Is anyone else starting to see an amusing and equally alarming similarity between this and Monty Python "Dead Parrot" bit?

Flawless Victory, BioWare.

Correction: He seemed eager to point out how they've answered these questions multiple times before and the users aren't satisfied with the answers. But NOT eager to discuss the 25% decrease in subscriptions recently admitted to that he flat out denied 2 weeks prior. And apparently sees absolutely NO connection to user dissatisfaction and declining subscriptions. *boggle* They very clearly do NOT play their own game. And it's not just Mr Ohlen not playing the game. Mr. Zoeller's infamous 'what sort of unusual huttball games are you guys playing where you never leave combat?' remark speaks VOLUMES to me and a lot of people

WHAT YOU SAY!?!?!?!?! BW seems to have a dismissive if not downright condescending attitude to it's paying customers?!?!?!?!?! SON I AM DISAPPOINT.

He might have to 'merge' rooms to make space.

This 18 million times over. Especially the last paragraph.

The 'free' transfers will be to low pop servers. Anywhere else you want to go, $$$. What has two thumbs and isn't going to reward BW's continued ineptitude with more money? *THIS GUY*

The two previously high-pop servers I play on (Corellian Run/Wall of Light) have turned into ghost towns. Previously Fleet levels of 150+ have dropped to 50 during 'peak' times. The guilds I joined on the respective servers previously averaged 30-40 people on during same peak times. Now, 10, maybe 15.

Coming in 1.3, I bet.

I have a simple, 3-step solution that BW could do to fix the problem: 1) Buy vaseline @ your local neighborhood grocery or drugstore 2) Apply liberally around the neck and ears region 3) Pull.

I wish they'd have gone the GW route. Normalize all gear and stats, let strategy, coordination and skill determine the outcome of matches.

There are several on my server (Correllian Run), but I can't think of a single person who inspires such hopelessness and JiveTurkey. I've been in CW's where the /op channel chatter was "OMG, JiveTurkey is in this match with his pre-made. Someone cap something so we can soak defender points because we're going to lose" and THEN he and his pre-made 3cap. The man is just that good.

Epic post, bro. Constructively critical, no malice, bitterness. Exactly the sort of thing BW needs to see and take to heart. I don't think they WILL, but kudos all the same.

Are you sure they're going to be in 1.3? I mean, are you REALLY SURE?

Yes, but many are the times when I que for a WZ, get in, target an opponent and think 'Meh' and /dance instead of melting his face off.

Right, because a certain OTHER MMO's success is TOTALLY dependent on pvp.

Clearly, sir, you did not get the memo. We're all upset about this. VERY UPSET SIR! How can we talk smack about how awesome we are at pvp and how everyone else are baddies and need to l2p if they have the same gear as us? Why, if everyone had the same gear, it would be down to skill, strategy, etc. And I'm the best at pvp there is sir. My having Warhero gear and you not having warhero gear is proof of that, sir.

A) Yeah, they sometimes do. On the two servers I play on, my two friends and I can tell when the Warhero premades are out and about, stomping around in the kiddie pool B) For someone who didn't pvp 10-49 and only got into it at 50, starting out with recruit gear, while better than nothing, IS still painful. C) Let go of the 'get some friends and get in vent. I DO play with 2 people I regularly game with and I'll concede I'm not God's gift to pvp and neither are they. 3 of us with 5 random team mates against a 4 man pre-made/4 others (possibly pre-made as well) all wearing warhero isn't 'competitive' D) Oh, I can't entirely blame the Warhero guys who put in the time and effort to get the best gear and who desperately want to get ranked WZ's. That's BW's fault, not theirs. But, you're so quick to point out the competition rule.... if gear DOESN'T matter so much and skill DOES, why are you and all Battlemaster/Warhero gear wearing pvpr's SO UPSET the rest of us peons might get the same gear as you? Afraid of competition?

Hey, all of you l337 pvpr's complain gear doesn't matter, skill does. Suddenly, those of us 'l2p n00b!' people might get a couple steps closer to getting geared and you cry foul? What about wanting competitive matches where you can stroke your ego by beating an equally geared player because you got mad skillz?

Complete and utter BS. This change allows those of us getting roflstomped by bored, WarHero geared pre-mades to get at least SOMETHING out of it.

This times infinity.

You had me until you said 'if the other players aren't completely brain dead'. But I concede the point that huttball is the most difficult to pug. It requires a lot of coordination.

Now *THIS* I could get behind. Of all the WZ's, this is the one that requires THE LEAST strategy/skill/whatever. It's a zerg fest. Even when I queue as a pre-made, you can easily defend by simply throwing bodies at the doors.

I strongly favor cross server wz's for no other reason than why should JiveTurkey's reign of terror be isolated to *MY* server.

Me too. He hasn't played huttball, apparently. Assassins ftw.