State of the Game #3 Promise Not Delivered

The Cathar is a cosmetic item and Bioware has been up front about the fact that vanity and cosmetic items would come largely from the Cartel Market.. This is exactly why subscribers are given complementary coins..

The designer Kiosk?? Again, see the sentence above.. Another vanity and cosmetic item..

Another irrelevant statement.. We should be thankful that all of them aren't strictly in the Cartel Market..

Again, this is nothing new.. This is what they said they would do.. There is nothing to complain about..

The force is totally nonexistent with this thread..

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You say skill delay is a problem, and to that I say that perhaps the problem is YOURS. I have yet to experience any skill delay issue and if I did I surely wouldn't be pointing the finger of blame solely at Bioware. It could be a plethora of things, including but not limited to: your slow e-machine, your ISP, or the moon in vernal equinox.

They run a fair business.

It just happens that the fair business is EA Sports, and that's why the rest of us don't matter. You wanna hurt EA, convince the sports fans to boycott.

i think they just need to realize that making the customers happy with maybe (noone can tell for certain right now) slightly lower profit is going to make them more money in the long run than short sighted milking them here and now. The sooner they do, the better.

I'm disappointed that they are blocking all the 2.1 features (outside of some dyes available to everyone) from in-game purchase (as in in-game credits). I would be fine with charging for appearance changes in the CM as long as they ALSO gave you the option to buy it with in-game credits. I have a very bad feeling that most customization outside of what we already have will be Real-Money transactions only. This will make me very sad as a subscriber, as I already give them real money.

The fact that they said "we won't charge for story content, only customization" seems to be the "out" that everyone is using... but what about just taking issue with that on it's own? BioWare/EA, WHY are you charging real money only for appearance changes, and race unlocks (especially to subscribers)? Then they act benevolent because they will give a "discount" (UP TO 50% on "Some" things, which means don't hold your breath for great discounts) on these non-impacting features... so good news, if you're a subscriber, you only have to give us less money for cool new content going forward.

Look, if you want to make money, just flat out remove the subscription option. Make it an ACTUAL Free2Play game and charge us up the wazoo for everything (like other EA ventures), but at least be honest about it. I feel strung along as a sub... every new thing they announce will be "cheaper for subscribers." This literally equates to "paying for a discount." This does not grant us appearance changes, it allows us to pay less for them, plus $15 a month.

I get this is a business... but it can also be a fair business. If you run a fair business, people will flock to it, and you will get more business. If you run an unfair business, people will hold polls on "worst company in the world" and you will be on it.

And then people will rejoice and fanboys will dance but the real thing is that they got the money first knowing that was a greedy movement and 2.1 was an insult for suscribers.

Error. SwTor is not only a MMO, is a MMO Role Playing Game. Same than Character Creation and a name is the first thing you MUST complete when starting a new toon, a Barber Shop is not a feature, is a CORE FEATURE cos this is a RPG. The same that changing your armor apperance is a CORE feature even if has not impact in the game like you say cos youre using the same mods and the stats doesnt change at all.

Look, Bioware is not idiot and knows they will earn a lot of money with this. Even when they are slapping in the face of the subcribers. They also know this and it is cos Eric came with the crap about 2.2 and blablabla. And they know that a Barber Shop should be out of CCs. And a Barber Shop is not about changing race or sex. If you wanna be a Cathar or not a human anymore being a Twilek, is ok and you must pay money for it but NEVER if wanna change your hair style or colour.

Are you guys seriously going to charge for even subscribers to play as a Cathar. And then based on the number of people who play as a Cathar, you will decide if actual wanted species will be playable down the line?

I stopped playing in the summer last year. Resubbed for a bit, even bought the expac. Stopped again till the expac came out and have resubbed again. But if literally everything in 2.1 including the new species is locked behind cartel coins, I really am done. When Makeb was first announced, it was not supposed to be paid for extra. Cathar wasn't.

I have no problem with modern F2P MMO's. Many of them are done well. You can subscribe and get all the benefits. but if after buying a CE, having an active subscription and buying the expac, if I'm expected to still pay more for a new species and an appearance customization feature which I can get in other MMO's without paying extra, I am seriously done. Call it trolling, call me unreasonable, whatever. This is just over the line.