EA, where is the option to cancel? You are a bunch of shady characters, let me tell you. Also this does not exist as you can see above:

Yes he did. So what? It's a forum to share joy and grief. Stop trolling dude. SERIOUSLY!

I already responded to your unqualified gibberish a bit further up but had to repost it. To make clear what kinda 'I don't care' folks and their oppinions are destroying this game by letting the devs get away with crap like this.

Seriously it's Star Wars and for a lot of us 'very close to home' you know. Glad you don't care. Why bother posting?

Yeah I agree there, but.....! But this is only worthwhile IF the areas we are playing in are actually worth exploring iE Rare Mob hunt, some special little places with iconic background(without being needed for quests, just for fun). SOMETHING that makes it all less linear and more fun to basically browse the settings. But nada, zip, zilsh....BOOOOORING! This then ends in a complete debacle for quests like the one described, because we all would not mind so much if we actually felt immersed in our environment and had something to sidetrack us a little you know!?

Correct! It just destroys immersion, dilutes everything into a 'does not matter' soup and with that ends the motivation to achieve.

I love you! You made all the points I wanted to. So you saved me the time. I remember how increase in level cap destroyed the 'magic' of WoW when BC came out. I truly can. And yes, I unsubbed because of the level cap increase and the audacity to charge us for ONE LOUSY planet. This game does not endorse exploration in any shape or form and thus is not worth playing anymore. They just mzake the same mistakes as Blizzard.

Complete garbage!

100% with ya on that one buddy.

Then there is that! Well written!

I do 100% agree with the OP and with YOU! And there is more that annoys and has nothing to do with fun anymore. It's all about money. Why for example do we have to buy adaptive gear with real dollars to look like a Jedi/Sith/Smuggler/Agent etc? Why? Why is this not earnable? Why is it that we can now all run around as Jedi for example crossdresed in Jugg armor? THIS IS ALL WRONG!!!! This (and countless other issues)destroyed the game for me. Where are the epic stories of the SW universe? Why Rakghouls(Zombies) for a whole event back in the day, why now the Gree? NOONE that likes 'TRUE' SW could give a damn. Let me add to my grief the ridiculousness of 'catering for PvP' via Expertise. Sorry they got so much wrong now, that is not fixable anymore. And to knock the bottom out of the keg: The 'Expansion'! ONE planet? 5 levels cap increase rendering all you worked before totally useless-ala WoW when BC hit? What a disaster. Why raising the level cap? More content and better(different stats) Level 50 gear is good enough or how about skills you can earn/find? Now there is an idea. Now it will all become ridiculous. It is one thing to make a mistake it is another to just repeat them. And then having the AUDACITY to charge 20 bucks for it, when they raked MILLIONS in from the lousy cartel market. Sorry I am done. This is not BioWare anymore. This is not SW anymore! I wonder if it ever was?! It did not capture the feel of KotoR or the canon one second anyways. And the instanced world, let's all face it-is small, boring and not worth exploring. There are no surprises, no hidden bits-leaves me with NOTHING I want to return to. Unsubbed again and this time it will stay this way. I can now imagine why Ray Muzyka and Greg Zeschuk left. I really can. Thanks EA, well done. Another franchise obliterated. Baaah!

Then you Sir are either blind, technically ignorant or elsewise. Turn AA off LMAO. I remember arguments like that from the past when people said: 'I do not need AA I have 1280x1024 resolution. Why would I need AA?' Sorry makes me crack up to this day. Hearing it here and now is rather.....retro. Take care and have fun.

Hmmm......yes and no. The question I have for the OP is this: Do you intend to plow through mobs when levelling and expect mobs 2 levels lower or so to die superquick and you can just fly through quests? In which case you want Deception. And you want to stack Willpower/Crit/Accuracy. The talk of you having a hard time getting behind the mob in PvE to maul hard is total rubbish. Just legslash/Electrocute the mob be quick and voila. For a hard DPS rotation in which you have the aggro Maul has no impact anyways. Comments like that are just silly. A lot depends on your playstyle. Mine is the above. I love killing lots quickly. Even if I have to rest every now and then. Peace. Mark

Wie unglaublich wahr! Ich wuerde gerne hinzufuegen, dass man leider nicht 'gluecklicherweise keine wirklichen negativen Konsequenzen' sagen kann. Es heisst einfach nur, dass Leute mit fraglicher Geschaeftsmoral jetzt ausbeuten koennen ohne sich ein klares Gewissen 'reinkoksen' oder reinluegen zu muessen um nachts Schlaf zu finden. Aber nochmal: Du hast den Nagel auf den Kopf getroffen und den Finger direkt auf die Wunde gelegt! Well done!! (bitte entschuldigt mein leicht gestelztes Deutsch. Zu lange fern der Heimat Frohes Neues from Down Under)

