Bioware, we find your lack of imformation disturbing..

This isn't completely correct. Maybe you do have a point concerning strictly video game companies. But, share holder meetings generally give the holder a very clear idea of the direction. Take Amazon for instance, they held their share holders meeting and they absolutely told those in attendance the direction of the company. I can understand being tight lipped for the sake of holding off competitors. That's not the issue I don't think. It's the feeling of everything being closed off. I can understand possibly why. There are a good many people who act extremely rude/hateful/insert any other word to describe deplorable behavior. This seems like a very apt time to actually come forward with more information about the game seeing as how it very recently switched from sub to free to play. Maybe that's what the new free to play video is supposed to do.

OP, I do agree with you post, back when the game was under an NDA, I could see this, but the morale in this game seems very low and information could be a good shot in the arm, one problem is they can not talk specifics and dates, if they miss that date or have to make a change, you know what happens the forums explode with you lied to us, you told us XXX would happen, followed by personal attacks on the staff. It is a thin line.

Lets look at what we know that might be coming sometime next year.

Makeb even though they could give out a bit more info since they want us to pre-order they don't have a good marketing hook.

The new ilum

The secret space project

The cathar race, for what it is worth

I am not looking for time lines of when these things will come out, I would just like to know what to look forward to in the future, we have few things. I don't think they can ever do anything to please everyone..

A comment saying we are still committed to doing these things would be good. A comment saying we are still committed to dong these things and we currently intend a new race and revamped Ilum by end 2013 but SSSP will be 2014 at the earliest would be even better.

The EA shareholder conferences also give a good deal of information and a general idea of the direction. However, keep in mind that SWTOR is just a small element of the bigger EA picture. Just like Amazon will not always be completely focussed on for example just their Amazon Web Services but also discuss their other products the EA financial meetings will not only be about SWTOR.

Moreover, just like Amazon doesn't disclose all of its plans on their public discussion boards, EA/BioWare isn't going to disclose all of their plans on the discussion boards.

Don't forget, you may be a subscriber, you may be a customer, but most of us are not a shareholder (unless you actually have EA stock obviously).

You are definitely correct. My main point was that it was possible to allow this game's followers an idea of what the future can hold without giving away too much, and without making their customers feel somewhat out in the cold. Being a subscriber, or customer has very little to do with the ability of the company to communicate. But, I can see both ends. Why would they want to communicate when they receive such negativity regardless. A no win situation for sure. At least in the present construction of community to company

A comment saying we are still committed to doing these things would be good. A comment saying we are still committed to dong these things and we currently intend a new race and revamped Ilum by end 2013 but SSSP will be 2014 at the earliest would be even better.

Maybe there's no ETA because...there's no ETA and if they give one and end up missing it people will howl. BioWare got burned on this before so I can see why they'd not what to say ANYTHING until something is a done deal. Live with it.

They have already stated that Ilum revised will be one of the things for the first half of 2013, that the SSSP would be something for the long term and that as a new race Cathar is in the works.