First thing I do is turn off general chat. In WoW I installed an addon that gives me an infinitely large ignore list. People complain that this game has low-population servers. To me, that's a bonus.

"Everyone?" You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means. Put me on the "under no circumstances" side.

"Free to Play to 15th level" is "Free trial for ten days" wearing a false nose and moustache. I got into WoW by playing the free trial, and 5 years later I'm still subscribing. Free trials are good business sense, not the sign of the impending apocalypse.

The day a dumb***** computer game about pretending to be a Jedi Knight makes me lose sleep, I cancel my subscription and take a sledgehammer to my computer.

I feel the same way you do. I think this is one of the most achingly stupid things I've ever heard, and I can't believe Bioware actually spent money on this. Sadly, I suspect our opinion is a minority. That's OK, I'm used to that, ever since I decided Beethoven's music is superior to Brittany Spears.

It's Star Wars. Star Wars > everything else. SWTOR for the win.

Half his guild left to form their own guild and this is somehow Bioware's fault?

And the NPC knows what level you are why? Do you have a transmitter broadcasting "I AM LEVEL 40 FEAR MY LEET SKILLZ" or something? What you are talking about would utterly destroy any lack of RP verisimilitude for those of us who actually think enemy soldiers would shoot at us instead of smiling and waving as we parade by.

The "right"? Um... no. Just, no.

This. Also, keep playing and having fun.

He was fulfilling a Republic quest. There are Empire quests that I've seen Empire players completing where they're killing Republic soldiers. If you want to intervene, yeah, that's what PVP servers are for.

I like the game as it is, and most of the things people yodel about on this forum I either don't care about or actively dislike. Why on Alderaan should I support changes that will make the game less fun for me?

Considering that Star Wars is the #2 movie in history in terms of number of tickets sold, that's a pretty big audience. The only REAL question is, are there enough people like me -- Star Wars fans who think $15 a month is chump change to play 1 or 2 hours per week and so faithfully send off our $15 a month -- to provide a large enough revenue stream for the game.

SWTOR=Star Wars SWTOR for the win.

This. If you don't like the game, fine. Doorknob, butt, hit, way out.

What's your server?

D'oh!

Operating cost is almost completely independent of number of players logged in.

Just make sure you all send your gear and credits to me before you go. "Dahail" on Rubat Crystal.

No, it's doomed, doomed, doomed, you'd better unsubscribe right now. Um, send me all your stuff first, though. Especially credits. "Dahail" on Rubat Crystal.

GW1 didn't kill any games, GW2 isn't going to, either. I am hoping it will draw off the noisy obnoxious PVPers, though. Who will play IT for three months, bellyaching loudly, and then go to some other game.

because the designers are older than twelve...

I enjoy this game as it is quite a bit. However, I do have to agree with your above statement. I personally think that the "rush through to level cap because the game begins and endgame" mindset is a hideous evil that should be purged from the Galaxy with cleansing atomic fire.

Hmm... you seem to have reversed them from my understanding as well. "Casual" to me -- and I am FIRMLY a casual gamer in my own eyes -- is somebody who putzes. I do have one character at maximum, but only one. I'll open an alt, play ten or fifteen levels, then delete it. My skills are scattered around all three subgroups because I picked ones that looked shiny. Not all my upgrades are current. I don't know what my DPS is, nor do I care. "Powergamer" to me is somebody who wants to "beat" the game and get All The Best Stuff . They're the ones who rip through content and scream for more. I've been playing WoW since 2007 and I still don't have even a single character at maximum level. The most decisive characteristics of what I term the "casual" player are twofold: 1) An attitude that "it's just a silly game, and if it provides a bit of entertainment that's all I want." 2) Sending our $15 a month marching faithfully off to whoever... because $15 a month is chump change, and if we play a game 5 hours a month and have fun doing it, it's worth it. In my not so humble opinion the "deserters" are the ones who rip through to maximum level and scream that there isn't enough ganking of "n00bs" in PvP, and they go shrieking off to the next game. There is an amazing number of threads here where people have said "I did this game and it suxxors and then this game and it suxxors and then this game and it suxxors and then SWTOR and it suxxors and u r all l00sers and now Im gonna play this great new game lol." At some point, the common thread in all their failed games is themselves. Just my two wuptiupti.

If English is not your first language, I have nothing but admiration for your trying to communicate in a non-native language. If your first language is English, horsemanure. There is absolutely no excuse for a native English speaker under the age of eight to not use basics of spelling, grammar, and punctuation. Furthermore, it's not difficult to tell the difference in writing between someone who is young (and therefore not au courant with, for instance, the nuances of the semicolon or the Oxford comma) and somebody who just doesn't care. That's not "elitism," that's "basic functional literacy."