Really? 34!? Seriously though..what's your point? I'm 38 and been playing MMOs longer than you, but it's hardly relevant to topic and you seriously don't want to start comparing "online gaming" resumes as that is just childish. Anyways, I never claimed the SWTOR population was "so large", merely that the number QQing like you are a small vocal minority that doesn't speak for everyone that plays this game, contrary to what you may have convinced yourself. Does the game have issues, certainly, what game doesn't? If you've played as many as you claim, you know there is a vocal minority in every game that champions the downfall of said game for how bad it is. At this point, im just glad to have a game to play at all that isn't WoW and that this game is SW IP as well is a bonus.

Where is this large consumer base you speak of? Here? Most of the players in this game like it. You aren't even a large consumer base within this game's population, much less Star Wars as a whole.

If the comp is a healer, burn them down first. If the comp is a DPS or tank, burn the player down first. wPVP can be a real blast in large events. Running across it in XP grind mode while solo is an adrenalin rush for sure.

This game isn't any concern to Disney, nor should it be. To be blunt, they have no reason to care how any one player does or doesn't like the game; no more than they would were someone to complain about the new movie. Going to Disney is even more remote than going to LA back under SWG. Back then, LA was still involved in development within the game along with SOE, who had the final say in what was going on. Here, Disney has no connection outside of owning the name.

To add to the other comments. Dulfy. Everything you need to know is on that site and if that site stopped covering SWTOR, we would be sooo very $!@#$#@. Seriously.

OP, you define yourself as casual, but I don't think you understand what that word really means. Your initial post tells me that you are a minimalist. That is fine, but the problems you are having are minimalist problems, not problems a typical casual player would have. I, as a casual player do not have these issues.

Not sure why you are seeing Spanish, but you can also lower the brightness setting if you can find it as that also tends to wash out colors. Again, I generally keep this a bit lower than normal to help the blacks be as black as possible...someone else mentioned how LCD black pixels still have light in them, so lowering brightness allows them to get as dark as they can.

You missed my point. That is how you see the black setting. My black setting through the cartel market is darker than your screenshot. My brown setting looks like your screenshot. I keep my contrast higher than normal as I am from the old days of CRTs and loved having true blacks and whites so I tried to get that as best I can on my LCD screens. This wouldn't be reflected on a screenshot though, so perhaps if I did a screenshot, I would see colors like yours were I took look at it on a different monitor...looking at it on my screen would just rebalance it again. I'm basically saying that it's possible to set your LCD screen to mask this without making the game quality bad, in fact, you may find the increased color saturation and truer blacks and whites visually more appealing. edit: to expand on this: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/Calibrate-your-display Not all monitors are created the same and if you've never balanced your monitor properly, you can't really blame the developer for poor color quality when they are using number codes that are far more accurate than the color balance of your screen.

yeah..that's not what mine look like on my laptop screen. I'm guessing I run my contrast a lot higher (always been a personal preference for me) than many of you. I would assume the two colors you are showing were washed out brown and brown. Neither look like the black hair I see through the cartel market.

I see. Well, if that's the case, I could see them removing the augments then. With the augments, you could essentially use them to avoid grinding the last 20 levels to 50 and still have a lvl50 capable companion, or cause a balance issue were you to level one to 50 and essentially have a lvl70 capable companion.

How does presence compare to influence? Aren't they 1:1 ratio?

Maybe it's your PC or monitor? My human BH has been through dozens of hairstyles and colors over the last years and I recently went back to her original with the black color and it is in fact black. She wears a black and dark red outfit so if it wasn't true black, it would be very obvious.

My Inbox had a countdown on the emails that said how many days I had left to retrieve the items. It was in red letters. I didn't notice the countdown till it went red with the warning, but even at that point, the deadline was days away. Short of forcing you to log into all your toons and making you clean your Inbox, I'm not sure what they could have done to make it any more obvious for everyone.

I was standing in the central park of Kintan Naboo on the Raidant server. Chatting with other guildies about some random topic when a Rebel jedi ran out of the city's cloner and up to the shuttle to fly out. He did this a couple times as I was standing there idling. As it was becoming a pattern, I opted to shuttle over to the nearest BH terminals and browsed the selection of bounties posted till I found his name and took the mission. I flew back into Kintan and dropped a little mouse droid by the terminal to the shuttle. (note, Droid engineers were able to make combat droids as well as explosive droids, that could be sent in to explode on a timer) As the jedi appeared out of the cloner again, I was standing at my usual place. /detonatedroid 3 2 1 BOOM One dead jedi and more credits into my account. A few seconds later, I get the tell from him....not QQing though...."OHH!!! I thought you were AFK! nice ambush. :)" The concept has its merits, but this game isn't designed to work with it. Someday we may have a game that has all the elements needed and we'll have this kinda fun again...some day.

I've played both sides, the hunter and the hunted, back in SW:G. I wouldn't care to see added in SWTOR. Reason? BHs back then spent a lot of time standing outside of homes waiting for an AFK jedi to stumble outside. In SWTOR, it's possible to spend most of your time at the keyboard in an instance, making it near impossible for a BH to actually find you and engage in combat. It's a great idea and was perfect in SW:G, but this game is way to heavily instanced to pull it off.