Actually I bought it cause it's Bioware and in spite of it being Star Wars and just another WOW clone. Just saying. I might be the only one, just saying not everyone bought it cause it's Star Wars.

Probably cause not all MMOs retread the tired old EQ formula employed by WOW and sadly also SWTOR.

Area transition. Your character is removed from where you are now and put in another location in the same instance. Not the same as loading a new area.

Yeah sorry, no. It's hardly skill to pick up a preferred build and DPS rotation from a forums thread and just rinse and repeat it throughout a raid. Reflexes mean nothing when you can queue up your skills a whole second in advance either. If this was a vs. FPS these things would matter. The rest is just silliness like the one perpetuated by the guy above who says he needs the 'best DPS'. SWTOR seems to have tried to go a long way to make sure you can both play the class that appeals to you and still have the choice of two or three different roles you can take that class towards. I have no interest in being surrounded by people who actually care that their group or op group can drop an enemy a few seconds faster by getting one spec over another. If this actually is what a statistical combat log for everyone leads up to, then to hell with it.

I'd like one for myself, showing and measuring my own performance. I don't care for other people to send me a tell half an hour after an op telling me I need to use some attack more often in my rotation for a .5% DPS gain.

For a lot of people, there is the stories that are different to be a main incentive to play this side or that. Granted, those are the Bioware and Star Wars fans, not the zerg of rabid MMOers who will be gone back to WOW or on to GW2 in a few months anyway. Personally, I don't play Republic side cause the Jedi code is idiotic. I don't want to play a story where my character is an idiot. Though yes, the dun and tan robes are kinda boring too, but especially Smugglers, and Troopers to an extent have some pretty cool looks. On a more constructive side, Death From Above definitely has a wind-up time while your character goes up in the air. No idea if it's a second or two, but it's there. That said, except in a few borderline situations I'm not sure if exact moment of damage delivery makes that much of an impact outside of PVP really. If you were depending on a longer cast finishing to save your life or turn a fight around in PVE you were probably in over your head to begin with, and over time it comes out the same. The shorter duration on the JK power, unless it's just a tooltip typo, is however a definite bug that I trust you've logged.

Since you're on a Juggernaut, this might actually be because your last attack cancelled to a Defense mid-animation, then triggers again. It's really really annoying and probably a badly implemented feature, but if this is what it is it's not technically a bug. This, I don't even get at all. Sure, it would be nice to have but it's below QOL level, really. Lack of fluff being called a concern really bothers me in this otherwise pretty solid and factual listing. What's worse, if this happens to the market interface, your last search has been reset and you get to click through everything again. And this is really just personal opinion. I love having a lickspittle droid. The 'same colour, only fresher' line still cracks me up. Frankly, I feel that adding personal opinion in an otherwise comprehensive list of objective shortcomings cheapens the entire endeavour, but it's your post so whatever. But overall a good list. Seems to miss some of the more arcane bugs myself and others have experienced. Being unable to start conversations with one NPC only, but all others were fully working, or being unable to enter a Flashpoint cause the game told you you were already locked into one (when you weren't). Both of these only clear up after a reboot from what I've been able to tell, suggesting to me it has to do with how the game flags and caches things.

Have you considered lag? More specifically your graphics lagging behind what's happening in game? I have been stuck in a Force Choke animation but Ravage has been totally dependable. So wondering if your game is just faster than your screen. Does it still cancel immediately when someone dies?

Personally, I'm already doing that. But jumping into a group of four or five I sometimes end up blocking so much that I can't even get Threatening Scream off. Every animation cancels into a block. Granted, this might well have to do with the fact that I'm 2-3 levels above the enemies I fight cause of PVP, Space Missions and FPs. Tougher enemies would probably not get blocked so much, ironically enough. That said, some attacks seem to break this limitation, in particular Backhand and Force Scream always seem to go through. Smash seems to work more often than the plain saber attacks, probably for similar reasons. Maybe they just animate that much faster or the face that the animation makes it impossible to block from it cancels defense in that moment. Maybe there's an order of precedence. Speaking of which, Ravage always works too but definitely cancels defense while it channels (channeled Force Choke probably as well but mine's already instant).

In all honesty, I got my SW to 10 in about 4 hours of soloing the basics. Yes, right now where every amount of free time we get is precious this may seem like a lot. But it's not really. At level 10, rerolling doesn't hurt. Or hell, if you swing that way, keep this guy parked and make another SW and go the other way. That way, if it turns out you don't like it, you've saved 4 hours on trying the other AC. If life gives you lemons, hit it in the head with them, then squirt the juice in its eyes when it's down.

