great players I've met and even to the forum community (really!) for the fun and enjoyment. It's been a good ride.
  3. Since we've reached the "break each others posts down to respond to each line" phase... When you define someone as using "impotent venting" it's both insulting and belittling. Maybe raging isn't exactly right, but it's close enough in my book. Baseless assumption on your part, and insulting to boot. Faster PvP queue pop times has been mentioned several times, and is a perfectly valid benefit to subscribers for loosening the restrictions. If you disagree that more people would queue up, or you don't think it's enough benefit, that's one thing. To make the assumption that it's an excuse and everyone is just trying to get out of paying is another. You're assuming this is a hill to die on for everyone, and that's not really the case. This isn't a "must have or I'll unsub" kinda suggestion, at least not for me or some of the others in this thread. It's a "hey, wouldn't the game be better if" suggestion. If/when I decide to unsub, how many warzones I can do in a week will not be the deciding factor. Would having a higher cap increase the likely-hood that I would keep doing PvP as Preferred? Yes. It would also increase the likely-hood that I would stay engaged in the game, and consider resubbing at some point in the future. (Hey look, another incentive to loosen the restrictions!) Again, it's not a black and white, live or die, must change or unsub, suggestion. Once you accept that, the rest makes a lot more sense. Anyway, I'm done with the argument-about-the-argument portion of this discussion. To reiterate my point, I agree with the OP that loosening the restrictions is a good idea, as I believe it would: Decrease queue times for subscribers, increasing their warzone enjoyment. Make non-subscribers more likely to subscribe for the added benefits of quicker progression and better gear. Potentially draw more former subscribers back into the game by allowing them to engage more in PvP.
  4. Who's venting? A suggestion to improve the game is not venting. Nor is it a threat to unsub or general game hate, at least not on it's own. The only one raging here is you, and it's not even about the topic at hand, it's about behavior that the people you are quoting aren't showing. As you said, Bioware has the final say on what they do with the game, but that hardly negates the right of it's paying subscribers to make suggestions we think will improve the game. Not every thread in the forums has to be rage-hate-unsub-defender-troll fest. Please stop trying to push this one in that direction.
  5. I like the idea of it being raised higher for preferred players over true FTP. The FTP accounts are primarily trial accounts by nature, whereas preferred are more or less the buy to play players. (Those who have paid something for the game.) If Bioware is no longer interested in just removing the restrictions altogether, I could see it being more like this. FTP: 5 warzones per week. Preferred: 15 regular warzones per week, 5 Ranked Subs: Unlimited Warzones plus increased valor and commendation rates. That would provide preferred players with more incentive to sub if they want to take PvP seriously, while increasing the WZ populations overall, which makes PvP a better place.
  6. Why do you believe the world is so black and white? Why is anyone who makes a suggestion automatically hating on the game and threatening to unsubscribe? Is there no middle ground? This is a suggestion from a paying subscriber, backed up by other paying subscribers, and opposed by other paying subscribers. All have both a right to their opinion and the right to express it, but doing so does not mean they are automatically a hater or quitter, and making your argument silly at best. For my part, if I unsubscribe it will not be because they left, or keep, the current WZ restrictions on FTP/Preferred players. That doesn't prevent me from believing that they should consider loosening the restrictions, as I believe it will help the paying PvP community by increasing the number of active players who PvP, decreasing queue pop times, and maybe even gaining a few subscribers who decide they enjoy it enough to want the faster progression rate a subscription brings. Would they lose some subscribers who only pay a sub so they can PvP? Sure. But on balance I think the game would get more out of the change that it would lose.
  7. You mean like he would have to in order to, oh I don't know, post on the forum? Obviously he's also a subscriber. Belittling his point with a false implication just comes off as childish. I agree that they should lift the restrictions. If not unlimited, they should be at least raised, as the current restrictions pretty much mean FTP and Preferred players have no real access to Warzones. The should at least be able to complete the unranked weekly mission if nothing else. The valor and commendation bonuses for subscribing are enough of a boost in my mind, although if they absolutely have to, they could keep the tighter restrictions on ranked play. Subscribers would have better access to the ranked rewards that way. Also, since it was specifically mentioned as something they intended to do, if they changed their mind for whatever reason, it at least deserves an answer. And for the record, I usually fall more on the "defender" side than the "hater" when it comes to this game and Bioware in general (quotes added to imply that I think both labels are kind of ridiculous), but on this issue I think they are missing the boat. PvP has enough uphill battles in the game as it is.
  8. To further clarify, I actually enjoy the hell out of tanking, but it becomes tiresome while in pugs because so many people don't want to take advice from others in the group, don't feel they should have to help others in the group with useful (and polite) advice, and feel it's okay to blame the tank for every wipe. (Well, 3 out of every 4 anyway, with the other one being blamed on the healer.) And don't get me wrong, I am far from the best tank in the world, but I'm good enough I can tank SM and, with practice, HM flashpoints and ops. However, since I play semi-casual, I sometimes need reminders of mechanics and such, which is never a problem in a guild group, but can be an issue in a pug for the reasons above. I was in a guild group once where we had a new tank doing HM Hammer Station, and we wiped like 5 times on the droid boss. In a PUG, that would have resulted in several players dropping, probably after insulting everyone else in the group. In our guild group, we just kept running it until he got it right. (Of course, the real funny part here is that the first three wipes were caused by our healer, who was forgetting the cleanse, which we all laughed off and moved on after finding out.) Not that there aren't good PUGs out there too. I was in one when 3.0 launched where all four of us were doing HM Manaan for the first time, and we wiped a whole boatload of times, but stuck it out anyway and managed to finish it in good humor. But that kind of thing is rare, and it's more likely a pug will break up after one to three wipes at most. tl;dr; Pugs are exhausting sometimes, and pugging as a tank or healer is doubly so in most cases, so people just get tired of it.
  9. I would pay cash for this mount. It would be fun to troll with in the PvP area of the fleet while waiting for a queue to pop.
  10. My main is a Jedi Guardian, and initially I tanked exclusively, but eventually I got tired of doing so for PUGs, and switched to only playing that toon for guild groups. However, I missed playing my guardian regularly, so now I DPS exclusively with that toon, and I use a Vanguard for tanking guild groups. I get to play my guardian on a more regular basis, and I still have a tank when my guild needs me. So that's why I exclusively DPS on a toon primarily intended for/thought of as a tank.
  11. Are you kidding? We would need to exceed 500 pages, and then get it closed and continued in another 400 page thread to get close. This topic is nothing compared to the true monster threads out there.... http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=476215 and then continued in... http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=590526
  12. Why is there no playable small race? For the same reason there's no playable giant race. They don't want all your companion love scenes to end with you kissing (or being kissed) in the wrong place. They have a T for Teen rating to preserve here...
  13. Thanks for the update Tait. Will the Bounty Contract week be extended by two days as well, or will it still end next Tuesday as it would have if it had begun tomorrow?
  14. They need to add those to the Cartel Market.
  15. Ah, but by the time your list is full, all of the previous accounts you've ignored have been deleted and/or banned and replaced by new ones. Just reset your list and start over.
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