Subscription: Advertisement vs Truth

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I have no facts of my own so I will just insult you and pretend I know it all..

Dude.. Do you actually think you have to purchase the Cathar?? See you are right.. You have no facts.. It is hard to purchase something when you are using free money.. Using grant money to unlock the Cathar is technically not purchasing it.. It is getting it for free because the money used was free..

Thanks for the insults though.. They were a good laugh.. But I will just consider the source..

Animal Farm anyone? They're changing the rules to how they want them.....
Just like in Animal Farm:
"No animal shall sleep in a bed
Revised= no animal shall sleep in a bed with sheets"
So subscribers are supposed to have full customization options; however, they think they can just change the rule!
"Subscribers have full customization access
Revised= Subscribers have more customization options then others, but we really want money so we don't care"

Where did they say they make "more than enough money"? Funny that I've never heard that. . .

So, having a NEW race added to the game is a basic feature? Maybe in your eyes -- in NO way shape or form does this negatively affect your gameplay.

Don't think anyone cares who you're talking about. I replace 'I' for any plural pronouns, because you are only talking for yourself. Same as anyone else.



So. You have a new option for race. If you want it badly enough, ONE month of a sub + security key, and you can get it without paying any extra. This isn't a basic feature, it isn't actual content -- it offers no change of gameplay at all. To say you're being "required" to spend your monthly grant is hilarious.

Or, if you're like me and MANY of the others that have posted in this thread -- you just won't buy them because you don't want to play thundercats. And, seems to me that all the other species unlocks are on the GTN, no? So -- there's the in-game method of getting it.

Those are your options. I don't care to argue about whether or not this is a slippery slope, because no one but BW knows what they will do in the future.

Just a note -- it doesn't say anywhere that we have full customization access. Only full character creation access.

And even then -- it is inherently false already. You can't make a jedi that is sith pureblood unless you've PAID to unlock that race, or played through the game with the race already.

And, cathar will barely be different. Like the other racial unlocks, I'm sure It'll be tradeable -- don't wanna spend a month of your stipend, but want cathar? Get some credits and hit up the GTN.

Dude.. It is called grant money.. Every subscriber gets it.. It isn't going to cost us anything and that isn't going to change..

They are changing the site because obvious isn't obvious enough..

I doubt anyone else here read that amazing book haha. But yes, it's more troubling that EAware is a perfect match to that.

I'm not worried, i probably won't even buy the cathar. I hate cats.

An excellent excellent cautionary tale that I highly recommend to anybody. I know it's on my kids' school reading lists. When I read his post I was thinking "oh how apt".

That said... I hate it. Not because of terrible writing but because of the story itself. I was upset for a week after I finished it. I really don't need that kind of stress these days

And I doubt the guy who quoted it truly understands that what Orwell was talking about was something much greater than a pastime that has virtually no consequences in anyone's life.

But then again, there are people out there who think EA is the worst company in America, because they make bad video games or because their CS is bad, so it kind of makes sense...

What's even more troubling is the fact that we got them to give F2P 2 extra actionbars when they realized it could potentially stop acquisition of new players, but when it comes to doing right by their subs there's not enough ****s they couldn't give.

They're doing something no other game has done before, charging for use of the barbershop. That's just shows how much they consider us to be 'not going anywhere'.