I agree, in fact I am a story / solo player that has put ridiculous amounts of money into the game over 10 years. I'm saying that since it's the endgame people who have kept the lights on ( or so we keep getting told on these forums), let's put story / solo content as the free model of the game with zero restrictions. I can then cancel my sub and keep doing what i've been doing for the last 10 years without having to pay for it. Well, except for my Cartel Market splurges.

I agree 100%, story people aren't keeping the lights on, it's the endgame players. In fact, I think they should eliminate free to play and preferred and put all endgame content behind the subscription and keep all story / solo activities provided free. Experiencing the story without any restrictions will pull people in and they will be happy to stay and pay for endgame, ops, pvp, gsf, flashpoints etc because they are obviously the majority and have kept the lights on. That way all those story players who never subscribe or buy anything from the cartel market won't have a leg to stand on if they don't like something, you're getting it for free, don't complain. Then Bioware can focus their resources purely for endgame, because that is so obviously where the majority of the players who keep the lights on are. It's just big brain common sense.

This post right here, nailed it!

Edit: Best of luck all, enjoy the game!

"Are we so out of touch....? No, it's the players who are wrong."

I’m still trying to be optimistic but I’m finding the game, for me at least, is full of tedious combat, and my only goal at the moment is finishing Season 2 and playing new toons. I used to log in on multiple characters (up to 10-12) to do conquest each week to grind for endgame sets. Now I really have no motivation to grind for vendor trash greens. I removed the majority of my active characters from the guilds I was in as I have very little motivation to do conquest. I hope you guys can bring the fun back to the game because at the moment I’m not getting much joy from the activities I used to do that kept me playing for hours and hours each week. Maybe cancelling my sub and taking a break for a while until I see where this debacle ends up is the thing to do. I never thought the 10th Anniversary would kill my want to play SWTOR, but it really has. I’m not angry, just disappointed.

A fantastic change that was a long time coming! Absolutely love this! I don’t want to jinx anything else.

Sorry if I missed it, but what exactly is the "Vision™". The things you say are upcoming look pretty good, but what is the overal Vision™ for the game and who does it include? Is it more content for all playstyles to work towards an end game or is this like Anthem 2.0 which is just something to say to keep people subscribing? Not trying to be hostile here, for once i'm trying to be optimistic, but I have no idea where you want to take the game.

Does this allow you to buy customisations for opposite faction companions that join you that you would normally have no access to the vendors that sell them? Cause if so colour me intrigued!

Okie dokie.

Well bugger me lol, that will teach me to try and be smart without any research! Cheers for that!

Click to remove the buff as soon as it lands, It cancels the effect and if it's a troll it annoys them. I had a guy follow me for an hour throwing snowballs, cancelling buff, rinse and repeat. He started whispering me more and more to stop cancelling his snowballs, even got pretty descriptive about it. Amused the hell out of me. Would be nice to have a rakghoul stim equivalent for it though, or an item. Heck give the user a title of "Party Pooper" when it cancels "x" amount of snowballs. I'd use it just for that alone.

Really well written and succinct, I have nothing else to say but "well put".

I started a new Agent and did heroics to get to level 75 before starting my class mission. I wanted to save this character for the expansion so I could choose the Commando spec as I've always wanted an Imperial heavy trooper. Not having a ship though has made me impatient so I am doing the class mission to at least get that and make travel easier. Very excited by the thought of having multiple specs on characters!

Because if you get rid of the players that aren't part of your vision for the game and start to attract those that are, then you can put out more content for a less diverse group of playstyles, making life easier on the devs. I'm going to reserve my judgement once it all goes live, there are things I am excited for and some much less so, but I think they have a goal in mind, and I don't think any hubbub on forums that were abandoned a while ago for Discord will change their mind. If it sucks i'll leave, if it's awesome i'll stay, and I think they will have taken into account players they will lose vs players they want to attract with this expansion and that's set in stone. I'll wait and see. For once i'm going to be optimistic.