You may want to post under the respective Server forum and see if someone there knows.

Given your option #2 is pretty biased, I'll also vote #4. I don't see any reason for me to have a free month, as I have not experienced any of the "game breaking" and "false advertisement" the OP alleges.

These are interesting data, thanks!

Actually, it might be closed because this thread has nothing to do with the game... so therefore, yes, it is off-topic.

That's what I do. If I've died 3 times, I'm obviously doing something wrong. So I head back and try something new.

This is very inaccurate. First, 3 deaths is about a 1 minute wait. Second, "all the way back across the map" is misleading. I've found that the med camp is usually pretty close and you only have two fight 3 or 4 mobs (at most). As people have mentioned, the "time out" punishment is to prevent people from just killing themselves over and over and not actually play through the game. There HAS to be consequences to death, otherwise it becomes pointless to even quest. The combination of repair bills and time out is the perfect punishment for failure. Kind of similar to real life, you know; we tend to prevent death as much as possible due to the repercussions (namely, not being able to live anymore, which is a bit more sever than in this game).

I'll chime in as well and support this idea. Sounds pretty cool!

And I think this is one of the biggest reasons why people get disappointed with MMOs in general. Some people believe that endgame MAKES the MMO, and the rest of the game is just some leveling process to get to the real game. Of course, playing that way, there is always going to be dissatisfaction once someone gets to endgame and everything is the same as other MMOs. However, an MMORPG is ALSO about the leveling process. And the fact that I can group while leveling, or join a guild and do things with them, or play PvP even when I'm not 50 is also part of the fun of this MMO. I cannot do any of those things in a single player RPG, but I can in this game, even if I haven't reached endgame yet. So no, I don't think it's valid to say "Go play a single player RPG", because at least this MMO offers something different than single player RPGs even before endgame. In summary, some people's expectations may be inflated, specifically if they believe that MMORPG = endgame.

I agree with all of your points as well. I'm not saying there are no negatives about the game, but in my experience with the game, the positives have been outweighing the negatives.

I kind of agree that it gets aggravating to have to reactive a bunch of things after death (specially Sprint in Warzones). However, I guess that goes with part of the punishment of dying, no? At first I didn't like it, but I've learn to live with it because it makes sense as some sort of punishment for death.

ATI users may want to take a look at the following thread and see if it helps them: http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=95124 It looks like it has helped a lot of other users with their FPS problems.

The trend does seem to continue! I wonder if this can be fixed game-side or AMD/ATI-side?... Either way, it needs some work.

But nobody, at least in this thread, has claimed the part I bolded above. It sounds like you are interpreting other people saying they are not getting low FPS as saying that their cards are faster than yours. Seems to me like misinterpreting. There could be so many different reasons as to why a gtx 260 is not getting low FPS while your 6950 is. Obviously one of those reasons could be the game itself. But it might not be the only reason. I tend to avoid making assumptions because they don't help anyone.

I don't understand why you keep making assumptions about other players. You get low FPS, I get low FPS, other users don't. Why call other people liars when you literally do not know whether they are lying or not?

Yeah I'm waiting to see if ATI mentions something about this. I think I'm a bit luckier though in that I get pretty good FPS everywhere else, including Warzones. It only dips in fleet.