I played Wow religiously for years, own every console ever (I am a total nerd and damned proud of it!), but I never had a game cause my head to just try exploding like this game does. I even have my monitors brightness turned way down. Always the first thing I do when I get a new one.

I have an overall sensitivity to bright flashy lights, so for every game I play I turn the gamma way the crap down to begin with, and that pretty much solves my issue with every other game. If I do that to this game I may as well just stop playing.

I'm not gonna lie. I was so inanely excited for this game I bought a CE for myself and my boyfriend. Each patch makes me feel like I wasted a LOT of money. And that makes me sad.

If they screw up simply opening the code up to be modded, we are in for some serious issues.

There's one capped thread and another nearly capped thread that say otherwise. And that's just the people coming to the forums to voice their concerns over this. With so many having legitimate issues with this change, it needs to be addressed. Props to you if you like it or it doesn't bother you. But to sit there and say, "Well everyone I know likes it so there's nothing wrong with it at all" is simply blatant ignorance. Go see how many people are having problems with this change, then get back to us. And also, make sure you note that most of us are simply asking for a way to turn it off (because we are aware that there are people that like it), not remove it in it's entirety. But since it has made the game near unplayable for so many, it is an issue that needs to be addressed quickly. If they can't find a way to resolve it, then they should simply roll back the change until they can make it a workable option for everyone.

Eyelid twitching is not a sign of a seizure. It's a sign of severe eye strain. A lot of people are experiencing severe eye strain, headaches, and mild nausea with the new UI changes. Not a seizure. Try again.

Or enable UI modding. Problem solved. HOORAY EVERYONE WINS

Pretty sure the OP said they were suffering from noticeable headaches/eyestrain/and general motion sickness/nausea. Read a post before you reply with something entirely irrelevant to the thread. Thanks.

They're simply proof that drugs r bad.

Part of me is glad I have limited play time with work and school right now. Even though those shining moments of when I get to play currently look bleak. /sad panda

They need to find a middle ground. Like make it so we can turn it off if it causes eye problems. Good for you that you like it, but it was giving me such a bad headache I had to tell my boyfriend to stop in the middle of questing while I tried to calm the headache and eyestrain down. There are legitimate issues for a great number of people. Ignoring that would be gross negligence on the part of BW.

I have a really cool idea. Remove it until they find a "fix" so those of us having issues can enjoy playing what we pay to play again. OH MAH GAWD I'M A GENIUS

They're investigating an issue that has one thread capped and another well on its way to cap, but we still have no idea beyond that? I'd like to know what they're thinking of doing to fix this. Or ANYTHING new tbh. Call me crazy, but I think we pay for that.

That just means, "Keep QQ'ing in a thread we set aside for QQ'ing about this topic so we can not do anything about it better" ^_^

Maybe if I start, it'll somehow cancel out the game ugh for booze ugh. And if they cancel each other out, isn't that a good thing? ...I just confused myself...

And the fact that it's so much brighter than nearly everything around it. I have to keep my monitors dim because of how bright things are to me and how easily that brightness can cause my eyes to hurt and make it hard for me to focus properly. It's something I was born with. It's not going away. Normally I am fully able to adapt to make things easier for me (turning gamma way down, brightness, etcetcetc) but to compensate properly for this I'd have to make the rest of the game almost dark. How is that fair to me? Especially when it was basically fine before. Albeit the UI in general is terrible, but seriously.

One of the secondary issues people are having isn't due to a learning curve. It's due to the fact that every single button on their bars flash. Even if it's totally unrelated to abilities. An ability already on a cooldown doesn't need to KEEP FLASHING AT EVERY KEYPRESS. Really? That's necessary? They took a flashy, bright, obnoxious thing and just smashed it into every single button. I swear I think my monitor is going to explode from it.

The eyestrain headache is a very different headache than just ugh. At least for me. BECAUSE IT MAKES MY EYEBALLS HURT. So this game causes eyeball ache too then. Not good.

This new UI change is giving me massive headaches. Since the basics of the UI are not moveable, most players have all their bars showing, and I'm willing to bet each slot has a button in it. Which now flashes. No matter what you do. Ever. I already have some vision problems that can make it hard to focus at times. This bright, flashy, strobe-y, OMGHEADACHEINDUCING nightmare has made it so hard to focus properly I don't actually know what's going on anymore and am trying to use abilities I can't and so on and so forth. Basically I'm an idiot when I play as of today. Those of you that like it, or don't see an issue with it. Grats, but I think you're the minority on this one. I had a guildmate log in and 2 minutes later start swearing about this change. It's simply that bad. I can't pop excedrin like candy to play a game, and I shouldn't have to. Especially when the launch UI wasn't this bad. Open up the ability for users to mod the UI since BW so clearly has no idea how to make a workable one to begin with. Side Note: Of all the MMO's I've played, this is the first one that doesn't use totally grayed out/red shaded action buttons. And I kind of want to stop playing because of it.

All I have to say about Marauder currently is that I got mine to 40. And then I got fed up. I didn't feel that my damage was scaling with the mobs I was going up against, and I'd come out of a one-on-one with a gold mob of level or lower nearly dead. Combat felt horribly sluggish and it just was too much for me finally. I do plan on finally getting her to 50 one day, but right now I can't take much more banging my face into my desk and am playing other classes that don't seem to have so much BLAGH.

The giant gun will make you wittier since your aim is clearly so terrible. ^_^

After a few days of playing and the flickering problem carrying over to various toons and various planets I decided to start fiddling with my video setting. I turned AA on High and actually turned ON vsync. The flickering is finally gone. I run a nVidia 560Ti, so if you guys are running nVidia graphics I'd say give it ashot to see if it addresses your flickering issues too. At least until BioWare acknowledges the issue and corrects it themselves so I can turn vsync back off. I've avoided my warrior like the plague since my original post and it's still so frustrating for me to play compared to a class like Inquisitor or Bounty Hunter. Finally logged on to her last night and was still annoyed at how sluggish it feels compared to just about every other class and that mobs are still splattering onto their backs like bugs (yet others I've asked say their Marauders Force Scream does not cause the back splattering flail). Honestly I don't forsee my lvl 40 Marauder getting to lvl 50 any time soon, which is unfortunate because that was such a fun toon before they broke it. I've also found that the cooldown animation is much less frustrating on my other toons. I'm just going to assume it has a lot to do with how slow the Marauder feels right now.

Do not care. Want my hood. NAO.

I'm also running an nVidia. Wonder if it's an issue with the drivers in general....

If I had the option to swap back there'd be no issue and -I- wouldn't be squinting with this new C/D effect. Smash is still the hardest for me of all the abilities to properly judge. Glad to know someone else shares the new Scream knockdown sentiment. It makes me "X.X" every time I see it. What video card are you running, because that happened to me as well and I thought I had just hit a stupid key.