Was there not a mount that was nothing but a floating log of wood? Does this imply Lucasfilm thought mounting a log of wood was starwarsy?

I absolutely loved it. For me it was a true cinematic Star Wars experience, and way better than the current Disney movies.

This thread is both cute and sad. It's like watching that ewok shaking his dead little friend thinking it could wake it up. West Coast datacenter has been shuttered - without a warning. This game has never seen marketing during Star Wars movie releases. In fact, aside from the blur trailers so many are quick to criticize, I don't think I've ever seen any marketing done for this game - period. This is the first year since launch there has been no expansion - instead we've had servers merged and datacenters closed: forever. Come to terms with it - and with your future in game expenditures. This game will never see a resurgence in population. The writing's been on the wall this year. Read up on the final years and months of City of Heroes and its cash shop. Think of all the money in cosmetics their players spent thinking that while it's game was small it would never see a reason for it to be entirely shuttered. And then they saw it all vanish in a puff of pixels.

The fact they shuttered the West Coast servers (within the very country the game is published from, no less) without any notice is pretty damning evidence the game is in an unrecoverable wind down. I cannot bring myself to spend any more money in a game that’s at that stage.

There will be no more AAA MMORPGs. It's over, finished. MMO genre is dying overall. This is the last Star Wors MMO there is ever going to be. Enjoy what's left of it because that's all you're ever going to get in the form of an MMORPG.

I restarted playing SWTOR after the game I had been playing fell into bona fide maintenance mode. I wanted to play a game that was alive with development. Now all I've seen is one new flashpoint and a couple operation bosses I never intend to play. Ah, and my West Coast server was deleted without so much as a warning. So while a week ago I was gonna dust off the characters from the prior dead game I'n now intending to download and play Overwatch out of curiosity to see what playing a successful game with a future actually feels like.

I loved KotFE and KotET. I think they've been the best expansions in this game. I don't like Theron. I think he looks weird. The Agent storyline is way overrated.

I constantly remind myself that a great many posters are in fact children and teenagers. Once you come to that realization, ignoring the existential drama comes naturally.

Why the heck advertise it as West Coast and East Coast servers when in reality it was North America 1 and North America 2 servers, located adjacent to one another in the same building in the east coast?

To give some people a more useful idea of the value, it depends on how many CC you bought: $5 = 450 CC = 90 CC/$ $10 = 1050 CC = 105 CC/$ $40 = 5500 CC = 137.50 CC/$ $ 100 = 14500 CC = 145 CC/$ The lightsaber is currently 5700 CC thus: at $5 purchase it costs $63 at $10 purchase it is $54 at $ 40 purchase it is $41.45 at $100 purchase it is $ 39.31 So the expense of the lightsaber really depends on how many CC's you bought. This is not for kids who are broke in College. This is for spoiled kids who are flush with money in College or working adults. Because $ 39 bucks is a hella cheaper than $63. BTW, Hypercrates, which apparently MANY people buy, are selling at CC 7,020.

Awwww. That’s all kinda cute.

Companions are coming back. They posted a list of all those already on queue to do so. Vette, Quinn, Elara and others are already back. My thoughts is that this could be implemented in future updates. By then most should be back.

Eh. They could limit it to love interest companions only. As for development time I can’t imagine it being more intensive than Iokath. They can use assets already created. Seems pretty feasible.

Well, at least for our PCs and current and future NPCs we interact with have ongoing VO. It’s also been confirmed the rest of our companions are coming back! I can’t imagine them coming back without some voice acting. I am hopeful.

I suggested this in another thread ... buried deep within its bowels. The topic is different enough and I think useful enough that I’m giving it its own topic so people can help refine it with feedback and maybe someone up above can give it some love. After we complete our companion quests there’s no more meaningful interaction with our companions. They become silent decorations in our strongholds. That could easily be remedied by introducing daily (or regular-repeatable) quests with our companions! This could be an expandable feature with the possibility of new dailies added on subsequent updates. It could be piloted with our love interests and if it’s well received expanded to all of them! Here is an example - it could be anything, from serious to slapstick: Mako comes over to you to call in a favor. She’s created a HoloNet site and is having trouble moderating it’s forums! She uses her friend/wife privilege to recruit you to together hunt down a few different trolls each day. You find them in Nar Shaddaa, Zakuul, wherever; a different planet rotated over 4 or 5. Not only would she speak during the mission granting and conclusion, but also have fresh flavor comments peppered as you go from one objective to another. I think this could really reinvigorate our companion “bonds” and add replayability to our stories.