You had to come to the forums to post this, which means you can clearly see ALL the bug reports cluttering every sub-forum. I think the story is cool too, but that doesn't give Bioware a pass on the unmitigated dumpster fire that almost every other aspect of this update has turned into. White Knight trolling is still trolling.

This was reported, in detail, on the PTS forums. (Like every other game-breaking unnacceptable aspect of this expansion, other than the story bugs, those are new) http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=968832&page=2

This is literally how I feel about every aspect of this Xpac other than story and world design.

This may be* intentional, as Onderon is partly based on Egyptian themes, and women in Egyptian culture often shaved or waxed their eyebrows until marriage, which would explain the elderly woman with eyebrows. *This information comes from a licensed cosmetologist who had to learn Egyptian history for a written exam many years ago.

Gambling addiction is a socially engineered mental disease, the ONLY people on the planet who argue with such basic psychology are people who work in the predatory industry of gambling, or have a vested(read: financial) interest in such practices becoming more common, particularly weaponizing gambling against mentally vulnerable children. And you immediately jump staight into the most obvious strawman argument; "well lets just ban all games, life is a gamble", NO, that's idiotic. You're being purposefully obtuse, and trying to obfuscate gambling with the traditional video game mechanisms of pulling loot from a predetermined table, which are nothing at all alike. Coding to distribute item drops is not equivalent to gambling, again we see you only deal in obfuscation and semantics. https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/gaming/2019/07/05/most-popular-video-games-of-all-time/39651661/ https://www.ign.com/articles/2019/04/19/top-10-best-selling-video-games-of-all-time https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_video_games The only game on any of those lists with lootboxes is PUBG. There are INFINITELY more games without, than with, this ridiculous dopamine-based addiction training. As for the actual gear acquisition: Let me make this clear, I'm not a BIS obsessed raider/pvper. I have very limited playtime, and as a Roleplayer/Decorator consider myself among the casuals. This method of "gear everywhere" with little weight towards specific objectives feels... demotivating. Along with the nonsensical cap on fragments we'll be acquiring from everything, it feels like I'll be forced to shuttle to the fleet after every other activity to make sure I'm not being wasteful, which seems an unnecessary anxiety to inject into the game. And my stance on the random nature of acquiring items from a vendor should be obvious. Tokens should be direct purchases with no nonsense. If you're this dead set on RNG make a separate diablo 2 style gambling vendor that sells for greatly reduced prices.