Grand Acquistions Race Vs Rakghoul Plague

Rewards:

Rakghoul:
RNG Companion Skins? I've got 8 Vectors and 1 Kira - someone explain how this is fair.
Black-Green Crystals -

GAR:
Legacy Rifles - I can transfer my BoP White Crystals to my fresh 50s to make them 100% more awesome, but I can't transfer Hilts, only Barrels.

Overall my only complaint is the the Black-Green Crystals were fun for EVERY class, but the Rifles favour specific ones. Still, I put a White-Crystal in a rifle so now my Sentinel has a Black-Purple and White Crystal

Whoa, who said it was a "generally level 50 event"? Plenty of the quests could be easily accomplished by players of level 20 or higher. I know. I completed the entire event with a level 20/21. I only needed some help during the Bounty Hunter chase, due to Imperials ganking players in the area.

In the case of mobs spawning due to a triggered item, the mobs that spawned were specifically tailored to your level... even Derester and his probe droid.

Of course there was. There were 3 missions that were opened 1 at a time. The 3 and 6 month subbers time expired on the 17, which meant if they wanted to complete the whole thing, they would need to resub.

Cynical, and undoubtedly vehemently denied by EA and fanboys alike, but most likely the reason. EA is all about the $$$.

I loved the Rakghoul Plague event but really didn't care for the Grand Acquisitions Race at all.... riding around in circles finding and clicking on boxes reminded me too much of "PVP" in Illum... I clicked on enough to get my pet but never did get the last piece for the bonus... random is random I guess and that's fine.

I am happy that some people really enjoyed the last event... hopefully we will see more events. I look forward too seeing something new, different and fun.

I definitely liked that the Race missions were globally unlocked instead of individually unlocked like the Rakghoul event. That made it a lot easier to get alts through the event. I did like the way that the Rakghoul event had dailies though. I was a bit disappointed that there were no repeatable missions for the race.

My main suggestion for future events would be to either have more places where each individual mission can be completed to spread people out or not make them funnel where only one person / group can complete at a time. If something has to be a one at a time thing then it should be behind an instance portal so it does not become a pile of people all trying to beat one another to the click.

I would also suggest taking events like these and making them return on a yearly basis so as you get new players in the game they can experience the events as well. Then the codex entries would still be obtainable in the future for people that missed the original run of the event. Then you would even have the option of upgrading the vendors to be close to whatever the current gear level is when the events make their annual appearance.

I didn't get involved with the plague til near the end and while I did the quest chain on one character, I didn't collect enough things for a pet.

This time, I didn't even bother with it other than collecting the tokens the chests I passed and which I may be able to sell in the next couple of days, hopefully.

You guys do realize that the Grand Acquisition Race Event is a lead into the new Warzone and Operation thats coming out.... So those who decided not to do it lost a bit of the story....

One real positive to the GAR was the "spy mission". My friends and I were so jazzed when we got the spymaster emails and did the Casino mission. Unfortunately, it could have used an ending.

I didnt do either of them very much, just one time to see what they were all about, but i would have to say the grand aquisitions race loses by a mile just because of the stupid bottle necks where people had to spam click items for an hour and things kept getting sniped and quests screwed up.

It was a horribly implemented event, i keep hoping bw will surprise me and come out with something that isnt horribly implemented in the game. Not just an event, anything in the game that isnt horribly implemented would give me hope for the future.

It's not our fault they held a week long event with terrible in game "advertising." If it's crucial to the story, that just makes it all the worse on their part.