This game wasn't cheap (wouldn't matter if it was) and people have every right to complain/flame when they get lied to like this. You can take it all you like BUT we have more then enough reasonto be very upset over how we are being treated.

Whats ridiculous is that some people are actully defending the reasoning behind this (and the FPs issue), i'm actully saddened to see that. These people defending this should be ashamed of themselfs.

This along with the FPS issue are massive issues, the reason they are massive isn't so much the issues themselfs (well the FPS issue is massive in itself really) BUT the way in which the PR is handling these issues, they are lyng about them and it's quite clear they are. You could argue the medium textures issue isn't a big problem in itself BUT, they were working before and they advertised the game using them, to now say after mass complaints that it was a UI bug and they aren't supposed to work ingame is a massive problem because it shows how badly they are willing to treat paying customers when it comes to things like this. If they'll happily lie about things like this (major things that anyone can see is wrong), then what won't they lie about?, that's what makes this a major issue.

Such a great couple of days for BioWare PR, 1st slapping those with decent PCs in the face and now this, do you really expect people to beleive this?, really?. I was expecting this to be swept under the rug BUT trying to tell us it was a UI mistake of all things is just crazy, we know you aren't being honest in this issue and we know full well the high textures are supposed to be in the game and not just the cutscenes. Be honest about it, tell us either you can't be bothered to make them work (which is exactly the one i think it is) or your not sure of why they aren't working (not likely), don't try and convince us that they were never supposed to work ingame in the 1st place because it's very clearly a blatant lie. And please tell us, why is it your doing everything possible to try and make people quit the game, i'd really like to know, the poor customer support and this frankly terrible PR is not going to convince people on the fence to stay.

I don't think they need to cut it in standard play, it seems niceley balanced at the moment. I've done all the available quests and pretty much end up at the next areas at the required level. Now, they really need to cut the XP gain/token amount in PVP by at least 50% imo, i've just started on the PVP (it's quite fun - if they fix they FPS) and was shocked at how quickly i was earning XP and tokens for the PVP gear.

Wow came here looking for my servers forum and found this!!. The game has some seriuos issues BUT this is a no brainer and super easy to fix and is quite shocking that it's missing. I loved going onto my old MMOs server forum for various reason, things like making events and battles with the enemies and just chatting with other people on your server etc. This is quite frankly one of stupidest missing features of this game and is possibly one of the easiest to actully sort out. Simply put, get this added NOW, it's a no brainer and should have been here from day 1.

All i can say is, how have i never heard of Aion?, after seeing the screen shot earlier i had to cherck out a video of it. I want that interface so much, i love how it's all on the bottom bar and really neat.

If they gave me SWTOR with the high res textures ingame (aswell as higher res world textures to go with them) and slightly smoother shadows i'd rate it as the best overall in both graphics and aesthetics. Rift looks great maxed out but there is one thing that just annoys me and that's the animation, i really hate with a passion how characters and mounts wakj/run, it's more like they glide over the ground and it looks terrible and it really puts me off, To this day i still love WOWs aesthetics the most though despite no longer playing it and it being out dated graphically.

I'd say it's hiding the issue in the hope that people who haven't checked will think it's ok, i find it kind of insulting that they've simply removed the medium setting and made medium to high instead. We know the high textures are there (we can see them) so removing the option is a bit cheeky IMO. As for the shadows, totaly agree, they are so blocky it's quite shocking really. --- Here's hoping this isn't the actual fix and it's just a stop gap until they sort it out properly (a responce to this would be nice).

As the title states, if you are going to adjust the UI or add options to do things to it, please don't forget this option (if it's there i must have missed it). I don't use all the side bar button placements and as such i have 3 on each side used (for symmetry) and it's really annoying that all the remaiming empty boxes stay on the screen. Thanks for your time.

For the love of jedi knights!, so instead of fixing the issue they simply removed the option.

Nope, no matter what the high res textures during gameplay aren't working. Try it. Stand in an area and look down, now cycle the low/medium/high texture options and you can clearly see a difference between low and medium BUT there is zero difference between medium and high (not even onboard ram usage goes up - i monitored it). I recon we also only have medium shadows aswell and it was just labled as high (they;re far to blocky to be considered high IMO).

Because all PCs aren't the same. Here i am with a quad core system @ 3.9ghz, 8gb of DDR3 1600 ram and a GTX 480 clocked at 850/3850 (making it basically a stock GTX 580 in performance terms) with everything up to date etc, this is a PC that plays BF3 on a 64 player servers at 1080p with all settings on ultra and yet i drop into the teens often in this game even when hardly anything is on screen. Just because your doing fine doesn't mean everyone is or they simply don't know how to put a PC together/keep it up to date (it isn't that hard). This is a quick grab from my PC right now just after logging in. http://img191.imageshack.us/img191/672/swtor20120106211010782.jpg 32.5fps with hardly anyone on screen at all (basically an empty area), that's not right. --- I'll say this though, even though it droped to the teens often i can still manage to play just fine, i just hope to god they fix the performance issues and put in better/crisper shaows (as the current ones even maxed are terribly blocky).

After re-rolling a femaile due to the male armour looking silly i just hope not only do they add in more/better looking armour, that they fix the clipping errors on the current armour. Just got the elegant (i think that's it's name - the modable social one) set and the hat looks terrible on the head due to it clipping through the hair, sure i can hide it BUT it would be nice to actully be able to see it properly if i want. I also have an orange modable hooded robe which looks pretty cool with the elegant dress BUT the robe clips through it at the bottom making it look really bad. Overall i'm much happier with how the PVE gear looks on a female avatar, BUT i really hope they fix how it looks when worn.

I actully started with that class as i really like the idea of being both a sabre user and a ranged force user BUT, i hate having to use a double ended sabre as i really don't like the look. I'd love an option to use a single ended sabre as a shadow (i know, they'd need to adjust some of the animations/skills to make it work though). In the end i went with a balance sage and simply use double strike at close range on close targets near to death for the effect of using the sabre .