LOL!!!! Must admit, that's pretty cute.

What's the name on the mission that says you need to use the ships holoterminal?

Did you try just going ahead to Voss? That's about the level I was when I went through it the first time. I didn't have much of a problem with Voss, had moved on Corellia by 45 and completed the final mission of Act III at 47. You didn't mention your spec, mine was a combat/watchmand hybrid.

What was the last step you did? Does the abandoned mining facility show up as a destination on your galactic map?

There is typically a difference between the amount of downtime for a new game versus those that have been out for a while. Also keep in mind that while the window may be for six hours doesn't mean the game will be down for six hours. Like most NOCs, they pad their maintenance windows. But the percentage of times which they use the entire window is lower. Also keep in mind that the patch notes do not include everything. Typically exploit fixes and stability fixes aren't publicized.

Heh, I had a blast with it not reading the spoilers. 24-ish is about where I really began to fall in love with the story.

Gosh and here I thought that was the definition of urgent hotfixes. In other words, whether you think it to be unlikely or not doesn't change the fact that it's what's being done.

How's that tinfoil hat working out for ya? Keep in mind that LA is unlikely to endorse that to kind of model--at least not in the near future. You also have realize that there are probably financial clauses in the license contract which would make F2P a non-lucrative option at this point.

LOL! One could even go further and say: "Clearly this is due to SWTOR because EA doesn't have any bigger gaming franchises."

You do if you have a guild bank on the old server that you want get to moved to the new server.

Want to provide some examples? In fact some MMOs restrict WHERE you can post on their forums after you first subscribe. Your account has to be active for a certain amount of time before that restriction is lifted. But no, I've never seen a subscription-based MMO which allowed non-subscribers to post.

You're kidding, right? Or did you not know that SWG had a fantastic space game? There have been others as well. It helps to actually do your due diligence before heading off on grandiose paths.

Heh, and for me I was several steps into Act 3 when I noticed it.

Same advice to you. The information you've given above is also completely incorrect with one exception--that being the difficulty of converting SWG to F2P would have been. On-topic for the thread: The article is talking about games in general. That includes not just MMOs but the single-player games as well. This model already exists to an extent--even within EA. The Sims 3 has a tremendously successful content store. Not that I like that kind of model, but there are ways to balance things. For myself? I dislike microtransactions. But if you look at it from a business sense, it's the way the market has been headed for the past several years.

As the other person said, the Holorelay is a bonus side-quest to the main line. Your log should tell you where to go next, but if you haven't done anything at all on Alderaan yet, the next step should be to talk to Count Alde. The house he's in is not overly obvious--he's in one of the buildings in the Organa compound near where you did the holo relay quest. If I remember right, if you exit the cantina he is in a building in the corner of the compound that is almost directly across the courtyard in the direction you are facing. Head forward and veer slightly to your left and you should find it.

To name a few: WoW EVE Warhammer City of Heroes Elder Scrolls (releases 2013) Vendetta Fallen Earth Runescape There are others.

That is a completely ridiculous statement. There are many costs associated with the servers and while some are cheaper than they would have been back in 2004 there are others which are not as well as costs that didn't really exist then.

I replied in one of your other threads with the instructions on running the Apple Software Update utility:) http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=486293

I don't think you read my post fully. I clearly stated I read about the transfers and understood the risk. However, now I am regretting doing the transfer because my character's name was very important to me. Does that make sense to you, or do I need to speak to you like you're a three year old? I think the point the were making is that you could have checked to see if the character name was available on the new server before transferring. Try to friend the name on both a republic and an empire character. If the name is available, you won't be able to add it to either of their friend's list. Otherwise, the name will get added as a friend and you know that someone else already has that name. It's not an infallible system but it greatly reduces the number surprise renames for those who will only move if they can keep their name.

Sometimes hitting escape and trying again resolves that. If not, then usually quitting the game completely and then launching it again does.

Heh:) Do you remember what the 3rd option was? I've got another female knight that will hit that quest in the not-to-distant future, here's hoping she won't be bugged. Although I am pretty sure which option I'd choose anyway.

On Tat, you can do the Sarlacc heroic once per day solo and without any combat--it's a nice amount of XP. You don't even need stealth but since you have that it can only help

Is your knight male or female? I'm guessing it's only the female 3rd option that is a duplicate--this conversation is sort of a key one in the female romance line

So I found the videos I made of that conversation. Mine had that same thing and I just didn't remember it lol. I ended up choosing the first option but I did check out both two and three. They both triggered the same response, btw. I just figured they only had two options for the conversation but the radial is set for three responses and so the second one displayed twice in order for it to work.

As far as character names go, It's not. If a name isn't able to be used for a character it is for one of two reasons. Either one, someone else's character on that server has it; or two, it's in the unusable list. The fact that it works this way is fairly obvious given that as soon as you delete a character, its name is available for use.