While the gentleman who posted the original post did have some spelling and grammatical errors, he does have a point. I have been playing for some time now, and I have noticed (as have members of our Guild) that since 4.0 was released, there has been a noticeable drop in players online. Not just in the general game area, but in Guild participation as well. It makes me wonder, are all of these wonderful and exciting changes that are being presented to us by Bioware the cause of this exodus from the game? Some of the things I have noticed as of late: Crafting: Bioware took the crafting portion of the game and completely blew it to pieces. They get rid of at least 20 crafting materials with 4.0, change the crafting process to add the need for Components (pre-crafted items required to even craft the end item), and took away completely some of the crafted items from certain Skills (I do Armstech, so I was not affected, but many other were). Now a few months later with the New Release, they are bringing in new level 9 materials, augments, and schematics to once again throw the crafting community into turmoil. Have these changes made the game better? Will there be new changes for each new Release? Are the changes responsible for causing many players who use the Artiface and Synthweaving skills to quit or change to a new Skill set? PvE: Level-syncing may be great for some, but for many it is more of a pain in the backside than anything. A player works their way up through the levels, from 1 to 65, fighting off mob after mob, boss after boss, to eventually become a member of the Elder Game population. Bioware changed that so that a level 58 could go to Coruscant and help their level 12 friend and allow the level 12 friend to still get points...I get that. But just like they had a vendor on fleet where you could go turn off the "12x multiplier", they need to have a setting where you can choose to Turn Off the Level-Syncing. While you may not be able to help your buddy out as well, you can still enjoy the ability to go "Terminator" on mobs or, let them ignore you as in the past so you can get to where you want to go without hassle. Has this change made people not want to go through the hassle? Honestly, I almost didn't renew my Subscription because the game was getting to be too much of a drudgery, I only renewed because I love the genre of the game. Companions: Holy Cow! Where did all these people come from? It use to be that you only had to worry about trying to get a few people to Level 10 on the Companion Scale. Now, you have to get EVERYONE to level 50. At 17 companions (my current number) times 250,000 points (to get one of them to the new level 50), I have to get 4,250,000 points in Companion Gifts to get all of them to 50. This doesn't count the 4 main NPC's who get the boxes from the heroics. If you had raised a companion to FULL in the Pre-4.0 game, they should have been raised to a higher level afterwards. A companion that was at 100% before, ends up at only 20% after...Not really a good return for all the time, effort, and credits you put into them. I am not a PvP, GSF, or Nightmare Ops player...not my bag. I just want to run around the galaxy, shoot bad guys, get some credits, and enjoy a game based on the premise of a movie I fell in love with 39 years ago. I thank Bioware for continuing to go to the effort to create new content. It keeps the game going and I hope brings new players to the game and makes old ones want to stick around. I just ask that they think about how much they are changing a game that before really didn't have any problems before they turn the universe upside down and give it a shake. Flame my post if you wish, it really doesn't matter. They are just pixels on a screen. Just putting my 2 credits out there... ::Stepping off my soapbox:: Take Care and Check Six... Sam Fargo Batiatus/Batiatus Academy

I love taking pictures in Real Life...in game, is no different. I have quite a few screen shots I have taking in the game. Sadly, I have no way of turning those pictures from the game into anything that I can use In The Game. What I would like is a way for players to turn screen shots into pictures that you can hang on the walls of your Strongholds. Yes, there are the trophy ones you can put up, and some of the Art pics you can get from the packs and at the Cartel are nice, but it would be great to be able to use your own stuff. Yes, I know that there are some who would try to find a way to abuse the system and find a way to take pics from Outside the game (...x r a t e d stuff...) and put them up, but there has to be a way to allow the use of In-game screenshots to be turned into Pics to go on the wall... Just my two cents... Sam Fargo Batiatus Guild

So, to get these very expensive additional rooms for places that won't get used very often, you have to spend a Very large amount of Credits, then go hunting for all the above listed items (some of which you can craft/get from crew missions, others you will have to buy someplace - GTN or Cartel comes to mind) to make 1 very time-consuming expensive item, THEN, do it two more times to repeat said very expensive and time consuming process... All for a bunch of pixels on a screen that represents something that really doesn't exist...and that no on in game will ever probably see, besides you. Beginning to think that Bioware is only in this for the money....Our Money...whether it is Real or game creds... But Hey...What do I know.