I've been saying it since the beta. They don't care. I submit many tickets, only 1 of those customer service related, the others were bugs. Guess which one they got to first? Bugs. Because those served their interest far more than helping a victim of griefing and harassment. They deleted my ticket as a matter of fact. In the beta, I sent them an email asking for help, and did I get an answer? No. They defended their position well after release of the game (yes, it took THAT long for them to respond) and I ended up with NO HELP whatsoever. When I went on the forums, I got flamed to hell. Yeah. What a great community and help that was. Blizzard would never let this kind of thing roll by. I remember their GM's responding to me within minutes of the incident (depends on what kind). I remember getting suspended after a BG I did. They got to it THAT QUICKLY. Bioware has NOWHERE NEAR that level of service. Don't pretend that they do.

I will just say, deal with it. Every item that drops one way or another is usable regardless of class, thanks to the companion system. If I go on a run, and an item drops that I want, I'm entitled to roll on it as are anyone else. I played my part as did everyone else so who is to dictate that I am not entitled to the rewards? Unlike most people, I actually gear up my companions and keep them competent (my Khem has actually tanked FPs and as duo player, duo companions no less) so an upgrade for them is very much an upgrade for myself as well. If people don't like it then too bad. Ever since beta, the community has been nothing but a-hats to me, and more so in the game. It got even worse when people were trying to use the excuse that we were Sith as the reason for their behavior. I've had it with these people. I'm only in it for myself. Either group up to do the content with me or not.

Memory issue you are referring to could be the DiskCacheArena. It gets full after a play session (depends on where you go, Alderaan for example seems to fill it immediately) and performance will degrade heavily as you keep playing.

Or maybe your experience was different than mine and I speed ran the game like many others that speed ran the game. Everyone I know reached 60 in vanilla WoW, even the poorest skilled of our players. And yeah, they were casual players. You probably started in Wrath of the Lich King just like everybody else.

It only *seemed* like it was longer because you had to grind and maybe your memory is a bit muddled. Maybe YOUR /played was longer. Not mine though. I am lv41 and the 28th will be 1 month for me on TOR. Comparatively on WoW, I was already 60 by this time on Vanilla WoW.

How was it not? There are leveling guides which are infamous now that revolved around doing a certain chain of quests, then grinding, and then moving to the next area and repeating. People did speed runs just because they could. What's so hard about going to one area, grinding to a certain level and then moving on to the next? You didn't have to worry about any strong's or elite's or even champions like you do on TOR.

Highly disagree with the OP. The original WoW took 1 month to lv60 and was even easier than this one. Final Fantasy's took 1 month to get to 75 if you had a steady group that knew how to grind mobs. I like Star Wars leveling system as it is. It's not that easy (unless you are playing pure dps class) and it is more entertaining than the leveling of both games I've listed. The former of which, I spent some time grinding in between series of quests b/c at the time, there were none.

Oh I forgot, do NOT SKIMP on the MOBO!! No cheap or off brands. Read the specs very very carefully and ensure that your parts can run full speed like how it's designed to.

The thing you are looking for when building a system for *this* game is the speed+size of RAM and the speed of the HDD. You need to be able to load into RAM as fast as possible so this is where HDD speed comes in. RPM should be 10,000 optimal. The speed of the RAM matters when it loads textures into the game world. When I first started playing this game, I had 2GB DDR 400. The game ran horrid and I could barely move anywhere b/c it would freeze after every few steps. Salvaged some of my faster RAM pieces (3GB DDR2 667/800) changed some BIOS and underclocking to 533 so they work together, the game world loads in a LOT quicker but it still takes a few seconds for some textures to fully load in. Some never load in. The horrible stutters died down a lot (except the more playtime and worlds traveled, the worse it got) but I can see that with a little more RAM and faster chips, this problem would be alleviated (although the multiple planets thing won't, due to DiskCacheArena getting full) Personally I recommend a quad core CPU. Intel seems to be the most popular at the moment. For RAM, look for DDR3 1333 or 1600 and you will want 4 minimum and 8 maximum. 16 seems to be overkill and honestly, 8 is too but with this game, you never know. For GPU, a Radeon 6750 or 6770 should be enough. TOR isn't demanding with GPU at all. Yes that will run in High. Heck, my Q6600 2.4ghz Quad Core, 3GB of RAM and 9800GT runs it on high. Like I said in my post, HDD speed and RAM speed will be the main bottlenecks in this game. That system should be fine although it WILL run into the cache problem but that's a fault of the game code, not your system.

I was gonna say the very same thing. It seems like James makes all these statements about TOR like it was brand new or innovative but in reality, it's really no different from any MMO.

I don't feel like the price they paid for the game, and the time it took to develop the game matched the quality level of the finished product. They emphasized the SP storyline, side quests and VO's but other than that, everything else is sub par. Good thing I can't get downvoted b/c people would have a field day with that.

The fleet pass that you get when you download the security key app or purchase the physical one is actually an hour compared to the emergency version which is 19hrs. Unfortunately you have to keep repurchasing it for 1000.

People invested in Star Wars for the fact that it is Star Wars. Not because it mimicked WoW or anything like that. As a potential investor, I wouldn't have invested in SW for the fact that it tried to mimic WoW, but took a "pick and choose" approach to it.

quit whining. Here in America, we can't play the game either and there are people just as frustrated as you are.

It seems that the culprit here is Low AA. High AA seems to be working for everybody but Low doesn't work at all. I had to go back to the .ini and set it back to 2 (2x) to get my AA back.