Its so funny this post is here, i literally logged into game 2 days ago, after about 1 year away.....And last time i was here was for 1 week after 1 year away..... This game is quite frankly terrible, from what I played ( forgiving the bugs ) back at launch to what it is now, nothing more than a derailed train waiting to crash. As the oldest of sayings goes, "Its Star Wars, how can you **** it up" I cant believe what a mess this game is. Im not going to bore anyone with my actual opinions, because fanbois will just jump all over them, but take it from someone that has played a lot of MMO's, ( Everquest, LOTRO, EVE, SWG ) this is terrible an why im currently on a free SWG NGE emulator enjoying a good MMO that was made for players and not just dollars in pockets. PS: Yes SWG wasnt perfect in anyway, but compared to this.....Its a leap forward, yet came out 13 years ago........13 YEARS AGO.

This game died 2 years after it was released, when the beta apps went out it had 1.5 millions applications, since then server merges, F2P, and now this epic story that is quite frankly 2 hours of game-play rinse repeated on multiple characters...... Its not going to die, it already has, It has at best 150-200k players globally, tbh i doubt even that. It had tremendous potential 5 years ago and has been on a downhill slide ever since, substituting interesting, tactical,strategic, player involved star warsey game-play for micro-transactions and endless mind numbing grinding.... Don't get me wrong, it looks pretty, and i suppose playing through the story on a few new characters to new players is interesting, but the game has nothing to keep a player here day after day after day paying a sub. Its a quick 3-6 months of play then off to the next game... House building is weak Star-fighter is terrible PVP is shocking Explopration is non existent Character development is lacklustre There is actually nothing EPIC about it at all.... And to top it all off as the OP states, everything about this game now, is EA milking your money.....90% of the stuff in the CM should be available in the game to fight for, win, find, or loot.........Good games make you play for cool items..........Terrible ones make you buy them.....Go play LOTRO and see what you can buy in the store compared to what you can EARN in game...Then you will understand how a store should be run, how a story should pan out and how maps should be exportable not walled off tunnels, filtering you to where you want to go.

Each to there own, i actually like them because you can see what the person is clicking, stop, pause rewind.

Cheers fixed it.

Another video guide extending my previous guide to Legacy and so please check out the link, this one is achievements and collections.

Video Guide to Legacy systeM, tips on levelling.

Couldn't agree more with you, cancelled my sub after Chapter 10, this game is a complete joke, im actually devastated at the amount of money ive wasted on it over 4 years in some deluded belief it would ever get any better. Came back for this chapter as my sub still has 2 months to run, and completed it in 45 mins, and no im not doing it on all my chars because why the hell would I. I pay for content and if thats what they come up with in a few months, someone needs to get fired. For me it's the standalone game for how NOT to run an MMO, and this phrase always springs to mind "Its Star Wars, how can you possibly screw it up". Well EA did, and they have also made a complete mockery of Battlefront.

Everything he said. I pre-ordered this game way back in the day and a CE none the less, it started out ok with a few issues and has progressively got worse and worse, content is now watered down to a measly 20 mins of game-play each month that is then just rinse repeat content on each toon you have. F2P was a total failure as everyone knew it would be, and now they are trying to get everyone to subscribe again with totally blown out of proportion updates that constantly cause problems, dribbling out the barest minimum of content on a monthly basis and bribing players with subscriber only chaff items. Failed update after failed update, its been going on for 5 years now This game had so much promise, and for what it could have been, has become nothing but a failure. I would leave, but like an idiot I have a 6 month recurring subscription to this tripe, becasue like an idiot i beleived KOTFE would be something awesome......How wrong I was. My sub has 3 months left, il say what I want on these boards as its the only way I feel I'm getting my moneys worth. And lets be fair, the only reason anyone is playing it is because its the only Star Wars MMO available, If it wasn't, this game would die overnight. SWG had less problems than this and i started playing that on Dial up.

That is highlighting the problem with 1 click 60, players who have a level 15 cant be arsed, make a 60, and think the blue 198 gear they get is the bees knees. Seriously the only good thing that came out of KOTFE was the 2 hours of story, They broke GF, Alliance is just a joke that was done and scraped by Tubine in LOTRO (called hytbold ) 3 years ago, and turned what was a grindy game anyway into a MONUMENTAL repeated grind in literally everything you do, story is not the focus anymore as you get 1 not 8 as promised. Literally, you get 10% of gameplay now in comparison to launch for a higher monthly sub than 5 years ago.

