It was 180 servers, if memory doesn't play me false. #Zakegg_Beast_LestWeForget

Only real solution to that is make use of all the crafting professions and spend several millions on the GTN...That's what I did to get my almost all 230s set --3 of my set armourings are still last tier's at GC level 86, almost into the next frigging current tier! With the last 45-odd levels being crate. After crate. After crate. After crate. After crate...of worthless garbage. All I want is an optimised "starter-plus" end-game set; Like I implied above, that's more than enough for many of the things I typically do in-game, and it was always quite straightforward to get pre-5.XX. Hell, if I were a more frequent/enthusiastic PuG-raider, then it'd probably have almost been too freaking easy, before. This isn't gearing-up, this is reaching into a grab bag full of **** and hoping that you'll eventually --maybe-- find a few peanuts amidst all the handfuls of warm, fresh excre-- errrm, pardon: Excitement. It's absolutely insulting and utterly insufferable, as are the supporters of same.

When the someone in question passive-aggressively rubs it in my face, then yes, you bloody well better believe it --because that's exactly what it is. Wrong: I'm a semi-casual generalist, so if any play style "has options," then it's mine...In fact, grinding [HEROIC]s and [DAILY]/[WEEKLY] (lots of creds to round out my set!) is my "default" along with Flashpoints, solo'ing Tac-modes, and solo'ing the "first five," as the initial Uprisings are called. I can only tolerate so much of that, though, so I jump into PuG raids on occasion too....All this together (less Uprisings, of course) along with some PvP, pre-5.0, gave me a nice, set, not-unreasonable path to get geared to do the things I normally do without having to rely on anything beyond my own time and commitment. Now, It's nothing but grind, grind, grind, and pray (and/or spend millions on the GTN). Just as an aside: Another irony that seems lost on the "CASUAL RIGHTS!!111oneone" banner-wavers is that this system is about as casual-unfriendly as it's ever gotten in this game, especially for casual/semi-casual PvPers. But we don't want to admit that, now do we. "I got mine --the rest of you should just shut up and stop being poor!" Yes, that is exactly what it looks like, and I',m not the only one feel that way, I'm sure. Well...Good for you, I guess? Of course you didn't...Christ, /facepalm. No, they're bragging, and demonstrating a peculiarly modern (2000s - present) type of intellectual cowardice by casting anyone who calls them on it as "negative." And no-one's "succeeded" in any objective sense. They got lucky. Fullstop/end-of. Humblebrag is still a brag. And yes, I will tear you down harshly for it. I come from a world/time where that's simply seen as being a douche, and where being a douche is not welcome. It's a very simple matter of showing a little good taste.

Somehow, I just can't see anyone ever caring enough to try with a private server for this game the way they do with, say, early WoW, early EverQuest (<---there's even a semi-officially official one, if I'm understanding what P1999 is correctly) or SW: G, or probably will with Asheron's Call in due course. I just can't. For some reason.

Punctuation: Use it. 2/10. Next! E: Ben? Is that you?

The only "solution" here is full reversion, fullstop/end-of. Anything else is just polishing a turd, so that a certain incompetent in Austin can look good enough to his bosses to keep his job a few months longer. Why continue to enable such arrogantly complacent incompetence and the resulting mediocrity that we get to pay for? A polished turd smells just as bad as an un-polished one.

Just /ignore list him, like I have, and I've no doubt others. That type can't be reasoned with, because they refuse to be; They got theirs, and screw everyone else. I game to get away from, among others, that type, but more and more MMOs are doing everything they can to encourage more of them. Let's turn a game into a job where some become "haves" through sheer luck, and everyone else gets to not only "not have," but spend their increasingly miserable existences working harder, for less, so those who already "won" (again, through sheer arbitrary luck) can keep "winning." There is already a blatantly pay-to-win MMORPG out there that does this, it's called Life Itself, but at least I don't have to subscribe for that privilege. (Oh, and his attempts to incite a flame-war are pathetically obvious...Maybe I should have reported as well as ignored? That's supposed to be against the rules around here, but as everyone knows, defenders get more equality before the rules than the rest of us. More disgusting RL crap that I can't get away from in this game, anymore.)

More irony. But then, "BioWare" and "short-sighted" seem to go together an awful lot lately, don't they. ("Inimical" is not a noun, BTW...)

Wouldn't touch anything made by BioWare with a 10 metre cattle-prod at this point.

For Gods' sakes, WHY do you people keep buying this worthless garbage. Why? Do you seriously think that if you just consume on command enough that it will somehow get better? Do you, really?

I'll take that over the last 40-odd levels of worthless garbage.

Full reversion is the only way to fix this un-mitigated debacle, followed by Ben Irving being sacked. But hey, I'll do it one better: The Excitement of not even knowing if you're going to get a paycheque at all, but here's some nice used cat-litter!

