This is NOT bashing on you OP. I dont know how else to put it. Look at your wording at how you evaluate this patch. "Its all cartel market based". Yet people have been posting for over a year asking for the ability to re-customize or color thier armor, even if they have to pay for it, they WANT it. To them its FINALLY here, customization. That's what they call it. If you look at it from thier point of view its a very positive thing. From your point of view its all cartel market stuff and therefore a bad thing. Your perpective is NOT what everyone's is. Just because the market exists doesnt mean its a bad thing. In fact I submit its great. Even though I hadly ever buy anything from it (though I might have to after I saw the new silver-blue crystals) Just remember, the cartel market is saved this game, ONE team works on adding stuff to it and its not pay to win (yet admittedly). Other teams are working on pvp, pve, classes, expansions, bugfixes etc. Market developement is NOT taking away much from other parts of the game. Also if you remember that every patch isnt going to be something that you want but others may (pvpers get some maps but you're a pve-er), CM gets some stuff that you wont buy, bug fixes that dont effect you, a new dungeon that you are exceited about, then I think you'd have a much better outlook on life.

I was a drop. Not on the boss but one of the champs in the heroic. It was definitely a "sabateur" eithe d220 or d210. Not bind on pickup that I can remember. Still no idea if it was a blaster rifle or sniper

We got a d210 or d220 last night on corellia during the 4man heroic chasing shadows. But for the life of me I cannot remember if it was a sniper rifle or a blaster rifle. Hope that helps

They already said next month.

I'm sorry but that is the silliest request I've read in some time. 1. It hasn't sold 2. They have no idea who the buyer may or not be and what they will do. They are not sages and cannot read the future so commenting on that request would HAVE to be "we don't know".

Okay, let me get this straight, people are exploting and getting free items and crafting materials, potentially unlimited amounts and perhaps very expensive stuff then selling them on the GTN ISN'T game breaking??? That's an absolutly critical thing to correct immediatly if you think about it. I know some people will say the economy ***** anyway, who cares. But I'm not one of them, maybe you are. The economy is important to alot of people.

Embarrassingly I tried to respond to the same person you responded to. My apologies. He was the one that questioned thier ability to fix hacks. That is what I was refuting. Apparently the quote button ABOVE a post is the one you click on, not the one at the end

I know you are assuming so all I can say is check your facts. A few months ago when the first hacking reports started coming into this forum I checked a few of the more popular hacking sites I saw to my dismay there were indeed hacks out there But in reading the forum posts on the hack sites I could see people complaining about 1 week to perma bans in regards to some of the hacks so bio ware IS actively working against hackers. Now the question as to if they are effective enough is subjective. They aren't getting all the hacks bit it seems they are working at it Now if you are talking exploits that's a different subject but I've read the patch notes and I know they have closed some holes in some maps. So I guess they are trying to do that too