Rakghoul Plague Outbreak Ended - Surprised by this?

When you say they didn't make is clear, you mean you couldn't read the sticky they had in the main forums stating that the event was going to end? Hell, I read a quest guide that stated if I wanted to get all the containment armor peices I had to have started doing them by Apr 19 to get all of them before they ended the event.

sounds clear to me

To be fair, only a small percentage of players visit the forums, and I bet an even smaller percentage goes to third party web sites.

Not really surprised it ended. I am more surprised at the other faction camping the vendor and killing anyone that tried to use him the last two hours before the server went down.

I am on a pvp server so I guess I should have expected this, but it really seems like an evil and childish thing to do. Thankfully there was two instances of Tatooine so people could still get their last min purchases.

(I say thankfully, b/c my faction wasn't willing to fight back in an effort to secure the vendor for everyone.)

sounds like a crappy faction to me:P

I thought it ended late today...not "...right....NOW" kind of ending...only a few DNA on me and a ton of vaccines haha...but hmmm yeah.

For people who dont come to the forums, I'm unclear as to how it was "common knowledge" that it was ending?

Have you played WoW? Every seasonal event is like that. Day after Noble Garden - chocolate eggs in your inventory disappear, vendor is gone etc. Same with the rest of the seasonal (ie limited time) events.

It looks like what people want to communicate to Bioware is they wish in game notification (Would changing the announcement on fleet work for those who were not aware?) and vendor remaining after the event ends (forever? for a day for a week?)

As for missing parts due to real life - Well events are limited in duration - they would be added to the base content if they did not end. Notification issues aside do you think you had enough time to do the event vs the time it was on the servers?

This is The first in game event- Give Bioware some concrete feedback they can use.

I usually try not to troll or treat others with less respect than I would like myself, but the argument of I didn't know this because I didn't get on the forums, so I am going to make a post ON the forums about not knowing this and being pissed off is a piss poor excuse. Tired of soooo many people trashing Bioware. I was less than impressed by ME3 ending, I have seen our population dropping on my server, but honestly, they are all still GREAT games, there is a reason that I no longer play WoW. I don't get to chop things up with LIGHTSABERS.

Different design studio, different company, two completely different games. If you don't like it go back to WOW and stop comparing/complaining. Like WOW hasn't done that before. Yes, I have played WOW from Vanilla to the sorry state it is in today. I am tired of people comparing everything to WOW, remember WOW took a lot from Ever Quest. Like the developers at Blizzard know what they are doing? How may times have they redone the talent trees? Let me think original talent trees, Wrath talent trees, Cataclysm talent trees and finally now Mists of Pandoria. Let's not forget how Blizzaard jacked up the aggro table for tanks in the begining of Cataclysm.