I find your lack of originality disturbing Bioware. This just seems like a pointless time waster. While it does give a reason to revisit some places just doesn't seem to be all that exciting. Its nice to finally hear something else about this update but doesn't have that "wow! can't wait to play" factor, at least for me. How about the much asked for quality of life type updates that some of have been waiting for over a year for. I'd be happy with a patch that offers no new content but instead gives us Legacy Banks, a way of sharing resources between toons instead of logging in and out 100 times a night, maybe even gear on the cartel that doesn't cost a months subscription as it is. I don't understand how these devs think this is ground breaking, systems like this have been in many games before, EQ2 and WoW to name 2.

Why pay to play SWG when the EMU is up and running. I was on last night and there were about 2000 people on it. It runs just fine and is all pre-NGE. I've had my reservations for a while of trying the EMU in hopes this game would have some of the elements swg had. The devs are even said to getting JTL working on the EMU and there will be real space combat. I've been here since day one and sadly will switch to the free to play model. (If any bioware employees read this, my $15 a month here, will now be donated to a group of people keeping the real Star Wars MMO alive)

Once you hit Valor 40 convert WZ comms into Ranked WZ comms and do this till there both maxed out. Once you hit 50 you will be able to get a quick jump on your BM set.

If you plan it out ahead of time by PvPing to valor 40 early enough you can almost have a full set of BM once you turn 50. As soon a you hit valor 40 start converting your WZ comms into Ranked WZ comms and max everything out for when you hit 50. You won't be able to get all the BM stuff but you will be able to get a lot.

I agree with what you said but, our ships have many doors on them, they could almost just make a generic conversation room or make another deck that offers customization in a way. Just thinking outside the box

Please tell this to the thousands of people that took to the internet and petitioned about the end of Mass Effect 3. I don't agree with Biowares decisions on this but it WAS HEARD. And I actually said WE deserve more, I would have given up the free time for US to have more fixed.

This is in many ways what I was sort of getting at in the original post. I have no issue with new features and new content. Its great to see that it is being done. When we ever see this none of us know. And many of the features you have touched on I'd love to see brought to the game. I made this post figuring some people would see my point and get what I was really going towards and agree / disagree. I respect that, I'm all for open conversation whether or not you agree with me or i agree with others. My issue is that this game was in development for roughly 5 years. I believe the game delivered on its biggest promise from the start with the great story lines that where done for each class. The Legacy system has been a fun addition / feature and I hope it gets fully fleshed out. There is a vast potential for the game, but my biggest point is time is of the essence for this game. For the poster that comment on my knowledge of Bioware as a company, I've supported them since Shattered Steel and I've played everything with there name on it. Mass Effect is one of my favorite IP's and I feel its a shame that Bioware bent to the will of the player base on the artistic ending they had for it. I'm also well aware this was an EA press event but that does not mean they couldn't have said something about breathing fresh air into the game to stabilize it all. "In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time." Anthony J. D'Angelo

So here we are on one of the biggest days for the industry, what could have been a big announcement for the game we are "playing", and if your like me, your still waiting for the big announcement. I'll say this I enjoy this game, here since early access, never asked for the free time awarded (though nice), hoped to see results of some kind. This was a day I would have liked to have seen Bioware take a page out of Sony's book from last years E3......admit your mistakes, let your player base know your dedicated to them. I heard a bunch of things we heard before, fastest to a million yada yada. That's great release / launch had hype. Since those days in late December what have we really gotten? We asked for ranked PvP and Ilum to be fixed, what we received was more rakghoul's. Yes, there were other things, but has it been what we collectively want? I would have loved today for Bioware to address serve populations and a way to fix them, an announcement that Ilum has been fixed. Instead, what we most likely got was stuff that is a long ways off. The game need results now, it needs to be fixed now, and that doesn't really mean more content to hide whats not fixed. Once upon a time another Star Wars MMO didn't really admit and make good on their mistake's and I think many of us know what happened there. I've believed for a long time Bioware "was" one of the best companies for RPGs out there, the thought of them making an MMO excited me to play one again. Then EA happened to them, became the puppeteer of a once great company. I hope the game gets fixed but there is nothing that is being shown that shows it, I'll stick around for love of Star Wars but how long do you expect many to stick around Bioware. Flame if you wish but i think we the paying customer deserve more and a company with some amazing games and incredible IPs should get with it.

I play on Corellian Run which was a pre-launch server and for the first weeks had a wait to long on. I had to stop playing for a few weeks after 1.2 (server still had a heavy number of people on at time) and just came back and there is hardly anyone on. As an original server I thought that it would have held its numbers more so. I would truly like to see some type of server merges but I know it would be tough to do. Really hope something happens to bring the people back, I personally really enjoy the game and would love to find people to play with again lol.

I am speced as a Vigilance Guardian myself and I have found that I can easily do DPS and tank. I tend to stay in my defensive Saber stance at all times which in my experiences at lvl 50 allows me to no have as high a threat lvl at times. I have a lot of end game gear on my toon so I have high strength and high HP. In my opinion there are tanking features in the Vig tree as well as the defensive tree and DPS in both. I think a lot of it has to do with play style and your understanding of using all your abilities to the fullest

Ok, well it seems some people are happy and other aren't lol, I missed out today by one day entered my code on the 8th. My own fault for not doing it sooner but really? I was in on the first days of WoW and SWG. I remember how bad things all went for launch day. This is all pre-launch and because of how BW has done this I hope other companies take example of it. I'll gladly make sure to order very early for a game that I truly want to play in the future now. I was hoping that just maybe the rest of December would make it today but it didn't happen. I understand those that were off today or took off changed plans and what not aren't happy that 7-8 days worth of orders got left out but lets look at facts. BW stated 5 days early....correct? They decided to start a few days early....correct? So now those of us the pre-ordered with the idea of 5 days will get four not bad in my book. I would be willing to believe there are many people that will try and buy over the first week of launch. We get ahead of all that. We get to still get in early. Be happy that all in all it seems its going to go down as planned, I personally was hopeful for one day early so the possibility of the entire weeks is awesome in my book.

Dec. 8th didnt get in but happy to have the entire weekend ahead most likely. Really hoping for first wave tomorrow. Guess I'll play Skyrim until then and get an arrow in the knee

I'm Dec 9th waiting still hoping the last wave of the day will get all of Dec people in