Keep telling yourself that, darling.

Well who are the real fools here? Certainly not the playerbase still paying for it after over half a year with no new content. Nope! Nothing to see here, move along. I'll cherish the day people take their power as consumers seriously and use it to influence what is acceptable and unacceptable by companies. And yeah yeah, my sub runs out the 18th.

Not sure if this is serious.

Oh, right Andryah, 'coz getting players to congregate in the first place and interact in-game is NOT a potentially strong foundation for further social interaction. Damn, you got me there! ... OH WAIT. Of course GW 2's event mechanics doesn't automatically guarantee you a friend list filled to the brim. It does, however, ensure you run across and complete ingame objectives with a whole host of people, which you may continue your endeavours with. Sure as hell beats SWTOR's semi-empty planets whose population density is equal to the Australian outback. Alas, I digress, common sense is likely wasted on you, seeing how you're unable to cope with anything even remotely critical towards SWTOR. I really do hope you get paid in some shape or form though, otherwise I'm flabbergasted; it's fine you like the game, but your incessant need to put - sometimes outright far-fetched and crazy - positive spin on everything to counter other people's opinions and, sometimes, well-justified problems with the game is becoming outright disturbing.

Healthy attitude towards corporations: "just take my money and spout some more empty promises, I'll take any gibberish you can do!" - you're just the right target audience for EA No wonder people aren't big on CSR or having consumer integrity.

OP's obviously trolling, move along =)

So, all you BW fanbois.... If Legacy 50, the maximum legacy level, doesn't yield a special reward, what's the point of the cap existing in the first place? Legacy 50 represents an enormous investment into this game - far more than it merits in my opinion. That investment should either A) Yield a reward since he has reached the cap, or B) the cap should be removed so our disenfranchised friend here can keep grinding. The cap has literally zero purpose if Legacy perks don't cover half the game.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-08-31-guild-wars-2-interview-the-boss-obrien-on-launch-growing-pains-reviews-and-patches ""We're not competing against games in the state they were when they were released. We're competing against online worlds that have had years for polish, and players expect a high degree of polish, and players deserve a high degree of polish" I wonder how SWTOR would have looked and fared had the same design philosophy permeated its development?

Because customization through addons is used in WoW as well, and BW is vehemently trying to differentiate their carbon copy of WoW from WoW. In other words, you can't have a parser that is as user-friendly as the ones in WoW, you can't have customization to the same extent. Sad but true.

4 Servers above Light status in the entire EU during peak - keep dreaming, darling

This. So much this. Quoted for truth.

Watch the Gabe Amatangelo interview. Of course an event might occur before that, but until we receive concrete information substantiating that, January is the only valid and reliable estimate we have been given.

Who does that anymore? The game is tanking hard and it will only be exacerbated in the coming weeks and months.

Quoted for truth.

Our guild, VII on Red Eclipse, just quit collectively for GW2. Not that it matters, but we were server #1 and EU #27 on EC HM and we're simply too tired to slug it out any longer. SWTOR has been a neverending list of empty, unfilfilled promises, shallow and easy content and generally a boring themepark-feel. From what we heard from our fellow colleagues on the server, only the mediocre guilds remain since they've 'only' farmed EC for 2-3 months. And before someone shouts "content locusts!", we only raid 2 days/week the first 3 weeks of content, then down to 1 day/week. Not to derail the thread by the way; just elaborating on one of many reasons the downward spiral seems inexorable.

It's MajikMyst, common sense won't reach this guy. In the thread regarding the GA event he continuously ignored facts substantiated with official sources because it didn't fit his "in SWTOR all is dandy"-worldview.

According to GamesCom interview with Gabe Amatagnelo the next event is scheduled to hit January. So far that is the best estimate... So 5~ months roughly. Worth waiting for if this GA event is an indicator of the quality? Naaah not really.

It's tragically comical how you consistently avoid responding to obvious facts such as the EA quarterly financial report when it doesn't suit your argument Oh well, you have been thoroughly refuted at every corner and it is, fortunately, obvious.

It never gets old seeing how the Biodrones suddenly scimper off whenever fact is presented ^^

That still effectively refutes your argument; You said they were pretty much companion-only. That is blatantly false. The catch is that there are no competitive iterations of said items. An event could easily introduce a competitive version of said items, in which case the situation would be as the poster originally said (and you disagreed with): A limited amount of people could use them. I realize you got no problem with this (and neither do I; all content in this game could probably be done with people using Techblades etc, my own guild got World #27 EC HM clear in Tioneese gear because we rerolled off our dead server one week before EC release). As for the disco? Yeah, it's true, and it sadly feels so far from Star Wars as it could be, no resemblance at all to, say, Mos Eisley cantina or Jabba's Palace/Pleasure Barge :/

James Ohlen's duplicity: "For 2012 we really want players to feel like they're getting their money's worth. You're going to see so many changes and additions to the Star Wars Universe. It's going to be impressive. We have our Update 1.2 coming in the next week and then after that it's going to continue to roll out month after month. It's exciting." There are many similar embarrasing post. As for the November announcement? http://files.shareholder.com/downloads/ERTS/1998843558x0x587374/05e497e8-ca3a-4f0a-8f80-4a2d3216ad79/Q1FY13_Earnings_Release_w_PressTables_FINAL.pdf - EA Financial Report from Fiscal Year '13 First Quarter. In case you have trouble finding it: "STAR WARS®: The Old Republic™ will move to a more accessible two-tiered pricing model in November". This is a far more reliable source than this website, so yeah... November it is.

What are you on about? Those are player usable, the game just don't support it through competitive itemization.

You are as wrong as you can be. Let me correct your example: A raid does EC Hardmode (aka, acquiring Campaign gear). Light and Medium Armor users get zero drops whatsoever in EC Hardmode. Light and Medium armor is simply not part of the loot tables. They're told to wait for the next raid where they will, hopefully, get their turn. By the same implication, Heavy Armor users might as well skip the next tier since they will likely get zero. That is a far more pertinent analogy to the Chevin event than the scenario you put up. Blizzard can afford this. I sincerely doubt SWTOR can. 6 month subs are running out pretty much right now and the game is hemorrharging subs. The anticipated Chevin event was an opportunity to convince everybody that the design-direction and their continued engagement in this game was worth paying for. Instead we got a base fetch/kill X grind-fest which was not only bugged for an entire faction but which also highlighted a blatant lack of innovation and fun. While your metrics may vary, it is indisputable that most people have not found the event worthwhile.

Shush! That's part of the MMO pedigree that SWTOR belongs to! Gear treadmill, m'kay? God forbid somebody put the consumer's fun first *cough* ArenaNet *cough*

I am not setting a time limit. I am referring to what one of their own lead developers cited as their GOAL for the next event, which he also stated they may or may not make. I am not presenting an argument; I am referring to what is arguably one of the most reliable sources of fact. That fact happened to pertain to your argument, and utterly refute your opinion. That is still the case. Gabe Amatagnelo stated the goal for releasing the next event was January. That is our best estimate currently. And it is fundamentally problematic because it validates all the opinions that you derogate as 'whine', even though people raise some poignant issues and questions some dubious design choices. However, I suspect it's pointless applying to your common sense, since you have already once disregarded obvious facts from reliable sources. I'd also find this hilarious if it wasn't outright tragic: - People have a right to an opinion. People's reason for 'whining' are their own. Some are substantiated and well-argued, others are more impulsive knee-jerk reactions. However, believing yourself to be the arbiter of what constitutes good reason for people voicing their opinion is a slippery slope at best. You should strive to refrain from doing it.