FE/ET's biggest failing was just how quickly it became boring. And it became boring so quickly because it was "one story fits all" - except it just didn't. Almost nothing in FE/ET makes any sense at all if the Protagonist is not a Force User. The idea of the Eternal Empire was good, the KEy Antagonists were OK, the "trash mobs" were utterly boring, predictable, and it was almost like the same "cast script" was copied on to every chapter, and despite cosmetic differences too many chapters were "corridor > 4 mobs > corridor > 4 mobs > corridor 2 elite mobs, 2 normal mobs > corridor" rinse and repeat ad nauseum. The huge story beats made sense ONLY to Force Using MCs. There should have been some "middle - chapter class divergence" so as to make replayability a lot more interesting. What cam after FE/ET? Iokath - so bad I've played it once on one toon and will NEVER go back. Ossus - quite enjoyed it. I've always enjoyed Manaan themed content - but that is the KOTOR fan-boy n me. The Mandalorian / Malgus stuff is getting boring quickly. Malgus has become the new Vitiate - "yay we defeated him, oh no he's back again for the third time" - they really, really, desperately need a more imaginative and less repetitive Lead Story Writer. Oh, and maybe revisit some of the "empty places" on existing planets rather than having a continuous stream of new planets - oh wait, new themed Cartel Packs - Cartel Store takes precedence over story. All The Best

So can we: "Extend the Grind - some people are so fooled by it as to a) think it equates to content, and b) defend it" - and they are right, some people are so fooled. All The Best

More whataboutery. That isn't a constructive rebuttal to their point. All The Best

But people are still talking about server-mergers. Which means the players currently playing enjoy the game, but there are not that many of them left. Bioware should be looking to at the very minimum not lose any more players, and should be looking to grow the playerbase to the point of needing more servers, not less. All The Best

It'll help if you read my follow-up post here as to reasons why they may want a head start on crafting: https://forums.swtor.com/topic/927302-player-owned-gtn-in-strong-holds-and-drops-fleet-gtns/#comment-9739512 It is not about "having it all now!" - it is about "having useful crafting, rather than useless crafting" - and if you level up crafting as you go along it is ALWAYS useless because it is always lagging behind your quest drops. All The Best

The problem in this, and most other MMORPGs, is that if you gather your crafting mats as you go along you are never normally able to craft gear that is an improvement on the Quest Drops. For Crafting to be useful you need to be crafting better gear than you can pick up, and that means not relying on "gathered Mats" for crafting. Also, Crafting in SWTOR has been all but abandoned by the Devs since release - it has always felt overly complicated, lacklustre, and by-and-large (with one or to notable exceptions) next to useless. I mean look at the new planet, been through there at least a dozen times, on 4 different toons, all with different crafting and gathering skills - is there a single Craft-Mat node anywhere on that planet? Because if there is I haven't seen it. They just don't care about Crafting. Why waste effort on that when they can put Dev time and resources in the GS-x and give us more ways to repeat old content we were bored of half a decade ago. All The Best

Yeah, handled properly this game could, and should, have been the WoW-Killer it was hyped to be. If they had continued with Class Stories - even if there was one Per Faction Story, but each CLass had one or two unique Side Quests - it would have bee awesome. The One Story Fits All of of KotFE/ET was utterly appalling, especially as almost none of the FE/ET story makes any sense at all if the protagonist is not a Force User. All The Best

But that is NOT the players' faults. That is the fault of poor quality workmanship from the get-go. The "we stuffed it up on day one, so day 4,000 can't be any better" excuse just is not going to fly... ...ever. All The Best

Ye gods, I hope we don't get any KotFE/ET "style" story content. Some of the very worst story content in the game, appallingly delivered IMO. I like the release cadene of a few chapters here, a few chapters a bit later, and maybe the first half of FE was interesting to a point, but the second half of FE and all of ET we very lacklustre, rinse-repeat corridor runs with almost metronomic predictability in how many enemy would turn up when in what strength. The best thing since FE/ET is the ability to bypass it all and jump straight into Ossus - they would not have added that if FE/ET was considered "good quality" content by the majority of the player base. All The Best

Agreed. But I see no real problem with that either. If Biware really wanted to protect the in-game economy to prevent new players from being totally priced out of the market for... ...well, anything really, then they would do it. I know players who started the game, played a few hours decided to look on the GTN for crafting mats to power level some crew skills and decided that was it, the economy was so broken they not only couldn't compete in trading but could never hope to use the GTN to buy anything because literally everything was so over-priced. The F2P Currency Cap also needs to go, given the in-game inflation over the years an F2P players has no hope of getting a foothold in GTN land. If you want more players to stick around to pay for the game they need a better F2P "introductory experience" - the current one is awful. It is almost like they are being punished for being F2P, rather than being rewarded if they become subscribers. All The Best

Some form of achievement perhaps? For example, once you've done X number of GTN trades then the GTN % drops and you get more of your money? Of course, the very simplest way to prevent Price Inflation is to limit the number of digits available when listing items on the GTN - if there's only 7 digits nothing can ever be more than 9,999,999 Credits. All The Best

