All you're doing by offering your insight is trying to justify molesting the game. Please, stop doubling-down on the abhorrent changes that were made since the majority of us here didn't ask for them and don't want them. I would suggest you instead listen to your player base, but that obviously will never happen since you and your team are hellbent on making the game you want to make. And to that, I'll say have fun on your vision quest. I, for one, will not be following.

And, this would be why I unsubbed the day after 7.0 launched. As per the usual, you're making the game that you want to make, and not the game that the players want you to make. Have fun with that.

Same here. I imagine there are plenty of others in the same boat.

There is only one thing I like about 7.0, and that's the return of the original menu music. After painfully leveling just one toon to level 80 without having done any of the new content, for however short I hear it is, I have no desire to play this game anymore. They changed far too much and all of it for the worse. Share anything you don't like about 7.0 and there's a high likelihood I'll agree. And at the risk of sounding clichéd at this point, I'm someone who'd been playing since launch. If they truly want to sunset this game, as some have suggested, fine. I can accept that. But, why the Hell did they have to destroy it on its way out?

With a list of dozens of known issues, your development team was far behind where it needed to be even with a delayed launch date for the new expansion. Honestly, I wouldn't have even announced an official launch date to begin with unless the majority of these issues was resolved ahead of it.

It was the same when level 75 became the new level cap, and I remember very clearly how that went for me. I was wearing the same maxed out 258 gear I'd gotten at level 70, and decided to do Ossus dailies as the first thing I did to start leveling up to 75. While still on Ossus, I reached level 71 and instantly felt like I was level 65. Once more, I was wearing the same exact gear that was meant for a level 70 player and playing on a level 70 planet, and then I suddenly felt underpowered/under-geared. The fact of the matter is there is absolutely no point in raising the level cap in this game if the intent is to feel the same at the new highest level as the previous highest level. Game play should not feel any different with older content when starting the journey anew to reach the max level from the previous max, but that's not how they work their cap increases. How increasing the cap should work is by making a player feel more powerful at the new highest level. That's not how they do it, so, again, there really is no point in cranking up the level cap.

In other words, business as usual.

I've been getting the impression that they're intentionally trying to kill of the game for a while. When I played on the PTS this past fall, I was thoroughly unimpressed and discouraged by the changes they were making specifically to Carnage Marauder. Those changes appear to be sticking now that Legacy of the Sith is going to be officially released tomorrow, and so this may be the end of the road for me when it comes to this game. I'll download it and I'll play it, but if I don't like the new game play I'll be un-subbing for good. I already un-subbed for a while because the devs took their sweet time patching the launcher to be compatible with Alder Lake CPUs. During my hiatus, I didn't even really miss the game all that much. And considering I've played since launch, that actually means something to me particularly, as I'm sure it does for others who've played for a long time and are disappointed with the coming class changes.

System specs: i9 12900K Gigabyte Z690 Aorus Master G.SKILL Trident Z5 DDR5-6000 C36 EVGA RTX 3080 Ti FTW3 Ultra Gaming using driver version 497.29 Primary Drive: Samsung 980 Pro All Other Drives: Samsung 980 Not a single crash since using the unofficial patch. It's probably some hardware or software failure or conflict with your Alienware. Try updating your GPU drivers, if you haven't already, and disable any overclocks you may have. Then, see how the game runs, but do each of the above steps one at a time so you can accurately gauge what may be the cause of the game crashing for you.

I wouldn't hold your breath especially since the first "CommunityTeam" response since coming back from holiday leave was to an individual cartel coin purchase problem. It seems that hundreds, if not thousands of players who can't even access the game without an unofficial patch, don't matter by comparison.

Many of us already did "wait for a bit" for two months. I tried jedi95's unofficial patch before Cassianus posted theirs. It literally doesn't do anything other than tell the launcher that any Alder Lake CPU is in fact a CPU. Why the devs didn't think to do that or coordinate with whoever created the launcher is beyond me.

In game-stat terms, the developers clearly have zero Alacrity. You're not wrong in thinking that they need to speed things up. They first need to come back from their generous holiday block leave. People do love time off especially around the holidays, and I can't fault them for it. However, if I leave things hanging at my job when I go on leave, it's not a good day when I come back. That's a lesson the dev team has yet to learn. Then again, I somehow don't think they care much.

Thank you very much for your help on the matter, and I sincerely mean that. Is this a similar file set as those linked by reddit user jedi95 here?

That's the golden question. SWTOR game developers, mind answering this one?

