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Damn that really does suck man. I think that mine was probably resolved fast because it was an account issue and not a programming one. Although it took me like 2 weeks to fix my cartel inventory wide account issues to be fixed. They dismissed my first ticket as a bug report and I finally got my issue resolved after I posted it on the forums under customer support and sent another customer support ticket and then they finally resolve it. But when I posted on the forums about my issue I was polite and not raging like a lunatic.

It's cool dude. I'm don't consider myself a biodrone, I just consider myself as someone who recognizes a good game when I see one. I like other PC gaming companies besides Bioware too, like Bethseda, Interplay (RIP), Sierra (RIP), THQ and sadly some EA titles as well. See my thing is I don't try to compare games with other games, because that's like comparing apples and bananas. Also I play games for what they are and don't place unreasonable expectations on them. If they make cool changes then codos to them

Personally I haven't spent any extra money since the cartel market was first introduced and now I'm fine with the stipend they give me. It just feels like I get more bang out of my buck now, because I not only have unlimited access to a game I enjoy, but now they give me free stuff for free. And if I wanted it so bad and I don't have anymore cartel coins I can just buy it in-game with credits. As a subscriber I feel immensely rewarded.

Armor dyes are nice, but it would be awesome if they can come up with a crafting item that can turn all and any items into modable item. Meaning you can turn white, green and blues, purples into oranges. They did it with the Augment Kits, it would be even cooler and mind blowing if they made Custom Kits. Although it would be similar to making Augment Kits and requires Reengineering to get the mats.

Good point. I rather have someone else buy them for me and I buy it off the GTN than paying money for all my toons to wear it.

Nah, you still need to call them to reset it. There was no other way I found out and that was my issue. The poster you responded waited for like 4 hours or something. Never happened to us.

I was on the phone with customer support yesterday to fix my girl's issue with her authenticator. Only spent like 3-6 mins tops on hold and then we got a person. We used landlines that doesn't charge for calling anywhere in the US, so we were prepared in the event of a 1-2 hour hold, but it didn't happen to me or her. We were both like what the heck are people on the forums talking about? These forums are so exaggerated. Some saying that the hold are like 2 hours is too ridiculous. Can those who have waited that long elaborate what time they called, where and what day?

See I'm kinda dismissive about how horrible their wait on the call lines are now. If it was on a weekend and it was on prime time or during like I don't know 11PM at night, I think people should know better that their call center would have less people since no one ever wants to work those hours or its insanely busy because of the volume of calls. Then there's a whole issue with what kind of call they are doing too. If its an account and billing management, it may be quicker, but if it's technical support, its probably forever since you are basically calling for an IT guy to personally fix your problems. But yeah it seems like everyone just jumps on the hate train.

So yesterday I had to customer service with my girlfriend about taking off the phone authenticator on their customer support help-line. The issue was resolved in like 5 minutes and we were only on hold for like 4-6 minutes, maybe even less. Granted we call around 5:30pm Eastern Time and it was a Wednesday. My question is, what is up with all these people on the forums about how horrible customer support is? The worst case I ever got was about how it took 2 weeks to resolve a bug, but it wasn't so gamebreaking and only took that long because I incorrectly made a ticker. After I sent the ticket correctly that I managed to get my problem fixed in less than 24 hours.

Seriously? Most people I know have free calling features as long as its in the US, Canada, Mexico and Puerto Rico. I have it so I don't mind being on hold and won't pay extra. Who still pays per minute anyway? Although I'm not sure how it works for international people.

I understand with what you are saying that it would be refreshing to see different combat mechanics of having the trinity system. But seriously let's face it, the problem you are talking about is not just a Swtor problem, but an MMO problem as a whole and I am glad you do realize that with you statement. If you like the way Diablo series plays like, then by all means play it. In my opinion, Diablo was largely successful due to brand recognition with its affiliation to the Blizzard name. Overall I think the game is kinda blah and grindy with lacking in story with absent character development. I played D3 for some time and could not get into it. I played 1, 2 and the expansions and it felt to grindy to me. But going back to the topic. The trinity system has been there predating since Dungeons and Dragons and honestly almost everyone copies from it (mmo and RPGs alike). The idea of the system is that it encourages team work. If you take that away, the frankly it become a solo game, but online. Hell they already give you a companion to start with, so the need of another player to help you in questing is already gone. But to address this what did the developers do? They scaled the game so that even if you have 2 players with companions, its still difficult to do heroics and nearly impossible to do flashpoints. I like the trinity system, because there's more order involved. Just be glad you don't have to roll a bunch of dice and spend like 30 mins for just 1 combat phase.

