Unsubscriber's Thread: Tell us a few things

newsflash! unsubscriber=/= I hate this game with passion of thousand suns and I'm leaving this game forever!

you know, it being f2p and all.

for some it could be both, for others it could be that the game in current state is worth playing occasionally, but not worth paying subscription for.

so you stick around and browse the forums because
1. still playing
2. general news
3. new that may make subscription worth it again.

I unsubbed a couple of days ago and just finishing my last 20 days. Reasons being...

- I live in Australia and they haven't fixed our population problems or informed us of any progress for 6months. They say they are still discussing it.
- I see so many things they could be doing but each patch I see a new cartel pack.
- I got instakilled in ancient hypergate when doing a ranked warzone.
- when I go to inspect players it still comes up with my stats, this has been a known issue for as long as I can remember.
- they just released a new cartel pack.
- they still haven't added a feature to rejoin ranked warzones when disconnecting for 30seconds.
- I never want to look at another cartel item again.

As each of these things happen, it starts to add up until you are just full of rage for the game.

yeah, sadly when I made my half unconscious post, I had completely forgotten about free2play.
When I see the word, unsubscriber my brain can only think of one thing:
People who make unsub threats and vow never to return.
Yeah, sorry, I mislead myself. I'd retract and delete my own post if I could.

I can now clearly see, what this thread boils down to and is set up to answer only one looming question:

How can former subscribers put up with the freetoplay restrictions?
What are free2play-unsubbers doing to make the time they spent in this game acceptable.

in my case - purchase all the major unlocks with credits and/or accumulated cartel coins. flashpoint passes etc are relatively cheap on my server, so i just plan buying those when I feel like running more then my weekly limit. the only real issues are small credit cap, mail restriction and com caps. however, with 2.0 incoming changes to coms (aka weekly com caps, that are ridiculously low) the one thing I could not just buy unlock for that mattered to me? is no longer available with subscription. mail restrictions can be circumvented with some help from friends/guildies. and credit cap? at this point, there's nothing I really want, that won't be affordable with preferred cap.

bear in mind, I've been playing since early access, so I have a nice headstart on legacy etc. its tougher when you are just starting out.

i actually unsub and re-sub regularly.

I re-sub cause hey , it's star wars and i enjoy pvp'ing.

I typically unsub because it either gets stale after around 3 weeks or the lag gets to be unbearable.

The main problem i have with this game is how incredibly selfish the devs are and how they develope what they think we want. Simple things like ship customization are much more important than mounts. Bringing the social aspect to swtor in cantinas etc..

They overlook way to much and seem to , lately at least, be spending way to much of their development power on the cash shop. This game will hold strong with 100k subs or so and be classified as just another niche asian grinder type game like dragon nest, mu, etc... Shame that the developers ignored so much because of selfish pride. It's the only reason i could think of for what this game became.

Again, i resub because i love star wars, just that there is no reason to keep me here. IF i want to raid and run dungeons there are at least 5 games that do it much beter. I do enjoy pvp , but with no real incentives or real rankings or any sort of organizational structure to pvp i tend to just go back to league of legendsa fter a month or so of swtor pvp.

I still hold onto the hope that this game will evolve , star trek has come a long way since their crummy release and are gaining players. I truly hope that bioware gets this "our story" out of their selfish minds and starts making it "my story" . I don't play this game for you i play it for me.

edit: despite my negativity i wouldnt stick around and complain and hold so much hostility if i didn't think this game could be so much more. I really wish this game would have taken some of swg, some of wow, some of guild wars, some of daoc, some of eve and really tried to make something star wars fans deserve

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As of 2.1 there is no reason to subscribe anymore.

You guys charge us regardless of subscription status.

Millions of people anticipated and played this game, at least a million were disappointed by your lack of content, F2P apparently saved this game, and now, you decide to charge those who remained loyal to you when your game wasn't as appreciated as it is today?

Forget that, you decide to charge people who (let's not call it subscription anymore, that implies that we get what we pay for) support this game. Corporate greed is going to run this game into the ground, not lack of content, not the player-base, not your super bad and vicious community, but YOU.

You have this great IP, a great reputation, and yet to blatantly decide to screw your players over.
Loyal players have been BEGGING for re-customization since pre-launch, and now that it's finally here you're going to charge them for it?

I don't know which one of you is responsible for this enormous **** up, so **** you BioWare and **** you EA.

I just unsubbed yesterday due to personal reasons/need a break/gripes with the game.

I plan to resub in a matter of months depending on my personal situation and state of the game. But I still continue to browse the forums and mingle with guildies on our site.

So my reasons:
Mainly pvp focused.

1.) lack of any world pvp content.

2.) virtual nonexistence of expanded pvp content since launch.

3.) discontinuation of class stories (one of the only things his game has done well in comparison to other MMO's)

4.) horrible state of PvP: bolster bugs, continuation of exploits, broken classes, lack of dev concern/action over time.

5.) seeming precedence of cartel market over quality improvements/free quality of life updates.


Please note that I am a PvPer at heart but do enjoy doing OPs and other PvE content with guildies and friends. These reasons are my own even if you may or may not agree with them being valid or fair reasons. They are what I expected of the game, and what the game failed to deliver.

I just re-subbed for a month after a long break because a friend began to play for the first time. I will be unsubscribing before my renewal for pretty much the exact reasons you described.

The tracer missile animation change.