Pretty much what I was going to respond with. I have little to no faith that this isn't going to go down the same track after what happened with LOTRO.

Advantage is advantage. Where do you draw the line? 2% increase? 10% increase? 25? And given my experience in LOTRO, they just keep throwing more and more on the store every update. I guess ultimately some people are fine with a little P2W. Some people are fine with a lot. I'm not fine with any. I'll withhold judgement until I see what these 'boosts' entail, but given how LOTRO went down, I'm not holding out much hope. Soon as I see any combat buffs on their store, I'm out.

The above as per the developer blog. I guess the question becomes do I cancel my sub now, or do I wait to see how much Pay2Win (or Pay4Advantage if you prefer) these boosts are going to confer.....

Unless you've got nightmare of everything down, there's already a more challenging fight to move on to. We're trying to gear up to do the more harder raids now that we've had EV hard mode on farm. To be put back a few steps due to Bioware changing mechanics isn't fun, it's just frustrating to try and get back to where we were progression wise.

Exactly. I'm all for challenging fights, but 'new' challenging fights. MMO 101 is don't suddenly make content that people have been rolling for months more difficult so that they start wiping on it. Kinda ruins any sense of progression they might have.

I know we're a little further down the pecking order, but definitely noticing this tonight as well. Generally the same level of crew we normally take on EV HM, and whilst we would generally not have any issue with the enrage timer on the first robot boss, we're hitting it consistently tonight. It would be nice to know if making this harder is WAI or whether they just didn't take this in to account when they nerfed overall dps through the non-stacking debuffs as well as nerfing JK dps.

Despite yet 'another' maintenance on a Friday night primetime, it honestly didn't upset me at all this time. I'm not saying that's a good thing (for Bioware), simply that my care factor for this game has dropped so far that I was more than happy to play something else. Ultimately I think Bioware have even bigger problems than their woeful maintenance record.

And what about the fact that Empire gets access to one more world boss than republic gets? Empire have a world boss on both Balmorra (Grandfather) and Taris (Ancient One). Republic only have a world boss on Taris (Subject Alpha). There is no world boss on Republic Balmorra.

I don't have an issue with downtimes to fix things. I don't even have an issue (much) of it happening during my primetime (I'm Oceanic). What I do have an issue with is them doing it on a Friday night for us here in Oceania, and its starting to happen consistently. If you're going to release a 'worldwide' service with a global client, you have to do your utmost to ensure that you try not to inconvenience your players too much. I'm currently not happy with the level of service being provided with these Friday maintenances. I expect my favourite form of entertainment to be available to play on a Friday evening at the end of a long working week and I don't think that's too much to ask. Yes yes NA trolls, I know. If I don't like it, quit. Well I figure Bioware would prefer it if I come here and state my unhappiness with the service first rather than up and quitting straight away.

So another downtime on a Friday night here in Oceania. At this point its becoming obvious that this will be a regular occurance for us. All I can say is this is very disappointing Bioware. The frustration levels towards the game are building in my guild and these continuing Friday night patches aren't helping matters.

Once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny..... Just look at LOTRO. It was all 'No advantage, just convenience' at the start. That was quickly quashed as the store only consumables, buffs and gear started appearing to make more cash. Slippery slope is very pertinent to cash shops.

Sorry, not buying it. (1) We had no idea we were being left out of launch until the last possible moment (ie when you went to pre-order and up came that fantastic "Not available in your region" message). We then proceeded to get no communication from Bioware for days after this (2) We had no idea when or even if they were ever going to be having local servers until well after the pre-orders began, hence it's no surprise that everyone went down the track of importing (in fact I don't think the first information we got about the Ocenaic release was the day after the game released and servers weren't confirmed until February) (3) We've had very little information about how the whole transfer system was going to take place. The new servers were brought up early, so many of us didn't get to reserve the names we wanted. There was no indication yes or no whether we'd get our own transfer servers. And now the form to actually do the transfers isn't even working. Basically the communication with Oceanic players has been seriously sub-standard from the moment they decided not to inform us that release was being delayed in the region (a decision they'd already made by the time of E3 last year).

I just had a nasty thought. We went ahead and bought a guild bank with the release of 1.2...... Guilds aren't going to be transferred over apparently...... Methinks we've just screwed ourselves out of 600,000 credits......

Pretty much the finger. The only thing you can do is vendor it or give it to a companion if they can use it.

You did read the part in the patch notes that said that it was going to stop dropping gear for classes that were not in the group right? Nobody, particularly non-hardcores want to slog through a hard-mode flashpoint, only for the armour piece that drops to be the one class who isn't in the group. Bioware obviously agreed and supposedly changed it. Obviously the change didn't work.