I’d love to see armor based on the kotor comic mandalorians, especially Demagol’s. https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/starwars/images/4/41/Demagol.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20150807041501

Walker segments were never fun, but they used to just be tedious. Now they're tedious AND frustrating. Same with turrets like on Iokath. They really need to make these all skippable.

Because I have feelings for one of the biggest cultural touchstones of the 20th century? for the story that resonated with audiences like almost no other fiction has in centuries? The one that has become so ingrained in popular culture that Jedi is an actual recognized religion, that basically anyone in the western world can quote lines from and recognize characters of because it was so beloved by the world? Because I’m upset that this massive cultural touchstone has been butchered by a company that goes out of its way to insult the fans? The simple fact, though, is that no matter how much we talk back and forth we will never ever agree. You consider Disney Star Wars to be a quality, enjoyable product, something that gives you happiness, and you’d like more of it because you enjoy it. I consider Disney’s treatment of the franchise an absolute insult to a hugely important part of Hollywood history and a hugely influential factor in my own life, and want it kept firmly away from the one remaining part of the franchise that still honors its history. We will never come to an agreement or be able to change each other’s minds, so there’s no point in arguing.

Neither. I literally cannot describe how much I hate that movie. I was miserable for a solid month after seeing it before accepting that Disney had told me I wasn’t wanted anymore. Star Wars meant a lot to me growing up, it was my childhood in a huge way. I was the die hard fan, the one who owned literally every single expanded universe book, comic, game, and Rp supplement, and force awakens went out of its way to stomp on every theme the original trilogy had. It retconned the eu out of existence and filled itself with horrible, low quality ripoffs of the characters and stories it had just said no longer existed. Im sure last Jedi is worse, but I wouldn’t know. I wasn’t going to spend money to see a sequel to the worst movie I ever saw.

I didn’t “choose” to find Force Awakens the single worst piece of fiction I’ve ever seen. I went in there excited, came out miserable, and it’s only gotten worse since then. SWTOR is the last ongoing eu story, my one and only refuge from Disney’s butchering of canon, killing of major characters for shock value, retcons of how the force works, and the sort of stupid badly written villains and super weapons the eu moved on from decades ago. I purchased SWTOR pre-Disney. The story was explicitly not Disney canon. Adding Disney elements to it now is the equivalent of a restaurant adding ingredients you hate to a meal after you already bought it and started eating. Now, I’m not overly upset by the mention of tea or something, it just worries me that it’s a trend of them adding more and more Disney elements going forward. A brand of tea can be ignored. A flashpoint on Jaaku cannot, and that’s what worries me - that they’re testing the waters and will be adding more and more Disney to it in future.

A better analogy would be that the people with a peanut allergy request that you please stop adding peanuts to the food they’re currently eating.

I don’t think it’s just walkers, either. The daily on iokath where you have to control a turret is impossible too, enemies almost one shot you.

Exactly. We got books, games, comics, and even tv shows constantly prior to Disney butchering the franchise and cutting off all the ongoing plots, never to be resolved. Rest in peace, Sword of the Jedi. Even if you'd been just the word "jedi" copy-pasted for three books with no other text you'd be a better story than Force Awakens.

Agreed. A large portion of my love for SWTOR is because it's a last remnant of the true EU before Disney started butchering everything of the franchise I used to love. Whenever SWTOR references the leprous clown that is Disney SW it just makes me sad.

Have a global scoreboard for each faction, tracking stuff like quests completed, enemies killed, etc, and at the end of the event, have some sort of special reward for the faction with the higher score. Maybe give them bonus quests during the inactive period for the event, or bonus reputation, or something like that.

There are some benefits to DX12 (it fixes some issues related to having both an integrated GPU and a discreet one, which is useful for gaming laptops), but I understand what you mean. I mainly suggest DX11 instead of Vulkan because I imagine it would be easier for BW to switch to DX11, but Vulkan would be better, yes. I don't see why it would be "in addition to" instead of replacing it outright, though. If they officially abandon support for Vista and older in October, then all officially supported OS's will be capable of 64 bit and DX11, so maintaining older backends would just be extra work for Bioware.

So since XP and Vista support is being dropped, now is the perfect time to also switch over to DX11/12 and a 64-bit client, since Windows 7 and up supports DX11 and 64-bit as is.

OK, but let's not deny that a "Great Train Robbery" style warzone would be pretty awesome.

No, no, a thousand times no. I don't want anything in this game that can remind me of the kotfe/kotet fiasco. Wrap up the current story then move as far away from it as possible and never mention it again. No more Malgus either. They already butchered Revan beyond recognition, let dead characters stay dead. Malgus wasn't even an interesting character anyway imo.

