It's a great interview. I don't know if I would use the word 'show'. Somewhat overproduced but I do appreciate the information. I found myself hitting Pause after I realized I was in for three minutes of music intro and sound effects. When it was 12 percent loaded I started clicking along the slider until I heard voices, then started listening. NPR does interviews great. Intros should be 10 to 15 seconds. Just some feedback.

100 pages? Why do I think that most of you guys would always find something to complain about? There has to be a lengthening of the perception of the world. Most of the planets are very small areas. There has to be some filler so you feel like you're not in a very small box. Remember, they don't have an open world like Warcraft. Think of these things, as you are running through the airlock to the space dock to the elevator to the ship - that this was done on purpose.

Yep. Stopped listing my blue fabrics after I did a search on some type of material and saw one guy with two listings of fabrics totally in the wrong spot. I'm stockpiling for now. Also it seems that the Biochem Rush as caused a glut of supplies on our GTN. I'm using an alt to list my Treasure Hunting and Underworld items. The metals are selling better than the Bio stuff, as people are undercutting each other, and I don't play those games. I'll either buy them out and re-list, or craft into med-packs and list. It's nice being ahead of the curve on some of these things, if you are smart and pay attention. GTN does need some work, though. I'd like a Memorized Sell Price, or Last Sold For.. or something. I'm not getting into spreadsheets or writing anything down. I usually mark up a little bit from the auto-price, and do OK.

Got a new BH/PT that's lvl 17 now. I go Light every time for Mako rep. Seems like my guy is a real chump. Not really digging it, but sticking with it. My lvl 28 Sorc female is pure evil and the best fun I've had in a long time. Some of the stuff they've had her do.. yikes. I have a feeling that Dark is just more fun.

Yes. Patching by forum isn't really what I had in mind for this. We'll see how it goes. This is strike two. If this becomes the 'carefully though out' method for product development, I'm finding something else.

Is there any thoughts as to placement of the avatar? I like to craft inside my ship at the workbench with the other crew members. Feels like I have better changes on RE there but maybe it's just in my mind.

I haven't used mine yet. Is that a one time use item?

That and the link doesn't work Community Managers are unpaid college interns, right? Working in the 'game industry'? What do you guys do all day long??

Maybe it's a memory issue. I don't use SSD in this rig, just a normal SATA drive, which is not a 'green' drive. Rig has one proc, quad core, and 16 gigs DDR3 ram. I use it for video editing. It's no slouch, but not the greatest thing out there. Never thought of loading screens much. I'll have to time it. Most take 10 to 15 seconds. HD doesn't churn very much. I do keep the resolution on Low due to my graphics card not being very new. Low lets me play very quickly. Medium has just a little bit too much chop. I suppose it depends on how much data you're loading - if everything is on High maybe it takes longer.

Yep. Remember that Egyptian style freeplay MMO where you built things like farm and wells. Got points for helping each other out? How's that doing these days? Guild Wars 2 will do awesome. Modern Warfare Shooty Mc Shooterville will do awesome. Diablo 3 will do awesome. Smart games where you have to think an work together? Good luck with that!

God I hope not. 100 or so whining kids out of how many thousands of players per server? The dissatisfaction rate for the product is probably in the low fractions of single digits. If it were my game, i'd be looking at the hard stats of which players with professions over 300 were dumping them and going Biochem. I probably wouldn't be spending my time reading all this. But that's just me. I like the hard numbers. I guess we'll see Jan 21st!

I feel sorry for the FOTM kids. Sorry to be an oldster on this stuff, but after a dozen runs of this type of thing, we all know how this pans out. Developers run through the real numbers from their product and make adjustments. I hope someone somewhere isn't making development calls based on forum crying. Devs will drop in some good things for the other professions, and probably reduce bio a little, if the numbers pan out from their end. Hyperbole probably isn't helping the bio case, but Bioware isn't paying that much attention to the forums.

QFT. Printing this out. I wanted to play with Cyber a little but not giving up my Bio.

Tell me about it. We have guild mates that COD and haggle for things in /g and it's really annoying. This new batch of MMO kids really need some teamwork training.

Nope. Here's why: This game is fun. You have to think, and pay attention to what's going on around you. You have to watch the boss for his Specials, and block them. You have to pay attention to the battle, and watch for adds. You have to heal your player and NPC companions. You have to communicate with your team, and decide who's going to CC what, and use the Mark system. In short, situation awareness. I do NOT want to see the words HEAL NOW or DO THIS, or LOOK HERE and have the game on auto-play. That ruins for experience for everyone. I want smart people playing my game with me. If that means half the subscriber base, then so be it. I'm greedy and demanding with my entertainment time. I dumped the CoD series and went with BF2/3 because of this. "You much be this smart to play with me" (like the sign on the roller coaster) Our guild uses Ventrillo, and we are mostly smart people. I don't want dumb people coming into my house. Any addons or combat logging for the purpose of created an out-of-band analyzer is working towards the end of making my entertainment dumber, and I do not care for that. If the battle is won, congrats. You did it right. If you lost, then try something different. You don't need five megs of text files per fight.