Hey Dev's How about an actual expansion? Is that in the works ?

Agreed. I would have loved a full blown expansion. It could still happen, LotRO has been free to play for years and is still putting out full size expansions. To top that, last time I logged into it the player base was no where near the size of SWTOR.

If a smaller (I think) company can put out quality expansions for an older and less popular game, why can't EA? I know they like money, and I'd gladly give them some.

I highly doubt EA would sign off on an investment in a full-blown SWTOR expansion at this point unfortunately. I think they're more likely to continue with these mini expansions, which require little investment and thus produce less risk of losing money. Put yourself in the shoes of an EA executive or board member and ask yourself if you would invest millions of dollars in a franchise that was much less successful than projected, and produces less revenue than other games in the portfolio.

Agreed. I would have loved a full blown expansion. It could still happen, LotRO has been free to play for years and is still putting out full size expansions. To top that, last time I logged into it the player base was no where near the size of SWTOR.

If a smaller (I think) company can put out quality expansions for an older and less popular game, why can't EA? I know they like money, and I'd gladly give them some.

Agreed. I would have loved a full blown expansion. It could still happen, LotRO has been free to play for years and is still putting out full size expansions. To top that, last time I logged into it the player base was no where near the size of SWTOR.

If a smaller (I think) company can put out quality expansions for an older and less popular game, why can't EA? I know they like money, and I'd gladly give them some.

It's just like my title says, how about an actual expansion? I don't mean what we got with makeb which was not really an expansion but a paid update that once upon a time (before BioWare got bought and eaten by EA) BioWare would have dropped as a free update to a game. They did this with Baldurs Gate just to name one title. What I would like to see is an actual expansion with new classes such as Teras Kasaii, beast trainers, Imperial guard, as well as races such as wookie (no ewoks pleas). I would like to see classes with a third faction, like bounty hunter should have been. Crafting should be expanded and made more nuanced.

I believe part of the reason there was such a drop off of subscriptions early on was due to the fact that a lot of staunch Star wars Galaxy players were disappointed because they though in some ways this would be the rebirth or continuation of that . I would also like to see some serious revamping of the battle system. I feel that too much of WOW was used in the making of this game and not enough of BioWare or other company influences. A bang up job was done with classes other than jedi and sith but with those I feel they have been reduced to little more than pretty colored baton wielding characters. Supposedly this was done for balancing issues but I think that is a cop out .
I would like to see in an expansion the ability to customize characters to make ones own jedi, sith, or bounty hunter. Part of the fun of making a character is customizing it and discovering which skills not only synergize with each other but with an individuals play style. Even though two people may have the same sets of powers they didn't have the same powers per say. So it would be nice if an expansion is in the work to see other influences such as City Of heroes, Dragon Age, KOTOR, or Jedi knight Jedi Academy as more of an influence in terms of a battle system and skill selection.

The template for an expansion is already there. At the end of each story line its made pretty clear that the war is going to break out again. This is a great launch for an expansion story with new classes, abilities, and new options with crafting or actual guild bases. Now don't misunderstand me. I like the game, if I didn't I wouldn't pay for a monthly, but I can point out weakness (in my opinion) that should be addressed and the game has been out for a while so I'm wondering rather or not its time to consider an actual sold by the box expansion.

What?...old content redone to death?

I believe they can and I am hoping that they will.

I highly doubt the money is a factor, since going F2P and implementing the ever growing cash shop I'm betting this game has made tons more money. There will be people that were subbed before cash shop that are still subbed now and buy stuff from the cash shop that previously would have been included in the game as part of their subscription.

Why do you think the raid sets look so utterly garbage compared to the cartel market sets?

Surely everyone realises this is no coincidence, they want people to get good gear mods then buy their nice looking cartel gear.

Before cash shop times these sets would have been world drops or quests or raid gear etc. Why do they have garbage items such the Jawa things as 'rares' in the packs? Because you buy more that way if you got actual rares every time you wouldn't need to buy so many.

I like this game a lot I really do but they are guilty of some very bad business practice at the moment, ever since the implementation of the cash shop tbh.

What do we see every single update without fail? New cash shop items. What do we fail to see almost every time? Actual new content.

Its star was which like star trek is a license to print money if done properly. Also EA didn't loose money on this game, the company made its money back within roughly two months of it releasing which means money made after was pure profit. The issue they had with this game was that it didn't turn out to be the WOW killer they wanted. This disappointment was largely their fault considering EA like other companies fail to realize that WOW was an outlier rather than the norm.

You missed the point rather by accident or deliberate and I said there was a huge sub drop early in the game. I wasn't referring to now and are you counting actual subscriptions or the amount of F2P players that populate the game? there is a difference