I wonder how many people are left that understand the soon® origin?

I doubt they'll change it. I remember playing my Chiss Smuggler and getting to the mission where the hangar guard challenges me, telling me the only person on the list for that day was a "Chiss" Officer, and the Smuggler commenting about how he knows that he doesn't look very Chiss.

Look, in all seriousness I know what you are saying. I'm in a guild with friends. We are all pretty darn good, and pretty darned experienced and having been playing since EQ2 together as r/l friends. We have some in our group, like the father and mother of one of our peer group who aren't particular good at these games, even after years of doing it. Sometimes I get really frustrated, but we still always include them on content and do our best to carry them through because it means a lot to the player in question. The best thing for someone interested in gearing up and learning the fights is unfortunately not the PUG route. It is to find a friendly, casual guild that will accommodate your play style.

If he wants to build affect with and "e" who are you to tell him he can't. Are you a grammar elitist?

I wanted to be an Olympic skier, but the elitist jerks in the IOC said my NASTAR times didn't qualify me to compete at that level, plus some nonsense about competing in lower level international competitions first, pffft. They told me I should learn to race better. Then they kicked me from the facility. Unbelievable. How dare the US Ski Team only take the best geared and best skilled skiers?

Why did something like gearscore come to be? Simple, it's an easy to understand metric. Given that all things would be equal, a boss will require a certain baseline of gear to accomplish. The lower the overall gear metric decreases, i.e. the quality of gear, the more skill required by the players. There is a point at which no matter how skilled the players are, the encounter will not be double based purely on level of gear. Conversely, the more quality gear items processed by the member of an operation that exceed the baseline, the less skill required by the players to complete the encounter. Ideally, high skill, and gear above the baseline makes the fight "easy" and therefore accomplished quickly. Since MMOs are largely about grinding, players naturally want to get through already experience content quickly and efficiently, as they probably have a host of other things to accomplish, like dailies. Try not to be offended by other players desire to maximize their game time.

If you want to play dance dance revolution by yourself by jumping up and down on random squares, and paying no attention to the sequence, that's cool. Knock yourself out. If you want to play dance dance revolution with a partner, and you continue to ignore the sequence and jump up and down on random squares, and then tell your partner you are just having fun, it is you who are the rude jerk, not the partner who thought you were co-operating to overcome the challenge. If you think wiping is fun and a great way to pass the time, cool beans, find yourself some likeminded friends; or advertise in group chat for a seven other people who don't care about getting through the content, but only care about having fun. It seems silly to call someone an elitist jerk because they are looking for likeminded people who want to speedily tackle and op so they can move on to the other things they want to do. I see a lot of criticism that all these "elitist jerks" want is their "shinies." Well, why are wanting to join them? It seems you are angry that you can't use their knowledge, experience, and gear to your advantage, i.e. an easy run. It seems it is the ones who call others the elitist jerks who themselves jerks for not wanting to put in any effort, then the deflect the criticism by insisting they are just in it for fun. Operations, or raids, going back a decade are co-operative efforts. It is not "elitist" to seek like-minded individuals who give you the best chance for completeing with the least amount of stress.

I'd have booted you just for having battlemaster gear on. Your contempt for tanks tells me everything I need to know about how little you know. If you think DPS is never responsible for pulling agro, you are not someone I would want to take on an Operation. You can be a good player in crap gear and that can only take you so far, and if I'm looking to fill out a PUG, sorry, I'll take the geared person over the non-geared person any day, unless I know them., or they come highly recommended. It's a matter of risk management. I don't want to waste my time wiping all night just to see if you can hack it. You can thank BioWare for dis-including DPS meters (because of people like you) so I have no meaningful metric by which I can judge your skill based on your gear. I've run across my share of players who are geared who stink, but as someone said, a well geared person of minor skill will probably still out dps a great player who is under geared.

Does 1.4 include HK-51 as well?

There's only one Star Wars license? News to me. So no other Star Wars related products can be released as long as SWTOR has the license? Was that the secret item in the briefcase in the movie Pulp Fiction? I haven't played SWG since the NGE, and I was waiting with bated breath for this game to come out, but the poster is right, this game will never make it 8 years, and being F2P where SWG was subscription to the end; that SWG might be overall more profitable over than SWTOR. Not to mention that SWG would still be going as a sub based game if LucasArts hadn't tried to hide their lobotomized step-child under the stairs when SWTOR came along.

