Jeff Hickman and Bruce Maclean now on IGN with details on story

IF there are truly eight unique class / faction (original faction) stories that can be played multiple ways (e.g. choices + changes based on alignment / gender / race), then maybe story alone would keep people playing - but I have my doubts as to how much difference and choice will exist in the new stories.

BTW - I have spent more time playing the 1-50 stories in this game than anything else - but without end-game social / group content, I wouldn't currently be playing the game.

And without NEW end-game social / group content, I will most likely play this game for a month a couple times a year to catch up on stories - and do something else the rest of the year.

Say what you mean or say nothing at all.

And yet they gave us a preview of how they could handle this with Ziost. Once you click a panel, Ziost changes entirely and you can't go back. It's possible they will do something like this. it's possible they won't. We just don't know yet.

I guess it depends on your point of view.

To me not having them as part of the story content did seem this way as I personally found no reason to run them any more unlike DF/DP in particular ( you didn't have to run all the previous operations but it paid to do so if you wanted to keep up with the story for oricon ).

It implies a turn in direction away from operations and a focus elsewhere. Perhaps it was mistaken as I thought they would never make any operations again and I thought I had clarified that but what I more meant was we won't see the focus we have seen before on them again ( storywise ) and they may just get the treatment PVP does with occasional updates ( not like PVP in terms of never any new maps though ). Whilst they still get support they are hardly going to be a focus any more as they seemed to be in the past.

What I want to know is, if my *** is sitting there a carbonite ice pop where did my companion husbands go? Did they forget about me? Remarry? I'd be mightily pissed if they said **** this and left me as an ice pop to go marry someone else. WHERE ARE MY HUSBANDS? =(

And lvling again? Funsies!

Five new companions will be available throughout the quest, taken from a cast with very different allegiances.

"You're able to recruit help and additional companions from an expanded cast, including companions who were previously exclusive to other classes," said Maclean. "Building that alliance involves going to all the planets in the galaxy and doing activities and missions that build faction. If you want to recruit a character who's favorable to the Mandalorians, you'll be able to do missions for them. You want to recruit a character who hates the Hutts, you'll do missions to build your alliance standing against them."

hold on, I don't remember that, where is that quoted from?

The end part of your post is what I think is half the problem now. They put in new operations, planets, flashpoints etc. and are finding that's what seems to be happening anyway.

The game didn't get any returning surge of players they hoped for with SoR and it's end game content and they basically scratch that plan and look towards other means of keeping the game alive and that's returning to it's roots and that is story, if that fails I think that will be the end of SWToR beyond maintenance mode.

Whilst I think the blame isn't with adding end game content itself and is solely about how they've gone about doing it ( removing it as a must do for story, bugginess etc. ) I feel they aren't viewing ti this way and are instead of viewing it as a lack of interest rather than their stuff ups ( you can almost imagine BW pitching it that way to EA boards etc. in a hope of keeping their jobs "it's not our fault, we didn't stuff up the new content, people just aren't interested in this style of content anymore" ).

Don't get me wrong. I loved how they did DF/DP personally and how it seemingly forced me ( and everyone else ) to do the operations as it made me see how enjoyable they could be once I finally did them and had me doing them again but I just didn't get this same sense from the new ops even when I bothered running them ... they were boring.

All about cheesing mechanics and doing whatever you could do it as quick as you could to get loot drops or comms.
Whilst DF/DP ended up the same there was much enjoyment to be had from doing it originally for story and often you were doing it with like minded people and there wasn't as much rage about making mistakes etc. ( early on, it got to it's usual eliteness later on after most had done the story ).

Now all of this is of course my opinion and I base it around what I see happening, the state of the game ( deadest I've seen it for timezone since I started playing over 2 years ago ) and just the general vibe you get from people.

Also knowing that the forums are generally a vocal minority helps one get some perspective.

It's from an article on Polygon: http://www.polygon.com/2015/6/15/873...pire-expansion

what about the legecy stuff if you can just make a lvl 60.. what going to happen with legecy abilty from compelting chapter 4... you know like legecy force lighting. and stuff