Bad feeling about lack of "Expansion" news

Bioware have always been the silent development type. It makes it much easier to develop then because you don't have CM's posting in forums one thing and then the design team decides to scrap that idea and the playerbase gets really really annoyed because theres a mismatch of information..
for a developer its better to be silent and have customers complaining that theres no information on their product than it is to be active in communication with the customers and have a very very likely scenario where there is a mishap in the communication and something is said which is no longer true, or is not supposed to be released.

I'm going to use an example i hate to use because i hate the company in the scenario but it is one which is very easy to understand.

Apple when developing a new product will never release any details on this product until usually 1-2 weeks before the actual release of said product. This gives them freedom in design options which allows for any last minute changes. The customer knows nothing official(obviously there is leaks) and therefore if apple has to get rid of something which the customer may like because of technical difficulties then the customer dosn't complain that it has been removed because they didn't have an official word that it was there in the first place.

the less you know the wiser you are

This isn't Apple and that's a poor comparison anyway. Apple is known for spectacularly bug free, easy to use products (several exceptions, but few). Apple puts more research into that one button, than Bioware put into the entire game. EVERYTHING Apple releases is thoroughly researched, focus group tested and undergoes extreme QA testing. Apple is the W0W of their market.

The only feedback Bioware seems to take is from exit surveys, which is why they claim they switched to F2P. Seldom do we see ideas, suggestions or requests answered or even acknowledged on these forums, or in-game where tickets are simply "closed".

I'm a firm believer that Bioware's biggest assets are the current players - they should utilize us more to build hype for their game by being much more forthcoming. Instead, they rely on twitter, fb and other gaming sites and tend to ignore the existence of this forum most days. It's sad...I don't get it.

First, in game tickets are not where you submit ideas. Those are support tickets and should be used for support only.

Second, I don't know game you have been on but Bioware has been communicating pretty regularly over the past couple of months. They haven't responded to all the larger items but they have made an effort to extend communication outward. Social media is just one of those ways. They don't owe the forum users anything. I don't get this idea where gamers feel entitled to feedback just because they use these forums. These forums are more for us than for bioware.

Third, you are the consumer and this is how bioware has chosen to communicate. Based on the amount hate spewing and garbage flung about on these forums I don't blame bioware one bit for not communicating about makeb any more than what we have been told. If its not worth your 10 bucks right now then you have more than a right to keep your money in your wallet. Don't, however, come in here proclaiming and demanding your needs be met. It's up to you as the consumer to decide if their model fits your needs. Once they finalize some additional features and are 100% sure they will hit the makeb expansion then I am sure they will very excited to share it with us. Until then, just accept it or go play something else for a month or two.

F2p have "limited" Access to HM, Ops and WZs.
Now a F2p player gets himself this "Content Patch" for 20$?
He logs in and should noticed.. uh ya.. i payed for this stuff but have no access to it.. nice.
Wich means with the release of Makeb, they CANT add Ops, WZ or new HM as long F2P got themself
the "update"
More like 6-12 weeks later as casual Patch.

F2P have limited access to FPs and Warzones, so they can access them, so I really don't get what you're saying.

So now we've gone into february and the info/news about the Rise of the Hutt Cartel "expansion" that's suppposed to launch in the spring is few and far in between.

We are hitting our 6-8 content release schedule pretty good. There will be a 9 week window between the game update (1.6) landing before the holidays and the update after the holidays (1.7) since we want to give our guys the holiday off since they were all here last year. We will aim for 6 weeks but will go for 8 weeks for quality issues etc.

I'm much more concerned about almost no details about 1.7 and it's not on the PTS yet. Tomorrow will mark 8 weeks since 1.6 dropped.

From last Live Q&A

Since 1.7 isn't even on the PTS yet and the point release patches are normally up for for several weeks they are either going to be several weeks late on this, have a shorter PTS time, or not put on the PTS at all.