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In your zeal for a perfect playing field with no attempts to cheat by anyone ..... I think you took the comment from Eric to an editorial extreme.

No company actually wants to ban players... but they DO want them to behave within stipulated norms (hence the purpose of a ToS, and enforcement of it). Which is why they have Terms of Service and a sliding range of sanction discipline to begin with.

And non-permanent sanctions are one of the better ways to go about the more malicious trouble makers... and if they continue to persist... they can and do perma-ban multiple time offenders.

Stop pretending like they never suspend, or never perma-ban bad offenders. By your imperative.. you would have been banned from the forum by now... rather then just receiving the occasional removed thread/post and a warning or short suspension. Yet.. if you were persistently bad in the forum... you would in fact get perma-banned. Same goes for the game.... only on a wide range of issues or bad behaviors.

if you read the recent interview with former BioWare employee Daniel Erickson, you will see that they don't wonder at all. Their actual business model was to have people drop off and only come back for new content. They seem perfectly fine with doing things that way.

in other words, the Fatal flaw was their core philosophy in the first place and no plans designed to keep those interested in content and story playing the game.

It seems they also don’t like to punish people for cheating in the first place. It really made me mad when Musco said that in the Podcast. They prefer not to ban people, just encourage better behaviour. (Totally hippy, let me give you a hug, crap)

This. I will not do pvp. I have done exactly twice in the years I have been here. (1) to get the droid companion and (2) the dark/light event. While I know some people like pvp there is really nothing in pvp that interest me and if they are going to only focus on pvp then ....

And on another note, most of the people in my guild have been here since launch and they have stayed more than the casual ones so I am not sure where they are getting their ideas about the vets of the game.

Seems like they finally figured out the value of PVPers. Don't need much new content, we only need bug fixes, population and BALANCE, a cheap and stable player base. I thank the effort put into the last patch with matchmaking and I hope for more fixes

People who play SWTOR for a year or more are a small minority of the player base, former players who return for a few months when there is new content and totally new players that play for a few months are the vast majority

Truly unfortunate that this is their opinion. It means long-term pve players really need to have one foot out the door looking for something else sustainable to do for the day when PVE is a trifling and the day everyone posting on the forum for new story content is doing so in utter vain. At the moment they're doing it in only semi-utter vain.

Horribly disappointing.

Hopefully the PVP audience that the game will eventualy exclusively cater to will be enough to keep the game going because without new PVE story content going forward I know this is one long-term non-pvp paying subscriber who will be long gone.

Once the game is absolutely brimming with a cabal of toxic PVP players and no new PVE content, there will be no rhyme or reason for any other type of player to hang around.

Truly unfortunate that this is their opinion. It means long-term pve players really need to have one foot out the door looking for something else sustainable to do for the day when PVE is a trifling and the day everyone posting on the forum for new story content is doing so in utter vain. At the moment they're doing it in only semi-utter vain.

Horribly disappointing.

Hopefully the PVP audience that the game will eventualy exclusively cater to will be enough to keep the game going because without new PVE story content going forward I know this is one long-term non-pvp paying subscriber who will be long gone.

Once the game is absolutely brimming with a cabal of toxic PVP players and no new PVE content, there will be no rhyme or reason for any other type of player to hang around.