Quit "blaming" CE owners for actually owning a CE

Guess you were the minority who didn't buy the CE due to the emphasis on the promosie of a regularly updated vendor?

Would you mind awfully providing me with:

Exact numbers of how many Collectors edition were sold
Scientific polling showing exactly what percentage of those bought it on the promise of a regularly updated vendor

To back your assertions please.

I'm not sure where you see any of the CE hate coming from. I haven't noticed it - the only thing I see is was a bit of annoyance at the QQing (as others said) about the exclusive vendor not getting update. I have a CE and quite frankly, if I bought it because of the in-game vendor, that would make me a complete moron. You see, I bought the CE because of the nice stuff I could see was included in the box:

Security Key (the most practical in my view)
Music CD (probably one of my biggest reasons for getting it - exclusive music)
Darth Malgus statue (would of preferred Satele, but it still makes a nice bookend with my Skyriim dragon)
Journal of Master Gnost-Dural (cause an actual physical book I can hold in my hands and look at the pretty pictures is still pretty cool)
Disks in Metal Case (Well, it seems to be the standard in CE versions of games nowadays)
Longspur STAP and VIP bracelet (the only digital items I was interested in, even though they are also part of the digital upgrade pack). They are the most useful digital items for me.

You see, having exclusive access to the vendors, whether it be the Security Key, VIP, or the CE vendors was nice, but ultimately useless in the decision to buy the CE. I like customizing my characters and having useful items for them to wear and use. Without any prior knowledge of what would be on these vendors or even if I would like the look of any of it, it would have been completely stupid of me to base such a purchase decision on something sight unseen. So the fact that the vendors have not been updated is hardly of any consequence to me - again there is no guarantee that I would like anything that would ever be on these vendors or find any of it more useful than anything else in the game, so I ultimately based my purchased decision on what I knew I was getting and the value of that to me was more than enough to justify the cost.

So, to be honest, as a CE owner, I would rather they just leave the vendors as is and put more of the effort in creating art assets into quests and missions in the game (with a few saved for the CM to continue to help fund the game).

BJ

The armor should be buy able in the cartel store for like 20 bucks

The game was 60 bucks Before but now you can just upload it for the site for free, so every loses a little bit
Really we all paid for the game for early access and because we were excited

The CE did include a statue and cool box And some map or book thing, music cd also I believe
It's. a CE and its that fluff that matters

The armor should be buy able in the cartel store for like 20 bucks

The game was 60 bucks Before but now you can just upload it for the site for free, so every loses a little bit
Really we all paid for the game for early access and because we were excited

The CE did include a statue and cool box And some map or book thing, music cd also I believe
It's. a CE and its that fluff that matters

I disagree. Part of the point to buying a CE, certainly this particular CE, was to have SOMETHING, in game, that set you apart from the players who didn't. The CE vendor was supposed to be that way.

Even in SWG there was a CE version of the game that gave you 3 pair of "goggles" that you could wear if you wanted to. Those 3 pair of goggles were never added to "general population" for the entire 8.5 years of the game. The CE vendor, and the items on it, should be held to the same standard in my opinion.

Well, I've been following SWTOR since well before it's Beta and release. I don't have perfect memory by a long shot, but I honestly don't recall any specifics to the effect of "promising regular updates," that a couple folks here seem to quote as gospel. Sure be nice if there were some concrete evidence of that, since it seems to be the holy grail of the CE owner's complaints.

I have no problem with CE Owners in general. I do get tired of this constant interjection of "But you promised regular updates," and endless complaints for more exclusive content.

I think if you look around, you'll see that no other company gives out "perpetual ongoing" bonuses to purchasers of special editions. And why would they? People who buy them pay a ONE TIME extra fee for some added features. It's not financially feasible to continually develop new content for a tiny percentage of your user base that isn't even contributing any further to your revenue for said content.

You buy a special edition. You get some extras. That's fine, that's great. I've got no problem with that, no problem with you. But to expect extra content in perpetuity while the game is overall short on delivering content to ALL of it's players/subscribers? I've never seen these promises a few claim exist, but that doesn't even acknowledge all the boats that sailed when EA dumped most of the dev team and went F2P.