Hold on a second. So you're saying that most players spend the majority of their time at end game yet BW/EA invested the majority of it's resources on voice overs for leveling up? (including every single side quest) You're just trolling now. BW is perfect and makes every decision perfectly. Go back to WOW and get on BW's level. If what you say is true then you're telling me the leadership at BW never researched this? The truth is the leadership at BW never did research this. Obviously if they would have they would have made different decisions. The leadership at BW changed and is now imo failed after EA acquired them.

I agree, NO lfg tool. I leveled from 1-50 with little to no grouping and I want it to stay that way. Grouping in a mmo is super outdated at this point. The whole point of other players on a single server is so that the Auction house has someone to trade with. That's it though. So get off your high horse and play the game the way the dev's want you to........alone.

This is a great idea. This would make leveling easier to power through the story quests and get leveled up. I hardly ran into more than a handful of people while leveling and I didn't do any heroics past level 12. Every time I would sit for an hour trying to get a group nothing would happen so eventually I just resigned to solo the game. Please BW add this offline feature. I would love to just pretend teh game is solo since it feels that anyways.

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How about you just let him play the way he wants? Is that too much to ask? He is paying for a service from a large corporation that is supposed to cater towards it's customers like any business. Maybe Apple should tell it's customers you can only switch songs on your ipod once a week and it costs 10$ each time. He enjoy's playing different spec's, so let him enjoy the game or risk losing another sub.

Of course the majority of people want to play the game the way they want. This poll in essence is asking "Do you want the option to have tomatoes on your hamburger?" Anyone who opposes dual speccing is just opposing players having a simple convenience and getting rid of a needless credit sink that only punishes 2/3's of the player base who as you can see by the poll results respec fairly often. Glad to see the majority of players are smarter than I thought.

Yeah, your'e right man. This thread here from the FRICKING OWNER OF THE HERO ENGINE............doesn't clear it up enough. Oh, what's that? You didn't bother to read the thread the owner of the hero engine posted and then dev's discuss the fps problems? Oh typical. The thread on the hero engine website is all about the fps drop when going outdoors or indoors. The engine is old, super old.

what's a"GPU" Your telling me a guy who has been building gaming comps since I was 22 (Im 35 now btw) that it could be his GPU drivers? Ty captain obvious. I'll get right on that.

You're making it sound as if BW knows something the ENTIRE industry does not? Should rage have been made a single threaded piece of software then? By your logic Skyrim should have been single threaded as well? How about Batman Arkham city? Single threaded as well right? I wish RIFT was single threaded since it's obvious that every other single developer made the mistake of using multithreaded software.

They run 2 .exe files to trick your computer into using 2 cores. You'll notice this in your task manager. Pretty weird work around, makes me wonder what the game would have been if they had used a real engine.

I also run the game pretty well but I've noticed enough problems now with the game and dealt enough with guildies problems to know there is something going on with this game. for instance when you close the game out after a long play session and the amount of lag a computer experiences is over the top. For how bad the graphics are everyone should be getting more consistent fps. The graphics are barely a step up from WOW yet too many people are getting fps spikes even on highend machines. Our guild leader has a i7 and he has been having the fps drop issues in WF's. I'm sorry but any I7 should blow this game out of the water. I7's are more than enough for SWTOR's level of graphics.

Actually Russia is blizzards biggest market currently. Also I have a really hard time believing this game is pulling hardly any subs from WOW. I haven't played WOW in a long time but I know any WOW player must log onto SWTOR and wonder why the buttons are so smooshy. I'll sub to Swtor for 1 extra month but you're fooling yourself if you think a game with this much lack of polish is going to pull subs from a solid game like WOW.

Great post op. I read through the thread you linked and yes, it confirms what I already suspected. The game simply is old tech. How long have multi core cpus been out now? Let's see, I bought my first quad core 5 years ago? Before that it was dual cores for a couple years. so, a game that's been in develpement after dual cores were fairly popular decided to use a single threaded engine with absolutely no forsight to the fact that all cpu's are multi-core, multi-threaded now days. So now 4 core cpu's are the norm and 6 cores cpu's will be the norm in 2 years. That pretty much sums it up. The engine simply can't handle good performance.

