GuildWars2 has a new expansion coming out in just 6 days if FFXIV isn't your thing (or you can't play it because it's so popular they aren't letting new players in).

I liked them too. I'd rather get no credits at all and have the decos back.

Hi, I'm currently subbed but lately I've been a "parasite". I don't care what you think about me and I will keep doing my thing regardless, but I hope I'm allowed to reply even though I'm more amused than offended. Anyway, I started playing SWTOR during the Beta weekends, and was subbed for years. I've taken many long breaks, but I've always resubbed for new expansions and most often kept playing for a few months - except for the last "expansions", which quite frankly have not felt worth paying more than one month's sub for. A few months ago (in September, maybe?) I resubbed together with my husband, and we've played together a couple of times a week. I unsubbed again in December when the new expansion got delayed, and resubbed again a week ago, again for the new expansion. Aaand unsubbed again when I saw the mess they released. But in between December and now, I kept playing those couple of times a week with my husband, and I intend on doing that even after my sub runs out. We only play the original class stories, content we've both done many times already, to relive the better old days. Content we've both paid for many times over, too, both in subs and cartel coins. To us, it just is not worth it to sub to a game we only play a couple of times a week. We're happy to sub to a game we play more, we have (as I said) done so in the past and we will do so in the future, when we have more time to play and play something we think is worth the money. So I don't know if that is informed and/or rational, and I don't really care. It's just an explanation, since this parasite happens to be subbed and is able to reply.

I wanted to stream SWTOR, but the maintenance being extended nixed that idea. I streamed Minecraft instead and had a blast, and probably had a lot more fun than SWTOR would have been. I'm also sticking to my stream schedule, which does include SWTOR (still, for now) , which is because I have never been less hyped for an expansion so I didn't see the point in trying to fit in an extra stream for this one. All of this is just an explanation, I guess, because I agree so much with your thoughts about Twitch being a decent measure of interest in a game/expansion.

I just got back to the game. I'd completely forgotten there's a new expansion coming out, but then I read up on some news, and man... I stopped looking forward to SWTOR expansions after the first chapter of KOTFEET, but I never minded updates. This one? I don't even remember the name of the next expansion, and I'm actually hoping it'll get delayed so they can go back on the gearing changes. Oh well. I'll play around a bit, do some original class stories, and then come back again in another year or two.

I'm laughing at this statement. My husband and I have attempted to play the RPG story of this game together. TOGETHER, as in NOT SOLO. As in GROUP CONTENT. We were doing fine from the Beta weekends until the disaster that was KotFEET. Then we logged on, grouped up, eagerly started Chapter 1 and didn't get to play together. Maybe I need to repeat that... We did not get to play the story together. We had to play it SOLO to advance the story - or, well, I suppose we could have played every chapter twice if both of us wanted to advance the story. (And before someone asks, yes, we checked that we both had enabled the allow-same-class option even though we weren't playing the same class. Yes, both back in early KotFE and now, in Onslaught.) And then you wonder why so many left during KotFEET. Maybe, maybe, because 1. So many people thought the story was either horrible or just misplaced - it should have been a separate game, since it didn't work at all in SWTOR; and 2. Because people like me and my husband weren't actually able to advance it TOGETHER. The same goes for the Onslaught story. My husband and I grouped up, eager to experience the new story together. But noooo, denied, no such fun for us who wanted to play NOT-SOLO. We quickly figured out that every time (which is most of the time) we got to an instance entrance, we had to leave the group, do the content SOLO and then group up again to move to the next instance. Much fun, very group. So yeah, don't come whining about people playing solo in an MMO when there's no way to advance the story together after SoR. Maybe you need to go find another game.

I wonder if the UI designer works with a monster computer and giganto-monitor, so it looks good to him/her, but all us plebs who still use a cheap 22 inch and have the game's graphics set to medium or worse are just completely out of luck.

Not dreading it at all. But then I also haven't been paying attention to the PTS feedback since what little I did read seemed to focus so much on gearing up. I'm a solo(ish? My husband is coming back to the game too, so I won't be solo all the time anymore) player who doesn't care about getting Best in Slot gear within a couple of weeks. As long as I'm not dying all the time I'll be happy. The only thing I *am* a bit worried about is the story and having enough new stuff to do for a while, something that hopefully is at least a little different depending on the previous choices of my characters.

EA. Who knows if they'll even be around in a year.

I restarted my PC and now it works. Run as administrator, too, in case that had any effect on it.

Mine says: ...there's no patch? I was happily tossing snowballs at my comps all day yesterday.

...and Dammit, Corso!

That's a fair point.

I think it's the pre-Christmas jitters that makes people so tense and snappy. Anyway, I haven't had a problem yet with the snowballs, and I pretty much don't even kill a mob without pelting it. I let other players be, because it's really annoying, but any NPC is fair game. Might a new cannon and what's-it's-name help? (sorry, just woke up, not even had coffee yet)

Well said. I'm also tired of companions getting killed and bricked left and right, and those who aren't completely bricked just get weird. Arcann, for example - now, I can objectively understand the choice to romance him, but personally, to me, it's just awkward and strange. Here he and I have been trying to kill each other for years, no matter if I'm LS or DS or somewhere in the middle, and then suddenly he thinks we'd make a great couple. Like, dude, do you need more time in the mental institution? Because I think you're crazier than a Dr Lokin who's spent too much time partying with Kaliyo and SCORPIO. ...and then of course just as the players who do like him get to romance him, well, that's it. You got your two minutes. It's just such a shame. I don't trust the devs to not kill/brick any companions anymore, and that does detract from my enjoyment of the game. There's no point getting invested in any new comps when they might get nixxed in the next update.