I just did the same. To say the situation is pretty ridiculous is a vast understatement. Unfortunately, I can't direct where my subscription payment goes. At this point, I hope it goes straight to physical server maintenance and not to the developers. When it comes to software and anti-piracy, people always say to support your developers. Well, when they aren't supporting the players of this game, I can say they don't have my support. SWTOR reminds me of Sears at this point. That company built itself up to be a staple of the American commerce culture, only to be destroyed when it fell into the hands of a few moronic CEOs near its end. SWTOR started out as a great product but has since become quite lackluster thanks to those who are in charge of it these days. Anyway, here's to hoping the devs don't take this unofficial patch as a slap to the face and take "punitive action" as retaliation for their ineptitude.

Alder Lake hasn't even been out for two months, and this thread is even newer. No need to exaggerate. Still, it's been long enough. On a different but similar note, does anyone here remember the game outage that occurred shortly after the game launched, the one when the servers were brought offline for a whole day and the company issued a prorated refund because nobody could play? Whatever happened to that developer and/or customer service team?!

As a long-time player and subscriber of this game, my two cents is that the expansion can be put on hold indefinitely until the launcher issue is fixed, and this is coming from someone who has been waiting forever for new content that takes longer than 15 minutes to complete. The launcher should be their top priority at this point and it clearly isn't. Also, the launcher should have nothing to do with the game engine, as someone else stated. So long as the game actually runs on Alder Lake, which I'm not sure why it wouldn't since ESO seems to work just fine, it's seemingly a rework or rerelease of the the launcher that's in order. One can only speculate at this point since there's only silence coming from the devs.

Technically, I still have my 9900K build that my 12900K replaced, but I'm not going to swap towers every time I want to play a single game title (SWTOR) especially since only one is affected. After all, my 12900K build has a custom loop, so that's the system I prefer to use. Plus, it's just not good business to inconvenience customers. Not only that, I've got a 12700K and Z690 motherboard standing by to replace the 9900K altogether. Just waiting on a DDR5 kit I ordered to be delivered. Overall, I wish I could say this situation is shocking, but it isn't. It's not the first time I've personally been burned by a lack of support for this game. What is shocking is that the devs are leaving money on the table since people like me have cancelled their subscription. Not sure what those who prepaid for 60 or 180 days are doing, but I should hope they demanded a refund. Alder Lake is new and obviously doesn't play nice with the launcher, and AMD supposedly has new a new CPU lineup coming out next year. Who's to say the AMD 6000 series CPUs won't have the same issue? It's probably a small fraction of us who can't play the game right now thanks to whatever the root cause is with the launcher, but I imagine the numbers will grow. Regardless, this game has the worst customer service of any I've played.

My comment about not using Steam was solely meant for the AMD guy, and using launcher.exe from the game folder works even if it was installed by Steam. I wasn't implying there was a fix for the Alder Lake issue. Also, neither parking nor outright disabling the E-cores has any effect. I've tried it, just as several others here have tried it. Whatever the cause is, the devs are "aware of it," just as I'm aware they've decided to do nothing and say nothing else about it.

You can load launcher directly from the game folder by double-clicking launcher.exe. Give that a shot. Otherwise, this is wholly a CPU issue when it comes to Intel 12th Gen Alder Lake given that it seems all of us here had no issues until we upgraded.

I personally appreciate the sentiment, but I doubt that'll do any good. I've had in-game tickets closed on me without ever being acknowledged. This game's customer support just isn't what it needs to be.

There was no fix mentioned in the patch notes, so I wouldn't expect the launcher to work.

I think "aggravated" is too weak a word for the situation. I'm wanting to file a complaint directly with EA, if there is such an option. As if not fixing the launcher isn't bad enough, neither acknowledging nor reimbursing paying customers for their wasted money is not only bad business but thievery as well.

Well, that's that. I just cancelled my subscription. I don't know about the rest of you, but I've spent at least $2K on this game over the last decade and probably twice as many hours playing it, so this wasn't an easy decision to make. But, I'm not going to continue paying when I can't play the game even as F2P. And before all the "Bye, Felicia" comments role in, I'll say that if the guys in charge care to fix the launcher issue I'll probably resub. Unless that happens, I'm forced to be done. For those of you who have prepaid for something like a 180-day subscription, I feel bad for you. All I can suggest is contacting customer service for a refund. Otherwise, the level of care for the customers of this game is detestable.

At least I can hopefully say that I'm not missing the launch of 7.0 on account of having upgraded to an Alder Lake CPU. Otherwise, I hope the addition of a couple months' development time will be used as best it can. I think we can all agree that we'd rather have a polished product than a rushed one, something the video game industry as a whole doesn't seem to understand.