HAHAHA, Dread Masters in golden masks. ROFL! Worst design makeover ever....

Great event. I love it!

Man, you are talking about infrastructure specialists, not architects. Please, just go to The Open Group and study a bit about IT professions before writing such nonsense around... Big Boy IT... lol

Why do you need high level infrastructure architect in "maintenance" phase? What is this guy going to architect when all high level setup of data center network is already in place? Guys, stop talking about things you don't understand.

We all are going to have a good laugh when ArenaNet sells 4 or 5* more copies than SWTOR was sold. Just wait for it. BW is not going to have so much revenue with fees included...

They had a job for last 4 years. That was paid by purchasing a game. So, I see monthly fees as ability to access new content, which doesn't come. We see good PR every day, but not the release date...

Yes. This. I mean, we have 50 people on fleet on both side during peak time. Add planets, add instanced people and you come max up to 1000 players per server, which is nearly not enough for serious MMO. And if you know your server population by names, it means it's closer to 500 players... Sorry, this is not "standard".

I love ********es like you. Well I do keep paying my electrical bills, telco bills, and computer upgrades, which alltogether allows me to play this game. You see, buying this game, without electricity and Internet connection would be just like buying a car without pouring a gas. Maintenance on the other hand is something optional on car, as you pay when something breaks, and mandatory to play this game. You might see the difference. Plus, if you buy your car for 20k EUR, you don't pay monthly maintenance fee of 2k EUR for it. Do you? I think this is the best comparison you can get today.

Because I love MMO's and atm I'm really reconsidering getting back to RIFT. At least they didn't open zillion of servers in first rush, so you actually have communities left on server level. And it's dynamic. Even if you are bored as hell, you have something to do. SWTOR is more RPG than MMO. And that's it!

This. I think that miss-usage of given votes in democratic society from politicians, which is so nicely presented in SWTOR Republic, is the main reason why people these days don't trust politicians anymore. Democracy is marked with constant battle for power and that's all there is.... For this, politicians do as less as possible. On the other hand, liege needed to take care of his property and people. Without his people, peasants, slaves, he was a big ZERO. And he was doing everything to protect what he owns. I think there are some nice and clear analogies between this and SW universe. At least as it's presented in SWTOR.

About backstabbing inside Empire. Sith isn't so naive as some would think.

Well you see, this is exactly the viewpoint I don't agree with. Republic - Modern democracy. Yes, Senate in this case is just a body of galactic federation of planets. It's pretty much made similar to U.S. system. But transitionally, it is a democracy. Or it depends on planets themselves. But, you see, if one of the planets is feudal, this doesn't make Republic less republic. In fact, Alderaan looks more like feudal system. Empire - Feudal system of the past. Well, you can't exactly say that countries in past were weak. In contrary, read up on French Revolution and you'll get what was needed to do in order to establish new ideals. Every political system starts to crumble under it's own weight, because small part of society think they are better than common people (Populi) and that they have every right to exploit those with less power. When this comes to the edge of knife and people start to rebel and riot, political system changes. I think we are slowly coming to this point today. However, Empire and Republic aren't something we already seeing right now, or in past. It's just, Republic is more close to our understanding than Empire. God knows what our children will think about it in 50 or 100 years, maybe living in totally different political and economical system.

Darth Vowrawn is very interesting. He doesn't look like a evil Sith, more like someone who is very powerful and has great knowledge about dark side of the Force.

Corrupt leaders? Some of dark council members are light side Sith, practicing "dark side of the Force" which gives them full power. For example, you can encounter such Sith at the end of Sith Warrior class story. Also, Emperor himself involved as someone who wants to save Dark Council from it's own member corruption. Interesting, isn't it?