Yeah, right now I'm the most excited about Rome Total War 2. I probably played Rome Total War more than any other game in my life since Pirates for my Amiga 500. I hope Rome TW2 isn't a let down. I can only take so many letdowns in the gaming world anymore.

Wait, wait. You didn't like the Mass Effect story arc, but you thought the BSG story arc was clever? If that wasn't the saddest thing I ever read, I might laugh about. BSG defined trite, and many other adjectives, none of the positive. I'd ask you to enlighten me about what you thought was clever, but I've heard the BSG apologetics refrain many times.

Less talky more releaseē And as others have asked. What the heck happened to HK-51?

You make some great points OP, I've thought about many myself. I disagree on Jar Jar, however. He was a horrible, horrible character. He was introduced to be kiddie comic relief, and he did it badly. The problem is that the Gungans are essentially never seen again, and Jar Jar blighted their existence every time. Another problem is that they have all this technology for dealing with mechanized units. How convenient. And let’s face it, those are ancient delivery systems that have no place on a modern battlefield. Lucas admits he wanted to copy a battle from War and Peace, so he concocted one that would never have happened. Droid fighters could have just strafed them before they got into position to put up their shields. So the combination of never showing the Gungans in a particularly positive light, and Jar Jar, they are painted with really ugly brushes. They don't have the cuteness of Ewoks to make you forget that they are actually carnivorous neolithic trappers that were going to feast on our heroes.

A couple of pages back I limited my criticisms just to the movies, but here goes. One, the time line. We assume for a variety of reasons that the cartoon animated 22 part Clone Wars series that preceded ROTS is valid. Anakin begins as a Knight in the current TCW, which happens in the second to last episode. At the end of that episode he acquires a scar during a montage of battles scenes, which we assume are supposed to be the time frame for the current TCW. The last episode is the siege on Coruscant and the battle of Nelvan. During the siege of Coruscant, Grievous captures Palpatine, which we see in the beginning of ROTS. Anakin and Obi Wan return from the battle in their starfighters, thus begining ROTS. So, the entirety of the TCW takes place in six months. In that time, Anakin takes a Padawan. He and Obi Wan fight Dooku many times. It seems in ROTS that they hadn't encountered him before. The novelization actually states that they hadn't met since the hanger on Geonosis. It is clear that Anakin and Obi Wan have their first encounter with Grievous on board his ship, yet in the TCW they've had many run-ins with him. Grievous even explains to Obi Wan on Utapau that he has been trained in "your Jedi arts". Yes, well, I think he would have known that at this point. Ahsoka's existence is problematic enough, but with every episode she's in, the lunacy quotient of her not being mentioned goes up exponentially. She's fought with Grievous, Dooku, and Ventress, and she's aided Amidala countless times. It is clear she was a complete afterthought, and was added to gain the prepubescent gurl power demographic when they were writing the series. Chewbacca. Not only was his addition to ROTS endemic of the "blue blood" mentality of Star Wars' creator (everybody has to be related to everybody else) He had to shoehorn Chewbacca in there to act as some fan bait, or something, to interact with Ahsoka. From a strictly movie perspective, there is no indication that Chewbacca was ever anything but a first mate on Han Solo's ship. Not a slave, not royalty, and there also no indicated that Han Solo was ever an Imperial Officer. That is all EU speculation. You'd think Chewbacca would step in and correct Han on his ignorance of Force Users, being that he personally knew Yoda, and watched Jedi fight on his world, and worked with Anakin's padawan, and other padawans, to defeat Trandoshan slavers. Maul's Death. To me, this is the most egregious one. Yes, I've heard all the EU stories about how many force users reassembled themselves. It is stupid and those stories and it is stupid in this one. Even if I were to grant you, which I don't, that Maul didn't die while cut into two pieces, and instead found a way to escape. The Jedi Council seemed pretty surprised that the Sith had returned. You'd think they'd send representatives to the bottom of the shaft to collect his remains for verification and study. And, if Palpatine had secretly removed the body, then there would be a serious manhunt, and likely the subject of his disappearance would have come up.