ETA on Advanced Class change?

Back to the "Here's why they shouldn't do it because of something in WoW" argument, I see.

If I disagree with something you've said, I'll elucidate on the matter in the hope to clarify my position.
If I feel you are making a weak argument I'll point out the aspects that I feel you could do with clarifying.
That's generally how discussion on an open forum works.
If you state the obvious, such as the lack of Dev comments on this feature, I'll point out that they are not known for commenting on individual threads on long requested features, but rather announce things in their own releases. You know, so everyone can see then not just those following a specific topic.
All I think on this matter is that their last comment on the likelihood of AC swaps is still their current one.

I can't see either of those happening

I may use it if it was implemented in a certain way.
I think it's far more interesting that you'd take such offence to the suggestion and discussion of a feature that may never be implemented.
Good bye, all the best

This thread's still going?

I mean, I'm just saying, after 481 pages, you'd think if a dev had something to say about this they'd have said it by now.

Yes, because you replied to it.

Oh, you.

Not to pick on you bran, but I think technically YOU replied prior to him...just sayin

And this is a fantastic idea that I hope soon makes its way into the game.

But they can't explain how a respec in Wow is different from an ac swap here. It just "is" because ACs are "full classes" (according to a fired dev) and BW didn't design those "full" classes to be switchable except they did but that doesn't matter because nothing that happened pre-release matters and most of those devs were fired anyways... And players that want respecs are just lazy (except those wanting to switch roles or styles if they happen to exist in a current subtree - they aren't lazy at all). To me there is little coherent /consistent sense in any of that paragraph.

Apart from words with very subjective, game-specific definitions (class vs spec vs base class vs advanced class) no one has even tried to explain how switching from a vigilance guardian to a watchman sentinel is significantly different than switching from an arms warrior to a fury one. Yes, swtor groups trees by an extra set of choices but when you combine those choices - (swtor ac + tree) vs (wow tree), you aren't getting a much different character building dynamic at all and results are no more diverse in either.

I would also point out that Mr Musco just recently made a comment in the "change faction" thread specifically speaking to the possibility (he didn't say never because he hates to do that, but said it was rather unlikely due to difficulties), so they do from time to time comment in these sorts of threads.

I wonder if they are avoiding this one like the plague. Probably a wise choice considering the passionate folks that participate in this discussion.

He's got you there Bran

They aren't avoiding it...$100 says most people in their office have it bookmarked and their best laugh of the day comes from some ludicrous reply made here. I bet every day this thread gets bumped, someone at Bioware loses a bet.

I did find it intriguing that Eric commented on the other thread so rapidly though...it's like he was waiting for the chance to say something without saying anything ...