People who ninja for their companions

and yes, i'm pretty sure we've all been at that consensus since the thread started. there are just some people who think the devs should play a role in preventing unwanted deviations from this, and there are some people who expect everyone who plays the game to automatically know the unwritten rules of looting and abide by them without question, even though those unwritten rules vary from game to game, server to server, and guild to guild.

That said, I think it's kind of funny that we've been bickering like spiced up Jawas when all four of us basically agree on the core issue.

Hm. Utini. *puff puff*

Of course, this is just a temporary cease-fire. Once the mornin' shift logs on, they'll start quoting our mid-argument statements and fire up a new battle.

I hope this settles things. Straight from a Dev's mouth:

On Monday last week, Principal Lead Systems Designer Damion Schubert jumped in on a discussion about need vs. greed in SWTOR, revealing that there will be changes to the current system in the future:

Need vs. greed isn't as simple in our game because of companions, as well as Orange Gear and mod extraction. We will probably limit the 'need' button to only people who match the primary class the gear is meant for, and add a new button in between need and greed for players to choose if they intend the gear for these purposes - this will allow CC users to roll against each other without competing with the guy who wants to sell the gear for credits.
I don't have a timeline on this for you guys right now, though - certainly not in the next major patch. In the meantime, I strongly recommend that players who care clearly decide the expected need/greed role behaviors ('no companion need rolling or you're out!') when a group is initially formed. In the meantime, I'll work on getting this feature in the works.

There was absolutely nothing made clear in that post by the dev.

You can claim otherwise all you like, but the fact is, it's clear as mud.

Please, please, please, by all that is mighty, stop posting in colours that are difficult to read even wearing sunglasses. Its hard to follow who's claiming what when I have to skip the walls of rainbows

Lastly;

The thing yer all forgetting... Once someone wins a bit of loot, the other players have no business with that loot, where it goes, what it's used for. If you rolled greed and lost it to a need roll, well you gave the player the chance to roll need, don't expect anything more.

If you rolled need and lost, you lost. End of story.

All this other rubbish is just opinion and being a bad loser. Fact is is long before the wow stuff we have one simple thing. /random. If you won you won, if you lost you lost. And, if another player wanted something you won, they bought it off you. That how you made coin in a game. You won gear, then used it, or sold it.