So long, and thanks for all the fish.

As a review:

The expansion is a fun little story that one can knock out in one evening. That's it. Just one evening. Kinda bad really, especially the pacing.

The story and the "bonuses" themselves were not worth subscribing for. In fact I would higlhy recommend that if you are here for the story that you unsubscribe and enjoy the story as a F2P. Frankly what has been released (including the lack of group content) is no where's near enough to justify a subscription anymore.

The story telling has improved, and the cutscene's look much better and flow alot better as well I will applaud Bioware on that at least.

I don't know if I will subscribe again, I really don't. The announcement of KOTFE releasing without new raid content to challenge caused several of my closest friends and my guilds GM to quit and leave for another game thus effectively killing my guild. Sigh what else...oh, the lack of actual changes in the galaxy or new zones post-SoR or KOTFE is laughable. Sure you hear bits about it in the story, but you never see changes to any of the core worlds. Also the companions being taken away and scattered throughout the galaxy to re-obtain is straight up ********. After experiencing it firsthand I can firmly state that it is one of the WORST decisions Bioware has ever made.

One final note, as fun as the story was...it feels so far detached from the Star Wars mythos that it might as well be its own random space opera fantasy MMO at this point. Sure they are wielding lightsabers and crap, but the factions are so flat out bizarre its bad. Knights that use the Force as a tool for justice, random seers that use the force to forsee the destiny...bleh. Just feels wrong.

Oh well, I've wasted enough time on this post. Plus there are at least 20 or so other posts on why this expac is bad so w/e.

Bye Bioware. Maybe someone will think of setting up a private server for Vanilla SWTOR, cause the new expac feels nothing like the MMO I originally signed up for.

You can do the new grind to get back the companions BW took away. Add the down leveling to that so there is another hurdle to that grind isn't interesting either. Nothing really exciting about it as my once maxed level affection companions are now 10K out of 250K. Bw said they were not taking away anything but if my max affection toon is now 1/10 as effective because they created this new grind to get back what I had, then they have taken something away. They didn't take away the points but took away effectiveness. Made what I had a drop in a very large grindy bucket.

the rest of end game is that grind and do nothing but repeat content thats been in game for 1 to 4 years with only one new FP area. Disappointment is not a strong enough word for this "expansion" once story is done and what BW changed, adjusted or just simply took out.

An expansion based on creating a new grind to companions you already had. A new grinding influence system was created because the first time you grinded them to max influence/affection apparently wasn't costly enough and after all that, I didn't even have to bring up the bugs.

This. People don't like change, but eventually, you get used to it.

So is there nothing to do after you are finished with Chapter 9? I was under the impression that's when the game starts to open up - you hunt down your companions, start building the alliances etc. Is none of that there?

I find it interesting that people feel the story was still non star warsy. I felt that it was finally very much star warsy. I'm not going to try to make you like the expac OP. I just don't particularly agree with these oh the expac is awful. I greatly enjoy the changes. I do wish you could enjoy things that we've been provided, but if you can't you can't. Just the way it goes. Hopefully you find your place in gaming, or maybe you move on to other life endeavors.