Id remove any EA involvement from the top down, they are the anti christ of gaming and simply want nothing but your money for as little as possible.....SWTOR / Star Wars Battlefront......Both have become complete and utter jokes. SWTOR had a good start, not great but STORY was the main selling point....that has now been truncated down to 1 Story, not 8 seperate stories as promised. I completed all 9 chapters of KOTFE on 4 Characters in 4 weeks of casual game-play and will not do anymore as its boring and tedious. Now we are getting 1 chapter a month.....OMG that sounds like so much fun. In comparison when the game launched I had all 4 Rebel characters to 50 after 9 months, and Only just finished my imps......that was over 5 years on and off.......KOTFE, 4 in 4 weeks Group finder is completely ruined and misses the point of why it was there in the first place. 1 Click 60....................Really. Stupidest idea ever. PVP......Why even bother, just remove it, its seriously like Jar Jar binks, just a gimmicky side show with no actual point. If he was removed from TPM would you even notice, didn't think so. I could be here all day, but to cut a long story short, they tried to do F2P, got that wrong, now there pushing the sub model but dont want to actually reward you with GAMEPLAY.....Ow no we just get some crap companions, that are all pointless as they can all now do everything. Ow and I have 30 of them for the love of god, I don't need anymore. This game has hit a brick wall and needs to get back to basics, a good sub model with ACTUAL content, not spewed out tripe that has to be done over and over and over again.

Wrong, Specific Tactical's were created to be completed by level 55s while grouping with 60s as well. Instances like Lost island, Kaon, and any instance prior to Introduction of tacticals were not. They have basically made the game a complete mess in an effort to get players playing, Get an instant level 60, Do what you like, subscribe for better stuff.....Blah blah blah... This MMO was not designed to have level 15 players doing level 65 Tacs, they do not have the skills or abilities to effectively play the mode correctly. It was designed to be a progression, gaining the abilities you need to compete at the level, Lost island is a level 50 instance, any player / players without level 50 abilities are going to struggle. Plus the Instances that were released specifically to be Tacs are designed to not require tanks or healers. Every instance prior to the update requires these roles as that is how they were designed, Bolster is a waste of time and quite frankly im tired of players gaming companies wanting everyone and everything in an instant. Its a level based MMO, get back to basics and sort this **** out. Funny thing is, this was all done to encourage Subscribers, because "What a shock" F2P isnt working, Personally GF was fine before KOTFE, and the state it is in now will be the reason I stop subscribing. For the record, GF was not designed to get the perfect group before you enter, it is there so anyone can play with anyone.... Of course that only works if players are at similar skill and ability ranges, even gear. But no lets allow player to 1 click 60, then allow players to think that level 190 gear is sufficient for a HM FP at 65...... They have broken the game completely by going away from the setup prior to KOTFE, its a simple fix.. Make Tacs level 60, with a 0/3 weekly. Add gear check to 65 HM. Problem solved.

Alliance system is pure and utter lazy development, this system was put in by turbine 3 years ago with an area called Hytbold in LOTRO....It failed there and will fail here, its the worst form of grind imaginable and nothing but repeated content that is at best good for 1 - 2 weeks. It will be forgotten in 2 months and completely avoided in 3, so something about it now. Do this on 4-5-6-7-8 charcter's and it gets old very very quickly...... Also *** are all the tacticals not available on the weekly, you up it to 5 then make 7 of them obsolete, again lazy development. Also 1 click 60 was the worst idea in SWTOR history and then to allow 50+ in HM FP.....Come on, who is making these decisions.

They actually had this all in check with story mode content , tactical and Hm flash-points. The issue now, is they are leading people to believe that once they hit 50 they are capable of doing a level 65 HM FP in 162 gear, which is totally possible from the GF window....Needless to say these groups fail monumentally resulting in a " The game is to hard kind of attitude". The developers need to get the game back to staggered progression where you gear appropriately for the content and have the resources to do it.....One click 60 is also the single worst idea this game has introduced. If you cant be bothered to learn and gear your character in a progressive way then you should not be in an mmo. Btw OP sorry the game was changed for you, however i do agree that there probably are not to many one handed players in SWTOR and it would be harsh to adjust a game to accommodate the extreme few over the many. I hope you are enjoying the game, I personally am not fussed by either change as my main play is HM OPS which companions can not do, and I have my legacy so high and maxed that all my companions are over powered no matter what they do.

I agree I dont understand it either, legacy was supposed to be the back bone of the game, a way to pass stuff down to your alts to make leveling and progression easier, it makes sense that if my No 1 character has unlocked everything then that info would be passed onto others.

I really think this would help, im now 216 geared on 5 characters and have not put 3 of them inside any instance or fp.

Love it :-)

Yep cheers guys, nice to have a regular 30 min or even 1 hour update on where the servers are at, what actually happened, can we even expect to play tonight... BTW while your CS have got some time, as they have nothing to do with coding the game or networking, can you get them to answer my In game help tickets from 3 weeks ago....Cheers.