Actually, AFAIK Steam for example works that way, too. They'll just charge the same prices in USD and Euros. But. While objectively this may seem incongruent with the real value of money, you have to consider that not all things are equal. From what I've gathered from twelve years on the internet and having made contacts all over the world, US Americans generally earn less money but also pay far less on regular consumer goods. Europeans earn more but the cost of living is generally higher as well. Funnily enough, the pricing trends seem to be reversed where food is concerned. At the end of the day, most everything, everywhere in the first world is over-priced, really. How much do you think the production cost of that Darth Malgus statue was? It certainly wasn't a hundred Euros, or even a hundred USD each (the cost of producing the map and soundtrack are negligible, though the journal looks really nice, and so does the steelbook). What about the digital items? Did they each eat up a Dollar of coder time times the number of produced CEs/DDEs? Unlikely. Companies need to be profit-oriented to function, alas. And if there is a market, they'd do good to seize the opportunity to exploit it. Specifically to the OP, I can only recommend to do what I do: If a game seems too expensive for the fun it promises, don't buy it. Wait a year or two for the GOTY/Nice Price/Platinum/Classics/whatever edition. We know they will come. Granted, MMOs might not be here anymore in two years. But if they're not, you'd probably only have wasted your money the first time around anyway. Once in a while I don't heed this creed of mine (hello, Skyrim, you buggy POS with your wooden voice acting) and I regret it every time.

I really, seriously need to ask if the CE Vendor is a joke. (Gamestop Germany started selling SWTOR on the 13th if anybody wonders. I got my copy, registered* it and everything works fine. As of the 14th, I'm in the headstart. So I've had time to look at all this stuff.) I didn't expect it to sell anything game-breaking. The flavour of what's there is actually dead on with what I expected and actually wanted. But... Sithside right now there's currently a level 50 Speeder, an alternate little Droid Companion (Interrogation Drone) and a set of Imperial Trooper Light Armor. Alternate looks for the companions (one each, the Vette looks niceish, and Kem Val even has three looks. But... that's it, pretty much. I admit that I might be confusing some of the items with the VIP vendor (who also has an Imperial Dancer costume, female only - thank you patriarchy). But seriously. That's it? Again, I didn't expect mega stats, but in a game that still and inexplicably follows the tired old loot=looks paradigm I at least expected there to be some funked up gear in the CE store. Screw stats, I hoped for something more unique looking. Looking like every NPC Trooper in the game was not what I was hoping for. A bit more variety would be nice. A bit more flavour. I don't know if anybody agrees. Maybe people did want mega stats on CE vendor items, though I think that wish would be illusory due to balance issues. But as it stands right now, even the meekest commendation vendor has nicer stuff, overall. Though I will want that Interrogation Droid for my SW, none of the other stuff really does anything for me. I'm just hoping there'll be more stuff added. If not, I can really only honestly suggest CE preorders who didn't just buy it for the statue and steelbook reconsider their options. As of right now, the CE vendor is not even sheer fluff, it's trace amounts of fluff. *And for the person who asked if they should redeem their key now. Go ahead. You'll get your CE stuff, and the account will clearly spell out your free 30 days will start on the 20th. This aspect of it all is very well handled IMO.

Actually, there's a long argument there on which even the philosophers agree. There probably is an absolute truth but since we can't perceive the world from all angles at the same time our impression of it remains subjective, thus subjective truth. Compare the Parable of the Cave or that story with the blind guys and the elephant. Stories about subjective impressions and how they shape our view of the world. But here we're not actually dealing with something that can be touched or seen, but something more abstract. In abstract cases, the truth is usually what you can prove. Kind of like in a court of law. You may be able to intimate and conclude, but at the end of the day, ideally anyway, only the things that can be proven beyond the shadow of a doubt count. In absence of being able to perceive the whole truth, what is provable counts. We can agree to disagree here, but I doubt the idea is 'stupid'. I was just mostly trying to suggest that the OP's truth may not be the whole (objective) truth of the matter, and that really and at any rate, he lacks proof of his truth. Think of it as a courteous way of calling him an ignorant liar.

This. Newest studies show that truth is actually subjective and provable. The only split in the community I see is between those who are sore cause they got time on their hands and want to play and those who have other stuff they can do while still secretly hoping their invite will be in the next wave. Also, I love how you base your statement on a wording choice in the Launcher as opposed to several longer statements on the forums. If your argument includes ignoring evidence that opposes your point of view -I bet your next argument would be that the launcher text is more valid than the forums statements based on some arbitrary logic- you pretty much automatically lose all claims to anything approaching truth.

Well, speak for yourself, but really. Name stealing? How is being the first to any one name stealing? Unless you're a published Star Wars writer (and by published I don't mean fanfic but stuff you actually got paid for) you'll have a hard time laying a serious claim to any name. A guild is destroyed by someone getting into the game a day or two later? Seriously? Destroyed like, say, Catharge? Burned to the ground and the ground itself salted destroyed? However will those same guilds cope with stuff like members going on vacations, having finals or just crunch time at work? Competitive edge? Sorry, was there something to win in this game? Is this like the football world cup and I actually get money for being the first to level 50 or whatever? Yes, I like being good at and succeeding in the challenges laid before me in a game too. But if I needed MMO bragging rights to feel accomplished I'd assume that something went wrong with my life at some point. TL;DR srsly?