Rakghoul Plague Outbreak Ended - Surprised by this?

Although it would be nice to keep the vendor for another week, it is probably for the best and i explain.

Some people were trying to sell blood samples in the last day. I do not doubt they may have made a nice profit, but If the vendor was still there for a week these guys would sell them for insane money. It is like gaming the system.

On the other hand, a good solution would be to bound the blood samples on legacy, then you can keep the vendor for ever if you like. Heck, the collectors edition lightsaber vendor (something like that) was still on the fleet the other day.

Nobody really cares. I know I don't, and I'm fairly sure Bioware sees subscription numbers as a statistic. One specific player ragequitting the game is only a big deal to the person quitting.

Have fun in Rift or wherever you wind up, Bioware will neither truly care about you quitting and certainly not change things because of you quitting. You're not even a blip in the statistics, no more than anyone else of us here is.

I am sad to hear that you are disappointed with the game. Personally, I think this game has a lot to offer the casual player. More, perhaps, than most MMOs which usually seem to cater to end-game content or dedicated and persistent PVP. I still believe they are encouraging players not to rush through the content and that the reason they offered the free game time at all was because they have limited end-game content and that gives them an extra month to wow the more hardcore players.

Can I ask specifically what you have been "let down" about?

I can undertand your disappointment about the having to seek information outside of the game. As others have said, yes, that is generally how MMOs are. Even if there is an in-game calendar telling you how long the event lasts, it does not generally tell you where to go or how to do it. It relies on you, the player, to find the quests and figure out the clues to get the reward. SWTOR did this too. You got small clues about what to do and where to go and you had to figure them out yourself, like a puzzle, or look up a cheat sheet from someone who had already completed them. It has been like this in every MMO I have ever played. I am telling you this not to rub salt in the wound but, rather, to prepare you for the possibility that this may happen again because it is just a general rule of thumb for MMO games.

I think what really confuses me the most about your position is that you have admittedly called yourself an explorer. I fully understand that you do not want to have to seek information on the forums or other websites, I respect that, but exploration is the real purpose of these events. They are designed for you to treasure hunt the rewards. I am an Imperial player so I can't really speak for the Republic side, but if you had roamed around Mos Ila as an Imp, you might have noticed there were a few blue objects that were clickable. Those objects opened up the quest for the red rakghoul pet - no DNA required. Anyway, I'm very sorry that you missed the event. I am even more sorry that it makes you feel less important as a player.

I don't know anything about that Orokeet pet. Is it in a world PVP area or are you on a PVP server? I'm trying to understand why/how your daughter keeps repeatedly getting killed.h

The bottom line is that if people were nearly as concerned with the information they are claiming they were concerned about, they would have sought it out themselves. You don't forgo resources and then claim that your decision put you at a disadvantage.

Not read all 27 pages.

There's been a sticky thread in this forum since 17th April and the post is also in the dev tracker.

Not sure what you were expecting, Bioware to turn up on your doorstep and explain it to you?

There is a problem related to rakghoul disease. Dying in PVP will remove the vaccine buff from you but it does NOT remove the plague itself. This is why rakghoul disease keeps spreading among those who PVP. Quite frankly, I dont want to keep throwing credits at medical bots whenever I play pvp.

The disease should be removed when you die in pvp.

Yep, they've stated the end and removal of the vendor on the forum.
Nevertheless, for future events, it would probably wise on Bioware's part to have some sort
of announcement popup ingame or in the launcher or to use a system that's already there, an ingame email.
Oh well, we shall see when the next event comes around!

Event

limited time

do what you need to do, and FINISH IT.

your fault for wasted tokens.

I guess you weren't around last year for "Hallows End" when Blizzard totally failed to take into account that the clocks would go back an hour on the final day, resulting in the vendor being removed an hour earlier than the time they had clearly advertised. To compound it further, Blizzard were fully aware of the problem before it occured and deliberately chose not to inform players. Their overall attitude was basically "tough ****, you can do it again next year..."

I played WoW for more than three years, not once do I recall an event (or "holiday" in WoWspeak) vendor remaining after the event had ended.

If you insist on trying to cite WoW as a good example of something, please ensure you actually have a good example of a good example. In this case you did not.

Can you all stop kissing *** and blaming the people who didn't turn in? "It's your own fault."
I was enjoying the event, not studying it on the forum.
Even BW knows some people enjoy playing the game rather than sitting on their fat *** trolling/flaming the forums all day long.

Thus the: Ty BW :] I was busy enjoying the event not being a b**** kissing up to you by blaming the people who didn't turn-in as if they'd get something out of it.