You think adding items the players have asked for since launch (Pod Racer) at insane ($18) prices is going to save this game? Think again. It seems Bioware is focused more on the Cartel Market then anything else. All the content that has come since F2P was pretty much going to be 1.4 before the transition. Open world PvP? Not this year, 3d Space? Late 2013 by the earliest probably. Pazzak, Sabaac, Pod Racing? Probably NEVER. Oh but I'm sure they're almost done putting the finishing touches on the Kashyyyk Wookiee Fur Rug, it'll only cost you 20 bucks though.

You know how pathetic it sounds that their heavily modified frankenstein of a Hero's Engine can't even handle chat bubbles that were done flawlessly in SWG 10 years ago. Seriously 10 years ago!! and they can't even handle that today? Bunch of losers.

Game sucks, they're just going to give us more of the same with very little new features. If you want to call that Rep Grind system a feature, you're out of your mind.

I wonder how messed up Ilum is going to be in this patch. I resubbed cause I heard Ilum 2.0 was coming back, this isn't exactly what you guys were leading the PvP on about. Whatever I'll check it out and unsub cause this game sucks.

LOL that armor is the same old garbage reskinned. PATHETIC

I`m playing the only Star Wars online game I can. I played SWG for years, stopped after the big wigs screwed up royally with the NGE or ``new game enhancements`` which essentially butchered the game. I don`t have my old SWG cd`s and to be honest, the SWG Emu is pointless, it`ll be ready by 2020 at the rate they go. SWG I could have possibly given another shot but LA decided to kill it for SWTOR. I`ve accepted that the MMO genre is stale and garbage. Only reason I subbed is I love to PvP, I like Star Wars and 5 WZ a week doesn`t cut it. Futhermore, I`m not about to get ripped off by their weekly passes nonsense. It`s obvious the goals of Bioware are to milk this IP into the ground with 18 dollar Pod Racing speeders instead of an actual Pod Racer feature. It`s these reasons why they fail, and will continue to do so. Once I get a few more pieces of my WH gear I`ll unsub since I will have won the internets.

Why are you bothering to ask for player feedback 13 months after you launch when you guys couldn`t be bothered to listen to us before... As a former beta tester of this game you guys couldn`t even listen to us then. All you would say is we`ll fix this or implement this post launch. Has any of that happened.....nope. So here is my feedback: you guys didn`t listen to the concerns of us back then, you guys **** the bed, and now all I can say is ``Serves you right``

Thiing is all these things above are more of the same. Players get bored of the same old stuff, they crave new features. How hard would it really be to add Pazaak or Sabaac in the casinos on Nar Shadda, or to play Dejarik on your ship. It`s features like this that would add a lot more depth to the game then Flash Point X, War Zone Y and Operation Z.

Well the new car smell left a long time ago. The game definitely is better then at launch with quality of life improvements like Group Finder, Adaptive Gear etc. Game still lags behind in areas such as new features, bigger war zones (c`mon 8v8 in Star Wars, really!), true open world pvp (won`t happen), 3d space flight. Biggest issue with the game is once you get to 50, you either reroll a new toon or grind PvE and PvP gear. Now I realize that is what most MMO games do, but those other games also have other activities, combat and non combat that players can do besides just an endless gear treadmill. This is why player retention in this game sucks, and the only reason the game hasn`t flopped completely is because of F2P. The game is still going to end up suffering from the same issues that hurt it post launch. Players will burn through content faster then developers can make it, players get bored, players leave. Bioware`s just lucky that they have their restrictive demo in place to allow fresh new blood to try it out.

Culling is a big issue and one that is seeing improvements next week and in February. The fact remains though that it can support 10x the amount of people onscreen then Bioware`s version of HE.

See this is what happens when the egomaniacs at Bioware Austin purchase an alpha uncomplete Hero's Engine and put their own custom code and renderer into it. No wonder Gordon Walton jumped ship before this game launched. He probably felt really guilty about how he put so much faith into their engineering department, which obviously was one big *** FAIL. That's the real reason we'll never see true open world PvP. This abomination of an engine can't handle it PERIOD. The only good thing that came out of this is Simtronics obviously used the money from Bioware to finish and complete the engine. Now it seems because of SWTOR it gets a bad rep, which is complete horse ****. Bioware Austin sucks.