The game runs better in XP sp3 mode btw. I switched it two days ago and my performance did go up though I didn't have much problems before. I post in this thread though because while I personally don't have many issues my own comp should run the game faster than it does and many guildies have sat in vent with me as I go over their specs and builds trying to figure it out. There is something wrong with the games coding that is having conflicts with I7's in particular. Also CPU's that should handle the game great are having a hard time which tells me there is something wrong with the optimizing of the code. I already know that the game runs 2 .exe files to trick your computer into using 2 cores of your cpu. That alone should tell you the devs chose a horrible engine. The fact that I have to run 2 executables to get a sorta kinda multithread is amazing. The game has issues, hopefully their engineers are figuring it out before the game bleeds too many subs.

Hello, my name is renegadeimp and I will say anything that diverts blame and responsibility from Bioware. Please keep posting so that I may protect the mega corp known as EA/BW from these horrible posters who attack my precious. Lord knows Mega corps. need all the help they can get.

I nominate every piece of of pvp gear the worst gear in mmo history. I love how hitting 50 means your gear is going to become horrible looking.

This^ players who don't notice it simply are "noobs" not trying to be rude but it's true even in my own guild. The good pvp'rs noticed it weeks ago but we still have a couple players (who recently stopped keyboard turning in RIFT) that don't notice it. This is just the reality of being a Connoisseur of games. It's the same thing as many people think Mcdonalds is good food when anyone who is really into food knows that Mcdonalds is crap. Don't expect poor people to understand why you won't eat fastfood.

Sorry, but it's a little crazy when we have a thread that has been remade over and over again about ability lag that details every little part of the problem and these guy's come onto the forums to restart the debate yet again. Maybe BW should implement a search function on the forums so these guys can do some reading and research before hand.

I'm going to stay subbed for months just to troll posters with sig's like your's. The next 2 months are going to be so full of lol's as I watch the forums go from bad to worse.

Are you trying to say that SWTOR should require the best computers to show us low resolution graphics with long load times? My computer isnt the best but it's still 3.5 quad with a AMD 5870 and while I don't have "many" performance issues i do know there is something horribly wrong with the optimizing of this game when I can run Skyrim, La Noire, Batman Arkahm city, Witcher 2 all on high settings with no drops in frame rate. I have well over 100 games on Steam and I can run every single one of them on high settings without any problem. Alright.......... BTW I'm a prince from Nigeria and I need to move millions of dollars to America. Would you be willing to help me for a large fee?

I just posted in the ability delay thread about this. I'm a 50 shadow and sometimes my abilities simply won't fire off. this started a couple hotfix's ago. Maybe on the 7th is when I started noticing it.

Since the last patch or 2 I've now got a new problem where my abilities simply won't fire no matter how much I mash the button. I can see the button being fired on the ui and a GCD is triggered but the ability just won't go off for anywhere between 2-8 seconds. Again, the ability is getting triggered on the hotbars but it won't actually fire no matter how many times I push the button. It really sucks when I want to stealth and instead sit there mashing my stealth button only to see it fire 6 seconds later and 10 button presses later. The ability lag has always bothered me but they did something a few days ago that has made it even worse.

The real issue is that people except that as food. Mediocrity rules this age.

Interesting. That makes sense that BW buying mythic means they are going to use their licenses. It's cheap and stupid but it makes sense.

Don't listen to the whiners BW. Put in more loading screens please. BW's loading screens are some of the best in the business. Why you would not want to see more of them is beyond me. I've never even played a mmo before with so many loading screens much less such well made loading screens. Get on BW's level and realize the future is highly polished loading screens. That's all Uncharted is a moving loading screen masked as a movie. Personally I won't have my fill of loading screens till they put at least 3 more in between me and my ship. Listen to us hardcore BW. Moar Load screens NAO!