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.

When I started it felt a bit like the abilities had a 1-sec delay before they fired, but eventually I just got used to it and no longer notice it in the flow of combat.

In pretty much all Heroics I've been in people just DPS/CC the bejesus out of them.

It's not ridiculous at all to expect a company's first MMO to be completely kink-free and up to all industry standards out of the box. Right guys? Right?... Oh.

I don't think playing my BH tank would be nearly as fun without Mako around.

Sounds more like people who don't know when they're being used.

I've had plenty of random groups in WoW with the LFD that were filled with nice, funny, friendly people. I've never seen any of them ever again, but at least I never have to deal with them asking for favors. No I will not craft you fifty things without a tip because we're 'friends', ergh!

In order for a LFG listing tool to really work they'd have to promote it, explain it to everyone and then ban spamming LFG in chat. I've never seen one work, since people seem to prefer the chatspam.

You know, I really feel like I have to go in depth on my feelings with this. Firstly, let me just qualify this by saying I am not a very social creature. You may ask 'Then why play MMOs!?' well, I honestly enjoy the gameplay and I do, to an extent, enjoy at least having other real people running about in the game world. I have little to no ability to structure my playtime around the schedules of other people. Waiting for someone or not being able to do what I want when I want to puckers my butt up something fierce. The whole concept of the 'Heroic 2/4' missions is... annoying at best. You don't have to do them, but they you're forced to rely on green equipment and the mercy of the RNG god. You're forced to more or less HOPE that your timing is just right enough that some random person will be doing about the same thing as you in that moment in time. If the stars align at that time, you're gravy. As for asking guildies to do it with you? It's the same scenario. First you're lucky if a guildmate is even on the same planet as you, and if not, then you're 'That guy'. The person who asks every goddamn twenty minutes for someone to trek down to the instance you want and faceroll it since they're no where in your level range. To be honest I think they should have a system where when you take the quest, it shows you a screen of everyone on the planet that also has the quest.

Thanks, but it's okay. When you get to a certain age, days seem to go by rather quickly, no matter what you're waiting for.

Purchased pre-order July 25th. Didin't think to register it on the site until October. Doh!