The Republic: SWTOR is "Out of Control"

Curious how this thread became about the Expansion announced today?

OP was talking up the very low ball attempt at Life Day and the game's 1yr Anniv.

They should have made a much bigger deal out of both of them. Instead they did minimal effort on a few baubles and basically asked everyone, Subs and F2P, to fork over $30 for their work.

For this, rightfully so imho, several players have cried foul in the forums.


Personally I would like to see some sort of announcement like ' We hear you, and will work to do more event type activities' or some such. Sure it might only be a placation, but just acknowledgement that they messed up would bring some good morale back to the players.

To be honest i dont think theres anything else bioware can do to lower my opinion of them but i dont think this makeb thing is a big deal, its a half baked expansion for a cheap price. Im done sitting around praying bioware will get their act together and make this game into the AAA mmo anybody with 6 months worth of mmo experience could have made it into.

Its time to come to terms with the truth, this game is a f2p AA mmo, and its probably never going to rise above that, maybe im wrong, maybe they will add dual specs, combat windows, macros, chat bubbles, you know all the things most AAA mmos have had for the last 5-10 years.

Maybe they will release mini "expansions" like makeb two or more times a year instead of huge and expensive expansions once every 2-3 years like wow. It wouldnt be a bad idea but i will believe it when i see it, bw used up all of my wishful thinking this past year.

Most games don't have "christmas", in fact, I can't think of one that does. But they all have end-of-year events. Lotro has the pegan inspired Yule celebration with awesome minigames, great story about a snowed-over town where you get to decide things like whether to help beggers by giving them food or alternatively earn your quest reward by chasing the vagrants beggers out of town.

I'm not a Christian either. I'm an atheist currently. I would like a holiday event. A life-day event is what SWG used to do. Remember throwing snow-balls on tatooine and drinking hoth-chocolate for the buff before flying to the Imperial Star Destroyer? Good times.

I take anything Gary Ganon says with a grain of salt...he is a unabashed wow tramp who suckles at Blizzards appendage.

Any day now I will be enjoying Hoth Chocolate and Wookie Cookies again! PSWG!

Only if you use the emulator.

It's dead Jim kick it if you don't belive me :P

I propose we all take those hutt balls we got from the cartel packs (you can get one of the GTN for like 100 credits now, because no one wants the darn things), head to hoth and have a pretend snowball fight. It will be epic. You get rewards for not running into a snow cat while hiding from the hutt balls.

....and it's still a better holiday celebration than BW gave us.

Who said christmas has to be about christians? I'm an atheist and I love christmas.

Gary goes a bit overboard. No one is forcing you to buy the speeder. They also are wrong about the Grade 7 space ship parts. Suprised none of the "experts" spoke up about that.

Also he freaks out over Life Day. In no way is Life Day an important holiday in Star Wars. It's only famous to us because of the god awful holiday special.


Suprised that Gary only mentioned Rift twice in that video. Usually he mentions it like 10 times and gushes over the player housing.

I'm an Atheist yet i love the Holidays. Christmas isn't just for Christians, not in 2012.