Just to say, I already had Forest Nekarr. Bought a new card from Amazon.de. No pet

Well I don't think my spending is even that high. I had a look at my account. Since 1st Jan, I have made two purchases from the website, one for 5500 and one for 14500. The first one was more than a month ago and both were in January, so it seems like it must be a rolling 30 day limit, but it seems like 14500 must be the limit. Which is weird because other posters are saying they have bought more. What I also don't get is, why is the limit secret? I get that there could be reasons for MMOs to have limits - for example, you can sell hypercrates for credits, which means someone could be getting very rich if they could use unlimited coins (although I wonder if that would be common enough to be a problem). Why can't they just say there is a limit and tell us what it is? What nefarious scheme could I construct from knowing the limit, except for not being constantly irritated? I feel like they have created this problem. I want to buy more coins now because they have brought out a new pack. A hypercrate costs around 7000cc and you usually need to buy two or three hypercrates to get everything from the packs. So they decided when to release a new pack, they decided how much it would cost, they decided how many items would be in each pack and they decided the rarity. But when I try and play their game, somehow I am spending too much money?? If there is a low monthly limit, then bring packs out every 2 or 3 months and avoid the problems for customers.

So, a new cartel pack has come out, but I can't buy cartel coins. I call customer service, they tell me there is a temporary block and I need to wait 24hrs. I wait 3 days, no luck, so I call back. And there are so many things wrong with the answers I get! The problem is, there is a monthly limit on the number of coins you can buy. I never asked for there to be a limit, but BW has decided to fill the role of my bank manager and tell me how much money I can spend. I work for my money, it's legal and I know what I can afford. So where do BW get off telling me how much I can spend? This is a leisure activity, it's not drugs or alcohol or something that could hurt me in large quantities. If I have $10,000 a month to spend (I don't!), I don't see why it is up to BW to tell me what I can spend it on. That's between me and my credit card and I find it incredibly patronising that they feel to need to police my spending. Another terrible point - failed transactions count towards my total!! So, I try today, I get an error. I think "but BW told me it would after 24hrs". I try again. I then think maybe it is that amount, so I try a different amount. It fails. It turns out, ALL these transactions have counted against my total, even though I have not been able to buy a single coin! Not only that, there is a 3-a-day transaction limit and, despite not having a single coin, I've now exceeded my daily limit!! It is unbelievable how hard I have to work to give BW money! Oh and they also refuse to tell me what the monthly limit is - why, I have no idea. And they also refuse to lift the limit, even though they have verified that I am the account holder and I am TELLING them that I do not need them to act like they are my mommy handing out pocket money! It is a very long time since I had to ask someone's permission to spend money. I know children play this game, but I am over 18. Frankly, I think it is for their parents to police their spending, not BW (maybe they are a rich kid and have their parents' full knowledge and permission). And I would be perfectly prepared to send BW a copy of my passport of driving licence to prove my age. But no. BW have decided to be my mommy and there is apparently nothing I can do about it. I know I won't get it, but I would really love a dev response telling me why they feel that I am not able to decide my own spending. And adding failed transactions to the total is just ridiculous! Who is that supposed to be helping? Even if they have decided to police my spending, surely we can all agree that I didn't even SPEND any money?? Is this supposed to stop gold farmers? If so, surely it would be easy to look at my account and see that doesn't apply. I have 16 lvl 55 toons. I've been playing the game for years. My spending history is totally normal - a couple of hypercrates when a new pack comes out, any new items direct from the CM and the odd legacy unlock. I'm clearly not a gold farmer. So what is the point of all this?? I find it incredibly frustrating. Oh, and the best part is - the CS people keep recommending that I buy from Amazon.com instead! So it's not that they don't want me to buy cartel coins, it's that they want me to pay more for them! And when I pointed out that I am not in America, so the only way to buy coins from Amazon.com is to use a VPN and a false US address - basically commit fraud - the guy continued to recommend it. Clearly his script didn't allow for the idea that I might not be in the US - despite the fact I hadn't called in on the USA phone number! I can't even believe I have had this much hassle for trying to give them money! And I know everyone will tell me just to give up, but I actually do want to buy coins. Apparently this is not what BW want me to do. If there was ever a time for me to have a temper tantrum and declare that I am going preferred, I think this shining moment where I have to beg BW to let me give them money would definitely be the time! I know I won't get an answer, but hopefully someone at BW will actually read this and realise how much they are annoying their customers! Oh and one final thing - BW are the ones who set their prices! I wouldn't need to buy so many coins if everything was 10% of the price. Why charge so much and then have low monthly limits? In the last 90 days, I have made one purchase of 14500 coins - which is the lowest single amount you can buy to get ONE hypercrate. They are the ones selling at these prices, so what do they want from us??? tl;dr Haz monies, WTB cc

