Let me say; yes, I am one of the people who did the exploit. I know, shame on me. Here's my feelings on it. First of all, I paid to get early access to 3.0 for a working expansion. What I got was laggy and broken. Half the quest/dailies on Rishi were broken to the point were you can't complete them or restart the game during them. Yavin wasn't much better with missing items on the maps. Mobs would reset during fighting and final battles and were broken to the point were a fight couldn't be completed. I die at least a dozen times before I give up on only to find out that it was glitched. The topper on the cake was n Sunday when I found out that Tuesday was going to be the beginning of the free training. So, after spending millions of credits on repairs and training only to find out I could have gotten training for free. I never received an apology from EA/BW. Would have been different if they gave us some sort of compensation.
With the 3.0 I had to finish leveling, but I was unable to because everything was so badly glitched. I had to revert back to the old one just to get to level 60. I had to do that with a few characters until they were able to get the stuff fixed a week later.
When I did do the exploit, which was only twice, on the few 60's I have, it was under hard mode so all I got was 192 gear instead of the 198 gear. Which put me back to where I was gear wise before 3.0. What I did do didn't hurt anyone or interfere with their gaming. I used the gear for my characters and didn't RE anything because I needed it all. Nor did I sell the mats because I also needed them when for when I will RE the stuff after I gear up my characters.
If EA/BW touches my account or takes any action against me I'm canceling my account. With them taking no action on the previous exploits and releasing an extremely broken expansion, I feel they took my money and ran. I really don't care about there TOS anymore.
Another thing that has me rather upset is how the game looks like Star Wars meets Pirate of the Caribbean with the new armor. They did the same thing with the Gree when it came out, but it was Tron based with basically Mouse ear hat, since Star Wars was bought by Disney. I signed up to play Star Wars and not Star Wars meets Disney.
Like I said before, its no excuse for the exploit, but after they way EA/BW treated us early assessors, I really don't care. Between how they treated this cluster and what EA has done before with other games, I'm very hesitant about buy another EA/BW game again. I'll be more than happy to give my money to someone else with a working product.