I've bought coins many times before and just bought coins in October using a credit card and it's still prompting me to buy coins first when I click on the enable button on my ledger. Wakey wakey Musco and company, time for your "clarification."

Dear Eric Musco, I applaud your efforts in looking for new ways to engage the community. It is appreciated and we know your heart is in the right place. Your execution, however, is...misguided. This is not the case Eric. One community member gets to choose all three questions for each advanced class. This person is chosen through a forum popularity contest that you have to be a reasonably active forum user to even know about and to vote in. Unless your definition of the SWTOR community is comprised of a handful of people, the community as a whole is choosing nothing and your continued attempts to convince of us this are flat out insulting. If you are totally committed to this idea and really want this to work, we should be voting on which questions are going to be answered, not on who gets to decide on what they are. That way the community does actually get to choose. You could make 2 threads each month for each advanced class (to split the PVE and PVP questions) where anyone can post their class questions and you choose the three that will be answered, alternating each month between 2 PVP and 1 PVE and vice versa. This ensures that everyone will have equal access to the process should they choose to exercise it, rather than consolidating power into the hands of just a couple of community members.

Do not make adjustments and let this idea "grow naturally", do your job. You are not creating a dialog with the community, you are making a dialog with certain individuals and, as Grimsblood stated, are outsourcing your own duties as community manager. Address the whole community, or none at all. You don't need to give in to the whims and tantrums of a tiny, loud minority. If you don't think that the rambling egotists are going to seize control for themselves regardless of your rotation of reps then read post #17 in this thread. http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=659773&page=2 That is not something that may happen, that is something that is going to happen. Do your homework next time, Eric.

Bioware has caved to a couple of posters with big mouths and even bigger opinions of themselves here on the forums. They throw hissy-fits, stomp their feet, and threaten to quit until they get their way. Then they're all smiles. My 18-month old niece is more mature than some of those being nominated as class representatives. But here's the real issue that Bioware itself has pointed out in the past: only about 5% of the community uses the forums. So first off, since it was announced on the forums, only about 5% of the population may have seen it. They may inform some of their guildies in game and what-not by word-of-mouth, but at least everyone in the real world knows when election day is coming because all registered voters (anyone with a non-FTP account in this situation) are provided with notice. Elections in the US and other countries are far from perfect, but imagine if your representative was elected with not even 5% voter turnout and received votes from 1-2% of the entire eligible voting population? Do they really represent us? The answer is no. Bioware is allowing a fraction of the community to select individuals that will conspire and act in concert to control discussion on classes that EVERYONE plays. Bioware has not made the decision to empower the players to have their voices heard, Instead, the sham elections will net us an oligarchy of the biggest complainers. Shame on you Bioware, and Eric Musco for not only letting this happen, but encouraging it. Maybe I should throw a tantrum until I get my way. I quit. This is what the real community really asks of you: Grow some balls. No really. Be prepared to actively defend your product and your game decisions, including class balance. We don't expect an answer to every question and a tweak to every class based on forum posts. I do believe that you (Eric) and your community team go through the forums well and your level of responsiveness to the community has greatly improved over time (it's not perfect but it's getting better). I do believe that you, your team, and the development team have the ability to recognize the big issues from the small. When players encounter real problems in game, especially with class balance, they tend to hit the forums. That is your cue. Find the large problems, address them. We're not asking you to make changes because of these large issues every time, simply explain to the community some of the reasoning behind the decision. We (the reasonable community) understand that the development team does not act arbitrarily. Let the discussion ensue. There will always be a few whiners, have the balls to face them, rather than hand them the keys. We do not need the oligarchic middle men that you have proposed. The whole community has access through the forums. We should not have individual community members hijacking the process and deciding what questions get answered. That is Bioware's job and and it's time to step up to the plate and engage the community at large. Long live the Resistance!