There are already bottoms that are as close to naked as it is possible for the game to go. They don't want to suddenly have their game rating go through the roof. What exactly do you want that isn't already available? Do you actually want visible genitalia? Otherwise I don't see how they could use less fabric than the numerous outfits that already exist.

Why do you say it's a bad idea? If someone is a jerk, it stands to reason they'll be a jerk on every character they play, right? So why wouldn't you want to ignore their entire legacy? I'm genuinely curious. Personally, I don't /ignore anyone. No one has ever upset me enough to get on there. They sure do keep trying though But I would love to be able to friend someone's legacy. It's become much more important since they introduced name changes because some of my friends started off with a pattern for their names which I could follow and have now evolved into completely different names. It's really hard for us to find each other and once I find them and ask them all their alts and friend them... then I lose it when I change toons.

Define fair. This is a service that I pay for. They do not pay. Could you expand on why you think that is unfair? It sounds a lot like commerce to me. There are plenty of things that I want in life, but if I don't pay for them, I don't expect to receive them. All the F2P vs subs things are supposed to be annoying. That's the point. It's encouraging you to sub and actually pay for the game. F2P have never contributed a single penny to the game, so of course they miss out on some things. BW aren't running a charity here. F2P is a promotion to show you the game so that you can choose to sub. Otherwise you are basically on a trial version forever. tl:dr No, they can sub like the rest of us.

^ This. My most wanted item in the whole game.

Well, I'll be the guinea pig. Just ordered an EU pet and I already have the Forest Nekarr, so I'll let you know what happens once my code arrives. On the plus side, if the new codes give the old pets too, we might have a chance of getting the Crested Orokeet. On the down side, if the new codes give both pets, don't we all feel stupid for buying the cards the first time around?

Has anyone else gotten the new pet from an EU card yet or was this a fluke?

Ok, confusing! And really bad news for APAC who have to try and plan their raids around the announced maintenance schedule

They finally fixed it to allow it to be completed in patch... 2.5 I think? And promptly removed the Beastmaster of Ilum achievement from Ilum. It was obviously still broken because you needed beasts on different planets, but it was achievable. Then, just for giggles, they left it in the meta Galactic Explorer achievement. It was completely nonsensical, but the devs are yet to comment on why they did it. I honestly can't work out a rational explanation that doesn't involve them not knowing their own achievements system and completely forgetting the meta achievement. Although they did also just lose the Black Hole Exploration achievement, so it's not been going particularly well recently for achievement hunters

Is it just me, or was it a day early? I don't know if I am confused by time zones. But in the dev blog, Tait and ServerDroid are posting about 10th February maintenance on 9th February?

If there are any comps you don't like, then apart from a small part of your story quest (usually just one planet), you'll never need to speak to them.

Levelling is a huge part of the game. Don't like, don't play.

Tactical flashpoints are designed to be done with any four roles. If there is no healer and no tank, then dps need to mitigate their own damage (which they should be doing anyway, but it's usually hidden by a good tank or heals). So I'd say the only thing you did wrong was to be naive enough to think someone would actually listen to advice

Every new game that comes out, everyone goes "oh, SWTOR will die now". It won't. ESO will be great, I'm sure, but anything Star Wars will always have a strong appeal. This game'll be around for a long time to come.

My two cents... I have HK, did it once with a guildie helping me out, didn't take very long at all (whole thing start to finish maybe 2 or 3 hours). That said, I really wouldn't care if they made this easier now. Doesn't hurt me in any way, so why not? Or just let people pay to get HK without the quest. Doesn't bother me in the slightest. Or make the parts tradeable so they can be sold on the GTN. Everyone's a winner. (I'd do the same with the Dreadseed and Star Forager armour too).

