Okay. so let's talk about the first expansion.

most of the free to play MMOs i have played never charged for new expansions at all, then again they also don't have a subscription fee either

Not really sure if you're attacking me or trying to state that EAware tends to have bad customer practices? lol

It's 5 additional levels. It's an expansion and clearly not a content update. The haterz are just a bunch of poor people qqing about having to spend money.

If you are subbed and saving Cartel Coins, I'm sure there will be an option to purchase the xpac in the Cartel Market after launch with your coins, essentially getting you the xpac for free.

Last night I saw The Hobbit in 3D (awesome movie btw). I paid $12 for the ticket alone and received 3 hours of entertainment. I easily burn 3 hours in this game just cycling through alts for Crew Skills on any given night. Already pre-ordered and done. Looking forward to the OPvP that is bound to flare up in the new leveling areas.

Ive been hearing this argument quite alot. "but its cheap"... yeah sure it is.
But remind me again what im paying 15 bucks a month for?

By that reasoning they could (and probably will) start charging for more or less everything... they just "wont charge all that much" and everyone will be ok with it.
And before you know it your monthly subscription fee doubles because each month they release more small stuff that SHOULD be included in a monthly sub but will be added on as "pay to use"...

Reference? thx

With the announcement of the new digital expansion, I want to make a topic almost begging for BW/EA to make this something worth people getting behind. The story is imho, the only real stand out feature in this game and I think it's extremely important for them to deliver with this digital expansion and not give real fans a reason to point their finger accusing this of being a cash grab.

On that note, I also think it's important that we as a community support the expansion as best as we can and to keep the faith in BW. As said previously, the story is probably the best feature of the game and we as a community need to encourage them as much as possible to focus on that instead of them ending up forcing to release fluff content every month designed to sell Cartel Market items.

I'm also secretly hoping that the expansion will bring a proper endgame feel to the game and not be as dire as when the game first launched. Many of the people who initially quit done so because the end game was bad and was something done far better and more polished elsewhere. I feel that if this can be addressed as well as the content having that good ol Star Wars feel, then we could very well be onto a winner and might actually really breathe new life into the game.