Compared to the other 4 existing classes, the echani and their silly sub-sect are coming out of nowhere. Yes, they were mentioned in the kotor games and there were actually 2 companions trained in echani fighting techniques in kotor 2 (if I were to list them, this is where a spoiler tag would be used). I'm glad you find them interesting, but how many people have delved as deep as you into the expanded universe? You bring up the gree, but are they a playable species? Do we have a gree-based class? No. They are merely a backdrop for a continuation of the dread masters story and a fun, periodic event (and a series of early quests on Coruscant). Look at the other classes, they are all based off of highly recognizable and often treasured characters from the movies such as Han Solo, Darth Vader, Luke Skywalker, Obi Wan, Emperor Palpatine, Boba Fett, etc. You're telling me that Yusanis, a general that was never even seen and exists only in a background story in a video game belongs in that list? Mandalorians play a large role in the game because they are actually part of the story and the timeline. You are thrusting the Echani into it because of a less-than-minor appearance in Kotor. Let's get down to what really matters here, what is the marketability of the Echani to both existing players and to draw more people into the game? Theoretical Announcement: Rise of the Echani or Attack of the Monk Copycats or Yet Another Melee Class or Bruce Lee isn't Dead He's Just In Another Galaxy featuring the celebrated warriors, the Echani, and the bloodthirsty Thrysians! 99% of people wouldn't even know it was Star Wars until they saw (or heard) Star Wars in the press release/article/commercial. And then how many of them get excited about it? You, so there's one...but everyone else goes back to what they were doing and don't think about it again. Why? Because Echani has no meaning even to most Star Wars fans. Frankly, I'd rather be the Sarlacc Enforcer http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Sarlacc_Enforcer Now, what is highly recognizable and interesting to the broadest spectrum of people (you know, the ones who don't spend their lives digging through the expanded Star Wars universe)? So marketable, in fact, that a major US Corporation licensed the name for their own products? You guessed it. Droid. Droids are ubiquitous in Star Wars and come in all shapes and sizes. The word droid evokes Star Wars in a way Echani never will. So a long time ago the devs said they're won't be playabe droids for the same reasons there will be no wookies. I'm not saying let's have droids as a playable race, I'm saying make droids their own standalone class. So, new team and things can change. But let's explore those reasons. 1. The playable character must be able to speak Basic. Check. 2. Weird Romances: The droid would have it's own story, so don't write them romances and disable the ones in world story arcs for that class. Instead, perhaps explore the line of person vs. machine, free will vs. programming the morality of the the memory wipe. Who made me and why? Is the droid just a servant, or can it exert it's own influence? The Droid would at least have something interesting to say in Directive 7. 3. Fitting armor to their body types: What happens visually with your droid companions when you put new armor on them? Nothing. This is where people can get really creative with their droid in character creation and the new appearance kiosk in 2.1. Each droid can be drastically different, because they don't have to be able to fit armor models on each one. If Bioware supplies the tools, there can be an endless amount of customization available. And since there are so many droids already in the game, the variation already exists. 4. Applicability of the species to all existing classes (the no wookie jedi problem): Simple, droids can only be the droid class. I know that droids can theoretically (or are in the extended universe or elsewhere in the game) be bounty hunters, troopers, or smugglers, but this way those classes don't have to be changed for the droid in such an expansion. Your excuses for your lack of originality are pathetic. There's only so many words in the English language...so skills have to have the same name as completely different skills that existing classes already have. Synonyms for extricate: liberate, withdraw, extract, disencumber, disentangle, disengage, separate. That took 5 seconds. Just because Bioware had an oversight or was lazy doesn't give you the right to be. You bring up techblades...do any playable characters use them? No. Companion only items. So it does not relate to tanking assault cannons. But since you brought it up, are there orange moddable tech blades? Yes. Are there orange moddable assault cannons with tanking stats? No. Only non-moddable drops and crafts if the random number generator doesn't like you and you end up with the rampart or one of the other purple versions that include shield. So, yes, they would have to create new cannons just for that silly companion to keep him on par with all the others. Why are there no Gammorrean companions? Because they are incredibly unintelligent brutes that squeal constantly. I don't know what you're into, but that is not appealing. There is nothing interesting about a really dumb, giant pig. There is also nothing similar about the deep trandoshan voice and the high pitched squealing of the gammorreans. And this little piggy ran all the way home... You still never addressed the addition of yet another melee class or the ridiculousness of beating on enemies like Titan 6 on the foot with your fists. I'm sorry but this idea is not exciting and just doesn't fit. I'd have no problem with an echani event or the introduction of an Echani NPC, but I'm not ok with throwing them up on the bigstage with the Jedi and Sith because they just don't belong. What really means Star Wars the way Jedi does...Droid. They are ready for the bigstage because they have been on it since Day 1. Jedi, Sith, Droid, Echani, Smuggler, Bounty Hunter. When one thinks Star Wars, one of these is not like the others. One of these does not belong.

You've completely lost the entire theme of the game, sith empire vs. republic. This class requires it's own separate lore that, according to you, largely has to be written into the star wars universe and has nothing to do with the current conflict or the game. How is this going to draw more people into the game by including a conflict no one's heard of or ever cared about? It makes little enough sense for the scrapper scoundrels to be sucker punching enemies like Gharj or Titan 6 in the leg and actually doing damage, do we need another class wailing away with their fists? Also, recheck the names of some of your "new" abilities (i.e. extricate is the sorc friendly pull) and you made a clone of the trooper/bounty hunter defensive cooldown. It is a neat idea to have a class with 2 energy pools. But please (I think it was the water build?), no more classes that spam the same ability over and over again. They've already tried to move Grav-round/tracer missile away from that and it's boring, unoriginal, and downright intellectually lazy. Who puts spoiler tags in for their own ideas? lol A gammorrean companion? Who wants to listen to that gibberish and oinking? IT"S A TRAP! A tank companion with an assault cannon? They'd have to make a ton of new statted cannons (shield, defense, absorption) just for a companion. Waste of time and resources. And screw the commando who gets one of those as a drop... You've put a lot of thought into this, but frankly it does not fit into this game. As someone said previously, there are enough melee classes as it is. I'd rather see a shared droid class. The visual customization options are nearly endless (anywhere from hk to scorpio to M1-4X) and a droid could fit easily onto either side. I bet a lot more people would rather play as a droid than an echani.

Yes everyone who has an opinion that differs from yours should just be quiet because only yours could possibly be correct. Who made you dictator? Jealousy is what's behind your e-anger because you can't handle that some people want to put their hard-earned money into fluff items. Let's just eliminate gear and all in-game currency and skill trees and everything else, then everyone will be equal!!! HOORAY!

MOAR LINKS! EA/Bioware ruined Dragon Age 2. But regardless of how many links you post, it's still the internet where a vocal minority of people whine a lot and can't accept that someone might have a different opinion. So they call others names in frustration, telling themselves that anyone who disagrees must be ignorant and/or stupid. Giving links to random people's rants is a waste of time and cannot legitimately be considered a valid source to prove your point.