LOL! God, memories. I used to heal a lot in WoW, went through what you're going through on a constant basis. I feel you.

Pure. Win.

.....What exactly is your definition of exploring?

Are extremes your hobby or something? Rumor has it there is a happy medium in here somewhere.

Apparently there are some posts missing cus I had no clue what the hell you were talking about lol

Not everyone plays in groups. I dont. I dont really get the time. By the time I get home from work half the server is off to bed. So while it may be easy for you to bulldoze through with an op of 25, there are those of us who dont have a horde of folks to back us up. Sorry the game is too easy for you.

You say casuals like they are some undeserving scum or something.

I think some of you folks missed the intended humor in the thread. In any case, I read all the posts and giggled like an idiot! Funny stuff guys! Thanks hee hee

My son's first MMO was UO. Hell it was MY first MMO as well. He started about 8 years old and by 9 he was putting together his own websites. My son turned 25 last December. He is currently playing WoW as an avid Rper (until I can get his computer purchased and sent to him, hehe late birthday present) wherein he will join us here in ToR. Needless to say he is almost giggling like a schoolgirl over the idea. His love of RP is also what inspired him to write fiction, which, like mom here, is what he does. I agree about MMO's can teach a lot to kids. It's just up to the parents to mediate. As parents, we should be doing that regardless.

THOUSANDS of PEOPLE are DYING!! SITH are RUNNING RAMPANT, and you want SMILES!? Are you INSANE!? Go back to your carebear land, you wuss! Rawr!! Okay, all kidding aside, to be honest with you, I dont know how their faces would look structurally speaking, if they did smile. Might come out more like some anguished grimace hehe

He's a troll. Dont feed him.

Heheh, Ill have to check now. My Jedi isnt high enough in level to really have to use CC much yet. Maybe Qyzen feels he needs to stand guard in case lift wears off

There are some things in the game that make me go " On come ON! double yew Tee Eff?!" But not a lot. Not because it's not there, but because I've seen it before. I wasn't there when WoW first launched, I came in a few months later. But it was still buggy as hell. I remember sitting in queues for about an hour an a half just to enter the game itself. I remember the Blackrock server crashing so much that they formed a huge group on the server I played on, Argent Dawn, to protest. Blackrock would crash for days at a time. At the time we AD'ers would be pissed, but now we sorta laugh, BR players had, over time, become the loud party guy neighbor that tends to grow on you. There is one thing that bothers me more about this game than anything, and it's not something Bioware can really fix. It's something we, as the players have to fix. I'm talking about people blocking everyone else out, playing with blinders on and pretty much atrophying any social muscle that's left. I make it a point to acknowledge people, even if sometimes the answer is a no. " Hey, anyone need Fall of the Locust?" " Sorry, I just did it." or " yea. I could use that one! anyone else?" I'm not saying you need to stop an answer every single utterance, but come ON. I see 30 people on a planet, I'm assuming, generously, that half have their general chat turned off. That still leaves 15 people being mindless drones. Frustrating. Edit: wow, they actually edited out the three letters double yew tee eff. That's kinda...sad. lol

You beat me to it lol

I'll be taking that advice, thank you

My three hours a night usually dont start until after midnight and never on the same night. So no. I will not make promises to a raid group if I cant keep them.

Wow, that's insulting. I would never play that way! And yes. Once again. Im a casual.

I'm a casual. if find my dps is bad, or Im dying entirely too quickly or my companions just flat out SUCK, I research why. I find out what I can do to improve this. So, Sorry, this doesnt fit the definition of casual either.

What game rules exactly do we not care about? This makes no sense at all.

Uh what? I'm a casual gamer. I dont raid because real life doesnt allow me time to. But Im a gamer. I play those 3 hours a night that I can and some on the days Im not at work. I have zero interest in Farmville. Farmville and SWTOR are not the same for me.

The posts are coming faster than I can write lol

I dont necessarily think a cross server tool would be a bad thing. There are servers with serious population imbalances that would benefit from it. I wouldn't, however, match up PVP servers with RP servers. The outlook on the game and general temperament is entirely too different.

Why does being a new parent mean he isnt allowed to play a game of his choosing one hour a night? Being a parent doesnt mean sacrificing everything you have simply to do so. Im not understanding why this is an issue, and why, in your 'infinite wisdom' he should be penalized for "jumping into a new MMO".

All I'm seeing here is a bunch of people making something complicated when it really shouldn't be. I play WoW. Have played for about 6 years. I've never killed Illidan, never killed Arthas. never got to progress in Naxx. Not because I didn't want to, but because my job is demanding and I couldn't commit to a raid group. Also due to work, sitting around in Stormwind yelling for groups was getting me nowhere. Getting gear was not an option for me. Enter the LFG tool, and later on, the LFR tool. I just recently helped defeat Deathwing, something I would have never had the chance to do without this tool. My gear isn't top notch (yet! lol) but its MUCH better than before. Now I'm here, and find I abandoned 2/3 of the heroics and have done ONE FP since I've started. My character, by the way, is 49. It's frustrating to sit in an area, yelling out " LFG (insert mission here)" for hours and days and get nothing in return but dead air. I can't speak for the other servers, but my server, which is supposed to be an RP server, is not as social as you would expect. It's like most of the place has gone into some gaming trance and the one "awake" person is left screaming out "LFG" to a void. And this WITHOUT an LFG tool. Tell me, how could such a tool make it worse?

And this is where the community forums come into play. You would be amazed how fast someones less than desirable reputation moves about the internet. All it takes is one post, so dont give a ****. Neither will we.