Thanks, but I won't even be updating my game until I can play with the old UI that doesn't hurt my eyes, like I explained numerous times on the PTS forums. My sub runs out in March. Apparently the devs care as little for this game as I do. Bye.

This further strengthens my theory that the expansion was pushed back due to the Steam Deck's release date being pushed back.

Are you really asking if seeing story content is worth it in a story-based game?

What if I have an existing Force user character that I only want to change to the mirror upon login, but don't want to select another combat style yet?

OP, I think this is subjective. Personally, I agree with you. I won't be changing any of my existing characters to anything but their mirrors or other class combat style. But there are plenty of other people who want to try all the things and this doesn't bother them. Choice is good!

"Just shut up and roll another character," right?

Yeah, this makes a lot of sense to me. It's probably time to ditch this game since I do not see EA supporting it for much longer after the 7.0 debacle releases.

I posted this exact remark awhile ago, and was met with some lovely "well don't change your combat style then" replies. :| (Gotta love this community sometimes.) In any case, I really hope they allow us to make one choice at a time. Sometimes you just don't know what you want your second style to be right away.

Wait, what? Last I heard, Force users would be able to change to their mirror upon login if they were a point over the appropriate alignment.

Let's hope he's not a regular in the Discord channel that the devs are listening to.

After WoW's recent shenanigans, I have zero patience with any game developers that try my goodwill. There are plenty of other good MMO's these days.

Now if only I could get past my distaste of the art style... I think maybe I'll try ESO again. My problem with that game is that I never played any Elder Scrolls games before, so the lore goes completely over my head.

Ditto. And if the game is, in turn, too hard for me, I'll leave in a heartbeat.

Not for this ancient disabled gamer.

To me this whole "expansion" looks like the work of interns barely paid minimum wage.

Exactly. I might queue for something once in a blue moon, but that is rare. And some that I'd like to queue for, *cough* Dread Masters, Seeker Droid, Macrobinoculars storylines *cough*, I can't. That's certainly a head scratcher. Eh, I'll do the storyline in 7.0 and then probably look for another game to play that lets me play what I want to play with no pressure.

I'lll let you know if I ever get to see it again. I saw it exactly once about 8 years ago and remember nothing. This may be a testament to the quality of the writing, but most probably normal memory loss.

They already did. It's called head canon. Doing anything else wouldn't be good, in my opinion. Not everything has to be spelled out for our characters. "Show, don't tell" is the basis of good story design.

I think that leveling is going to be a huge issue, and this is why I am currently grinding out heroics to 75 on every single one of my characters, regardless of where they currently are in the story.

Please no. They've copied enough of WoW to sink them already. The gatekeeping in WoW is why I quit, and will probably be the reason I quit this game after 7.0 goes live. I'm sure I'm not alone.

I was just going to post something like this when I saw this thread. Bravo for the mind reading, OP! My new character really needs some Gree stuff and I'd love to know when that's going to happen next.

I'm thinking that some EA genius is thinking that this game can mop up all the players leaving WoW by making it as similar as possible, without considering WHY players are leaving WoW. Also this genius hasn't figured out yet which type of player is paying his/her salary.

Forced grouping is so 1999.

Thank you, I didn't know about Section X. I guess I'll add it to the list of stuff not to bother with. Their old content is top notch except for design decisions like these, why don't they just make it accessible instead of trying to reinvent the wheel? I managed to get a group for it way back when, but I don't even remember it at this point and would love to play through a complete story run. And don't get me started about the headless trooper on Makeb.

Hearing about the increased difficulty really makes me sad. (I'd play PTS, but my eyes can't handle the new UI.) I started this game in open beta, and I did not play between 2012 and 2016 because it was just too tedious because some of the story bosses were just too hard. (Sage, I'm looking at you.) Maybe I'll just have to get over my distaste of FFIV's artistic style.