Simple answer to this, and the most basic fundamental rule of PvP. Play your game, not their game. Don't ever let someone else control your situation. In the situation you describe, you should just walk away! This is exactly what any good pvp'er wants. You chasing him in circles while he kites you. Never let someone dictate how you fight. Never let them draw you away from an objective, even if you only need 2 more hits to kill them! Be a smarter pvp'er. This is exactly the problem with pug pvp groups. All too often inexperienced players allow the other team to dictate the time, place, and tempo of the fight. There is no shame in running away to regroup and coming back with a better approach or sticking to your guns and staying with your objective instead of your target.

they don't need to... People need to get some modern computers, or at least learn how to properly configure the ones they have. 3 machines in my house that are all used to play SWToR Corei7 5820k (OC'ed to 4.1ghz) 32 GB DDR3 256GB AData SATA III SSD Nvidia 970 GTX Corei5 3570k (3.4ghz, stock frequency) 16 GB Ram 256GB AData SATA III SSD Nvidia 770 GTX Corei7 2600k (OC'ed to 4ghz) 16 GB Ram 256GB AData SATA III SSD Radeon 6970 HD All 3 of these different computers run the game without any hint of lag under any load. Heres a big hint I have seen as a problem in most MMO's. If you have anything less than a model number ending in 70 from either video card manufacturer, you have a BUDGET low performance machine. These cards are made to allow people to have access to new features (i.e. DX11, shader models, etc...), but are in reality LESS powerful than the previous model line! (i.e. the GTX 770 beats a GTX 960 in most benchmarks, and they are the same price!). If your processor is more than 5 years old, you might need an upgrade. Just because clock speeds haven't increased really, doesn't mean anything. A 4ghz core i7 from 5 years ago, will get beat by a 4ghz from today. By a fairly decent amount. The architecture of processors has changed greatly. if you have an AMD processor, you should replace it. They are no longer relevant and you can buy a midrange corei5 that will smoke even the best AMD processors for less money. Not to mention that AMD does not even support all modern instruction sets any longer (especially when it comes to multicore processing). Intel has been concentrating on efficiency over raw horsepower. And especially in games like SWToR that are CPU heavy the modern architecture really shines. When investigated I find most performance issues in most MMO's lie with the user and their computer. No application is ever perfect. A budget computer will always have budget performance. There will always be issues on some machines, no matter what engine is used. Every single one has it's problems and quirks. And... if you are on a laptop and complaining... What did you really expect? It's a laptop!

I really don't understand why everyone complains about the engine so much... Running just fine here with no complaints whatsoever. (the db queries for some features could use some optimization but the graphics engine runs 100% fine for me). In fact I would say in my case this is one the best performing MMO's I have ever played.

I'd settle for something as simple as a "do not track bonus quests automatically" option...

my bad, quoting the wrong person. Consider my post a vote of support for your arguement.

Name one MMO that has more PvP servers than PvE that isn't exclusively open world PvP by design. Raiding is easy. Just go count how many raid guilds there are on progression sites compared to not. They are outnumbered at least 10 to 1 if not significantly more.

welcome to MMO's OP?

http://www.cnbc.com/id/100712515 Disney has invested in EA to develop Star Wars games. They have already been going for 2 years using that money. Where did it go? There have been no games released for the Star Wars franchise in that time period other than SWToR. But for sure it is speculation at this point... I seriously doubt that, that agreement was for investment into an already existing MMO that had no connection to what Disney is/was working on.

@OP I find it kind of strange that SWToR is hailed as being one of EA's most profitable titles, but yet you mention lack of development... But EA/Bioware are most certainly investing in it and are building hype... Where is that money and effort going to? Perhaps the content drought is because those resources are being funneled to something better (i.e. frostbite/swtor2).

another good point hidden in there... devs need to stop analyzing things in terms of what features will generate the most money... Make a great and FUN game and the money will come...

If I had a dollar for every time I watched a raid guilds roster completely change mid-tier because half or more of the people got bored and were playing other games... I would be an extremely rich man... The guilds might stick around but raiders sure don't...

Except... it isn't this way... Pvp'er also started doing Pve and now we have the elitist nerd-ragers on both sides of the fence now. Have you even played warzones lately? My ignore list is full from playing pvp.

as a side note I really really really wish that some developer could finally come up with something other than instanced raiding and pvp for "endgame".

It's not the operative stacking in regs that is OP. It's snipers! Ran against 4 snipers coordinating with each other the other night. Forget stealth, 4 ambushes from out of your range is far more deadly! They were doing a premade and just dominated WZ's all night.

It is easily proven. Load up your network with a diagnostic tool or starting a big download and now go see how long it takes to open your Legacy window compared to say preferences which is mostly local.