Well, if this is going to be a "feature", it would be fair to say it in advance. Had I known that Savage Nexu and Stormcrest Vorn Tiger were like this, I would't have bought them.

It seems that the designer of the latest mid-size animal mounts had a noticeable oversight, forgetting to provide them with a minimum sense of balance. There are two examples of it: Savage Nexu and Stormcrest Vorn Tiger (I do not know if there are more cases). Bothe of them are in a permanent horizontal position, regardless of the slope of the soil on which they rest . This becomes very significant (and ridiculous and grotesque) when you are climbing a mountain using these mounts. This remarkable mistake does not happen, however, with another recent mount, like the big-size Acklay .

Well, another subscriber and founder leaving tomorrow. Enough is enough. I will miss the game, at least as it was in 2012.

Communication. Communication. Communication. You, EA/BW, never understood this, and will never do. Only you, EA/BW are capable of transforming a simple subscriber reward (which, as useless as it is, it's still a good thing) in such an underwhelming disappointment with your lack of common sense. Who else would provoke an overhype like you did, with such bombastic sentences in twitter? Is there no one left at EA/BW with the minimun mental ability to realize that: 1) We have already 30 companions at our disposal, and we hardly will use more than one, because all of them have the same abilities, and they require a lot of money/time to get max influence. 2) One of the 30 available companions is HK-51, that is, HK-55 in different color. 3) A "new" companion will be the 31st in the list. But beyond that, the people who like HK-55 like HK-51 as well, and most of them (if not all), already have HK-51 as an available comp. Offering HK-55 is like a bad joke. Why not then a second Treek, or a second Lana, or a second Koth? 4) This game has a strong roleplaying aspect, like many other mmos. We play the characters we like, sith or rep, and we are somehow tied to the toon's personality. Do you really think that playing a toon that is not ours, that is the same for everyone else, and that is only available for 20 minutes in a chapter that adds nothing to the main story is such a great idea? 5) Do you really think that delaying chapter X a month (actually 28 days, since subscribers will be able to access it 2 ridiculous days in advance) can be included among the other "rewards"? Only you, EA/BW are capable of transforming a (very poor) reward into a "hurting" disappointment.

Lol, you have a point there!!

Big mmistake. Don't understimate EAware!!!! Even with the lowest expectations (based on years of continuous, huge disappointments), they are perfectly capable to disappoint us beyond the laws of Newton.

I doubt that a single subscriber (or potential subscriber) will be expecting anything better than a ridiculous recolored coat, a few cc, or an irrelevant early access to na even more irrelevant chapter X

Big announcement for subscribers. Big disappointment for everyone.

Something better than cross-server... I know!!! EAware's beloved subscribers will be able to play "chapter X" two days before of what was originally scheduled !!!!!!!!

I have been thinking of that word "BIG"... Apart from a BIG disappointment, which will happen for sure, could it be a free stronghold for subscribers? Well, strongholds are big.

Whatever the announcement is, it will greatly disappoint subscribers. Or actually not, since we are already expectiing the worst. "Better than cross-server"

it will be something as ridiculous as subscribers being able to start playing Chapter X 2 or 3 days before what was originally scheduled.

Oh yeah, you hit the nail on the head.

Please, read well what I said before posting such a condescendent and paternalist speech. I am founder, with 10 level 65 toons, regularly doing HM content, including ops and FP. I know how to play my classes, and probably better than you. Nothing of this changes the fact that tactical FP are harder than HM FP, unless you get a grp with experienced tank and experienced healer, which won't happen 99% of the times.

The weird thing based on my own experience is that SM OPS are similar in difficulty to HM FP, and HM FP are easier than Tactical FP. Tactical FP are way too hard for a normal group, and impossible if you don't have a experienced tank and healer in the group. HM FP are ok as they are, although the trash in Red Reaper is ridiculously OP.