I was having FPS problems on a computer that shouldn't have had problems. The game is doing an unbelievable amount of loading while you are playing and it's hosing up the framerate. I had an ATI 57 something card (maybe 5760 I can't remember) and a fairly new system. I went and bought a SSD 120 GB corsair drive and a whatever the latest radeon card is. I'm not good with remembering the numbers on the cards sorry, it was a 6850 maybe? Anyway my point is, I have zero lag now. No framerate issues. The game runs awesome. It was so bad before that I was considering quitting because of it.

It's been about a week give or take but I have not seen a winning team for a while now. I don't know what's going on. I know I'm an above average player, and I have a pretty good handle on being able to judge if people are playing decent or not, but I have not seen a winning team out of (I'm not exaggerating) almost 50 games. I remember the first night it happened was the night they had changed the tokens in the patch. I got on late that evening and I had to play solid for 3 hours before I got my first win. It then took another hour to get the two other wins. I thought nothing of it that night other than wow that took a while, but hey it happens. I have PVPd every night since that night and have not won a single match. The very next night I played for several hours again yet no wins. The next several nights I played for several hours and no wins. Finally, the last few days I've been playing and I just hardly play other than a couple matches because they just lose and I'm not motivated now to play several. Can someone just really have that bad of luck in the games? There are the occasional teams that are horrible (players running the wrong way, not passing, running resolve up next to endzone on enemies etc..), but I just can't believe I have not seen a win.

If everyone leaves, the same people that made it losing are still going to be queuing up for the next round.. What the hell else you think is going to happen? Sure you might get lucky and grab a different round that might win but two things should bother you if you actually had morals like a decent person: 1. Had you stayed you could have helped them possibly pull a win. 2. Had you offered sound advice to your team (without complaining or negative remakrs) You might actually turn it into a win. You'd be surprised how many people are open to constructive criticism.

I apologize I misread your initial post. But there is no punishment for leaving a warzone, so why not leave? It punishes the others. That's why. Last night was a great example. I stuck out (and so did the majority of players) until the end - I always do anyway. It took me 3 hours roughly to get a first win. I didn't finish until extremely late on a work night, but I wasn't about to make the others suffer because I wanted to get my rewards quicker. How do they suffer? If the first guy leaves because he is a visionary that foresees the future loss in his crystal ball, then there is a chance that the match will not refill. This will make the warzone end for short players, especially if others follow his lead. Then they hardly get anything for their time for lack of medals. If that doesn't happen it still affects the game because chances are he might be a decent player, so instead of trying to help overcome what appears to be a loss he is making it almost inevitable. I'm not making any of these posts in regards to how the game needs to be fixed, I'm posting it to make people rethink their morals. You are playing an online game. If you are participating in a group activity whether it be flashpoints, group quests, or pvp etc.. Think about how you are affecting the other players. All I'm saying is if you are the one leaving just don't freaking PVP. It's making the system worse (until they get it fixed).

So just because you can do something justifies it? No. If that were true there'd be no such word as exploit in the gaming community.

To me, the fact that you said this and quite a bit of what you said after it invalidates your argument. You are saying he's justified in screwing the team because they for sure are going to lose? I honestly can't believe there are so many people supporting this. I AM NOT ARGUING THAT THERE ISN'T A BETTER WAY TO HANDLE PVP BY BIOWARE. however, I am stating that in the mean time THIS IS HOW THE GAME WORKS. THIS IS HOW IT IS INTENDED OR AT LEAST HOW IT IS BUILT TO BE PLAYED. So just because you don't have time to play the game how it is intended or built to play now, does not for one second justify screwing everyone else over. Simply don't PVP until it functions the way you think it should function. By all means come to the forums and post suggestions all day that hopefully Bioware will implement but don't leave battlegrounds screwing other people over.

