Be Careful for what you wish for

On the other hand if the LFG was just a list of people with LFG flag, showing their name and level only it might be more useful and spur more communication in the community.

exactly. you admit you were one of the ones abusing the system.

wish more people were as honest as you

The reason I am writing this is because I am scared for what this game will become. As of now I am in love with SWTOR, yes it has it's bugs and other problems. Bioware if you are reading this do NOT add features from World of Warcraft such as LFG, LFR, Cross-Server Functions etc. The reason I say this is these features are some of the main causes so many of the games subscribers are canceling there accounts. I fully believe that when World of Warcraft came out Blizzard truly did care about its game and it's community but as time went on the saying "power corrupts" came into play and instead of something they loved, it became something that just makes money for them. Bioware what you have now is amazing, but it is still a work in progress. The features above I beg you not to put in as it destroyed the social aspect of a game that went from players getting to know who you were playing with into a ruthless system of who gets more gear quicker and with the least amout of effort possible.

In the Begining of WoW it was great, you actually got to know who you were playing with and you formed friendships with people that you constantly play with, forge rivalries with opposing factions, people who actually had a sense of courtesy and respect, guilds that actually had a purpose, and most importantly a fun, enjoyable game to play. But as it is sad to say the current "generation" of that game is just lazy ruthless players who would rather it around and click a button to find a group instead of going out and interacting with the community to find players with I feel a community is the most important aspect of a MMO. WoW right now guilds are just giant monopolies of players that are just people to reap the level 25 benefits while guilds that are about other players and knowing the people in there guild struggle to have a foothold in there server and the creation of new guilds is now completely impossible. Guilds were a place to communicate with people that to could actually call your friends and rely On them when you were in need of help, witch from experience of the last few months that I played that game I can tell you that it was nonexistent. They just became a group of people that were there for one soul purpose only, to have a quicker easier game experience witch is extremely sad. LFG was a feature that was created to appease this new generation of lazy gamers that where part of the decline in the social aspect of the game and the community in general as I stated before with features like this made it so you didn't have to know who your playing with instead you join up with people from across the servers, had a silent run witch is unapealing to many people and this made it a lot easier for ninjas to steal loot and get away with it. With the newest feature LFR is one o the biggest mistakes they could have made. On my server the only thing I would hear in trade chat was people looking for raid groups or premades, and now this gave those lazy people less insentive to be active in the community.

Cross-Server PvP is the ultimate distruction of world PvP. How? It's simple if you were with your guild doing PvP and you saw other guilds from your server but the opisite faction you would eventually create rivalries with that group I remember participating in guild wars in wow with the aposing factions and teaming up with guilds from your faction to take on the other guild and when cross-server came along that almost completely dropped because u lost that sense of exacting revenge against them for your countless losses or vice versa. There is much more that I would like to go into about this but if any Bioware dev reads this please take this to heart I am in love with your game it brings back happier days of MMO and I'm not saying don't add anything your game is perfect I'm saying add things that are completely unique to this game and maybe take a few things from SWG that was one of the best MMOs even though it got no recognition really of it, it had a true social community and a gaming experience that brought you close to other players. For now that is all but please take this as a warning and from someone that cares about this game and what it can become.

Ouch. I think I actually hurt myself this time from hitting my face with a double /facepalm. So count that as a win, I guess.

For the third time: you provided no evidence. Forum polls don't count. Calling this evidence does not, actually, make it evidence.

This is some of the most warped and inaccurate thinking I've ever read.

I care NOTHING for status or peer pressure. I want better gear for one reason: continued character progression; a staple component of any RPG.

Status does mean nothing to me, nor does peer pressure (seriously, peer pressure in a video game?).

If I can effectively solo all endgame content, then I've found nirvana (the word, not the band).

If Bioware has actually created a form of endgame content that will let me maximize endgame character progression, without forcing me to group up to do so, then I've found my MMO home for the next 5 years.

This is some of the most warped and inaccurate thinking I've ever read.

I care NOTHING for status or peer pressure. I want better gear for one reason: continued character progression; a staple component of any RPG.

Status does mean nothing to me, nor does peer pressure (seriously, peer pressure in a video game?).

If I can effectively solo all endgame content, then I've found nirvana (the word, not the band).

If Bioware has actually created a form of endgame content that will let me maximize endgame character progression, without forcing me to group up to do so, then I've found my MMO home for the next 5 years.

Be Careful for what you wish for...

I thought for sure this thread was going to be about all the short-sighted folks that were whining about login que-times at launch which ultimately lead to TOO many servers.

To me, that was and still is the most damaging element to this launch.