Rakghoul Plague Outbreak Ended - Surprised by this?

I was. 220 DNA samples. Little window for a warning would have been nice.

Put a vendor on the fleet for a week. Put way too much effort to get these. Now I need to flush em down the toilet with all of my Merc, Champion, and Centurion comms????

If you look at it from my position you will see that the event not even going for a full week is lame.

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.

I was. 220 DNA samples. Little window for a warning would have been nice.

Put a vendor on the fleet for a week. Put way too much effort to get these. Now I need to flush em down the toilet with all of my Merc, Champion, and Centurion comms????

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 game itself is fine, the problem I have is with the way Bioware has handled this event and the previous 'most valuable players' award of one-month free gametime. Twice now I feel left out because I don't read the forums, am not a hardcore gamer.

It is very simple, Bioware should let us know that in order to gather enough information to accomplish or attain things ingame then you will need to read this site outside of the game. I don't want to spend the limited time I have to play reading forums, I want to be able to sit down and play. I understand that probably every aspect of this game is discussed on one of many gamer web-sites devoted to it out there, I've used them to find datacrons on planets that I've finished questing on, but in two years + of playing star wars galaxies for instance not once did I need to visit the forums in order to find out something ingame.

To be honest, if my daughter wasn't so upset about missing out on the chance of getting a pet for her character, to me it is not that big a deal. There are a lot of aspects of the game which we haven't even begun to explore. What is upsetting to me is that Bioware did not make it known simply by playing the game the rewards available as well as putting in some sort of clue mechanism as to how it can be done (In five seconds they could have added some line reading "Crimson Raklings have been found to bond with..." or something like that). As my daughter saw more and more of these things following people around she didn't realize it was a reward for the rakghoul events, even just the most simple bit of clue leading us that way would have been good - again ingame because we aren't spending time on the forum, nor have a desire to begin playing that way on a regular basis.

Bioware has spent untold tens of thousands of man hours creating a really beautiful game, it seems though they just can't help but shoot themselves in the foot time and again. By the way, the 'news terminal' on the Republic Fleet was bugged when 1.2 first came out, it locked up my daughters system and we didn't want that to reoccur. If there was information on there about getting his crimson rakling pet then we missed it.

Player rewards in star wars galaxies were given through achievements and time played (36-month reward, etc...) that were more readily accessible ingame, such as the wookiee life day events for instance. In comparison the way the rakghoul event was handled by Bioware was poor. Yes, I'm sure they will live and learn, hopefully they will integrate some of the feedback they receive in order to improve their handling of future events. But still, my daughter now has no pet, no remembrance of this event time for her ingame character to keep, nothing. The distressing part is there was really no way for her to have known either the rewards available or how to get them or the ending time. Now we find out after it is over that this pet was part of it, she cannot get it anymore.

Bottom line, I don't want to pay for a game which requires googlesearching in order to advance in game.

As for the orokeet egg, it is in a PvP area in alderaan and apparently spawns every 4 hours. The frustration level alone in trying to attain that pet is enough for an 11-yr old girl with a life outside of the game and plays during her free time to endure. Bioware is catering the game to hardcore gamers, they are keeping it that way because of the way they are handling these things. Pleasing the 1% at the expense of the rest.

One last thing, pets and such things are a big attraction to the younger players, free advice to whom it may concern: make it so an 11-yr old girl that only plays a few hours weekly does not find it impossible to get one and becomes source of frustration to the point of tears.

Bioware should really allow light/dark side points to be used for novelty items like pets. It wouldn't require a lot of farming and would promote younger players and newcomers to group up for flashpoints/social events.

This would also get A LOT more use out of the light/dark side vendors