I'm feeling Nickel and Dimed by Makeb

Glad i found this thread.I left swtor a long time ago for some other shiny new game at the time, but have recently returned.I had no idea all these shenanigans were going on.I almost pre-ordered the so called expansion without reading up on it.Thank you all for saving me some money.I was wondering what happened to all the servers.I guess when i finally hit 50 ill go find something else to hold my interest.

IMO it's so that they can pad the December quarterly figures, no other reason.

I'm amazed this one survived the massive post cull they've done. Not that I disagree with the statement mind they just seem to be being a bit 1984 about their moderation these days - posts and threads don't merely get locked they never existed.

But yes given the timing of the announcement and the few details they are willing to provide (like no release date or complete feature list) it does appear they have a shareholders meeting second to third week in January and old Johnny boy needs some better numbers.

People predicted TOR would go F2P before the end of 2012.
People are predicting TOR will go the way of E&B and Sims Online before the end of 2013.

I am a little bit confused on my feelings about this. I recently started playing again just to level another character.

On the one hand It is only ten dollars. That isn't much. It is supposed to be a fairly large content update from what I can imagine, because imagination is the only thing I have to go on, there aren't many facts about this content update. But it seems fairly substantial.

On the other hand why do I have this horrible sinking feeling in the very deepest recesses of my gullet? Could it be the Muffin and Coffee I had for lunch?? No. I bought some cartel coins (And boy did my partner go off when she found out about that.....She actually cancelled my account and sent EA a nasty message) because I wanted to support the game. Then opening those packs and getting absolutely nothing made me think perhaps my ex partner was correct.

I just don't know. EA have sucked a lot of money out of me this last year and I have had some pretty crappy experiences. There comes a point where you just have to say enough is enough. I think I will wait to purchase this "expansion" and see what it's like first. If it's worth ten bucks then it will be worth twenty.

But that little niggly feeling is telling me not to. I think this time I will listen to it and wait.

*Edit* I think the poster above me touches on an excellent point. I hadn't played for two months and came back and they had this cartel shop with overpriced re-skinned models and lucky dip prizes. But the same old annoying bugs were still there. I think you guys at EA should really be taking a step back and before you start charging people for new content you should be fixing the game.