That is true I am not even a moderator. I'm just someone trying to answer a question posted by another forum member.

It is already copyrighted or trademarked in several console games, so yes your name violates Rule 4 of the EA Naming Policy A article written by an Attorney about the tradmarked name Mario Edited to add the above link as supporting source.

There may be two reasons EA would force you to make a name change 1. Somebody reported it. 2. It is the name of a character in American Culture Spanky a member of Our Gang and The Little Rascals movie shorts in the 30s and 40s Thus, your name may have violated Rules 4 and 5 of the EA Naming Policy at the least.

Yes, they do and it is by their own choice to exchange the item, usually for a like item. Besides, you example is flawed: You purchased from Amazon.com, you probably paid by Credit Card or Pay Pal, a company owned by Visa. Since you purchased by a CC, your purchase falls under the credit laws and the agreement the vendor has with the CC issuer which requires a vendor to refund the customer under certain conditions. No such consumer protection laws exist in a game. The vendor does not let you view the total and a list of the items because you might make a mistake, they are required to by consumer protection and commerce laws to provide the customer with an itemized receipt, so the customer knows what they have or are paying for and has a proof of purchase. Again, no such laws exist in game. I'm sure, if you look, you can find the store with a sign saying something like All Sales Are Final or words to that effect. These same consumer protection laws, commerce laws, vendor agreements do not hold effect in whole or in part under this condition. The seller has clearly stated their position and you buy from them at your own risk, the same risk suffered when you buy something from Amazon but Amazon does not have a clearly identified statement to the effect of All Sales Are Final.

As in real life, "Caveat emptor" (buyer beware) rules for most purchases. There is no requirement for a seller to refund you, after all you made the choice (for good or ill) to spend your money. Next time, pay attention, read, watch what you are doing and above all learn from your mistakes and accept personal responsibility, in game and in life Caveat emptor

SWTOR intercepts the keypress, open Ventrillos Voice Setup, and in the Voice tab make sure to check "Use Direct Input to detect HotKey"

True, true, but you know nothing about software. There has not been one program released since the first program, that did not have bugs. It is the nature of the beast. Release software, it has bugs, patch software to fix those bugs and introduce new bugs and around and around it goes and everybody hopes a fatal run time bug does not show up. The more lines of code, the more complex the program the more bugs it will have.

From the SW:TOR FAQ Yes your video chip is a later model than the above minimum recommend dedicated video card. However, you video chip uses system ram and not dedicated video ram, thus it is slow. Low end laptops do not make good game machines.

What are you complaining about? You have a problem with your crew being able to complete missions while you are asleep? Why? What do you propose, the system they have in Eve? Why? I don't want to see a crew mission(s) take weeks in real time. Unless, it is for a new bigger, badder D5. Even then, I don't want it to take weeks, maybe at most 1 week.

The drivers that work with your sound card are the best. What is best for you is not necessarily the best to another, an Audiophile will demand much more out of their sound system then the average player could even detect. So go with what sounds best to you, and remember the sound quality will change depending upon your head set quality.

Why do I play Empire? There are more jobs.

I'm torn with agreeing with you and wanting to see Jar Jar, but he is not to be born for thousands of years yet...

An even greater reason to spell correctly and have perfect capitalization and punctuation. Don't want a mistyped local var creating a global var by mistake and being randomly instanced in a rare child process causing an even more rare memory leak. Talk about a nightmare of a run time error.

No, nobody walks better with crutches, they walk because of crutches To put this in a MMO frame, some people play well with meters, while others play well because of meters. One would play well with out meters, while the the later only play well because of the meter. One knows their class and abilities and how to play the class, while the other does not and would not be playing at the level they do if it were not for the meters. Now, which are you; don't need the crutch or need the crutch...

To the OP, having been one of those Hardcore players you speak of, in another game a few years ago, I can say with absolute certainty, you do not know what you speak of. The percentage of players in the hardcore sector is far less then where the money is. The money has been and will always be in what is so derisively called the casual player base. Without casual players no MMO would exist for long. But you are right about one thing, and I quote "Now you are going to see ALOT of responses from players saying they DONT want this, that they dont look to players that play insanely long periods, or succeed with less time played. They will say that the game does NOT need these players." In this one thing you are correct; this game does not need the Hardcore Player.

Full key bind customization. For example allowing the mouse keys to be keypress modifiers, instead of using Ctrl or Alt or Shift Remove all the hard coded key bindings. Allowing Left Cntrl and Right Cntrl, or Left Alt and Right Alt, or Left/Right Shift. The way it is right now it is hard wired to use a standard keyboard layout and does not allow customization to alternate keyboards. I use a Steelseries Merc http://steelseries.com/us/products/keyboards/steelseries-merc?gclid=CMTQsJLCoK0CFQXd4Aodu30OoA used to be called Ideazon Merc gaming keyboard and SW:TORs current key binding does not easily adapt to the Merc

I'm not.

An essential tool? Have been playing MMOs since 2004 and have never felt the need for a damage/threat meter. I don't need one and don't want one. So BW, please keep damage/threat/dps meters and other such drivel from the game.

Played EverQuest (EQ) for 5 years, ended my EQ career as a High End, End Game, Hardcore Raider (level 85). Never played WoW, test played it and it felt like a cartoon. Played Aion, beautiful game, lousy with Gold Spammers. Currently, play Lord of The Rings Online (LoTRO), good game, great graphics, wonderful story, fun to play. Also, currently play Star Trek Online (STO) great idea to hang a MMO from, but I think poorly implemented. Now, I also play SW:TOR and I'm having a blast, it may become my dominate MMO for a few years. Thus, I fully agree with your last paragraph.

Your credentials to make this assertion are exactly what? What papers have your reviewed concerning BW game research and development? Or is all the above just your opinion, but you know what is said about opinion. You base this of off what? Be specific and provide sourcing to authoratative sources to substantiate your assertion(s) Nice attempt to belittle and discredit any who presume to offer a counter to you opionated post. However, you failed.

Well you need to get out of Tatooines starter areas.

Because, it may just have tripped a firewall rule. Or some other program or action you took changed a firewall rule. Have you recently installed software? This often makes changes to firewall and system authorization rules without notifying the user. It would be a great help if BW published the ports needed for the game...

Nope, not going to cancel because of a bugs in game, but may because of bugs on the forums.

SWTOR may be like a few other games, where chat data comes in on other ports on your computer and your computer and/or firewall or ISP is blocking that port. Check you firewall and system logs and see if the game chat is being blocked.

And where can you see the total population of a server to make that assertion? Or more simply, quantify and support "Full Server".