Announcing The Old Republic Guild Summit

Honestly though, what's the point of having forums if developers are going to select players and only answer those questions after those people have flown across the planet and stayed in Austin for a couple days.

Does Bioware even know they have forums?

Honestly though, what's the point of having forums if developers are going to select players and only answer those questions after those people have flown across the planet and stayed in Austin for a couple days.

Does Bioware even know they have forums?

Exactly.

BioWare can coat it with whatever topping they like, but it dosen't change the fact that its;

1) A huge money sink for anyone not invited.
2) Unneccessary on all fronts, since they have the means to awnser anything that needs to be addressed here.
3) a huge and unneccessary PR stunt.

THANK YOU.

It's absolutely astounding to me, that so many here can praise BW, for this insanity.

They're literally spending god only knows how many thousands of dollars, to fly select players on a free vacation, to tell them all the things we've all be telling them for almost a year. Then they expect anyone else to pay out of their own pocket, to do the same.
It's mind blowing how shameless they are, trying to spin this crap into an event.

How gullible and thoughtless, the player base can be, when it comes to swallowing blatant, obvious, PR damage control.

this is a two-way conversation between the people making the game and the people playing the game

What is wrong with meeting some people, having a good time doing it all the while, chatting about the game?

and no one has given it any much thought that they might want to actually meet some of their player base. All I hear is whining. What other company does that for it's players? Do I hear any? Nope. Ok then. Good lord. What is wrong with meeting some people, having a good time doing it all the while, chatting about the game? They will and have been listening to the forums. How about something different? Why do you have to criticize every move a company does? Is this what is wrong with the world now? They have to scrutinze a move by a good company, just cause you can? That's what I thought.

This is EXACTLY the attitude that worries me... people who have time to fly over for this convention are NOT your typical players. They are hardcore players, with hardcore points of views.