Legacy unlocks, really?

I feel they may have had a missed opportunity with ship upgrades for the legacy system.

They should have done more than just add small things on your ship like the ship droid, mailbox, neutral GTN.

They should add feature like a research lab to improve your Reverse Engineer's chances by 5%. And don't say "unlock". Use the word "construct". Construct your research lab for 2 million credits sounds better than "unlocking" it for 2 million credits.

Introduce a cutscene showing that the research lab is being constructed slowly.

Or even a manufacturing room to further speed up your crafting and improve your manufacturing critical. And once it is constructed, any companion that you send to craft something will work in the manufacturing room, interacting with the appliances on the working table.

Deleted. No point. Everyone is TLDR these days. +See Sig.

you buy the ship upgrades once. not for each char.

We have them. Operation repair bills, expensive speeders, crafting missions, social gear, etc.

You're right, we need cash sinks, but we don't need every gosh darn thing to be one, and they don't need to be this huge.

Read Harder. Devs said either credits OR legacy unlock. not both. according to their initial statement, i shoudn't have to spend a single credit to unlock something that i invested 4 months into the game for.

I agree that this is a huge credit sink, when there are others around there. Anyone who ever ran ops prior to 1.2 realizes that even only a few wipes in the run can cost you 50-100k. For a casual player who crafts, only comes on for a couple pvp warzones, and to do operations, 50-100k credits is A LOT just for a stinking repair bill. Now i know that they cut the repair bill in half with this other patch, but put another money sink elsewhere, not on a legacy that I spent 4 months playing your game to get.

The internets sure didnt tell me the prices of legacy things 2 weeks before the patch. I sure didnt know that I should have the credits asked of me. I never looked at what was good at gredit farming, and I sure didnt spend....3 hours of game time making 10 million credits.

and its a good thing I never did any of these things, cause lord knows I would rather complain on the forums about how unprepared for a content patch I was ^^

No, actually if you watched the guild summit videos, or read or watched the material that was out there prior to 1.2 coming out they very clearly said that they were intending to have some rewards that required both credits and legacy level to unlock.

honestly with 2 lvl 50 chars and alot of alts on the side atm, i dont really care about the credits thats going to be needed, my server has a low pop id rather they fixed that with a merge so i could start doing some ops and some fp´s, in the meantime, i just look at the legacy money sink as a way to keep me doing something in the game other than just doing the REALLY boring dailys or WZ´s over and over until i nearly blew my brains out just from getting so bored over the same rumble each day.

Yeah I agree with this guy. I run dailies several times a week, and I'm perpetually poor, thanks to repair bills and crafting missions. I ran dailies for 12 days straight so I could buy one of the "car" speeders before they got discontinued, and now I'm down to like 20k credits. There are PLENTY of credit sinks in this game. They don't need to shake us down for everything.

1. It's a cash sink, not a time sink.
2. You generally want either type of sink to be fun, or at least reasonable.
3. People already put the time into getting the Legacy level. There's your time sink.
4. Just because mmorpgs feature many time/cash sinks, doesn't mean EVERYTHING needs to be one.
5. Sinks can be more enjoyable than slapping a huge price tag on something. That's the laziest form of cash sink possible. Rather than coming up with interesting, or enjoyable things to blow money on, like pazaac or tauntaun races, arcades with mini-games that cost money, housing, cosmetic clothing that players can craft, etc.
Bioware, as usual, took the easy, joyless, minimal effort way out.