I dont know about elsewhere in the world but I have seen many Video game trailers in movie theaters in Canada. I remember seeing N64 game ads like for Super mario 64, Mario Kart 64, Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time or Majora's Mask. World of Warcraft has also had ads before movies. I have seen many other PC and console game ads before movies. I have even seen an ad for Space Engineers, an early access game on Steam. I think having something like that "Join the Battle" ad before the movie would be great. Keep it more generic Star Wars as to not confuse people. Im sure it would bring in many more players to play the game, it is free to try. EDIT: join the battle ad

I too would love to see this. I really think ALL content should have a Story Mode for solo. The HARD MODE should be for groups.

Thank you for the nice summary.

I hope they add a companion combat mute option in the future. I regret buying Treek. Awesome follower in terms of ability but I just cant stand the constant combat chatter. I basically used her for a few hours and now have gone back to the regular companions on all my characters.

Having a legacy bank may allow them to sort of transfer credits after the fact by dipping into the legacy escrow, BUT THEY STILL HAVE PAY FOR IT WITH CARTEL COINS, and in the CURRENT system they can still transfer before hand by just being proactive with where they place their credits. So again the difference is negligible. Either they distribute it before hand and PAY for Credit Escrow to access it, or it is in a legacy bank and they PAY for Credit Escrow to access it. Both cases work out the same in the end, except with a legacy bank SUBSCRIBERS get a benefit while subscribed. All a Legacy Bank option adds is again, a quality of life feature for SUBSCRIBERS, because the only way anyone has access to a Legacy Bank would be if they subscribed. Please dont bring up F2P because they are irrelevant to this discussion.

Your credits already vanish until you resub. When you drop to preferred you lose access to any credits above the cap unless you use the escrow. Also there is no reason for them to track which character put money in the legacy bank. The whole point is that it is a shared account, so there is no individual money in the legacy bank. It also doesn't allow transferring credits for Preferred players because they would have to spend COINS to get that money out of escrow from the legacy bank and they wouldn't be able to use the legacy bank unless they were subbed. It is no different from the current system if someone spreads all their credits around before their subscription ends and uses the escrow. People are creating problems where none exists. Please stop with the doom and gloom. This would be a great feature to have for Subs that love to have alts. There is absolutely no downside to this. I also want to be clear that I am not demanding anything. I am just agreeing that this would be a great Quality of Life feature that they could add down the road.

I never said anywhere that I didnt think the sub was worth it or that I am upset in anyway. I was just agreeing with the suggestion that loyalty rewards are good idea. It encourages people to subscribe longer. Star Trek Online gives out free stipend each month to subscribers AND has what they call a Veteran Rewards program. BioWare would not remove the 500 coins just because they add some loyalty system. 1000 days is someone subscribing for roughly 33 months total. That is about $500 someone would have to have spent subscribing to get to that level. Getting some free pets, mounts, outfit slots ect, would just be a nice way to say thank you to longtime subscribers. http://sto.gamepedia.com/Veteran_Rewards

Well I heard that a bunch of raiding/pvp guilds all left to other servers to make it easier to get groups by consolidating on a few high pop servers.

Lots of games have done time based loyalty rewards. Usually going by 100 day increments. I would be totally fine with a system like that. Rewarding your most loyal players is good business sense.

I too was thinking about this because it has been a while for some of my alts story. I would love to be able to replay the cutscenes. They could have a terminal in your ship/stronghold. I dont have an issue with it loading the required assets. It would be a small wait time to get that refresher for a story you may have completed years ago.

It is a Quality of Life feature. Not essential, but would go a long to way to making the game nicer. Right now it's annoying when you have many alts. To transfer money around you have to constantly login and out. With a legacy credit bank you could just store some money there and be able to just grab it when you need it. I dont see the free/preferred thing being that much of an issue because you would just limit them from it. It would become another benefit to subscribing. They could rework the escrow system to be able to take money from either your character or your legacy bank. I dont see how it would be any different from now when your subscription ends

I just did that mission last night and you dont lose points if you dont interfere, you gain affection with the right option. Mission works fine and doesnt need to be fixed.

I really hope BioWare adds this option in the next expansion. I really feel like I wasted money on treek because I dont want to use her anymore. The high pitched sounds actually start to give me a headache.

Couldn't they just lock the money in the Legacy bank for F2P?? It could be another selling feature of subbing. Its a small but useful quality of life addition to be able to just grab money from the account rather than have to individually mail it. Especially if you have a bunch of alts.

If it is old content that no one is going to want to group for I dont see why they cant remove the group requirements. It doesnt affect the MMO aspect of the game. The MMO aspect is pretty much always going to be at the end game and that's where group requirements are fine. Players will be able to find groups wanting to do that content as it has rewards that are worth it at max level. Some people have come late to the game and want to see all the stories. They have the gear to do the content solo but the game places arbitrary group requirements in the way and those could be easily removed. There is no reason to be against this idea based solely on it making the game less of an MMO.

I just bought Treek and now I regret it. Turning off the sound is as much a solution as cutting off my ears. I want to be able to hear everything else, just not the annoying combat chatter. This would be such a quality of life addition to game I can't believe it hasn't been added yet. There are other companions that this would be useful for as well. A "Companion Combat Chatter Mute" would be amazing.

Just started playing again and one of the first things that stuck out as annoying was the companion chatter during space combat. Can we please get an option to turn it off??