First thing I do is turn off general chat. In WoW I installed an addon that gives me an infinitely large ignore list. People complain that this game has low-population servers. To me, that's a bonus.

"Everyone?" You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means. Put me on the "under no circumstances" side.

"Free to Play to 15th level" is "Free trial for ten days" wearing a false nose and moustache. I got into WoW by playing the free trial, and 5 years later I'm still subscribing. Free trials are good business sense, not the sign of the impending apocalypse.

The day a dumb***** computer game about pretending to be a Jedi Knight makes me lose sleep, I cancel my subscription and take a sledgehammer to my computer.

I feel the same way you do. I think this is one of the most achingly stupid things I've ever heard, and I can't believe Bioware actually spent money on this. Sadly, I suspect our opinion is a minority. That's OK, I'm used to that, ever since I decided Beethoven's music is superior to Brittany Spears.

It's Star Wars. Star Wars > everything else. SWTOR for the win.

Half his guild left to form their own guild and this is somehow Bioware's fault?

And the NPC knows what level you are why? Do you have a transmitter broadcasting "I AM LEVEL 40 FEAR MY LEET SKILLZ" or something? What you are talking about would utterly destroy any lack of RP verisimilitude for those of us who actually think enemy soldiers would shoot at us instead of smiling and waving as we parade by.

The "right"? Um... no. Just, no.

This. Also, keep playing and having fun.

He was fulfilling a Republic quest. There are Empire quests that I've seen Empire players completing where they're killing Republic soldiers. If you want to intervene, yeah, that's what PVP servers are for.

I like the game as it is, and most of the things people yodel about on this forum I either don't care about or actively dislike. Why on Alderaan should I support changes that will make the game less fun for me?

Considering that Star Wars is the #2 movie in history in terms of number of tickets sold, that's a pretty big audience. The only REAL question is, are there enough people like me -- Star Wars fans who think $15 a month is chump change to play 1 or 2 hours per week and so faithfully send off our $15 a month -- to provide a large enough revenue stream for the game.

SWTOR=Star Wars SWTOR for the win.

This. If you don't like the game, fine. Doorknob, butt, hit, way out.