How come Pazaak STILL isn't in game...yet you make slot machines?

Are you seriously saying a simple card game is difficult to implement into this game? You do realize pazaak was in the KOTOR games right?

Bioware bought LucasArts, so of course we instantly have to have all of the code from KOTOR available for inclusion into SWTOR. Ignoring the fact that there's no way in SWTOR to be able to manage your personal stash of cards that integrates with the rest of the inventory system.

By the same argument, we should be screaming bloody murder that all we have is this PvP 'Galactic Star Fighter' thing, when Bioware clearly has access to all the code from the X-Wing/TIE Fighter series of space-combat games; they should have released a full space combat storyline progression for both pub and imp characters months ago with all the depth of those games.

Speaking as a computer programmer with more than thirty years of experience, it is not easy to take someone else's code and integrate it into yours, particularly when that code wasn't written with any intention of being adapted into other software.

Speaking as a computer programmer with more than thirty years of experience, it is not easy to take someone else's code and integrate it into yours, particularly when that code wasn't written with any intention of being adapted into other software.

No, but black jack is an incredibly simple game to develop, small ruleset, limited number of values, it's not difficult. It's given as an assignment in most introductory CS classes it's so simple. Pazaak is a slightly altered blackjack. I'm not giving them the benefit of the doubt in that it's hard or difficult to implement. It's simply not important as other updates to the development team. Making silly excuses for them doesn't change anything. The only way they will take the development time to create Pazaak is if players ask for it.

Bioware bought LucasArts, so of course we instantly have to have all of the code from KOTOR available for inclusion into SWTOR. Ignoring the fact that there's no way in SWTOR to be able to manage your personal stash of cards that integrates with the rest of the inventory system.

By the same argument, we should be screaming bloody murder that all we have is this PvP 'Galactic Star Fighter' thing, when Bioware clearly has access to all the code from the X-Wing/TIE Fighter series of space-combat games; they should have released a full space combat storyline progression for both pub and imp characters months ago with all the depth of those games.

Speaking as a computer programmer with more than thirty years of experience, it is not easy to take someone else's code and integrate it into yours, particularly when that code wasn't written with any intention of being adapted into other software.

Umm Bioware should have the code since they made KOTOR.

The script language used in Baldur's Gate wouldn't work in NWN. Hell, some of the scripts in NWN wouldn't work in NWN2. Some of what worked in NWN2 won't work in the Witcher, which also uses the Aurora Engine. Way back when computers were new, I learned how to program in Basic. Guess what, that language is now useless. Having the code doesn't mean it's compatible with another game, and sometimes, it's going to be easier to start from scratch than to try to adapt it.

I'm afraid logic is wasted on these forums.