Sounds like companions are becoming more generic in combat since those with the same weapon type will now share the same ability sets? So no difference between Mako and Vette's attacks?

Cool! Maybe that will be invented in TOR in another 2,000 years (?)

That is not a political stance. That is an attempt to be witty at describing how some people are against SGR. About the worst you could say is that it's a bad joke.

Well, some SGR advocates are certainly very upset from what I read elsewhere. And no, not just on Fox News.

If you're referring to http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2013/01/14/star-wars-game-segregates-gay-characters-on-gay-planet/ I don't see an overtly political stand. It's just reporting

Am all for SGRs... if their inclusion feels natural and does not detract from any other game content (e.g. resources that might've been used fixing bugs are instead used to include SGRs). The current approach seems great - integrating it into new content. So instead of 10 hetero fling options we might have 7 hetero, 2 gay and maybe 1 pansexual fling on Makeb. But as it is SGR advocates are complaining about segregation. Makes one wonder if it'd have been better to leave out SGRs since either way you'll get complaints (and at least that way you do less work). Oh well, we can wait for the next group to complain about discrimination/exclusion in/from SWTOR. Transsexuals? Asexuals? Polyamorists?

After completing a quest and accepting a reward I get the notice: "You have gained XXX experience" "You have completed the quest and gained XXX experience" where XXX is the same number (phrasing approximate - I typed it in verbatim in-game but was told to post my feedback here) This is redundant and wastes one notification line in the chat box