I don't get how wanting to know what exactly is in this paid DLC is "entitlement" either. The blind faith of these fanboys and girls is absolutely retarded. I once was a sucker like them as well. The whole in Bioware we trust BS and how every dev either said "we're not ready to talk about it yet" or "post launch moving on" is garbage. James Ohlen as well has completely quit the Twitter scene because he looks like an idiot. Asking what species we want, how we want open world pvp and other activites like Pod Racing. What do we get? No open world PvP this year, an 18 dollar Pod Racer and Cathar are still not in yet. The whole dev team are a bunch of liars, and not to be trusted. Even their carrot dangling skills suck, trying to con more people to buy a once free update by offering them 2 vanity pets and a title lol. The funny thing is, for every 1 person who sees through this, there are 5 idiots who don't and think free "obama phone" goodies is good enough.

I hear Monk is pretty fun to play.

They need to implement the cross server queue system for PvP. This will broaden the available players and hopefully make their crappy matchmaking work a little better. Unfortunately they've had their priorities rearranged for the 1000th time so who knows when that's going to happen. Ilum 2.0 turned from a PvP objective affair to a PvPvE event zone that's going to empty within a few weeks afterwards.

If you're planning on making a tank just know that they get equally verbally abused by fellow players, mainly just PvE though.

That's awesome!! NOT, James Ohlen on Twitter (months ago) said "Hey you guys want Pod Racing?" Everyone goes YESS!!!!!. Months later we get another failed promise, no pod racing, just a pod racer AND you gotta pay 18 bucks for that little man. Hey at least it looks better then the Christmas LOL thing right?

Sounds like the guild that kicked you were a bunch of elitist sore losers. I wouldn't worry too much about a bunch of douche bags on the internet.

Beta player, Collector Edition pre launch, I quit in June, picked up D3 and GW2. Still love and play GW2, but I wanted my cartel coins, and to see if this game has any hope in making some sort of come back.

I remember reading that SWTOR had 400k concurrent users online at it's peak. World of Warcraft holds the record for 800k, and Guild Wars 2 had 400k and is probably rising. Any idea what it's currently for SWTOR? I'm going to guess it's probably 50k or less, your thoughts?

Problem is EA would need to also convince LA that shutting down SWTOR would be the right thing to do, since they are joint publishers.

Being an ex SWG player who played through the 3 combat systems SOE implemented to it, I'll say this. Once SWTOR goes F2P I can see an influx of ex SWTOR players who want to check out the game again, KOTOR fans who refused to buy the game based on the subscription, and the F2P junkies / trolls. The KOTOR fans will level toons 1-50 of the different classes, then the majority of them will most likely stop playing once their stories end. Ex SWTOR players will probably check out new features like the group finder, level some other toons and most will probably quit again. F2P junkies / trolls will stick around, buy some stuff off the market place, troll / act like idiots in general chat, then eventually get banned or quit out of boredom. SWTOR will survive, the hardcore Star Wars fans will keep it going, even if the player population declines to very low levels. LA/SOE kept SWG going with less then 50k players for quite a few years after all that NGE fiasco happening. The only thing saving SWTOR anyways is the brand name, we all know that.

Been following this game since late 2005 when it was just a rumor. Bought the CE (feel ripped off though), played since day 1 and got a sub good until it goes F2P. Lost my entire 75+ guild, have started to level a Republic Commando, and hope that this game will incorporate Ilum 2.0, free roam space and 16x16 War Zones. Unfortunately, I don't see any of those for quite a long time out, so I'm playing Guild Wars 2 later tonight. I'll still be playing this game, but it's taking a back seat for a while.

Well considering the lead designer is not Emmanuel it's Daniel I would take it with a grain of salt. Emmanuel is their Engineering/Tech lead. Even if SWTOR adopts a Free to Play model to get more people into the game who really cares? You can tell from E3 that Free to Play is becoming more and more mainstream anyways, if they still offer up the subscription service with it I would pay 15 a month still. These transfers did wonders for a lot of people. I did my first ever PUG Eternity Vault raid (story mode) since a lot of my core members are trying to "get rich" on Diablo 3 atm. The raid went fine minus one wipe at SOA, and everyone was respectful and cool about it. Loving the game again because it feels like an MMO once more. Looking forward to 1.3 and beyond, I think they might have actually turned this game a round a bit.

Probably only 1 more month with group finder on it's way in early July you shouldn't have to worry. Then again, you'll also be level 50 too

Be thankful you can finally transfer off your dead server. I'm still waiting (Helm of Graush) for a server transfer that's most likely going to be Prophecy of the Five. My Republic toon is on The Fatman, and while I'm disappointed that it seems I won't be heading there, I understand because anymore servers would cause The Fatman to explode from the stomach out. Sucks but my luck always sucks so I was somewhat expecting this to happen. I guess I'll be forking out 20 bucks or so in a few months