The more you look into the performance of this game the more you will see EVERY thread and review saying that it is very very CPU dependent. You claim that you can run other MMO's with no problems which is fine (but a bit fishy as to what you determine to be 'no problems') as other titles may be better optimized at lower spec levels that SWTOR. Your video card, while dated, should be fine for medium settings but he down and dirty fact is that you are running a 12 year old CPU with an amount of ram that was insufficient years ago on a operating system that chews ram and spits it out and expecting performance worthy of a system that was up to par at the very most 5 years back. 12 years might as well be 100 years in terms of computing power and technology. Period. I don't really understand your cavalier attitude towards the folks here trying to help but maybe it's time to come back from your rant a little bit and come to terms with the reality that your rig, while it might have served you well for over a decade might need some upgrade love

I'm going to reiterate what some of the others have said. If you are building a gaming rig, stick with Intel. I have had AMD processors in the past and they were great, no issues at all. A few years back I switched to an Intel i5 3570k, put a decent fan on it, and have been running at 4000 MHz (3400 stock) ever since. This is still the CPU I have now and it has handled everything that I have thrown at it. Spend the extra money, it's going to outlast an AMD chip two or more times over.

You do know that Diablo 2, despite being 12 years old, still has a huge amount of people playing and was still one of the top 10 selling games in 2010. While it is not a MMO, it will still break sales records because millions upon millions of people have been die hard Diablo fans for 16 years. You must be pretty new to pc gaming to call Diablo 3 'flavor of the month'...

Thanks for your helpful and constructive response, saw your headlights coming a mile away. If someone really wanted to, they could have a personal guild bank by creating dummy accounts on free trial weekends. There is no point of this restriction other than the lack of foresight concerning small group guilds. We all pay our $15 a month to play the way we want to, not to suck it up and create dummy characters for a feature that should not be exclusive to some guilds and not to others.

Going to comment on the small guilds getting screwed by the member limit... I have a guild that is made up of myself and 3 close RL friends. We play together when we can and don't make alts for the most part. Why, when it only took 4 of us to start the guild, are we screwed out of a huge 'feature' of being in a guild? Now you can say 'Why don't you just create alts to fill the numbers?' Personally, I don't think we should have to. We ARE a guild. In 0's and 1's we are no different from a guild with 150 members. A guild is a guild, regardless of the number of participants. It's akin to saying that a small business of only 4 people does not 'deserve' an office space to work in. I love this patch (and this game) and hope that this gets reviewed and considered. A feature for one guild should be obtainable by ANY guild, no matter the size.