Holy sweet Jeebus on a stick. They did it. They've really outdone themselves. They actually did it. I've seen bad. I thought I knew bad. I lived through the ME3 ending folks. I've seen The Room. I sat through the entirety of the last Transformers movie in a semi-conscious stupor. These were... different levels of abysmally, horrifyingly awful. From natural disasters bordering on the biblical, to tactical nukes, to carpet bombings that produce some amusing side effects, I thought I'd see an fair bit. But this... This is a very unique thing. This is deliberately defecating in a hobo's Big Gulp of gunpowder (and somehow not ruining the explosive properties of the contents), using said contents to make a dick-shaped bullet, loading it into a Hello Kitty Desert Eagle (pictured here, for convenience) to be fired at Inquisitor players center mass after you've removed their shirts, drawn additional phalluses (phali?) on their chests in urine-stained ink, inflicted several paper-cuts over the area with an old photo of the Chimpanzee Emperor ( you know, the one before they Special Editioned Ian McDiarmid into Empire) previously used as a snot rag; after which the now prone target is teabagged with actual teabags and aforementioned Big Gulp residue hanging from the nether regions... all because they called a coin flip wrong. Writers.... do you even Star Wars? Do you understand what a Sith is? What the dark side is? I won't ask about player choice because that dead horse has done a 720 going from funny to tragic to Will Wheaton rolling a d20. I'm real happy for you writing a character that's listened to the anti-smokring tape from Friends a few times, and Imma let you finish.... But a dark side Force-ghost-eating-crazier-than-Vaylin-just-destroyed-a-Mario-style-your-Emperor-Is-In-Another-Body-wanna-be-Galactus-Eldritch-Abomination Dark Lord of the Sith whose original class design was at least partially inspired by the archetype of Palpatine, the greatest Sith Lord in all that far far away galaxy and is pretty much the Space Devil *large gasping breath*... who chooses to dominate a snot-nosed Ashoka Tano stunt double, fails!! and lets her walk away?!?!..... is the worst Sith Lord of all time. Of. All. Time. RIP Sith Inquisitor Respect 2012-2018

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The reading comprehension is not strong with you. We were talking about Living World Season 1 in Guild Wars 2 and googling the reason why those devs can't re-release it (where unlike BioWare, they actually came out and said it's like this and why). Though I shouldn't expect much, given all you've cherry-picked from everything I've been saying is "muh exclusives". Not to fear though, I have a new one, in your honor- "muh poor BioWare". That's right, only you can save a corporation that's a subsidiary of an even bigger corporation. Will no one think of the children? And by children I mean profit margins (really wish I could do strikethrough here). On the off chance that you legitimately did miss all my arguments for why these shinies should be released, despite them being in nearly every thread on the matter since I've been around (but hey, stranger things have happened), here's a handy summary: I admit I don't have a tailored reply to someone who finds it more worthwhile to white knight a faceless corporation as opposed to their fellow players, but honestly, that argument should be self-evident.

More like they probably can't release it again as it involves reverting large sections of the open world to a previous state. Story missions in the area instance portions of it to the old state but I suspect you can't make an instance as large as the whole area without breaking other things. A quick googling actually confirms it's about resources and incompatible design more than "muh exclusives". It'd be more akin to BioWare redoing the original class stories, than releasing the HK content.

He should get the 30 days. Because by the time he applies the code he will be a sub (courtesy of the origin pack), but he wasn't one prior to the 13th. That fits. I can also confirm the following: as is, the referral did consider him ineligible, so I suppose gray area is no area. And secondly, an active sub can use a referral link if it's been longer than 90 days and does get the seven days. Incidentally, enjoy whatever benefits you get out of me testing that with your link;)

This is the real takeaway from that story. They stopped doing it. And subsequent seasons of Living World are available for purchase, and not at exorbitant prices either. The issue of permanently changing a section of the open world is a separate discussion. The HK chapter is nowhere near as relevant to the TOR story that Living World is to GW2. But it doesn't have to be, as there's no good reason not have it up on sale for some reasonable amount (and no, 100+$ is not reasonable).

lol silly me for thinking this was simple. Yes he does have an account, just F2P, he's never subbed. I wasn't aware there were different tiers to the referral. I think I used one once during an off period (wasn't subbed) and I got the seven days and I think Preferred Friends Bundle. But I had been a sub before that. My friend may be in a different camp then. Otherwise two things: looking at the referral info now, it seems that my friend is in the grey area for the Jumpstart bundle anyway. It says "new to SWTOR" and I think the idea is to create an account like you've said. But my friend has an account and quite an aged one at that (he started a few years ago, left and came back, all at F2P). It's possible since he's never subbed, logging in with my link will still treat him as "new" but I don't see anything to overtly suggest it. Now the Preferred Friends bundle seems much more promising. For one I think it has better stuff (including the seven days). And more importantly, I'm more confident he can use it.. I used it as preferred (just clicked a rando without having an active sub) so we know it can be used with an existing account. I'm told it can also be used as an active subscriber? As in I could theoretically click another link right now (it's been over 90 days since I used one) and get it? If that's true, he should for sure go for that and the order should be: 1. digital pack purchase (60 days) 2. Share the love (+30 days) 3. Referral link (+7 days) Order of 2 and 3 may not matter. We could try the glitch you mentioned but if it does give him the Jumpstart but then doesn't work or rather works as intended he loses the Preferred Friends bundle with the seven days. Or given the time involved, he can only claim it at the end given it'll be 90 days. Does that logic work out? Why do you say this is riskier?

