That is unfortunate. Bioware / EA should not secede the entire potential China MMO market to Blizzard and Warcraft. That is a huge potential customer base / revenue stream that they really ought to be trying to court and develop.

Hi Team SWTOR! Long time SWTOR player here. Followed the game from the initial PR launch in 2008, jumped in on release for several months. Stepped away for work / career reasons, came back again in 2016 for several months and have subscribed again. Each time back is a blast and I am always looking forward to seeing how the MMO has evolved since the last time my Light Side of The Force Sith Marauder traversed the galaxies. I am excited to exploring the United Forces update / content and completing all the story content I have yet to experience (going back to the Revan chapters!) but I am worried about the lack of a Oceania / Asia Mega Server. I am dealing with high ping times around the 200 / 300 range and feel that this will have an impact on my endgame group play experience. Any chance another Mega Server can be brought online for your Asia fans / players?

/signed

They didn't flat out say no to Class Stories but they have said many times that it is an expensive investment and they feel development is best utilized towards group content. But there has been a never ending roar for more Class Story since release and we FINALLY getting a new Class Mission for each class - written by Alexander Freed, celebrated writer of the Imperial Agent Class Story.

/signed It's the only thing that makes it truly shine when compared to the rest of the MMO market.

You kind of answered your own question over there. You would pay that extra money to acquire/experience extra content for the game. Those who don't pay the sub fee won't have access to that content or the rest of the bells and whistles that come with a sub. And mind you - we're not taking expansion level content here. Just short missions - or access to additional dallies and the like. And you're right, as a sub it's not your job to help Bioware / EA make money or buy any of the extras they develop for the game and sell through the CM. No one is going to force to buy that extra content. It would be up to you to make the decision to make that extra content part of your gameplay experience. You could always choose not too, as I have done for the costumes they sell on the CM. I just have 0 interest in that kind of stuff but I would pay money for additional story content happily. And the big stuff, like expansion level content, items and tweaks to the game, should still be offered through content updates like SoR.

A big HELL yes. It's would be far more worth my money than the stupid random packs. ^_^

It is a bit of let down isn't it, when you run into one of us senile old acients.

Ashikaga Oda. 34074 Registered on the forums in October 2008. You can see my original Fan Fiction posts on the pre-release forums here: http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=462048 CE owner. Played through 1.2 and then abandoned the game when support for additional Class Story was dropped. Back for Shadows of Revan and the new Class Mission content. Hope to stay here for years and years, as long as they give us some more Class Story content.

That would be pretty rock, actually.

/signed. Great post!

Awesome! Great news Zion. I still have a lot of faith in the new development team. And I know the story component of SWTOR is something they care about as deeply as we do. I hope the stars align for them and give them the chance to enhance Class & Group Story moving forward. ^_^

I am still holding out for the SWTOR developers and hoping that 2015 is a return to form and a new chapter of Class Story.

Lollerskates.

Those random items packs on the CM are pure, unadulterated gambling. The Cartel Market (and man, even the name of the Cash Shop boils my blood) was one of the reasons I de-subbed back in 2012. It is a wretched hive of scum and villainy and a disgrace to the original vision of SWTOR.