Yeah, turning down/off graphics options can improve performance. Don't think that's news really.

Of course WoW didn't "just happen". As I said, I know Blizzard have taken ideas from all over the place. The same can be said of any modern company. Google didn't just happen either. They just made a better search engine. Blizzard made the best MMO by far (at the time) and so people stopped playing the others, and played WoW instead. I won't stop driving my car because through some twisted logic someone clams it's all based on a horse and cart. Games Workshop didn't actually invent Orcs either. Star Wars itself has been compared closely to Dune. In fact a lot of it appears to have been totally lifted without change. In fact, name any idea in Star Wars (film or game) and I bet I could make some connection back to something else. Anyone can do it. Hell, all MMO's could be said to be a progression of the text-based MUDs I played before the web even existed. They're nowhere near the same though. Only an idiot would claim that one only exists due to the other.

What kind of logic is this?! Ok yeah, if you remove an entire nation from the stats they'll be lower. Hey, if you remove the US and Europe from SWTOR's subs, I bet they'll be lower too. Genius... Yes, I do know what Games Workshop is. It has nothing to do with the creation of WoW. Certainly Blizzard's taken ideas from all over the place. So has every other company. Star Wars wouldn't exist if it wasn't for Flash Gordon I guess? After all, that had spaceships, so Lucas MUST have based it all on that.

That's your opinion. For the vast majority of people, hierlooms are very convenient. They speed up levelling alts, and allow the player to level without worrying about gear all the time. It's actually beneficial to new players as well, as there's less competition for loot if some players in a party already have heirlooms, so don't need any gear. Yet again another "WoW is dead" prediction. It won't be "dead" - in fact it'll still be going for years as yet whether you like it or not. I don't play it any more, but I still have a lot of friends that do. I no longer know anyone in RL playing SWTOR - one of the reasons I left. The server I was on pretty much is dead. With the panda/Pokemon expansion, Blizzard are obviously going after a different market.. I'm sure they've researched it and it'll push up subs, not drop them. One thing I do believe is a good idea (and Blizzard never added) is to allow the player to choose whether to queue for cross-realm dungeon finder, or just queue on their own server. Cross-realm groups did serious damage to the community in WoW - and will in any MMO.

I always find these "Without X, Y wouldn't exist" statements ridiculous. Without your dad, you wouldn't exist. Does that mean that anything you achieve during your life is all down to your father? Of course not. Saying Everquest is the reason WoW exists is just as stupid. They share no code at all, no backend infrastucture, or artwork. They're both MMO's, that's about it. People get nostalgic about old MMO's, but without the rose tinted glasses, they have to be seen as what they were - a bit crap really. Especially compared to today's games. I own several old arcade machines from the 80's and 90's. I love playing Centipede, Metal Slug, etc, but they're nowhere near the technical achievement of something like Mass Effect 3. People are asking for things used in WoW for a reason: They work! There's a reason WoW has 10 million or so subs while SWTOR has under a million (as it's rumoured) - the reason is that they're doing stuff players like. If players didn't like it, they'd all leave. I left WoW, and I left SWTOR - but I played WoW for about 7 years, and only played SWTOR for a few months before I got bored of it and irritated at bugs and other issues. Bit of a difference.

I want a wookie as a mount.

As everyone knows, Jar Jar Binks was the best thing about all the Star Wars movies. I've unsubbed because this game is so boring, but a playable Gungan, maybe with a Ewok as a companion would be awesome and that'd be enough to bring me back in. For weapons, I guess a sock filled with rocks, and tongue attack or some**** like that. It'd be awesome. Make it so. As the famouse StarWars character Lt. Riker said.

Indeed - I only ever rolled 1 toon, and got so bored at level 37 that I quit (uninstalled weeks ago, waiting for sub to expire). I rarely met anyone outside of the fleet, never got a single FlashPoint, only time I ever grouped was in BGs. The story and dialogue was fine for a while, but it became too repetitive, the quests and mobs way too easy (Sith assassin) and didn't seem to get any better as I levelled up. Very boring game, made far worse by lack of a community, and mostly empty server (I played from launch, so was surprised the servers were so empty) Shame, as the franchise is good, lots of lore, but this was an empty shell for me. Guessing this'll be free to play before long. Still don't think I can be bothered to play it again. There's far better FPS's around with better graphics, better story and more of a challenge than endless "fetch me X of whatever, and kill X of those things". If I want PVP, there are far better games for that too.

Unfortunately that's what happens when 10 year olds are playing games with no supervision. They're not "guys" they're little kids. Not much you can do about it except put them on /ignore. That's the worst thing for them actually - they love attention, so ignoring a wailing child teaches them what they're doing is wrong. Simples.

I do, it's called "Diminishing Returns" or "DR". It means that each time you're hit with a specific type of CC, its duration on you reduces until you're immune to it. So if 3 people spam you with a root at once, you will instantly be immune to it. Also, in other MMOs, snares and roots are treated the same. The immunity lasts a fairly long time - like 8 seconds or something before it starts dropping off. The resolve system was and is utter crap that demonstrably doesn't work. Glad I unsubbed :-)

... in theory... What happens in practice is the resolve bar slowly fills up as your health bar drops to zero. It's a useless system. DR should have been implemented - might have saved some subs.

