I have to agree with this post. I dabble with SWTOR every so often, coming back about once a year or so to play around for a few months. So I recently came back and Subbed (I wont play unsubbed) and bought a few armor sets from the CM and I was totally shocked at the whole double dip unlock for account thing. I can't think of any other MMO, even shady ones, that has something like that. Its pretty crazy to be honest. I mean, the armor was 2000 CMs and then I have to spend another 400 to unlock it? This kind of greed/double dipping is exactly why EA is, time and again, voted the Worst Company in America. It wont ever get better till things like this stop.

So apparently I won. Interesting cause I have GEforce Experience just naturally cause I use it to update my drivers but just on a whim I just logged in and I have a notification on it that I won and to redeem my FREE Reward: SWTOR Expansion Package! Either way Codes are going out or/are already out. Actually It appears that I won twice as It seems I have 2 codes.

You should petition your government about that and not Bioware/Nvidia

I have had a ton of artifacting in game lately. (Artifacting is where you will suddenly see weird crazy lines start appearing randomly in a game, the usually last for fractions of a second and disappear). Usually it is related to your graphics card overheating, and while SWTOR runs your card hot, I don't think thats the problem. I did recently switch to Window Mode so I wonder if that is the problem. Either way its really annoying, it doesn't kill the game, but its jarring every 30 seconds when running around for just random line/lines to just shoot across the screen.

Such a poignant post highlighting a true visionary in the world of MMO Development. What Yoshida-San and his guys did with FF14 is really the crowning achievement of MMO success. They took a quite literally a DOA MMO took it OFFLINE for a year, and then relaunched it to be the second biggest MMO out there. That is nothing short of amazing and any developer who doesn't look to Yoshida-San for guidance is a fool.

I cannot get over how there are so many people who do not know what this post is talking about. Pretty much every other MMO out there has a system in place like the OP talked about. This isn't something new or revolutionary, it just means SWTOR is, as always, late to the party. The system is a good system when done correctly. I, personally, prefer WoW's way of doing it because the token itself isn't actually in game and you do it through a locked marketplace (Though price is not a negotiable). Sony (Daybreak now) has it where the item is actually in game, which is fine, except items start being sold not for actual game currency but for the token instead, and the token's rule the marketplace not in game currency. Either way though, the system works. It lets people pay for the subs by playing the game and it combats the gold sellers with a more legit way of buying/selling gold. SWTOR should have done it a year ago.

All my characters are stuck on POT5, and frankly the pub population over there is pretty much non existent. So I am trying to decide where to go, whether I should just transfers to Harbinger and deal with server outages and downtimes or should I go with one of the next 2 servers. Is JC considered the most populated Pub server after Harbinger? I am mostly interested in PVE, though I do very casual pvp just to level characters and such.

Most ISP's have a Natural and intended monopoly on their area. That being said you are in Chicago so I imagine you have more choices than the vast majority of people in the U.S. Unfortunately most of the big carriers don't operate in the same place and more unfortunately those big carriers almost always have the highest speeds of internet available. There may be some local Chicago place that can get close or match Comcast's speeds that you could look into, but other than that I would imagine your going to be out of luck. Consider yourself lucky, where I live you can get Time Warner Cable 30mbs for 85 dollars a month - or you can get AT&T 3mb for 40 bucks a month (with a 50 gb data cap) and if those 2 don't work for you then you just don't have internet. Most importantly make sure you check data caps. IF you are a heavy internet user (Netflix and such) you can VERY easily hit data caps. I cut the cable and we watch Netflix a lot and I use between 500-600gbs of data a month - With AT&T's 50gb data cap I would be completely screwed. Thankfully Time Warner Cable does not have data caps or I would be in big trouble. I am very scared for the day that they do get data caps.

Lucas sold everything to Disney - he has 0 say over Star Wars now and Disney can do anything they want. That is how buyouts work. I think this latest story is just confirmation that Disney is not asking George much of anything about Star Wars now.

Maybe Im crazy, but I thought it was pretty obvious that, in the movie (The only canon thing anymore) that Sidious let Windu beat him. Sure it was a risk on Sidious part, but he knew the prophecy and he knew Anakin would turn and help him, but yea, I sure seemed pretty obvious that Sidious purposefully let Windu beat him. He needed to be hurt to prove to the Senate that the Jedi attacked him and he needed Anakin to willfully give himself to the dark side, by letting WIndu beat him he accomplished both. If he fought Windu as hard as he fought Yoda, Windu woulda lost pretty badly imo - Heck, once Sid finally DID unleash his full power he dang near destroyed the guy in half a second.

I level for a while then do 5-6 pvp matches and turn the warzone comms into Planetary comms and buy gear that way.

FOr someone who played SWG you don't seem to know much about the NGE update. Go read the Smed articles on it - SoE created the game but pretty much everything had to go "ok'd" through LucasArts. When WoW launched and was such a huge success LA went to SoE and demanded they make the game "More like WoW" to capture some of the market share. LA wanted the class base system to be like WoW and all that junk. The NGE was forced on SoE by LA - Smed has said so much in interviews/articles and he still considers it one of the biggest blunders that SoE ever did.

I see what your saying about how conquest points favor large guilds. On POT5 I am in the biggest guild on the server and we frequently have 70+ on every night. We are trouncing everyone below us by over 2 million conquest points and there is no possible way they could ever come close to beating us. We just have so many people that they could never get close. Even the uber pvp guilds are getting stomped into the ground by our superior numbers. So my mass invite guild is destroying the hardcore pvp/pve guilds at conquest just cause we outnumber 2 or 3 to 1. I also completely agree with your point about how much prestige is given for items. It is completely stupid to go into the top stronghold on the server and it is nothing but the same things just dumped all over the place because that is the most efficient way of getting prestige. I am definitely for the first itme you place an item it is 100 prestige but eveyr other time you place it in that same stronghold the prestige goes down to almost nothing.

Not saying your completely wrong in your post, but comparing sub numbers between SWG and SWTOR is not very relevant - It was a different time and the market was much smaller at that time - SWG had a respectable amount of subs for its time just like SWTOR has a respectable number right now.

I was, actually - and were not talking about launch were talking about August 2014...