So Star Wars is now to games what the NFL is: swallowed whole by EA with no chance of competition. Disney can now crap out crappy games based on all the movies and there will be no Star Wars alternatives. This IS bad. Truly bad.

I'm really sick of "it breaks PvP" being used as an excuse. Cross-faction tells are great for everyone but PvPers. And you can certainly prohibit tells to opponents while in a warzone and perhaps even for a time period after.

Anyone else find it appropriate that the jilted guild leader is named Adele? Tell BW they could have had it all...

Really, you've got to stop the hyperbole. Bioware hasn't "treated" the LGBT community any way. They made a game. There's no direct bigotry in the game. Therefore the idea that people are being mistreated is impossible. This is not the California legislature. It's one game made by people who are in good faith making a continuing effort to incorporate more SGR into the game. Save your disgust for actual bigots.

In this case, it very much is. Again, I understand wanting more than this, but saying you were "SCREWED" implies you were somehow betrayed, and you can't be betrayed if you aren't owed anything.

Whoa whoa whoa whoa... I'd like to see more thorough implementation of SGR too, but SCREWING THE LGBT COMMUNITY?! Let's be very clear: BioWare doesn't owe you anything. This is the same attitude of entitlement that gamers have shown about EVERY issue.

Dude, have you ever played a game in your entire life? Go do this professionally or something, and leave the rest of us to actually have a good time. And immediately after ... You can't claim bad English then use a sentence like that, complete with correct use of an interjection and the word "retort" followed by correct use of a colon. It's not your English that's bad. It's your attitude.

Cite a source, please. I haven't seen this.

Ignore slafko. He's TOR's official troll.

False. An outright lie.

You've been asking this for several pages, and we've been trying to explain it to you for as many pages. None of us are stopping you. You can keep doing the wrong thing. Your counter-hate, however, suggests a guilty conscience.

They don't realize it because they don't want to realize it.

That logic will land you in jail. It's an exploit. You know it. Just be real about it. But all this rationalizing just makes you look like an even bigger fool. When you've done Trouble in Deed seven times, I don't begrudge you wanting an XP boost so you can stick to the class storyline and only the sidequests you prefer. I can tell you it's made my alt experience grandly better. See? I'm not a fanatic. I just am not trying to delude myself or anyone else into believing that taking advantage of a clearly unintended game mechanic to power level is anything other than cheating. Say that with an Arkansas accent and people might believe you. After all, this all depends on what your definition of "is" is.

And the Bill Clintoning continues. It's an exploit. You know it. Either own it or stop doing it, but making excuses just makes you a weasel.

I'm sure you can pull a Bill Clinton all night long in rationalizing why it's not cheating. At the end of the day it's still just a flimsy rationalization. It's cheating. You know it; you just want to know it.

Because A) It imbalances the game. And B) It's cheating.

Cool. Not cool. The Gree event has PvP components that add fun for PvPers and detract it from everyone else. A game's failure to be exactly what YOU want it to be is not very poor game design and does not show "a lack of talent and understanding of what design is all about." This is exactly the entitled gamer attitude that is making everyone make fun of this thread. "I didn't like it," and "It has flaws" has become "As a player of this game who has never been hired by anyone reputable to make a game myself, I hereby pass my immensely credible judgment on these billions of bits of code that I have never actually seen." Get over yourself. I'm sure you also send emails to airline pilots telling them that their inability to eliminate turbulence shows a lack of aeronautic expertise and piloting skill.

And SlimsPicken makes himself a parody of the very point I'm making immediately after I make it.

The thing is that some gamers make legitimate complaints when the game company expects more money for stuff that should have been there in the first place. For example, Cryptic eventually caved and gave the first Champions Online expansion away for free because the game's content was severely limited at launch. But even the harshest TOR critic with any grounding in reality can't claim that TOR fails to deliver on content. Hell, the complaints I see are almost always complaints about how all the free content it regularly adds isn't good enough for their liking. You've got a legitimate complaint if your car is missing a rear bumper and the car company offers to sell you one. But we're talking about rims at this point.

Wow. These posts are still happening. And still proving gamers are the most entitled whiny brats in all of US pop culture.

If there are Star Wars zombies, it's not a far cry to have Star Wars vampires. I wouldn't be surprised if something like that doesn't already exist in the EU. For instance, for the vampire charm thing, one of the books had an alien named Xizor who could emit pheremones that made him instantly attractive to almost any woman.

It's spelled "nemesis."

Ah, Starsider. Hello you crazy drama queens.

Born and raised in Akron. College educated in Cleveland.

Used to live in Nashville. Missing it dearly. Go Phunky Griddle!