You seem to forget this is an MMO. It should encourage player interraction and reward team play. What Bioware have is a single-player story driven game with very little incentive to group with the few players you may meet while levelling in the heavily instanced environment. I'll give Bioware props - I love the Mass Effect games, but they need to quit with this game now and do what they do best - that's not MMOs. I think everyone without rose-tinted glasses on can see that pretty clearly. I had a LOT more fun in WoW than I ever did in SWTOR. I also had more fun in Rift. This is the first MMO I've played where I genuinely couldn't face logging in any more, and so never made level cap. For someone with a fully raid-geared 85 of every class (in some cases 2 of the same class on different servers) and numerous twinks in WoW, that's pretty bad. For someone who was a hardcore raider, and officer in one of the biggest guilds in one of WoW's heaviest pop servers to never have felt like grouping (apart from PVP) while levelling, that's pretty damning. As I said above, I'm disappointed - I WANT a new MMO as I grew bored with WoW. But I have to face facts - Blizzard just does this stuff better than anyone else around them at the moment. It helps that they have money pouring out of 10 million pockets an into their bank account every month of course. But that's just how it is.

I initially unsubbed within the first month due to numerous bugs and terrible PVP gameplay. Came back a few weeks later as a friend said it had got a lot better, but in reality it hasn't. I kept playing whenever I felt like it - which became less and less often until I found I hadn't logged in and done anything really in almost a month. Got to level 37, never did a FP, did a fair bit of PVP - found I was just space-baring through the conversations from all the countless "go collect X of these things" or "go kill X of those guys" missions. Server is pretty much deserted, just felt like a really dull single-player game. Ended up feeling like a chore, not entertainment. Unfortunately for Bioware, there's a lot of good games out at the moment, and GW and D3 on the horizon. Being just another WoW clone isn't enough really. I unsubbed again, and won't be returning I'm afraid. I'm a bit disappointed to be honest. Had high expectations for this MMO - but it's never felt like an MMO to me (previous to this I played WoW for over 7 years - as a hardcore raider for 2 years and an officer in a very large guild for 3 years, and also Rift for around 6 months) Good luck to anyone who stays though. If you're enjoying yourself, have a blast. It's just not for me.

It's a common misconception that the top raiding guilds are full of no-lifers. Probably some jealousy there too, but the top guilds actually play for less hours a week than a normal raiding guild, especially once the content is on farm. They will have periods of intense activity when new content appears on the test realms, but after that they play normal hours. I was in a few hardcore guilds in WoW, and rarely raided more than 5 hours in a night. Yes, I also have a very active social life, my own house, car & business. As an example - we used to clear ICC back at level 80 in a couple of hours on hard-mode - most people wouldn't get anywhere near that even raiding 12 hours a day for the full week. Some guild members also played Arena heavily, but that was their own choice, and had nothing to do with the raiding schedule.

Maybe they're busy identifying the cause of the issues so they can give a detailed answer. They're not just drawing pictures here. "Haven't explained anything". A blatant lie - if you read the post they explained why they didn't add that content to the patch. The fact you're not happy with that doesn't change the fact they wrote it. It may come as a shock to you, but the developers don't work for you, me, or anyone else in this forum. You have as much right to ask them to detail their work as they have asking you to detail yours. It's none of your business, and it does nobody any use to detail a technical issue that you probably wouldn't understand anyway (and confusion leads to more whining, as we all know - exhibit A being this thread.) Graphic design and software development are very different. Believe me I know, and have worked with a *lot* of designers with several large studios over the past 15 years - for both digital and print work. I could reel off a client list and you'd know a lot of the names and brands, but this isn't the place. I know for a fact that unless everything is well planned and organised before the designer is given a task, that it WILL overrun. Even if timings are accurate, client input and unforseen issues often delay projects. If you've never experienced this then you can't have been working as a professional designer for more than a few days. Case in point, the project I'm currently working on is currently 3 weeks behind schedue due to a graphical redesign (branding). Software development involves a lot more variables and is a lot more complicated than design. That's not to say that a software developer can do what a designer can or vice versa, just that the development process has a lot more potential for the introduction of obsticles. Once a designer has finished a visual, zipped up the AI, PS, or IND files they're done, unless amends/changes are requested. With software the code has to go through constant testing and refinement. So it's applies and oranges. You don't work in the software industry (and apparently have had little exposure to studio workflow) so you're totally ignorant of how this works. It's not a "plot". You're making some half-baked leap of logic without any facts upon which to base your assumptions. That tin foil hat is baking your head I think. Who said it was a last minute decision? I'm sure there were a lot of meetings between developers, managers, PR staff, copyrighters before that blog posting was made. 12 hours isn't exactly "last minute" either. I'd love to see what happens when you're doodling and your pencil snaps. Do you start raging in the pencil manufacturer's forum claimnig they make pencils that snap to increas their profits? Sure. 500 of my guild said they'd quit if RWZ's were in the new patch. There you go, that balances you out. I'm getting bored of this whining now. Either leave or don't. I don't really care.