This.... Yeah its shocking that you subscribe to a game then lose a ton of game time due to....Errr .... Ummmm.... So far Nothing...Because they tell us nothing. I mean the shock of it, paying for something that doesn't work and complaining about it.............Cant believe some people:eek: Il look forward to my complementary Cartel Coins when the servers are back up..... OOOPPP LOL ROFL LOL OLOLOL

Totally agree with this, myself and 2 guildies were face rolling HM Fp with Comp healers......But on the flip side the only reason we did that was due to the 1 click 60 and level 50 players that should not be allowed in HM Flash-points. We were 2 manning Tacticals because level 15's should not be allowed in them either.... Now you have just completely ruined the game for me and my friends, because players suck and do not want to learn there class or spend anytime gearing up like most of us did for 2-3 years. You guys have destroyed this game with your bolster and repetitive story line, it was fine the first time, 4 characters in , space bar, space bar , space bar...... That is not compelling content, it doesn't matter what I do as I get the same end result. Put the content back to the levels they were at in 3.0 and stop allowing players to just turn up and do what they like, Its an MMO not KOTOR.

Simple... Add it to legacy 60, and stop perf and f2p from going past 50. http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=853650 Solved

So Legacy was supposed to be the back bone of your character set and it seems to have fallen by the way side in the past few years. It was touted as the big thing that would make leveling and playing other characters easier and more fun. So here are some ideas to progress Legacy 50 (Which i got 3 years ago and still haven't had my achievement fixed) to 60 with some additions. 1. Have instant ports to all planets unlocked at 52 54 56 58 and 60. 2. Add a section that reduces the cost of items purchased from vendors in 5% 10% and 15% increments. 3. Unlock Legacy bank at Legacy 60 which all characters can use to deposit and withdraw from. 4. Add 1% to all basic buffs at Legacy 55. 5. At legacy 60 Character buffs can be unlocked to be Permanent, You never have to activate them again. 6. Legacy 52 You can unlock a Wardrobe on your Star Ship to place Clothing items only, this can be incremented at 52 54 56 58 60, for a total of 50 spaces, 10 at each level. 7. At 51 53 55 57 59 you get 1 extra Quest log entry up from 25 - 30. 8. Add Mailbox and Repair droid Perks to Legacy Unlocked for all Characters at 55. So they are account wide and not just personal. 9. Increase the Prices and add all the XP and Companion boosts to legacy 52 to be unlocked on all characters. These suggestions i believe benefit Subbed players as F2P / Pref should not be allowed to exceed Legacy 50 and imho should not have access to legacy anyway. There are many others i will think of but will leave it at this for now.

+1 To this, although i think Valor is just completely pointless anyway and way to much of a grind, it should just be removed completely and any titles added to the achievement section of pvp, I have highest level at 82 and that took an absolute age. PVP is by far the worst thing in this game. And personally I don't think anybody should be forced to do it, based on that fact alone, its mind numbing, pointless and has basically zero skill factor or tactical based thought. Seriously I have 2-3 full on PVP toon's, all i do is PVP on them, and that happens when im just kicking around waiting for an OP or FP to form in guild, or trying to get the last bit of XP for a level. I honestly dont think anyone would have an issue doing PVP if it was in any form, wothwhile or decent, actually meant something, had any tactics or War type attributes involved......Which it doesn't.....this coming from someone that has done Voidstar / Hutball / Pylons about 500 times each. Do i play SWTOR for PVP......Hell no.

Noone fancy this then :-(

It just goes to show how much thought was put into this update, id say none at all, every player in the game is going to farm these and they leave them at the standard drop , spawn rates, its not going to get any better as more players progress. The only thing they put any thought into was the story, the rest of it, Tac 10-65, HMFP 50-65, all the Heroics is just rushed to give us something to do. I mean who thought that allowing a 162 geared player into HM 65 FP's was a good idea is a moron, I don't care about Bolster, it doesn't work and is not the way it should be. Anyone ever used Bolster to PVP, cos that worked out real well didnt it

In a nut shell NO... Its literally Hitbold from LOTRO which released 3 years ago in another form, its a filler with absolutely no purpose what so ever, as you say, to many comps, no real pupose and its lazy development, the story was good for the 4 hours i played it. Now 3 weeks in to it, have maxed out 2 Comps on my main and im about to hit 20 with my Alliance guys.....Will I do it on another character..............Not a chance in Hell Its the most boring mindless grind ive seen in an MMO other than LOTRO, and Tubine scrapped it after 6 months. As i said that was 3 years ago. Didn't work then, wont work now, lots of subs left because of it and the back story and content in that was 10 times what is on offer here. There is nothing worth buying once you complete Alliance other than maybe a speeder, nothing decent on vendors as its all the same crap you get on fleet anyway. It might help if they actually gave us something decent to spend Glowing Crystals on (Cant do that though because what goes in the CM then), Maxed out 3 Characters already with 216's, so they are pointless as well now, don't get me started on the amount of Legacy Gear i have looted which is instantly vendored. 4.0 = Pointless IMHO.