That would be preferred. The hiding of exploration quests and the massive difficulty nerf to all main story quests, combined with the extreme leveling speed even for brand new players, means the vanilla game is too easy to be fun and new players reach endgame without knowing important mechanics. Edit: not to say we should go back to 1.0 exp rates or anything. Just slow leveling a bit. Or go eso style and make level a basically irrelevant since everything is scaled to the same level as the zone.

While we're at it, can we make the unlocks from the Preferred Friends Bundle legacy-wide unlocks so we don't have to manually do it on every new character we create?

That would be a very cool feature. it might be nice if it were optional though, so that it doesn't break immersion for people that just want to look around.

To copy my post from another topic, would people prefer this idea instead of just having an option to buy it from the cartel market? I will say, it does strike me as a bit odd that people are so vehemently against allowing other players to be able to experience a story quest. The quest isn't being taken away from anyone, people who subbed for seven months to get it at launch still got it earlier than everyone (plus the actual subscriber benefits, which is what they were supposed to be paying for - the chapter was a bonus gift, and I stand by my claim that if you actually subscribed for seven months solely for the bonus chapter then you were paying for the wrong thing, like if you bought $130 worth of paperclips from a store because they were giving out a free coffee mug), and Bioware can do something else to reward the people that did it originally - special title/decoration/companion customization/etc - so that they can still show off that they got it first. This is a story centric game. Story should be available to everyone willing to pay for it. (And if you're going to bring up the idea of the events that happened and had story content: first off, those events didn't require you to pay $130 worth of subscription, and second, I'd totally be in favor of Bioware bringing those events back too, because again, more story) Also, as for "other mmos do it too" - well, that doesn't make it a good thing. It's just something other games do, which you could definitely argue they shouldn't.

Updated the list once more, if anyone else has anything they want to add?

/signed Leveling my command rank has actually been fun for once, please don't take that away.

Bothrium beast is extremely easy as long as you remember to interrupt it when it tries to drain your health. As poster above said, make sure your companion is set to dps.

I'd say $30 is perfectly fair. As far as damaging future sub rewards...well, as I said, I don't think a chapter or anything story related should ever be a subscriber rewards at all, so I'd hope it WOULD damage any future attempts to gate story content behind a time limited paywall. As for non story rewards, it wouldn't affect them, as they remain subscriber exclusive. Might be a moot point anyway though since bioware seems to have stopped doing subscriber rewards for the time being.

I won't deny that there were some bad stories in the old canon, but throwing out an entire universe over a few mediocre entries seems foolish to me. $20 would be a reasonable price (pretty sure some cartel speeders cost that much), but $50 for such a short chapter would probably be bad PR for Bioware and lead to more complaints from people that buy it. If they released a new bonus chapter with the same time limited requirement as shroud of memory I would be strongly opposed to it. Like I said, I firmly believe that no story content should ever be gated between a time limited paywall.

Personally, I'd like an option to automatically turn it in, OR to use the Heroic Transport item to return to the questgiver and turn it in manually.

Personally, that was the decision that pretty much convinced me to drop Star Wars altogether, so I wouldn't say that's necessarily a good decision. I adored the EU (and never found it at all convoluted, it was pretty much completely internally consistent in my experience), and hated Force Awakens enough that it almost killed my interest in the series (thankfully Rogue One was excellent and restored my hopes, but I'm still not going to waste my time with Episode 8). I think the chapter appearing would probably be a BW decision, though, I doubt a single item like that is really something EA cares about. It's also something I am 100% in favor of, because I strongly believe that story content should NEVER be gated behind a time-limited purchase. (heck, ignoring the time limited part, remember the uproar when BW added some cutscenes to the cartel market Encrypted Datacubes? That was nothing compared to gating an entire chapter behind a time limit). I get the idea of incentives, but story should be available to anyone willing to purchase it. Subscriber incentives should be mounts, decorations, pets, titles, gear, that sort of thing. As for the people who did sub in order to get the chapter...IMO they were ripped off anyway since they paid over $100 for a single short chapter. If that was the only reason they subscribed, then subscribing was probably a mistake. Regardless, nothing is being taken from them if the chapter is made available to others to purchase. They got it, and all of the associated rewards, many months before everyone else. Now, if Bioware were to go the extra mile and give a special reward to everyone who did Shroud of Memory prior to it being put on the Cartel Market, that would be awesome. I would absolutely support that - give players who subscribed for it a special title, maybe some special customizations for HK and Z0-0M, stronghold decoration, something along those lines. That would definitely be a nice thing for them to do.