2.0 = $10 well spent!

New abilities are "see but not touch" without expansion, because they all require level above 50. Assuming TFB NiM will be scaled to lvl 55, it's the same. Unsure about professions, items they make obviously can't be used at 50, but people withot expansion could also be locked out of training them above 400 at all.

Tactical Advantage now causes the character to giggle the first time it is applied if Tactical Advantage is not already active.

While $10 bucks isn't a lot of money. I would have rather have spent $60 or more and get the uber edition of a full blown expansion. With two planets, a free space redone space combat system, two OP's 4-6 'new' flashpoints with the flashpoints you do while leveling added to the tier 2 hard mode. New spells, new trees, more ways to get the same gear that drops in OP's if you don't have the time to dedicate to getting that gear do to your daily schedule. It's been over a year and we're not getting a whole lot of new content. You're getting changes to existing content. They threw in the Gree event, and then will bring it back in the 3rd or 4th qtr to try and make things exciting. All because they had layoffs and nobody to code and come up with the new content. We're getting crumbs. I hope they have a huge expansion planned for the two year mark.

As i posted before seems this patch which is 2.0 is available to all players. So i guess all the new abilities will be available with out the need to buy ROTHC.

Game Update 2.0 will be available for all players when it is released (Free-to-Play restrictions will still apply).

I waited to buy it because there was so little information given, not because of the price. I don't buy products without having a good idea of what I'm buying, just a general policy.

While $10 bucks isn't a lot of money. I would have rather have spent $60 or more and get the uber edition of a full blown expansion. With two planets, a free space redone space combat system, two OP's 4-6 'new' flashpoints with the flashpoints you do while leveling added to the tier 2 hard mode. New spells, new trees, more ways to get the same gear that drops in OP's if you don't have the time to dedicate to getting that gear do to your daily schedule. It's been over a year and we're not getting a whole lot of new content. You're getting changes to existing content. They threw in the Gree event, and then will bring it back in the 3rd or 4th qtr to try and make things exciting. All because they had layoffs and nobody to code and come up with the new content. We're getting crumbs. I hope they have a huge expansion planned for the two year mark.

This logic is so faulty on so many levels.

OK, first off, the original team and probably management screwed up HARD. So hard that this game went F2P quicker than any subscription based game in history. That means it lost a lot of players and a lot of revenue.

Now being in the position they were in, they made the decision (rightly or wrongly) to completely change their revenue model and go F2P. A lot of people, myself included, gave EA a lot of grief over this decision. A lot of us expected them to focus almost entirely on cash shop stuff, and definitely to the detriment of any other content, especially stuff that was complicated and effort intense like endgame stuff.

But they did what they had to do to make the game SURVIVE. They couldn't have supported a huge team on the revenues they had. Yes, they screwed up, but every day requires day-forward thinking. How do we make it better from here? So yeah, smaller team.

Now, several months into F2P, I can say I was wrong, happily, about how they're applying their staff. Yes, they're putting effort into cash shop, and that seems reasonable since that's a revenue stream.

But the kicker is that they're also investing quite significantly in new content. The Gree event is an example. 2.0 is a HUGE example. Everything they've got there takes a lot of work. A lot of people. A lot of hours. A lot of money. And they're selling it for a measly $10.

If you want monstrous expansions, you're probably playing the wrong game. This game doesn't currently have the player-base (meaning revenue base) to produce massive expansions.

However, the team has shown now, at least IMO, that they're producing non-CM content in a volume and at a pace that, frankly, I never expected they would or could.

So, kudos to EA on this expansion and on your management of the cartel market thus far.

I hope this brings many former players back and new players in. You have to have earned that.