That tends to happen. One team dominates gets 50 kills while the other gets 0. I wouldn't really blame it on class design as much as the poor matchmaking system. Also, swtor's small pvp playerbase means that, if a premade with a good healer/tank is queueing up, you'll have a pretty good chance of running into them.

It has no place here. The right to be heard refers to the right to reach out and communicate with a business. Not the right to make public comments on their forums. You can still reach out and communicate with Bioware if you're banned here. The right to be informed means the company has to inform you about the product they're selling. When it comes to videogames, the most common interpretation of this has been that it comes down to what's on the box and what's on the store page. Again, literally nothing to do with the moderation of their forums. I'm gonna be honest. It seems like you got all your education before online forums were really a thing, and now you're just making sh*t up.

You took the words right out of my mouth. It's literally not applicable at all in this situation. None of the things you mentioned are. This discussion is about whether or not it's unconstitutional or even illegal for Bioware to moderate their own forums. Your whole comment comes across like delusional rambling of someone going out of their way to avoid admitting that it's very clearly not.

This is not only completely wrong but also completely irrelevant.

There's 0 new content besides a heavily bugged flashpoint and a ridiculously short intro to a story we can't play yet. The UI looks worse than it did before and is much more buggy. Most classes feel worse to play than they did before. PVP is unplayable due to the weapon modification exploit. Why exactly should anyone stay subscribed to this game?

You have to be trolling me at this point. You CANNOT be this oblivious. I'm not sure whether to laugh or cry. How can you link an article on strawman arguments then make a big deal about how you're presenting an argument in response to points that nobody here was making. Literally nothing to do with what I said again. But to clarify, nobody really gives a damn about objectives. Because they're boring, poorly designed, and aren't worth the effort. Some crappy ideas off the top of my head? Revamp the "objective score" so it actually works and give major rewards based on it. Add more benefits to winning warzones. Add warzone maps where the objective is actually fun and engaging (not one that will potentially leave a couple players guarding a turret or tower and doing literally nothing for 90% of the game). Add maps where the objective involves combat and is actually rewarded (like WoW has a map where players pick up and hold orbs for points, but the longer you hold the orb the more damage you do/take. So players are encouraged to pick up orbs to potentially let them do a ton of damage and enemy players are encouraged to attack orb carriers because they're super easy kills). Implement a better AFK kick system. Let players queue for specific warzones or an arena so that people who don't care about playing objectives aren't forced to. The premade issue literally solves itself when/if the game is good and has a large enough playerbase that one or two premades queueing doesn't practically guarantee someone solo-queuing will match with them. And I'm pointing out that this is just wrong. It's possible to implement a much better anti-afk system than this one that isn't easily exploitable and that the players won't hate. It is absolutely ridiculous to me that you keep insisting otherwise and that there isn't anything Bioware can do. That's just not true. It is really, really concerning to me how you're treating the idea of a strawman argument like some fancy concept rather than some basic stuff people learn in elementary school. Yeah, it most likely won't. Mostly because of budget/resouces. Partly because of players like you being afraid admit that Bioware can make improvements to their game. That's very cool that you're taking the high road, even if you're clearly not very good at it it. Unfortunately, I'm not quite as noble as you. So I'll avoid any petty, passive aggressive nonsense and openly state that I think you're kind of an idiot. I think you suck as a consumer. I think you suck as a person. And I imagine you suck at pvp, too.

No, I did. Because nobody in the history of pvp has EVER even entertained the possibility of making literally every single player 100% focused on playing objectives 100% of the time. That's literally impossible. Everyone knows it's impossible. So quit constructing some weird strawman that that's what people mean when they criticize how common objective-ignoring is in swtor's pvp. This is some "you can outlaw murder all you want but serial killers are still gonna kill so why even bother" type logic. I don't know if you've played any other MMO's lately, but in my experience, swtor's is BY FAR the worst regarding objective-play. And a lot of it just comes down to players finding focusing on objectives to be painfully boring or just not worth it, rather than them just being trolls or wintraders. You're doing it again. Trying to give Bioware an excuse to not try to improve a feature. Stop it. Quit white-knighting a billion dollar corporation. If you don't think Bioware is capable or has the resources to implement an anti-afk system that's not ridiculously easy to exploit then just say so. But don't spew this nonsense about how it can't be done. Plenty of other MMO's have vote-kick systems 10x better than swtor's.

Sorry but this is nonsense. There are plenty of ways to encourage more objective play. Like revamping the "objective score" stat and adding actual rewards for it. Or implementing game modes where playing the objective doesn't involve someone standing around at a node doing nothing and being bored out of their mind for the entire game. Or adding tools to let teams kick players who are blatantly sitting AFK in the corner for 90% of the match. Saying "there's just nothing that Bioware can do about it" in response to a criticism regarding the game is almost always a copout. Stop it. Bioware doesn't need you to give them excuses about why they shouldn't bother to improve the game.

What's even more confusing is that the leaderboards page says the rewards have already been handed out. And then to enjoy season 16 next instead of 15. Which is is probably a typo but really throwing me off.

When you inspect other players and select the "outfitter" tab, it just shows their currently equipped gear.

Yeah the quest really should be given automatically. Either when you finish Manaan or hit 80 or even just start the expansion. It’s pretty out-of-the-way and obscure for how important it is. I’m not even sure why it exists now that I’m thinking about it. Why not just let people have access to the vendor?

Why would the heck would you make this thread?

Your character will have 2 classes. Your current one (commando) and one more that you choose. You'll only be able to play one at a time but you can freely switch between them. So, assuming you choose vanguard for your 2nd class, your character will be able to use a rifle. But ONLY when he's playing vanguard. If he's playing as commando then he'll still be using his cannon.

Not really. If you're a force user you can switch to the opposite allignment's mirror class (juggernauts can become guardians, sages can become sorcerers, etc.), and you'll obviously have the option to add a second advanced class to your current character. But if you want your pre-existing bounty hunter to turn into a scoundrel-sniper or some other combination then you're out of luck and will have to create a new character.

lol not sure where you got that idea from. There's plenty of games out *of all different genres* that have better gameplay and/or story than swtor. But you're not wrong in saying that the people who aren't super into story generally aren't gonna be playing swtor. It'd definitely be weird in a "*** just happened" kind of way. And I'm sure plenty of people would freak out about it. But if you're trying to say that the same proportion of WoW's playerbase plays the game for the lore as swtor's then you're just objectively wrong. Sorry. You really do have some interesting takes.