I already PM'd staff with this question but since it's the weekend they may not reply for a while. So let's get some anecdotal evidence. I have a friend that would like to sub for a time and it looks like the best deals are to be had before the 27th. I just want to confirm we can make use of all these deals and of the correct order to be applied: 1. My referral link: first he uses my link, gets seven days of sub time and all the other stuff, yes? 2. SharetheLove: he enters this code second, gets an additional 30 days and all the other stuff, like the speeder and whatnot. 3. The Origin Deluxe pack: https://www.origin.com/can/en-us/store/star-wars/star-wars-the-old-republic/deluxe-pack#description Presumably he gets a code from here, that will give him 60 days, one Outlander token, 1,050 Cartel Coins and the rest. This is the last code to be applied For a total of 97 days of subscription (7 referral + 30 share the love + 60 Deluxe Pack) in addition to all the other perks from each step. Anyone try this? Is this the best order?

lol well played OP. 10/10 would get fooled again.

It really is a sweet scene. Even if he does look weird with regular eyes. I wish it worked properly.

Can confirm this happened the last time I ran through the agent's story, around October last year. Was kind of annoying, even though regular-eyed Vector looked creepy as **** back in the day. And yes, I also chuckle at "bug with Vector romance":D

lol nice. Speaking of Gmod, I should check if there's a non-hooded version available yet. And on that note, here's another request- whatever Vaylin comes back as, ghost or clone, can we have a non-hooded version as well? Or at least go back to her KOTFE look, the headband was atrocious.

Probably isn't a big deal, but can we get official confirmation that a new player can use this with the Share the Love promo and/or referral links?

Well I was just talking about this in another thread, so **** it, I'll elaborate on my version of the idea here. You start out with blanks (let's call them protoforms) of a few basic categories: -Basic Humanoid Protoform -Basic Droid Protoform -Basic Creature Protoform The first two are self-explanatory, the last one is anything that doesn't fit the former, including tiny companions like Jawas/Ugnaughts etc. You buy the protoform of your choice, then you apply a framework to it. Frameworks can be: -Male/female of each AC -A generic template (i.e. Male Nautolan) -A non-humanoid creature (i.e. tuk'ata, nexu, Jawa) -Droid (choice of humanoid, astromech, or crawler) -Premium NPC (an existing NPC that's not already a companion, for instance Satele Shan, Darth Malgus etc). These will obviously be more expensive. Can only be applied to the proper protoform (for example, you can't apply Satele's framework to a creature protoform) Upon combining the first two elements you then have a degree of customization, based on the option: -Male/female humanoid AC's will be fully customizable in terms of appearance/body and name, meaning you can recreate your existing characters. They will be voiced in combat using stock class phrases (i.e. a inquisitor companion entering combat might say "Murder and mayhem await!"). -Generic templates will have a choice of Force or tech user and weapon proficiency. They will be the same as AC's, except they'll draw from a random NPC voice, assuming there are enough existing lines in that voice to cover all the things a companion might say (i.e entering combat, combat boast, healing boast and so on). If there are not (or if there's an element of RNG) the voice will be Huttese/alien nonsense, like the Star Fortress comps. The reason this is an option is because it might allow certain choices that the current character creator does not, like a male Nautolan. If more races are released for character creation, they may fit with the AC framework. -Droids will either have generic template voices but with a synthetic filter, or droidsounds/droidspeak. Customization will be limited to in-game droid models (based on the framework chosen) and maybe some coloring options. Humanoid droids will get a weapon proficiency choice. -Creatures make creature sounds. If the creature framework can use a weapon, it will get a proficiency choice. -Premium NPCs will not be customizable at all, beyond what's possible with existing comps (ie. armor/weapons). A limiting factor to which NPCs can be used is of course whether they have the lines recorded for companion dialogue. Once the components are purchased, you visit a "recruitment center" and make your companion. Once made, companions cannot be unmade, and customization is limited to what existing companions have (i.e. armor/weapons). Upon successfully making a companion you also get a deco of them as you would any other companion. Additionally, the vendor for these things may also sell additional deco options like holostatues, regular statues or even grand statues of the companion you've made. I doubt they'd implement something this large at this stage, but we can always dream.

There's no reason one can't go with the other. KOTFE chapters prove you could have a second companion as a "pet follower", where you can't give it commands but it will follow you and attack anything in combat, so they could just build off that, make it a summonable for x duration, with a temp summonable comp configuration accessible somewhere. Obviously not usable anywhere it matters (OPs, PVP, even group flashpoints). Using other characters in your legacy as companions would just require a blank template system to plug into the above. This one they could commercially exploit the **** out of, by selling you 'custom frameworks' to put on your blank so it becomes a male inquisitor, female agent etc. They could even have super premium NPC frameworks, allowing you to basically make any NPC in the game a companion if you want, thus forever putting to rest both "I want x as comp!" requests as well as the need to do any more work themselves. And obviously you could get deco versions to go along with it.