Be nice he obviously is new and hasn't been around for any major patches to see how EAware back pedals on promises.

This guys a right piece of art work huh? Going on 48 hours now he has been blowing up the forums. Of course he is entitled to his opinions of what the devs 'mean' in the interviews they give. However the people who have been around a while, (like yourself!) know that just because they say that they 'intend' to keep something one way doesn't mean they will. Everything is subject to change, but this guy acts like its set in stone. If your reading this and you haven't already put me on ignore Kophar, until its released into the game its bound to change, stop acting like you know everything and us long time forum users know nothing.

I've been here since beta, been a follower on these forums since 2009, and have watched more podcasts, mmo gaming news, interviews, E3, ComicCon, Penny Arcade interviews then I can ever possibly recall regarding this game. I know what dev post state, and I am WELL informed about this game and everything relating to it. P2W is any game selling gear and frankly, middle level blues still can swing the balance in 10-49 PvP bracket so yea, its P2W. And lulzy at your o so mature /ignore. Jesus. Lmao.

Actually.... BW already said they were going to sell gear w/ stats which basically is P2W. It may not be Pay To Face Roll, however it is still a P2W model and with EA at the helm is bound to get out of control really rapidly. Now, normally I wouldnt even bother responding to your commentary on reporting people but this is a general discussion and people talk about general things. I frankly dont give a d*** if you love this game, however other subscribers have the right to be disgruntled with it and should be allowed to talk about it as well as compare it to other games. If you are incapable of handling reading a forum post without it upsetting you to the point of reporting and begging BioWare to ban people, I am sorry but you have bigger issues. If you love this game so much get off the forums and go play the game. BioWare isn't in need of players to come rescue them from critiscism, they are big boys and girls, they can handle it.

Just my 2 cents as a healer. I have no issues tossing a interrupt into a boss fight as long as the group is following mechanics. If everyone is doing their job it isn't too hard to keep peoples health up and be useful in other ways. However, if the group is just face eating damage I wont stop healing to toss an interrupt in. For me, in a good group it is pretty easy to tell if the boss has been channeling an ability and no one has interrupted it within a second or two I will stop cast and flip target to interrupt. Especially in pugs since a lot of times multiple people blow their interrupt cc at the same time because it isnt discussed prior to a pull. HOWEVER, dont expect me as a healer to be your main source of interrupts. There is a reason DPS mauraders have a zillion interrupts. Aside from pew pewing, its a dps'es job to handle that.

How about an entirely new system that is innovative and doesn't use any formulas from any pre-existing MMO's. I like new, not rehashes.

Clearly this is working as intended.

