The Republic: SWTOR is "Out of Control"

THANK YOU!! I'm glad someone else realizes this!

My favorite part is at 13 minutes and 55 seconds in when Gary finds out that the Christmas speeder costs $18.

A bit after that, after about 20 seconds of a shocked look on his face, Gary Gannon says:

"This is their monocle. This is the Eve monocle. But it's not... it's close, but it's not gonna get the press like the monocle did.

Eighteen dollars!? For this joke? This should be given away. This should be given away to every player for free. In the game to just race around.

We're going to get to it in a second, they're not even having a freaking holiday event. They're charging for Christmas items and they're not even putting on any kind of an event, yet they wanna charge eighteen dollars for this hunk 'o crap?

You have to be kidding me. You have to be kidding me."

Lets be honest, this isn't a AAA MMO, so the comparison falls flat on that score.

I think that, at this point, we can safely downgrade SWTOR's triple-A status....

The part that really blows my mind about this whole thing is they all got together and decided that $20 for this abomination "holiday event" was a great value. The 'content' of this $20 pack has about the same value and appeal as used toilet paper. If that's what they consider my $20 to be worth, I shudder to imagine what they consider is a good value in their upcoming $10 expansion.

The price was truely crazy, even if they did lower them they originally thought that content was so good that it should cost $20.
Makes you wonder.

That is a silly reason to unsub. Just work for the gear like normal. It is available for purchase via space comms as well.

Pay 2 win? What exactly are you winning? the space missions? Its not like space missions get you any advantage progression wise.

As it was previously stated, I don't consider gear as "pay to win" in a situation where you:

• Don't HAVE to buy it and can still earn it the old-fashioned way.
• The gear is not useful for any PvP content.

Am I the only one who doesn't care about not having a Life Day celebration? Honestly, that particular piece of lore and the show surrounding it was pretty terrible anyway--I'm surprised they even brought it up. If you don't find the Cartel Shop items to be a good value, then exercise your free market decision to not buy it, it's not rocket science, folks. Not buying stuff will tell EA/BW to reconsider their pricing / marketing if they want the Cartel Market to be profitable for them.

As for celebrating Christmas in an MMORPG; the last I checked, quite a few non-Christians celebrate Christmas. I know quite a few Jews, Atheists, and otherwise who celebrate at least some aspects of Christmas, minus parts of it that pertain to Jesus. Some people just like to get their britches in a knot and get offended about every little thing because they want attention.

Why would that matter to you personally? Do you like it when people unsub?

It has nothing to do with P2W - but I'm not going to explain it again. There's a 90 page thread covering it more than completely somewhere around here. As to whether it's a silly decision or not, that is up to me to decide for myself.