I've already addressed the issue of people not having enough time. That is their issue to deal with, not to enforce it on the other people that queued for PVP having enough time. If you can't supply the time to play losing matches to get your win, then you should not be playing. In the past you've gone 6-7 matches without a win? So? Just because it's a daily doesn't mean that you have to complete it daily. Last night I got home from work (I work bankers hours, normally leave at 530) at 1030pm. So I'd be classified as one of those that "doesn't have time". It took me 3 hours before I got my first win towards the daily. It was MY DECISION to stay up later to complete that daily, which affects ONLY ME and not the people I play with. Had I left those (more than 6-7) matches that were losing I could very likely impact the outcome of the game. The point again is that leaving affects the rest of the group, not you only. By the way, there were two matches in that time period where my team came back from a 3-0 or 4-0 game to 5 points. Unfortunately we lost both of them but it just shows that the first 5 minutes most definitely do not determine the outcome of the game.

Do you guys realize that if ALL players leave the game because they don't want to participate in a losing game, you have an extremely good chance of getting right back in a game with them? It's that way for Empire who continuously get Huttball games. Not only is leaving a game selfish but when many people do it, you'll see the same results repeated over and over. Have you tried actually contributing to the group instead of just getting pissed off and ditching because it's such a waste of your time? How about paying attention to who is the most likely cause of the losing and making helpful suggestions to them? It's called constructive criticism if you can keep from losing your patience, which many of you could but don't.

No I'm not paying for his subscription so no I can't tell him what to do. But that doesn't mean his actions aren't affecting MANY other people's experience. Again, selfish actions.

People are saying they leave the PVP matches because they do not have enough time to complete dailies when they get in losing games. I'm sorry but that is just a selfish, childish excuse. If you do not have time to do something then the intended way, then you probably shouldn't be doing it. That's about as good as the people justifying pirating software because they don't have enough money to afford the software in the first place. So 8 people join a warzone, but player Joe Smith thinks that in the first 5 minutes because the other team got two points it's not possible to win. First of all Joe Smith is a moron. And by leaving the game he contributed to making sure that would be a loss. He just selfishly screwed the rest of the team over because he wants to only play winning games because of his time limit. A team can easily come back for a win outside of the first 5 minutes. I've seen it many times. He should not be playing this game if he cannot play by the rules in his allotted time. Feel free to disagree, but if you are by all means post your justification. Because I want Bioware to fix things right if they are going to make any changes.

The first thing you have to understand is "chance" 25% chance does not mean you are going to get 25 out of every 100. It means you have a 25% chance every single time to possibly get one.

You will see a large decline in this issue IF THEY PUT THE DEBUFF IN.

The third post in this whole thread says most of what I want to, I suggest people read that it's a very valid retort. However, I want to address one thing. Features. You don't want to release a MMO with the amount of features that your comparison (WoW) has. If this game was released with all kinds of features like WoW then there will be no room for the hard core players. WoW is designed for a casual player right now and is so extremely watered down it ran a lot of people away from it. Over time it is going to have more features added in. Look at Rift and Aion for example. Sure Aion was buggy but both of those had a lot of the features already built in, especially Rift. But both failed. Just have patience, if you are a starwars fan then just give it time. If you want this game to be like your precious wow it will, it will just take some patching and expansions. I personally enjoy the game how it is, it feels like a new game and not a reskinned wow which seems like what everyone that supports your argument wants it to be.

It took me a while to figure it out so I thought I'd help you guys out. There is an option in the preferences to enable companion gear comparison.

A couple of points. First of all I want to say thanks for taking the time to make a video to help others. Saving credits - You mention upgrading to the 5k bag space ASAP. This is not necessary if you are recommending not leveling professions. It is very easy to keep the bag cleaned with the amount of slots you have if you are avoiding professions. I don't recommend waiting on professions because you'll have to visit several areas AGAIN when you decide to level them later on. Do it now while it's more efficient. PVP - This is related to the credits issue. I absolutely loathe PVP. Except world PVP but ironically I'm on a PVE server (friends wanted to go there). I don't mind the PVP in SWTOR so much. I'm level 23 and started doing PVP at 20. I made from level 20-23 the money for my speeder. I had 5k credits when I started. Hope this helps out.