I think the point is to have a better distribution across levels for Flashpoints. If everyone queued up for only one flashpoint, then you might have the odd flashpoint with not enough people queuing and all they do is get mad at others. You are more than welcome to only look for specific flashpoints, but the game mechanic is such where you won't get the daily commendations. You still get them through running the flashpoints.

Personally, I would really like to see some kind of differentiation between the icons for the quest givers. There are times where I'm just looking to do single-player quests, or times where I'm only looking for Heroic quests. It's a bit of a bummer when I get through a cut-scene and find out its a heroic that I just abandon as I don't want to do that at the moment. Additionally, it would be really nice to see level differentiation as well so you don't pick up a quest that's many levels besides you.

That was mainly meant as a generalization and not specifically towards the current issues, which admittedly is an issue. Please refrain from the language, even if its asterisked away. Thanks.

I'm glad there has quickly been some good discussion surrounding this topic. I was becoming afraid that there were only people who yell a lot left on the forums.

I know that everyone has strong opinions about this game and that it can be a gigantic pain when things don't go right for you. Can we all just realize that we are one of hundreds of thousands of players and that one thing that will drastically improve someone's game might actually hinder someone else. This kind of balancing and bug-fixing that the teams are working on (and if you think they've actually slept much lately, you're probably mistaken) introduces lots of new variables into the game that all need to be tested and fixed - potentially introducing even MORE issues, etc. To say that the game is completely broken (when at the bare MINIMUM there are 100 hours of game time if you only do one republic and one imperial character - and we know that's underestimating by a large margin) is ludicrous. If it was broken, there would be no way for anyone to get to level 50. Myself, I'm having a great time with this game (and I've only gotten to level 31 with one character after a month). Are there issues, sure, but I've invested far more time with this game over the past month than the last 5 games that I've purchased full retail for (>$300 on those games alone) so spending $60, with a recurring monthly payment of $15 is a small price to pay for something that I'll be playing for at least a few more months if not throughout the year. Try to go into this game with less expectations, and you never know what you might find. If you truly can't get past the bugs at the moment, that's fine, but why all the hatred on these forums? Thank you all for your time, and to any mods who read this keep up the good work and keep the bug-fixes coming. Thanks.

I wasn't in Beta that much, but there doesn't seem to be more in the character creation screen. The graphical glitches I would say are mostly nonexistent. I'm playing it on the highest graphical settings and I think it looks wonderful. This is a matter of personal taste but I don't see the texture pop-ins like I used to see alot. It still happens but its far less frequent. I don't believe there are speech bubbles, but I've heard they plan to implement that post-launch. All in all, I'm very pleased with it. It's no skyrim, graphically, but all the characters feel like they have more character.

It seems like this is the point of the staggered opening. To allow people to move on so EVERYONE isn't cramming into the starting zones all at the same time.

I totally agree on that remark. Of course, it helps that I got in but I was one of the first out of the gates with the pre-order. Soon though it won't even matter anyway as we play this game for year's to come.

This will be my first foray into the PVP arena, mostly because I'll have a guild waiting for me on this server. I'm not really sure how its going to be but I'm pretty excited.