Last night on the forums! So I am putting this here. Game is way too linear. Before you tell me I am wrong, I am not. I have played so far (on two different servers)... Imperial 1) Agent (For the record I have two of these @ 50) 2) Bounty Hunter (I also have two of these @ 50) 3) Sith Warrior (Level 45) 4) Sith Inquisitor (Level 47) Republic 1) Jedi Counselor (Level 44) 2) Smuggler (Level 50) 3) Trooper (Level 50) {Of all these characters I was forced to take the same quest path except for story line on EVERY planet. I literally knew every planet quest by heart. There were no choices other then the one path and thats very frustrating for an alt-oholic} Point 1: Leveling is entirely too linear. Point 2: War zones are tiresome, when you are a heavy PvP player doing the same 4 war zones over and over as the only form of PvP becomes intolerable. If the maps were better/bigger/more exciting maybe you could get away with this but these maps are not good enough IMO to be the sole form of PvP for an entire game. Point 3: No world PvP. Do I need to say more? There is none. Fix this. Point 4: You guys added group finder, however its a cluster **** buggy mess. What good is having it if half the time it bugs out? Additionally, I would add, that when it does work its great, however it should have been cross server. As a healer I have literally sat in a queue for 2+/- hours waiting for a pop. That's un-freaking-real. Point 5: Customization- There is none. Especially for cloth users. They have the least amount of gear options available to them. Everyone looks the same, plus once you create your character its set in stone. Doh! How is there NO barber shop of any sort? Point 6: Combat is still sub-par. You guys dont balance classes well at all. And your even slower to fix what you **** up. Here is a hint; your metrics are not working. Fotm classes blow. Its not fun or engaging to have a character you have sunk tons of time into nerfed to the floor to become virtually unplayable. (I was an operative healer from launch. I have been on the receiving end of this. I know.) Small changes to classes guys, huge changes piss players off. Additionally the livability of an Agent Healer > Sorc Healer > Merc Healer is seriously bad. In that order is the desirability of those healers. Mercs are at the bottom for a plethora of reasons, mostly because you guys nerfed them for what reason no one knows. As for DPS, I am not a pro, but I am sure someone with more DPS experience can lay that out to you. Point 7: OMG Dailies. Please fix these. They are so boring and the respawn times are entirely too slow for the amount of players in these zones. W T F why am I killing myself to click on a crate? Its bothersome and makes me want to shoot myself. Point 8: Armor is crap. Seriously... who designed this stuff? Why are JC men wearing off the shoulder tops in their War Hero gear? Like really? And SI War Hero Gear... Are they walking Fish People? I dont get it? Not to mention Agent War Hero gear is the color of a traffic cone... who is drawing this stuff? More importantly who thinks it looks good?? Point 9: Travel, I cannot say enough about this. WOW it takes so long to get places. SO SO SO long. Getting back to my ship is easier granted, but getting off it is still a pain in the ***. Point 10: Crowd Control, you guys went WAY over board with this. There is too much. Everyone has some kind of CC which REALLY slows down play. Its so frustrating during PvP to be constantly slowed/stunned/pulled etc. (BTW you guys still haven't ironed out the camera sinking with the pull, so often my camera jerks all over the place when i get yanked.) I mean as a healer I expect to be CC'ed a lot. And I am fine with that, however your resolve system is crap. I cant imagine how it is for people who are not healers. Run in -> Get CC'ed -> Pray Your CC hits before theirs -> If Not Pray For Heals -> If None -> Get Pwned. You guys need to town this crap down. Like the amount of CC and pulls in this game is seriously ridiculous. Stun Wars is right. I can keep going. But really I will stop here. Anyways. Wish anyone left on this game the best of luck, your going to need it. Hope to see most of you in GW2. <3 Always Kashley

http://massively.joystiq.com/2012/08/20/gamescom-2012-swtor-will-sell-statted-gear-debating-new-planet/ If were going to be selling leveling gear, why do we have legacy items? In fact, why bother grinding out legacy gear at all if your going to just sell low level gear? Are you trying to entirely null patch 1.2 and the big 'legacy update?' How is this not P2W either... its gear, you buy, that obviously gives players better stats then people who have worked for it. For that matter, if this gear sells successfully, how long until you start selling 'old gear sets?' For instance, "Well Battlemaster isn't the freshest tier of gear, so we can sell it. Because P2W would only be selling War Hero gear..." I see you people... I know thats your logic! Maybe a dev would like to explain EXACTLY how 'buying gear' seems like a smart idea, and HOW its not going to be a P2W situation?

Because that means they are willing to go that route, and IF it is profitable, mark my words top end gear will be on that shop. Thanks EAWare for Ruining a Star Wars MMO! So who is unsubbing after hearing this tid bit? O and one other thing... why are we buying gear that was suppose to be what the legacy perk gear was for??

They didn't roll back. If they had everyone would have lost the gear/valor levels they got. Instead the WORST offenders like the guy who got 3500000 some valor lost 10-20 valor levels, 'according' to BW. However no one I knew did and that was a lot of *********** people. Not to mention the huge gear desparity it created between republic/empire players at the time. Even if they had taken away some peoples valor and banned a couple others (which I highly doubt) it was enforced unfairly. The only fair option, which BW, specifically GABE, failed to do was roll the *********** servers back 24 hours. How hard would that have been? Maybe YOU need a reminder of how big a cluster **** that was? So I included a link. It is just one in a huge list of glaringly retarded decisions that continue to be made by the devs. Now they intended to celebrate this **** with a holiday?! Forgive me for saying his idea of celebrating this is in BEYOND poor taste and shows his utter disconnect with the PvP community. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PTDo9cgk2c&feature=youtube_gdata_player

OR!... They could fix their *********** game? Crazy thought I know! I mean they have had lag issues since launch, I highly doubt his voice client is causing that big an issue. For that matter... *** kinda logic is it telling people in a SOCIAL GAME to stop using applications that help them socialize?

