Social X

Thank you. Kudos for doing the right thing despite the prospect of an inevitable QQ storm.

Those things are as annoying as the damn train in Wow. At least with that you could buy a train-wrecker to kill it.

If you do decide to bring them back, please consider an "Opt-Out" setting so you can be forever immune to it if you choose.

No it's BioWares "avatar". Nothing about it is yours. They own everything about it.

Also, not all of us who had a Party Bomb spammed it.... I only used it after downing HM boss @ end of raids. And if someone in my guild disliked it, they'd of vocalized it on Mumble. People would change into outfits and have fun with it because they were proud of beating a hard boss and enjoy my Party Bomb. I'm sorry if you think this game was made soley for you, wake up call, it wasn't.

im nowhere near social X. so it doesnt affect me at all....but man, i feel sorry for those that are. bioware try to encourage grouping but then remove the rewards?

poor social light only armour. now they REMOVE items? why remove things from a MMO? if it isnt broken, you should always be adding to the game. shocking. feel sorry for you all.

anyone who seriously had a problem with party bomb is just a weird person. these people should be found, extracted, and studied in a lab setting.

I've got no problem with features like this as long as they don't interrupt what I'm doing. For example, if I'm in combat, it shouldn't interrupt my casts/abilities, and if I'm checking my mail or searching the GTN, it shouldn't close my windows. The only reason the train in WoW was annoying is because it was so loud. People need to loosen up. In games just as in life, it doesn't pay to be an uptight control freak.

This^

Than remove it from just RP servers.... The dumb CS replies are all in RP form.. I am on a PvE server, I want a person to talk to me like a real person, not RP as a droid. You don't see me asking BioWare to Ban CS droids because they're RPing on a non-RP server? People are so self centered.

Probably shouldn't have gotten rid of it. Just added lets say a 30 min - 1 hour cooldown to prevent griefing.

I would really like these social items to be back in the game ASAP.
I trust that they are going to redesign the item and how it works, but they should have announced it on the patch notes or something. Actually, I'm noticing that they've done a lot of small but important changes to the game, but have not announced those changes on the patch notes; well anyway, that's a different discussion.
So, the yellow post, a ticket response, and a twitter post somewhere, BW said that they were going to redesign those items and other mechanics, now let me just reiterate what we the players think on how you can redesign that awesome feature you took from us -_-:
( Most ideas here did not come from me, and sorry if I'm not able to credit the people who originally posted these.)
- Make a button beside the social bar that allows the player to toggle if your character will or will not respond to mass social emotes.
- Restrict or moderate these kinds of items and social skills, er, abilities, ONLY on RP servers. Please leave non-RP servers alone - we usually won't mind. Maybe be stricter on the roleplaying adherence on the RP servers?
- Disallow use of these abilities and items on relevant locations such as PvP areas and maybe unfinished Ops/flashpoints, idk.
- Rebalance the cooldowns of these items and abilities. Maybe also make other items/abilities that counter AoE effects like these, like dat train wrecker on da wows, well that's if you're gonna add something like that annoyingly good train here on SWTOR.

Please BW, we need that baaack~ T_T.

gaining legacy xp is pretty damn painful