With you on that one 100%. F2P is the best way to advertise/garbage out a premium title. Should not be the case. It will be total crap you watch. I stopped playing a while back due to professional commitments and such and was thinking that after a year I would return this holiday season now I hear about this F2P nonsense. Awesome. Not! Well new folks....nice....but those are the ones that cannot bring up 15 lousy bucks a month. Well that bodes well does it not? Yeah yeah.......I am back with my usual jadedness. So what? It is the truth. And no matter what anyone says.....the BioWare founders left because of it. They did not want to have anything to do with this EA blunder. A shame they sold their souls to them in the first place. Meh.....I may just try it, but am not excited anymore. What a shame and what a lot of missed chances of greatness in the genre. On that note: IF the game would have gotten one more year of development and would be released right now it would have been awesome. A lot has been fixed I saw and it dies look MUCH better and the performance is improved also. I wished I had that a year ago when the flame of the Republic burnt strong within. Peace.

And the main issue for us here in Aussie is the fact, that all downtimes are in perfect primetime at ANY day of the week. Typically taking place between 5pm-9pm TUesdays and to top it off nowadays with more and more incidences of a FRIDAY downtime to patch the patch that patched the original which was a patched version of the best beta client they once had. Grrrr >.< Yes I rant! Sorry...back to the point. BioWare I fully understand, that games of a scope such as this are only hard to alter. Especially it seems that seemingly totally unrelated functions/features are impacted if any one is 'patched/altered'. You often seem to release patches untested or poorly tested. The additional downtimes are testimony to that. Overall you need to not only deliver now-now you HAVE TO ROCK everyone with the next major patch or risk loosing a critical volume of players-thus severely darkening any good looking future perspectives for SWTOR. This has to stop! Get this: There is people overhearing me talking about SWTOR asking why I would still play this buggy piece of software? Yeah well.....that's bad!

Noone with an i5 or i7 configuration needs new hardware. The game needs a new engine and BioWare needs better coders:rolleyes:.

Amen to that! If you are so dedicated roll on a PvP server.

There is exactly the issue. How many players, that are strict either PvP or PvE do we actually have? Don't you think, that due to lack of population on a lot of servers people are almost forced to PvP to have some sort of progression happening? Now that would speak for having two different progression trees to an extent(noone and also not the OP disputed that btw. its the Exp.Stat that needs removal). HOWEVER......it also artificially inflates the number of players dedicated to PvP. Therefore it stands to question who the designers are catering for in their infinite wisdom!? I believe that if you are a true PvPer you roll on PvP server for starters(those dont seem too well populated btw.). *shrug shoulder* I am a firm believer that this 4th pillar MMO should concentrate and cater exactly for the PvE crowd mainly and design the open world PvP much better so that it can get smoothly integrated rather than having to enter these archaic WZs all the time. That is is soo oldschool and I would love to have some immersion happening there. It is also not logical for a RPG that requires community to work to try and segregate people into two camps on a server. Sorry that almost infuriates me. EXPERTISE KILLS OPEN WORLD PVP-A FACT! And that is the true issue here.

I tell you what does not make sense to me and it just dawned on me what the main issue is here: PvPers vs PvEers! Don't you guys see that the stat HAS TO go in order to get the cohesion back into the server populace and remove the divide it causes. Some servers are soooo dead that this is something any decent developer should not do if they are in their right mind.

EXACTLY. Spontenous open world PvP is what I looked forward to, but now its basically dead. You are sooooo right mate.

Nonsense statement!

100% spot on! The point is that PvP ganksters like to have the advantage over the casual PvPer and love fluffing egos with killing those in two shots. That is what this is all about whether the PvP community has the balls to admit it or not.

And a complete failure. I don't think any MMORPG should be trying to balance PvP vs PvE. It essentially is a PvE game in that case. No gear attached to PvP and period. Problem solved. If you do not like to do FPs or OPS you should look for a different game or genre. IF the game started off as a MMOPVP ala Warhammer you mayyyyybe would have had a point. THe fact is that PvPers are usually the loudest on forums to complain about **** and thus get heard by the devs. They should stop catering for those and make sure the vision they had for the game as a whole is maintained. Right now it is not. Don't like the opinion dear PvP community. I could not care less. Fact is that I like to PvP in WARZONES sometimes and right now its not fun. This is what this is all about-fun for ALL not some elitist group of ganksters. Bah. I had enough of all this rubble talk really.

We can easily do HMs in Recruit outfits. THAT is emberassing. For BioWare. The game was quite good the way it was before 1.2 gameplaywise. THey should not have touched it. Just add the technical features and the content and all would have been fine.