The Republic: SWTOR is "Out of Control"

Yeah, approximately 80% of America would likely disagree with you on that one...

While I commend what you say, let me ask, what does Christmas (gifts, meals, family shopping) has to do with christianity ? As far as I see ( I am a christian) it has a very little religious connection for many. Sure there are special religious events during christams, but many do not attend at all, yet, they celebrate christmas as a family or freind event, and have their fun, and joy. I'd argue that christmas today, in the world, is no longer just a religious thing, if at all.
I am not for bringing it to the game, or any game though. Perhaps in spirit, but not factually. And Life day gather's something from this spirit, so basicly SWTOR still has an Xmas event, a global, more liberal, clothed in fantasy way.

Life Day is as Star Wars as it gets. I'm not convinced the Life Day items are especially "Life Day" though, the mount especially just needs Rudolph pulling it to be Santa's Sleight.

As the people in the video say "Bioware EA has to be trolling with that mount, right?".

I love this post. I thought it was just me. Gamebreaker is not the only ones doing this, go over to MMORPG.COM they are just as bad. Everything that is not WOW is ****. They hype the crap out of a new game because they are getting kickbacks then when it rolls out, it is crap. LOL. I stopped going to those sites because they are just so negative. It is getting that way on these forums also. Unfortunate to always hear from the unhappy, and man there are so many unhappy about the littlest things. I for one enjoy this game very much and will continue to for a long time.

I agree with everything they say in the show, and find it interesting to see how these guys over the past months have become more and more disillusioned with this game. Just a few months ago they were critical about certain things, but still had hopes that the CC store and F2P would be a new beginning for this game. Now it seems they're almost ready to give up on it.

I don't agree with their title though. I think EA is exactly in control, not out. All their efforts are focused at the moment at making as much money off their CC store cash grab as possible, to the detriment of everything else. I'd like everyone to take a good look again at the known issues list, linked here for your convenience: link

Do you notice how it is a mile long? Now take a look at the last patch notes: link

75% of the items in that patch note consists of items they added to their store or discounts they applied. Yay.
The only bug fix they list is this:

ALL the other stuff they list as bug fixes are simply typo corrections. That means someone had to go into an .xml file and change a few words. Probably took them minutes at most. That is it. At the same time they let you pre-order the new content coming out next year..more money you get to spend on them.

I do not know and cannot say for certain that this company currently does not care one bit about bugs and problems that people are experiencing and thus their players' enjoyment of this game, but they sure do their best to make it seem so. I see certain people in this thread using the age old: "if you don't like an item, simply don't buy it and don't whine".

a)It's not about a single or a few items, it's about the bigger picture.
b)if you don't see that you're slowly being prepared and led to true P2W items coming out all in the name of the mighty dollar, then I don't know what to tell you. What is that? They said that that would never happen? Gee, that's good because these guys have never gone back an a statement before..

It's a shame certain people will pull the same old defense mechanism such as the one mentioned above again and again, without thinking about other people. The same people who go into threads with complaints stating: "it isn't happening to me, so you should just shut up and not whine." "bro, been running this game without problems, it's your pc."

I am personally actually enjoying the game right now and plan on staying subscribed for a while to come. I go through my class stories, level an alt to 50, and then start over. I use my new crew skills to make nice items for my alts, help out other players and am having a good time doing it. It's a good thing though that I find this enjoyable, because I cannot do any group content, because I too am plagued by the crash to desktop syndrome every 1 to 2 hours: link

You can see how long that has been around now. Months without a fix. And that was before all their efforts were aimed at this store.. No more illusions here that that will get fixed at all. I simply play on day to day and liking it, until something truly breaks the game for me and I cannot play anymore. And with these guys, that might be any patch on any given tuesday..

Another Great Show, their spot on about how much nickel and diming is going on atm, and no creatitvty at all from Bioware.

I don't let reviews influence my decision beyond the initial purchase of an item/service, after that I make up my own mind.

Haven't watched the GamebreakerTV thingy. I don't need them to tell me anything about the game; I've played it since beta.

Oh get over yourself - you don't have to be Christian to enjoy Christmas, and when put into video game events it rarely, if ever, has any religious component to it. I mean, Star Wars has its own 'Life Day' fictional holiday for the time and setting with which to theme an event anyway!

I'm not religious but I would still expect a holiday event at Christmas, and would not be offended in the slightest to have a Christmas event. What's more important is that I'm not sad and self-entitled enough to believe that the fact that I'm not Christian means that those around me should have to avoid any connotations of a religious holiday and sterilise the cultural and traditional themes around this times of year.

Oh, and Bioware also don't need yet more excuses to sit on their behinds and do **** all for ToR.

it's not a rip off since YOU DON"T HAVE TO BUY IT.

There is no advantage to buying it. You can very easily NOT BUY IT.

The point is that's all they have bothered to do, and it's poor. We won't buy it, you're absolutely right sstanks, but it's just mediocre from Bioware.

And sure, they don't have to do anything. But they shouldn't expect to impress the playerbase and keep subscribers and players if they take that attitude.