They did that already. They give you 500-700 a month for just being a subscriber! LOL But seriously I think some items should involve a long quest line like HK-51 and for those who don't want to spend that much time doing it, there's the cartel market option. =D Oh but wait, some of those outfits are available already, but only for the respective classes.

That's probably at the alpha stage, they wouldn't roll it out on the test servers yet anyway.

Thats the issue with these forums and people in general. Everyone thinks they are programmers and finnancial analyst that thinks their opinions really matters and is fact.

Lets face it, none of us are CEOs or Producers of this game so we can't dictate whether or not they will have a new class, story, pvp or whatever. Also I wouldn't necessarily write off a new class never being made at all yet until Bioware says so. Besides that it would be in their best interest to create at least 1 new class, but I doubt it will come without an expansion, especially with their new F2P system. The F2P system states that you can play 1-50 for free, now what if in order to play a new class you have to be a subscriber. This would then somehow encourage people to become subscribers. Same with new story content and going above level 50. You want access to Makeb as a F2P player, you are going to have to pay for it.

Its really all cosmetic. But beware of spending cartel coins since you can purchase anything at the GTN for credits.

Oh by the way OP, my first 2 toons were healer and tank. I did not have a hard time progressing in the game. The fact that this game practically gives you a companion to run around with helps make up being a full spec tank or healer. Also I practically get a FPs as soon as I hit the que button, so I don't ever have to wait so long. Although when I play my DPS it takes forever to que since there's always a billion of them. But that goes the same with every MMO out there. I also die quicker and have longer downtime since I always have a DPS companion out at all times in every role. I have played other MMOs and leveling a pure tank or healer there was horrible and took forever. This game gets easier and easier with every level 50 toon you get and companions you max out. With 450 presence at level 1, your companion can kill everything on her own.

To be fair... WoW stole their combat system from other games that came out before them... This system is as old as pen and paper RPGs that you play on table tops which came out way before video games.

So Bioware/EA finally and unexpectedly added the function to buy additional character slots with Cartel Coins. What do you guys think will come next? In my opinion, I think paid character server transfers are not so far from the future, being as they will develop a program that allows characters to make copies in the test server.

While I like the Cartel Market and agree that some things like Reven's outfit, Darth Nihilus and some of the cool looking weapons should involve having a long quest chain to obtain it (that doesn't involve killing world bosses 18 times). However, some gears that are class restricted, you should have to pay for since you are paying for access to something you normally do not have access to. On the other note though. I wish some of the items could be re-engineered so you can learn how to make them, rather than making them Cartel Market restricted, but it would break the market now wouldn't it.

Agreed! There is nothing more satisfying that paying only 300k to get all my inventory modules and 450k for bank tabs unlocked for all my characters. Then I can also skip level requirements for most of the legacy character perks by paying with my Cartel Coins. I have unlocked all my legacy stuff and bought all the skin unlocks in the GTN for 1mil. Then I also bought all the other gear sets on the GTN for only 200k, which is not even a day of daily grinding. The beauty about the cartel market is that players can trade it for whatever value they think it is. I am also lucky with the Cartel Packs, I got like 1 overlord throne with the first pack I got and use the credits to trade for even more expensive stuff. Originally all I wanted are pets and toys in the game, but instead got super rare drop I did not even want.

Aww, it would have been amusing to see if someone could reach over 350 in one server. Thanks for the update though. Keep up the good work =D

LOL L2P2 Upon death- Assessment: You should not break CCs as they will trigger other Elites and Champions to pound on you. Entering Heroic Zone without party- Warning: Enter at your own risk, enemies might be too tough to handle on your own.

It would be great if we could get Covert Energy equipment set, thus making your character only wear their boxers. I would love to see my Jugg fighting naked looking lol.