Changing gear we payed real money for??? WHAT WERE YOU THINKING???

This.

What happened today really proves Bioware hasn't got a clue. They are hopeless.

I don't care if the picture in the advertisement showed them different and they said they were gonna change it: 99% of people didn't know.

Really Bioware, how does this escape you? How could you even consider this, let alone implement it? Changing gear this way is gonna upset way more people than it makes happy, especially considering that the Phantom, Spymaster and Trailblazer sets where unique and covered a gap in style that no other gear currently in game can.

And to add insult to injury, they were cartel market items, meaning many people paid real money for them. And now they are suck with having paid for something they don't like anymore.

Seriously Bioware, it's absurd decisions like that that gives us real insight as to where the game is headed to. When you make obviously stupid decisions like this, that how both utter disregard for your paying customers and total lack of basic common sense, it leaves little to no hope for the future of this game. I mean, if they screw up on something so simple and obvious, what's the chance they get the difficult stuff right?

As for me, I'm never buying anything from the Cartel MArket again, unless you admit that what happened today was a gross oversight, give people who are affected free gear that looks like the old before changes (while letting us keep the changed look, since there's probably a tiny minority who likes it better now), and promise to never do this again.

/endrant.

You can thank threads like this:

http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=570765

People complained about it, so Bioware said they'd fix it.
Now other people are pissed the looks changed.

Personally? Phantom looked like garbage before. It's better this way. But on larger, more macro viewpoint, BW had a choice:

1) change the gear, piss off everyone who liked the current look
2) leave it as it, piss off everyone who didn't like the current look

Expect to see the 'old look' of the gear showing up in a new cartel pack soon!

Or
3) Make a new set with the new look and leave the old one alone.

EDIT: Oh wait, I didn't see that last line you made. Yeah it totally makes sense why they did it now lol.

4) Put an ingame vendor where you can trade your stuff with new stuff with updated look. Kinda like you do when you buy top tier PvP gear.

So they were (armors) wrongly advertised?

Then they should refund people. Not make stupid move like this that is going to piss of other group.

or 5) Stop being such short-sighted idiots and put actual work into their f*cking game.

They've repeated the mistake AGAIN. The problem was they advertised the packs with pictures of what you could get, and those pictures didn't look like the items in the game. Personally, I didn't care about the pictures at all. I bought the item for how it looked like in the game, by using the preview panel. Anyways... They've repeated the mistake again. The picture of the new cartel pack displays a woman in a yellow/white "dancer outfit". Yet, the new outfit is red, not yellow.

Fantastic job Bioware.

A lot of people brought the packs based on what phantom should look like. Unfortunately its the right decision by bw.

Ha, Bioware follows the Ferengi rules of acquisition, the first of which is : Once you get their money you never give it back.

Lots more people bought the packs based on how it looked ingame. Like II said, 99% of people didn't notice it was different from the picture in the Cartel Market shop, nor that it would later be changed.

Did the OP "This." his own thread?