I know. I played in the beta and thought everything looked great, then come the public beta weekend I said to my wife "Something is wrong, something is different." I couldn't place my finger on it because I never thought they would have yanked the high res..but they did. I'm, still blown away by this fact. I unsubbed. Resubbed last week out of boredom, and have a sorc to 17. Don't think I'll play him anymore.

No. It didn't. It launched with everything they were capable of having at the time though. They didn't yank high res textures out of the game. They added in high res texture packs with DX 11 functionality, you know, improvements? SWTOR had it, took steps backwards, and now is holding them safely locked away. Not a good comparison.

There is a lot of stuff in that post that you managed to divine from nowhere based on anything I've said in this thread. I really think you should relax. There's so much vitriol in that post I really have no where to start so, I'll try. There is no over lying difficult thing that the major events that occur within the Black Talon instance can't be brought up again in a later part of the game. As you have two choices in it, live or die for the captain, and live or die for the general. Both of these characters could have been brought back later in the story if you let them live, that would give a sense of your choices mattering more. What's so difficult about that? Not sure how you divined that mess of angry out of that but, whatever. As for GW2? Why would anyone think that you can physically change the landscape of an MMO with the choices you make as one of millions? It's not about changing the entire world, but making the choices have meaning to your character in the long run. If you get a statue in a town only YOUR character can see, you still feel like it's yours when you see it. You think this is a good idea? Locking you out of your character for three weeks? Good luck with the game that does that, and I hope people would choose to play it, because they won't.

Every time I try to go "Ho ho ho.." I just end up sounding like Santa. It's not a good match, no sir. My beard doesn't help the situation any either.

I'm fat with the souls of my enemies and those that I use to grow more corpulent with power. A curious approach, and interesting none the less. However, DS corruption has a penchant to make you skinny and frail in cannon.

That's a really interesting idea you had there. I was fiddling with the idea that the color crystal he would use is one he took from a fallen Jedi's lightsaber, a Padawan he killed in his youth that set him on the path towards balance within the force, rather than one of the polar opposites. Where as the Body Type 3, wouldn't have had that experience yet, and just bases his choices off the ideals he keeps from his home and heart. Compelling, but with less definition due to age. You know, that's true they all look kind of bad but, you make do. You won't believe this but, I'm a bit overweight myself. My wife says she would prefer me this way over a lean cut body because she just likes my self image as an older man who knows what's what, minus the cocky hotheaded behavior.

On Jung Ma I hardly ever saw any LS Sorcs, all red sabers all day err day. Body type 3 does look completely and totally awesome that is true..I don't know, I usually RP characters that really try to break the mold..A non troll type 4 could be interesting..

So, I'm giving SWTOR another month and another whirl. I leveled a Jug to 50, but really I wanted to be an Inquisitor who spams lightning all day. Thing is, I really liked Darth Baras as a design. Do I do the typical Body Type 3 pro awesome? Or do I go for the Body Type 4, an old inquisitor, who's found his balance, who has packed on a bit in his old age and wisdom. The character design aspect of that is really interesting, ad even in Body Type 4, the armor looks pretty okay. Type 3 offers more of a macho, yet still light sided experience in that his strength as a slave has been tempered by the knowledge of where he came from, what he used to be. He's strong, powerful, yet tempered. I find myself leaning towards the older, wiser, flawed in body type sorcerer type 4, whom has things to teach others. He'd be a Sith Pureblood, so I'd be erasing his past as a slave, and simply have the character just have been adept with the force instead of direct lightsaber combat. What do you folks think..type 3..or type 4?

What the hell was that! ...They've gone to Plaid!

Yet you still capture or kill the general, which is never brought up ever again, anywhere. In the overall arc of the story - it has no impact. You don't ever find later that the general could have helped you in a situation, and you never find out that the general being dead could have spared you trouble. It gives you an alternate path through a flashpoint, nothing more.

"Choices mean nothing." should not mean "One choice is punished vs another." Both choices should grant different rewards. When a "choice" is made, it should alter the way the story moves on, granted for a pointless fetch quest like that one, there's no way it could alter anything. The only "Choice" you have, is being punished, or not being punished. Not a good design, sorry man.

Anyone who lets themselves get eaten up by the Hype monster is a fool really, they are. NCSoft owned ArenaNet since 2002, before GW1 released in 2005. Your presumptions about them not allowing something to change anything or be good are a little silly considering GW1 was loved by many many people, and sold very well. People don't think NCSoft was their parent company until AFTER they made GW1, which isn't true. "Change" in MMO game play doesn't have to mean utterly revolutionary, it can just take things that were done before, and make them better and interesting again, like TOR did for questing the 1st time through. Rumor and opinion are dangerous things, especially when touted as fact. Aion didn't do very well, and Tabula Rasa was just horrible yes, but different dev teams did both. TOR has the sad chagrin of being the next attempt by Mythic that was absorbed and placed under BW Austin. You can see their influences very easily in TOR. For the good, and the bad. Note: The BioWare that produces Mass Effect is completely separate from BioWare Austin, which is primarily made up of Mythic, which is not the same Mythic that made DAoC. Which is why I'm still buying ME3.

Round and round and round we go. My fleet has 80, my fleet has 20, my fleet has 190. Really guys and gals it doesn't matter until BW let's us all know how many people they have subbed. Just forget it for now and wait for them to let some info out. That's all there is to it.

The better question is, what games have really come out that would be a better seller than a Star Wars MMO produced by BioWare? I'd say nothing really. It's nice to see the game sold very well, but it doesn't really mean that much.

Standard isn't a lot of players by our most reasonable guesstimates. You want your servers to be heavy and full, not standard and a few heavy. ESPECIALLY just three months after launch.