Can we get Nico Okarr at all?

As much as a demand for Nico and other older sub rewards, such as Party Jawa (which it's avaialablity is low so it's much harder to get the achievement with so many veteran players who had it leaving the game) that it wouldn't surprise me any if Nico ended up as a sub reward again in the future during the break between season 1 and 2 of KOTFE to keep people subbed during the wait.

Keep telling yourself that if it makes you feel better.

To date, BW has never made any exclusive subscriber reward available after the promotion ended.

It would appear from BW's history with regards to exclusive subscriber rewards that having Nico as a companion is likely forever beyond your reach.

I'm not saying it's a terrible idea, but I don't seen them doing this. I would guess that a high percentage of current subs already have Nico. It wouldn't make sense to offer him as a reward to a bunch of people who already have him.

The party jawa, on the other hand... it's a relic. It's in the past. People just need to let it go.

Read this, at the bottom of the page. The first paragraph / bullet will answer your question. Or just hit the spoiler button and read the highlighted portion.



All this crap about "Maybe they'll bring him back in 6 months...ect." Is just that: Crap. False Hope. It's been 7 months since TFE released. They even extended the time to get Nico, but people are still whining about not getting him. No other sub reward has ever been re-issued outside of it's T&C window. They don't need to start now. It's a violation of trust to do so.

Muh cheives, tho

I'm using the party jawa as an example somewhat sarcastically. I would no more expect them to make it available again than I would expect them to make the Founder's title available again.

The achievement, though, that is a little annoying. That I would expect them to remove from 100% planetary completion.

Wow, this thread just keeps becoming more and more fascinating. The entitlement argument in particular, since literally no one has suggested these things be given out for free. Just like no one has suggested Bioware should be coming for your other 'Badges of Loyalty'. For me personally, the suggestion of making the companions potentially available for sale came before I truly understood the depths of desperation so many of you hold to keep them exclusive.

And then, out of nowhere, the anecdotes about people suing because they spilled hot coffee on themselves started pouring in. It just seems so utterly unrelated and off point. Is this maybe about way more than exclusive rewards to some of you? Have you somehow equated this debate with any number of injustices where 'stupid' people have triumphed, and packed your obviously significant pent up angst towards how unfair life can be into this frivolous argument?

Cause if you read back, most of the PEOPLE who SUGGESTED they make COMPANIONS available AGAIN didn't type like THIS. And I have actually seen some well-reasoned and fair counterpoints, but the majority of the thread has been steamrolled by slippery slope nonsense where everyone gets the Founder title, or strawman arguments comparing the opposition to those court cases your lonely aunt forwards emails about.

For my part, I thought it seemed a shame to lock away HK and Nico forever since they're characters people are enthusiastic about. I'd wager I'm not the only one that got into the game after The Force Awakens reminded me how much I love the SW universe, and lots of those people probably missed out on both. My own thinking tends more along the lines of 'it'd be nice to see them get another shot' than 'Bioware needs to teach the entitled masses the meaning of consequences'.

To the few of you who actually bothered to reason out why exclusive rewards can be an effective business model, I did find that interesting. I played free for awhile, and I've found the game vastly more enjoyable since subscribing, but I've never tried playing as 'preferred'. If the occasional major subscriber reward is enough to suck people back in, there's something to be said for it. The question is whether they stayed subscribed, or just went back to playing free once they had their companion.

Nico and HK-55 are subscriber rewards. You have to be subscribed on the dates bioware tells you to to get those rewards. If you missed it for whatever your excuse was/is, they're not going to bring it back for the special people who demand it because they couldn't be assed to keep a sub going for whatever reason they gave.

Remaining subbed isn't hard. Go off on vacation, you can still be subbed. Go to a few funerals, the sub is still going. Got the entire family clan from your mother, father, and spouse? That sub won't disappear. Didn't know your bank was having issues, due diligence, switch to a time card or credit card. But no, all I'm seeing is excuses, and whining for rewards you don't deserve because you weren't subbed during that time frame. Yeah, life sucks, suck it up, buttercup and accept you ain't getting the reward and never will. You can keep checking the CM if you want, but you'll never see it.

Bioware will lose a lot of credibility and REALLY **** up their subscriptions if they tell us one day we have to sub for items and the next they give out to all subbed or not. I never said they wanted the sub rewards for free, what I'm saying is, next time you want that shiny, you better be subbed.

Speaking of which, there's a speeder coming in June. You outta make sure you're subscribed during by June 1st if you want that speeder.

Now that there are more companions in game than you can shake a stick at, and they are (almost) all mechanically identical; why are Nico or HK any different from a Founder's title or the Party Jawa?

"They're different because they're companions" is a tautology - companions post 4.0 are a skin wrapped around a bundle of mechanics, just an organization of pixels. Just like a title, or the Party Jawa, or the various sub reward speeders and armor suits.

Please note: I have no issue with them releasing HK-56, or Rico, or whatever recolor of the armors, speeders, etc; as rewards or as direct cartel coin purchase, or whatever. The way they're released a multitude of Prinawe speeders, or Aratech Speeders, or Tauntauns, etc. If they want to release a pack of Baby Blue and Black Striated Color Crystals, more power to them. They release a new astromech pet every May 4th that's a reskin of the previous ones, and you've been able to get different Astromech pets off the CM.

On the other hand, I think the HK-55 chapter is "too big" a reward to be a sub exclusive; but what can I do about it?

i want him to but its a subscriber reward it wouldn't be fair to those who were rewarded him