IIRC the only time the game enforces a Companion Change is in scripted story elements. I can't recall it ever happening outside of that specific situation. All The Best

I am talking exclusively here about Meta-Currency for Gear Progression. As they are not tradeable then they can not be impacted by "currency farmers". All The Best

That's the crux of it. If Game Companies keep doing what has repeatedly lost them players; then they really are delusional if they think it will magically increase players. Lack of story, increased grinds, over dilution of meta-currencies - all have been given as reason people left the game just within my small circle of player acquaintances. So what do Bioware do? Less story, more grinds, more dilution of meta currencies. It is bordering on insanity really. All The Best

That another game has more currencies than SWTOR is wholly irrelevant to @SentinalMasterWW's point. SWTOR could, theoretically, have the least number of currencies on any game of it's type and STILL have too many currencies. Whataboutery is not a valid counter-argument, and never has been. Realistically, there is only ever a need for one meta-currency - anything beyond that is just about increasing replayability by diluting access to rewards; which is very lazy game design All The Best

Laughable, indeed. So you deliberately ignored my comments about my area of expertise - live entertainment. It would cost more money than actually exists to "test" every live entertainment product against every "customer interface" (sense of humour, attention span, sense of propriety, strength or lack of various religious feeling - an order of magnitude's order of magnitude more variations than "PC Set-Up) - and yet the live entertainment industry puts out hundreds of products every week, that work first time, every time, all the time. How do we do it? Having professional integrity helps, as does knowing if you get it wrong you ARE out of a job, as does "caring what the customer thinks". The last two of which are notable for their absence in the PC Game industry. Stop defending lazy, cost-cutting quality control by claiming it can't be done - it can, they just need to WANT to do it. As long as people like you defend them for not doing so they'll never want to. All The Best

I work in live entertainment. We don't have access to every possible "customer preference / sense of humour / sense of propriety, etc" in the world - so we can't test products against every possible "interface" either. OK, we get a Technical / Dress Rehearsal - more and more common to see these once separate things folded into a single test run through; lets be generous and say that is the same as a single-use PTS. But when it comes to delivering the product we still have to do our own jobs properly and ensure everything that we do is right first time, every time, all the time - because if it isn't people lose their jobs. The "Devs don't have access to every PC setup so can't test properly" is an excuse for poor quality control - nothing more. All The Best

So, you think us doing their job for free (ignores the fees involved in downloading and running the game - which makes it a net cost to the players) does not deserve reward; but them not doing their job (they are paid to be Devs) does deserve reward (they get paid)? Interesting... Would you like to come and do my job for free, so I can do nothing but still get paid? All The Best

I had totally forgotten about that. All The Best

Does it really? I have just come back to SWTOR after a year's break, and all I am doing in getting my toons through the new Story Content. Once all my toons are up to date the chances of me engaging with GS is about the same as me winning a lottery I have never entered. GS means nothing to me because I see it for what it is - rinse/repeat old content so they don't have to invest in new content. Problem is that strategy only fools some of the people, and every time it is done and repeated again it fools less and less people. Throw in the monetisation of it and it becomes even less palatable - for crying out loud if someone else were to monetise a way to obtain stuff easier it would be called hacking, and Bioware would justifiably stamp it out real quick; but when they do it does it become OK? No to me it doesn't, it is the same thing a paid for hack to short-circuit increasingly boring rinse/repeat content most of us grew tired of a half-decade ago. If a game want to a) retain and grow its player base, and b) monetise that so it can continue to do so in the future it needs to do JUST ONE THING = release regular new content of such quality players are willing to pay for it. ESO manages it (and there are so many things I actually dislike about ESO that I really don't like having to give them credit for anything) Remember, this is Star Wars - it is, in effect, a license to print money as long as minimum standards of quality are maintained. All The Best

Was becoming VERY frustrated with this issue but eventually - after nearly 20 attempts - got the "behind the screen" work-around to work. @JackieKo maybe instead of investigating why some work-arounds work and other don't just do something proactive and move the Loader Spawn Point. What is the very worst that can happen? The quest will bug-out for some people? Well, news flash... ...guess what... ...it is already bugged out for some people. All The Best

The victory "cinematic" is not progressing in Spirit Of Vengeance (Solo Story Mode). It gets to the point where Jekiah Ordo asked Shae Vizla to got hunt Heta, and then just stops. Been through it 3 times now, same thing happens every time All The Best

I know this is difficult to grasp for some people, but 93.9 % of the world exists OUTSIDE of US borders. All The Best

The only thing they are testing is our patience. All The Best

What now? The Mandalorian was excellent, pure genius. Took me a while to get it; I had to stop thinking of it as "Star Wars" and think of it as a "Western", once I'd jumped that hurdle, the more I watched it as a Western, the more it became Star Wars. IMO The Mandalorian is the best Star Wars Film / TV content since The Empire Strikes Back. All The Best