I never understood this..... Why all this talk about server populations, decline, number of subs....? Why not, you know, play the game until you feel you are done with it? It's not like you have any power over the game what so ever. Someone else made this, not you. You play - they make - end of story. Your contribution to this is that you pay to play, they sell to live - basic economics really. If you do not want to buy, then don't, and if you do, then do. Is the game declining in popularity? Not here, not in my gaming room, not from the chair I am sitting in. It is still fun to play are several years. Will my amount of fun somehow be lessened by the fact that a smaller amount of people like it today than they did a few years ago? Hardly. That would be incredibly shallow and show serious signs of pack mentality and the need of being one of a large heard. I do not need that. Neither should you. Dare to be an individual! Do not care what other people say about what you should like or not like. Just..... Play the Game! It is still great

But... we are entitled to it..... It is another cash grab from Biofail! Another falied update..... and my favorite... It should have been in the game from the start!

No worries. They will be fixed and until then, just run with tank-spec.... or skip PVP with it.

We sure have gotten alot of new cool armor since the start, but.... It should have been in the the game from the start!

If you do not like getting more XP than you feel you deserve, perhaps due to the possibilities of outleveling content, there are some thing you can do to battle this game-killing problem. 1. Play the game in Black & White so you cannot see the color of the quest text. If this is not possible, just play with a pair of old school 3-D glasses that will filter out reds and greens. A good pair of sunglasses might work too. 2. Do not upgrade your gear or, even better, use inferior gear to combat your hysterically inflated stats. 3. NEVER train when leveling! Doing this will kill the game for you! 4. If you, by an obvious mistake, have trained new skills you should not have in the first place, because BioFail, remove those skills from the hotbars ASAP!! If you do the above, you will be able to play the game even when there are bonuses to the XP gain. Oh, just to keep yourself honest, you should remove the space-bar from your keyboard so you do not risk accidentally pressing it and thereby missing out on, perhaps, the N:th rerun of the, fully voiced, quest lines. If the mere thought of missing ANY of the content makes you sweat and twitch nervously, also make sure you have a clear path to the ESC-key, just in case. That way, you can smash the little bugger as soon as the quest speech seems to come to an end and you can both read it and listen to it again, over and over. By doing so multiple times during double XP-weekends you delay those horrible extra amounts of XP. Oh, and never run. Always walk. If you run, you might miss something, and that would also speed up your XP-gains to incomprehensible levels.

Hmmm... this sounds like a no-issue. It can go one of two ways: 1. You want the offered stuff, pay for it and then get it and likes it. 2. You do not want the offered stuff, keep your money and moves on. The dyes clearly states they are 2-color packs. It is no secret that armor is 3 colors. Each pack can be previewed before using it. It is stated that it is random. To complain about it is really just a waste of time...really..... Move on!

Yes, well..... after a lot of cries about low pops on APAC servers..... now it is finally possible to consolidate and bring everyone together in one (mostly) happy bunch. HUZZAH!! Oh..wait.... now there is one more thing to cry about isn't there? SWTOR - The glass is always half-empty.

I do not get it.... Here we have a great game, which many of us are hoping that can live on for many years, and that game went F2P and relies largely on income from what you would call "milking the populace". You HAVE options... You CAN sub and get all content and game modes for 30 days to less that the cost of going to the movies and seeing a Michael Bay flick. Or.... you can play F2P and only pay for stuff you WANT, that is stuff you did not get free in the first place. Things like unlimited Warzones, Operations, Flashpoints, lootdrops, XP acceleration, high quality gear, and so forth. Now we get another option. Character re-styling that we can pay for by using CC. Not really anything that is vital for the game, is it? You buy it if you want it, or else you roll up another toon with the correct likeness and play it during weekends with XP-boost while it lasts. Same goes for all the stuff in the Cartel shop. Nothing vital really, nothing we have not been able to live without in the past. A subber gets complimentary CC each month. They never seems to expire so one can stack them pretty high, or one could use them to alter ones toon or getting the new Cathar race or whatever. To each his own. My point is this - There is nothing, absolutely nothing, that forces anyone to spend CC in SWTOR. But I get that there must be a few out there who gets the old nerdrage by the mere existence of the Cartel shop - but to those I want to say: Use your energy elsewhere! Write a book, create a song, or cure cancer - this is a game and as such it has no real consequence. It is supposed to be fun. If it is not, do not play it. And to Bioware I say: Keep on with the Nickle-and-Dime approach if that is what keeps this game afloat!

Yay! Awesome! Been here since day one and still enjoying it on a daily basis. Wow. Has it been a whole year already? And I have still not completed all the storylines, only 3 imps to lvl 50, so given my haste, I will be done with the other five in 14-16 months By then, we will probably have even more to do so it looks like I have my entertainment cut out for me for a long time. Now, time to gather up all the guildies and make a seriously big fireworks show.

Easy there. Do not blow a gasket. We do not know what will be in the expansion yet, do we? Yes, Makeb and increased level cap has been mentioned before, but I am very certain that there will be alot more changes coming with the RoHC. I am looking forward to this very much. We were "promised" before F2P were on the table... but such things change. Now, BW needs to make some money so that we can continue to play the game. That certainly trumps all "promises" in my book.

So, in your own interpretation, even XP boost are P2W since it is possible to skip some quests during leveling? How about creating a character and place it in a cantina for a long time to get alot of accelerated XP to be able to skip a few quests, and during that time just pay sub... is that P2W too?

I really enjoy opening those packs and look forward to the new stuff. I have zero issues with BW making money on those things since, you know, they are in the business of making money. Now, let's hope they hade fixed the bugs that came with the items from previous packs... like the Devastator doublebladed lightsaber f.x.

I have seen alot of complaining about the restrictions for F2P players, calling this and that "stupid" and "gamebreaking", not to mention the popular "this will FAIL". So in the name of constructivism I will ask the question; How should the plan look for BW/EA to actually make any money on the F2P? I want specifics here, things that would actually work. And please... keep it constructive and above all feasible and very resonable. In other words, behave like adults or do not answer.

Yep, Maelstrom Prison is really great, and so is alot of the other flashpoints. Some might be a bit too simple in design, but on the whole they are all fun experiences during leveling. At endgame, the FP's might get to feel a bit boring as you will run them over and over again to get gear, but if done with a PUG, all Hardmodes can really be a challenge to complete - and therefore alot of fun. I like this thread It is a fresh breath of air to actually read something positive for a change. I had mostly given up coming to this forum thanks to all those who thinks they are entitled to this and that just because they pay a fee. Mostly their demands are more out there than Star Wars - and not so few thinking everything that gets added to the game should have been in the game at release. It is baffling really. So, glad you had a good time on the flashpoint. I really enjoy this game too, being an altoholic myself and with 4 more slots to play with I actually will be able to see how the Rep side lives

No, they did not, and if they were a bit ambigous at one point, it has been cleared up the last copule of weeks when they have repeatedly stated what was going to be in 1.4. It really does the game no good to spread these false accusations, even if they are based on a lack of knowledge and fact. I really love the saying "If you have nothing good to say, say nothing at all" and "Better to be quiet and let people think I am stupid, than open my mouth and prove them right"