New Comps Can't Wear Cosmetic Gear???

Customisation is the most important thing to me in this game. I usually save up credits to buy armour. Not so much for myself, but for my companions. It's sort of an addiction getting the perfect costume right which suits my companion.

To not be able to do this with the new companions, they will never feel like they are a part of my crew and more like a guest appearance who will just disappear after I finish a quest.

We want to get attached to our new members, like the other old companions are to us. Will make the story that much more engaging if we had a major decision in the story in the future if we have to decide which member lives or dies. Guess who I'll choose? The ones I'm attached too. Not the guest appearance members.

Plain stupid move. I seriously can't believe how you think this is a good idea. You would make way more money allowing them to be customised to how we want them.

This is a major step backwards. Customisation is so important to me in this game, that if this isn't changed in a month, I'll think I'll cancel the game and never return. My other friends who I have been playing the game with for 2 years, feel the exact same way.

Please fix this.

I am actually considering saying screw it to the story on all the rest of my characters, and leveling up to 65 on the old planets, just to keep my companions as they are, and not get stuck with companions that I can't customize.

I feel your pain man. I have put alot of effort into dialing in the look of my crew, and I had plans for the newcomers. I don't want to run around with the EXACT SAME COMPANIONS as everyone else. And that is what this boils down to. Every single player in the game having cookie cutter clone companions. Looking around in social areas to see 19 identical Lana Benikos, 12 identical Koths and at least 75 identical HKs.

And sure, we can go recruit back companions and recruit ones from other classes. But still, these KOTFE additions will stick out like a sore thumb in Strongholds and irk me to no particular end anytime I have no choice but to use them.

So it would seem the only real choice is to NOT play the Fallen Empire content.

I've run one character through the first 9 chapters and have no plans to take anyone else though at this time for the exact reasons you mentioned. I always felt (in spite of the fact that I know everyone's story is the same) that I was playing my own story. I didn't have to look like every other Barsnenthor, Great Hunt Champion, etc. My Kira didn't look like 1000 others. Now it feels like it's no longer my story... it's ea/biowares.

But, hey, it's Star Warsy and Iconic.

It's a little off topic but I can understand the developers stripping us of our classic companions for the sake of the story and whatnot, but it seems like it wouldn't have gotten in the way of their plans to let us have our classic companions back after the story ends in chapter nine and we get our ship back.

The reason i bring this up is because I can understand having some characters not having customization options with regards to outfits, but if this is going to be the content strategy, then giving us our old companions back in addition to the new ones lets us still make use of the new companion system where gear has no statistical value and only serves a decorative purpose.

I suppose there may be plans to bring back classic companions in future stories, and this may be limited by design or even by financial and or contractual constraints. But even within these constraints, bringing them back as simply combat tools without any new dialogue would have been nice. It wouldn't have changed anything as far as story goes.