10 races that are better than Cathar.

What most of the people who cry about race choices and the Cathar announcement somehow fail to realize is that every character is Voice acted. If a race lacks the ability to speak galactic basic, then throw it out the window. There is no possible way devs can justify flushing the entire voice over of each class down the toilet and replace it with rwwwwwwwrwaoaowwowowrrworowr or the crazy Rodese i can't even begin to type out. Having said that, I do agree that there are much more interesting races than the Cathar, such as the ballin' out of control Mon Cal, the race I wanted to play from the beginning.

Do you know the lore the game is based upon?

Wookiees have been slaves up to about 300 years before the game, and the vast majority of them haven't left the planet and see no real reason to. Why would you overthrow your oppressors to gain control of your own planet and... leave? Does it make any sense that you'd have a Wookiee Soldier? Kashyyk isn't even part of the republic. What about a Wookiee agent? The Empire isn't terribly happy about using Chiss, but a Wookiee would be okay?

And a Sith or Jedi Wookiee... yeah, those are explicitly prohibited. Never gonna happen.

Yes, I know that logic and lore don't play a part in this argument, it's simply: I want (a Wookiee). Many people would be happy to shred lore and ignore any sort of story consistency so long as they got what they want.

I for one am happy that Bioware doesn't give in to such demands (or at least, they haven't yet).

I don't care about the Cathar, and certainly won't be deleting one of my existing characters to make one.

I would absolutely delete and reroll a character slot if I could make a droid, especially an HK series (an HK Bounty Hunter FTW!)

What most of the people who cry about race choices and the Cathar announcement somehow fail to realize is that every character is Voice acted. If a race lacks the ability to speak galactic basic, then throw it out the window. There is no possible way devs can justify flushing the entire voice over of each class down the toilet and replace it with rwwwwwwwrwaoaowwowowrrworowr or the crazy Rodese i can't even begin to type out. Having said that, I do agree that there are much more interesting races than the Cathar, such as the ballin' out of control Mon Cal, the race I wanted to play from the beginning.

What people who continually bring this up fail to realize, is that it is an IDIOTIC argument. There are already alien races in the game, which do not speak basic, and have subtitles. If it blows your tiny mind too much to concieve of such a thing as 'playable' versus 'unplayable' then well I guess that's your problem.

The voice acting would not be flushed down the toilet. It would still be there for all the recolored reskinned humans in the game.

All of this boils down to "IF IT REQUIRES ANY WORK AT ALL ABOVE THE BARE MINIMUM, IT WILL NOT BE ADDED TO THE GAME, EVER." Which is a completely different argument than "it's impossible to conceive of having cool and unique alien races in a Star Wars universe."

I'd say the choice of Cathar fits well with their other decisions, because it is terrible. And terrible fights right in with their walled-in, on-rails, LitterBox single-player game they've created. Really the Star Wars huge fanbase huge franchise MMO going free to play within a year? Cathar BS fights right in with that.