Man, that comic just screams of butthurt. /v/ really is now just an old folks home for people who are no longer a profitable demographic.

I'm not sure if Tommyjc is a troll or doesn't know what the ability delay really is.

My abilities now fire off the moment I press them. Granted the only time I was having a delay was when I was grouping.

It takes more graphical power to render customized characters (Where all the different textures must be pulled from different memory locations) than it takes to render preset, generic 'soldier' models. If you're going to whine about game engines you should try to know how they work just a little bit.

I believe that's Flechette Round, the top talent for the Scrapper tree.

OP, you seem to have hit the wall I've seen so many people hit before. I think everyone just eventually tires of the genre as a whole. For some it takes years, for others decades. Personally I don't think anything will ever fix this, not even GW2.

People need something to do while they wait for the next flash in the pan that will disappoint them. (Not including SWTOR)

Without sharding, your gears would be ground down all the way.

Those sales figures were only in the UK

To this day I don't understand what you people are talking about. I see people running around, doing things (Not that it would affect me one bit if they weren't there). Sure, the world duping baffles me, but you simply can't do story-oriented things in an MMO in areas that anyone can go into. Why? Because if I went, on my Smuggler, to go get back my ship from Skavak and randomly found some Jedi tap dancing on it in the hanger, I wouldn't exactly be pleased.

I prefer Smuggler over IA. Everything Empire oriented just feels so depressing. Depressing with accents.

To be honest, I've seen Bioware be more talkative and involved in their forums for their single player games like Mass Effect and Dragon Age. Seems like ever since the Dragon Age 2 debacle they've become super tight lipped.

The thing is, they're not allowed to say much. Every word that comes from a Devs mouth or even a moderator will be taken as the gospel truth and will cause people to get supermassively butthurt if it doesn't come true.

'Innovation' is not what most MMO players are looking for. The average fan of the Great Beast that is this genre don't latch onto things that are wildly different from the norm. They just gravitate to something similar, but slightly newer, once the current King has outstayed its welcome. Has WoW really reached the point where people are ready to ditch the time they've put into the game? Is there a new crop of teenagers looking for something pointless to do? Hard to really say.

90% of the time I forget my companion is even there. I think the OP just has OCD or something.