U buy moar nao

Since before launch, there has not been a demographic more inimical to the long-term health of this game and its community than the "defenders," "white knights," "BioDrones"...Call them what you will. Naturally, the irony of this is lost on them.

Actually, it's very possible, although probably not too likely. Random probability is just that, random. Unless you've seen the actual drop-tables and know something we don't? Do tell, if so.

Terrible troll is terrible, and really should feel ashamed of itself. But still, all the bites are surely worth something. 5.5/10.

I hope that ^that^ isn't saying what it looks like it's saying. Because I'm sure you wouldn't cheat, egregiously violate the EULA, and actually buy in-game credits for real money --IE "buy gold"-- now would you?

^That^ wasn't even all that long ago, either. /Signed, another GenX gamer micro-transaction refusenik (<---second, evolved meaning, ofc) The core question, though, is: How in every Hell that ever was/is/will be have we allowed it to come to this in the first place? I mean, day-1 paid DLC? Isn't that the sort of thing that got companies shut down and the owners indicted, once?

What really gets me about this pathetic joke is: It shows a profound lack of respect for the intelligence of gamers, especially MMORPG gamers. Indifference, I might tolerate, albeit grudgingly. But that sort of condescending contempt from people whose paycheques depend on keeping people satisfied? Yeah, to hell with this, and them. Ben Irving needs to be fired, he's the one who's sucked the life, joy, and soul out of this game, made it nothing more than glorified microtransaction-saturated mobile "game." Yes, EA deserves the blame too, but there's more than enough blame to go around here.

How much more bloody obvious does it need to get that Irving is hopelessly un-suited to his position, and his "vision" --read: Gussied-up mobile game-- is a complete, and potentially catastrophic, failure? How can the people in "corporate" not yet see this? How can anyone not see that Irving has damaged --possibly permanently-- the SW: tOR and BioWare brands at a time when they really can't afford it? There's no two ways around it, that guy needs to be fired right now, and hope there's enough left to survive his passage. E: My luck held until approximately Command Rank 45 (starting from about 15ish). Since then. crate after crate after crate after crate of completely worthless garbage. Command rank 71 so far, and two of my set-armouings are still last tier's, and some of my mods are still crafted 228s. No, I'm not going to PuG more Ops. My experiences with PuGs since 4.0 have shown me that it's far better to rely on RNGesus whilst soloing story Uprisings and tactical Flashpoints, plus the odd veteran Chapter, than this "sorta not RNG but still really RNG" shell-game. This is just pathetic. That's it, once my sub runs out I''m un-installing. I was fairly certain that I was wrong to re-sub for this event, now I'm absolutely certain of it. Ben Irving needs to be fired right now. This is just so utterly pathetic.

Yep, I knew I was wrong to re-sub. Oh well, only two months left, once I get my current tier optimised, I'm done even thinking about gear, and once the clock strikes, I'm done even thinking about this game. These people are just...Seriously, how do they even work? They just keep bulldozing their way from nadir to nadir to nadir seemingly completely oblivious to the most obvious of obvious problems and mass customer displeasure. They just won't stop, it's like they're literally completely unaware of our very existence. No, seriously, how the Hell does --or how the Hell even can-- that work?

We're too Excited over the results of The Hunt to be able to post coherently.

Bit of a break at the moment, but putting much time into Borderlands 2 and more occasionally, Defiance, plus Witcher 3 (if they bloody well get that render-stutter fixed, then I'd be burying myself in it, the world is just perfectly done, in terms of what I want out of real immersion in a real RPG --IE, something SJW-Ware hasn't made in a long, long time.). Oh, and Skyrim, WatchDogs, and FarCry 2 (among others) are on my to-play list, so... ... Basically too busy to have a lot of craps to give here, even if I had many left to give for the sad joke that BioWare has become since approximately 2012. Mass Effect: Andromeda will be their very last kick at the cat with me, and...Well, my hopes are very high, but it's really looking less and less good with every new piece of information I find on ME: A.

I got temp-banned after making --granted, harshly-- critical posts shortly before my brief un-sub. Be careful, the Church of BioWare Positivity brooks no disrespect. (How quickly we forget, eh?)

I re-subbed for this event just to see if I could get geared, God help me and God curse me for being a fool. So far, I only actually have 4/6 set on-tier, my remaining two armourings are still ilvl 216s, and half my slots re the crafted mods/items. This is at GC level 40-ish, with many, many of these insulting gamble-boxes being fed to the disintegrator in their entirety, or nearly so. I tried to be nice about this, seeing as how I've seemed to have better luck with RNGesus than a lot of people, but there's just no graceful way to put this: This is a débacle. There is no way to fix this, no way to further polish this un-mitigated turd, no way to even hope to start regaining a lot of your veteran players' goodwill without complete reversion to pre-4.0 gearing. This is a débacle, and Ben Irving has almost certainly permanently damaged both the SW: tOR and BioWare brands because of it.