Yes, all 150 of you that will still be paying a sub will have access...

Qft:eek:

Gabe... yea... ok. Guy has ZERO credibility IMO. Isn't he the guy who refused to do roll backs after the Ilum nightmare? K, yea. The game still doesn't offer enough to keep people subscribed. As for the new content, they have been promising that since release, and lets just say they haven't really lived up to it. More promises mean exactly zero to me. Edit: is in January, what we’re targeting to do, this may or may not happen, so you can’t hold me to it. But what we’re targeting to do, is have a fun anniversary to the Ilum shenanigans that happened. Shenanigans? That's what he is calling the massive outcry on the forums that caused tons of PvP players to leave the game? Not to mention the blatant middle finger that was given to the community by refusing to roll back? On top of that they are planning to celebrating the day that they effectively destroyed the only world PvP area this game had?! (That still hasn't been replaced... ALL THIS TIME LATER!) WOW. Just WOW.

SWG /5char

I thought GW2 was amazing last beta test and I cant get enough of it, everything about it is fresh, and being able to cast w/ no ability delay is a refresher I cant even begin to describe. The guy is mad that GW2 is gonna steal a lot of subs is all. Everything you said here is true.

I was going to go through and bold every statement you made I agreed with until I realized that I would have to bold every line. This is EXACTLY 1000000% how I feel about this game.

Remind yourself of this post when your level 50.... Better yet, check the PvP forums. Happy you like it so far though... Just don't be surprised later.

Im impressed you made it that far tbqh. How did you stomach doing the same linear quests over and over again. You get my cookies sir. THAT is an achievement... If I may inquire... How is your spacebar key holding up?

Staff responses like this make me happy GW2 is around the corner! Clearly out of touch with their community... At the slow rate they release this drivel that they call 'world events' the chances of seeing other weapons comparable to the ones from this event any time soon is looking at early next year! Why make a world event that only rewards certain classes? Who was sitting in HQ and saw that go by and said to themselves, "SURELY this will not piss ANYONE off! They will love it!" EAWare you never fail to amaze me. Its like your intentionally shooting yourself in the foot at this point just to see if you can set a record on the fastest sunk triple A MMO ever.

Everyone has this happen, if you haven't noticed it, its because you are oblivious my friend.

I just threw up a little...

Honestly, I dont have an answer. For me, (and I am a one character person) end game was a huge let down. I felt like I was playing WoW with wayyyy less features. There just wasn't enough meaningful content and entirely too many credit sinks. Also, to mention my main is an Operative healer. I have played her since launch. So basically I got the joy of being the first class that was nerfed into the floor making it so unviable for everything I really just considered quitting. Now it has been buffed and I can enjoy her again, but still the content lacks. Pre-patch 1.2 (I think?) The patch that made warzones same faction viable had me rolling 10-12 Huttball games in a row. Which meant for months until that fix PvP was literally the same thing over and over again, vastly limiting the appeal of PvP. (Not to mention on a gimped class.) Raiding and FP's were so buggy that I lost all interest in doing them so for a large portion of this games life it felt like there was really nothing to do at 50. Add to that the subs starting to bleed out off my server and even if I wanted to do FPs or Raids you couldnt get a full group for it. Now they have fixed some of these issues and condensed servers so I tried a reroll to see if it felt different the second time around and honestly, the FP finder is all right. It has issues but it gets the job done. But still once I capped that toon, end game still felt lacking. More to the point, even after rolling that one I found myself longingly looking at my main on the character screen wishing there were more fun things to do with her in game.

K troll. Not even close to the same thing. Done here.