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Can we not buy this 'Expansion' with Cartel Coins?

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Can we not buy this 'Expansion' with Cartel Coins?
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Rogoo
12.18.2012 , 08:17 PM | #111
Quote: Originally Posted by AllisonBerryman View Post
To answer the question posed here about purchasing Rise of the Hutt Cartel:

We'd like to clarify that Rise of the Hutt Cartel will be available for purchase through SWTOR.com/buy only, and there won't be an option to purchase it using Cartel Coins.
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Can't you guys do anything right ? Seems that your reports about what the players are saying simply go nowhere or are being ignored.

The sheer amount of negativity on torums should let your superiors know that they fail at pretty much every major decision they make.
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Shingara
12.18.2012 , 08:17 PM | #112
Quote: Originally Posted by BlueArab View Post
It would make sense to give it away for free if there was an uproar from the sub population. But it's just the vocal minority, as usual.
lol again, give as part of subscription, your obssessed with trying to justify your stance by saying we want it for free.
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BlueArab
12.18.2012 , 08:20 PM | #113
Quote: Originally Posted by Shingara View Post
lol again, give as part of subscription, your obssessed with trying to justify your stance by saying we want it for free.
But your subscription costs don't cover the cost of a new expansion (content update, whatever you want to call it), especially when they are now (since F2P) creating so much content to be given away for nothing for F2P players.

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grombrinda
12.18.2012 , 08:20 PM | #114
Remember when a lot of people on these very forums said "With the extra coins you get each month you can buy any expansion they release."I do because a lot of us were concerned over the cartel market and it's gamble packs. Now they have taken even a glimmer of that hope of being able to obtain the content through cartel coins. And yes it is content NOT an expansion. This does not continue the class story as already confirmed on other post. You want to call 5 levels an expansion?? What's that you say, what other mmo out there gives this for free?? Well as far as I know Forsaken World by Perfect World has released free expansion to their game for free since the beginning. I won't list what all it is but it is a fair amount. For starters the highest level when the game started out was level 60, now it is 80 I do believe.But please don't take my word, check it out for yourselves. The point is after a whole year they choose to charge real money to an already paying costumer. Defend how ever much you like , but this is just a ....well I don't wish to use foul language so i'll just stop here.

Oh btw they added a new item to the cartel market, they are going to again next Tuesday maintenance.
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Shingara
12.18.2012 , 08:25 PM | #115
Quote: Originally Posted by BlueArab View Post
But your subscription costs don't cover the cost of a new expansion (content update, whatever you want to call it), especially when they are now (since F2P) creating so much content to be given away for nothing for F2P players.
£5.99 is 1090 cartel coins, thats 2 months worth of coins given to subscribers on 1 month bolts and that is the price of the 'expansion' for subscribers. That is covered by subscription thus how is was designed to work. you really make me want to faceplant the desk cos we have now stated and quoted and posted james ohlen specifically saying this was part of the subscription.

Space project is an expantion if they do it like they have said they are, this aint.

Ow and if this is there thinking of expantion worthy i cannot wait for dantooine, dathomir, naboo etc etc etc, gonna get expensive real fast.
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siegedeluxe
12.18.2012 , 08:29 PM | #116
Quote: Originally Posted by prettyevilish View Post
http://www.examiner.com/article/ea-a...to-subscribers this has been posted repeatedly. The video around the 5 minute mark. He specifically starts discussing makeb and says it is going to be the largest "non-expansion piece of content" ever released. The moderator compares it to large, free expansion for other mmos and he confirms that it will rival them (well he says "it's a whole planet" because he can't make any less vague of a promise than that).

It was a non-expansion, which by your own admission we are supposed to get for free for our sub money (and bioware stated this too when f2p was released).

So to get around this 'free content updates' problem, they slapped expansion on what was originally called a non-expansion, and are charging for it.
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Prettyevilish
12.18.2012 , 08:32 PM | #117
Quote: Originally Posted by BlueArab View Post
It would make sense to give it away for free if there was an uproar from the sub population. But it's just the vocal minority, as usual.
Right. And the ME3 ending debacle was just the vocal minority too, right? That's why they actually went and retconned the endings.

I don't think minority means what some you people think it means. Just because a small portion of the forum is raging - especially on the first day of announcement, before most have even heard the news - doesn't mean it's going over well with anyone. In any game, only a vocal minority visit the forum at all in the first place.

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grombrinda
12.18.2012 , 08:33 PM | #118
Boy wait till the other mmo sites catch wind of this....some already have. XD
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DAMossimo
12.18.2012 , 08:33 PM | #119
Quote: Originally Posted by BlueArab View Post
But your subscription costs don't cover the cost of a new expansion (content update, whatever you want to call it), especially when they are now (since F2P) creating so much content to be given away for nothing for F2P players.
So what you are saying is that everyone must pay for Makeb because the subs are financing everything else (including the F2P players)?

If that's the case, this game is going to be in real big trouble next month me thinks.

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Shingara
12.18.2012 , 08:34 PM | #120
Quote: Originally Posted by Prettyevilish View Post
Right. And the ME3 ending debacle was just the vocal minority too, right? That's why they actually went and retconned the endings.

I don't think minority means what some you people think it means. Just because a small portion of the forum is raging - especially on the first day of announcement, before most have even heard the news - doesn't mean it's going over well with anyone. In any game, only a vocal minority visit the forum at all in the first place.
there also way more people who came back and got there free coins expecting this to be given to subscribers who will simply turn around and walk away again and not even touch the forums.
Health Warning - Thread May Contain Nuts.
First, you can continue as a subscriber, which gives you unlimited access to all game features and future Game Updates at no additional charge. http://www.swtor.com/info/news/blog/20120731