Agreed, doesn't bother me at all. OP, can you tell me which ones so I can see if I want to buy it? And as far as the cartel card pets... you may think it's ok that only Americans have access to exclusive pets, but I happen to think that the rest of the world pay the same amount of subs as the USA, so we shouldn't have content restricted from us. If a bug lets us have a fair shot, then all the better.

I think everyone is responsible for their own spending and I reject your premise that we are all fools being taken advantage of. BW aren't forcing us to buy these items and I don't buy into the philosophy that everyone is stupid. There has to be a degree of personal responsibility here. If someone has a problem with their spending, then they need to take steps to deal with it. I know how much I spend on Cartel Coins and I know I can afford that out of my budget for entertainment. What I would not want is BW, or any other company, not selling me something because other people can't be trusted with it. Of course BW are trying to manipulate us into spending more money. Every single business out there is trying that. Hell, not even just companies trying to make a profit. I make a regular donation to a charity and they called me the other day to ask me to give more, by telling me about all the people who are suffering and dying. Is it fair for them to call me and tell me about people who have had their limbs cut off with machetes to try and squeeze some more money out of me? Does doing it for a good cause negate the fact that they are trying to emotionally blackmail me? Pretty much everyone wants you to give them money and they will do anything they can to persuade you to give it to them. I don't feel like SWTOR pushes micro-transactions very hard. Yes, there are some nice options available. But it's not like they are pushing it. Unless you click to open the cartel market, you wouldn't even know what was there - and that was your choice to click it. For example, one fairly obvious thing they could do would be to advertise cartel stuff on loading screens. They haven't done that, not yet at least. So where is all this coercion? That's because BW is a business. No decision about SWTOR has ever been made just because it might be cool, nor any other game. Games are not free. No one makes them out of the goodness of their heart because they want to make people smile. I'm sure someone can quote a few random games that are actually free, but I'm talking about the gaming industry in general. It's a business. They are making a product and they want to make money from it. I'm sure the actual games developers will come up with an idea about something that might be cool, but it will be followed by a discussion about how much that would improve the game and whether it will be profitable. Will it keep subs, will it bring new subs, will it bring direct revenue? Of course BW will be having these conversations. Every company does and I'm not sure why it would be surprising, nor unethical. It's just capitalism and it may not be pretty, but it's the world we live in and communism has never worked well, so what is it you would like to see work differently?

Hey Tait, we all do it, but this is the danger of copy and paste You mean Atlanta on Feb 28th, right? Might confuse a few folks with this... It's right at the top, underneath the image.

The thing I find weirder than that is how jaded my character is. Lots of times, particularly in busy areas, I walk into an area and it is literally covered in dead bodies. And my toon and comps are like /shrug. Forget the med droid, we need some shrink droids to help with the PTSD. Smell is the least of our problems. What about the psychological damage?

Well I guess it depends what you mean by that. Do you mean the people who expect to get completely original unique items on the CE vendor every week? Or do you mean the people who expect there to be reasonably regular updates of reskins to the CE vendor? Because I think the latter's expectations are completely justified... given that is what BW told everyone when they bought it. It's not really a crazy expectation for a company to do what they say they will. But I'm not sure which way you meant it, lol.

Black Hole Exploration achievement is now 0/0, I think since 2.6. Please give me back my achievement. It wasn't much, but it was my 5(?) points.

Nope, still no achievement and CS were no help. Lol, love that they are now referring you to this topic! I'm not sure what the issue is. There is clearly a bug or bugs, I suspect along the lines of what you are suggesting e.g. maybe it only triggers for Imperial 16M TfB SM or something. But cause it's hidden, we can't track it down. So I know I have done everything on the list, but now I am trying to redo it in different combinations e.g. both factions, post 2.0, 8M/16M etc. I haven't got it yet and it's annoying. Frankly, I'm not sure what the value of having it hidden is. If I could see which one was bugged then I would only have to redo that one! BW, please unhide this! You unhid the MCR droids, now please unhide this. Who is benefitting from it being hidden??

back on topic... I absolutely agree. I've said many times that Collections is very inconsistent. Some items aren't included, some are, and there doesn't seem to be any logic that I can determine. BW specifically said that the original white crystals weren't included because Collections is for Cartel items, but then they include items like the PTS titles that aren't even available anymore. As you say, they include some non-Cartel pets and not others. I would like to see some consistency. Either only include Cartel items so that everyone can get a full Collection, or just include all items so that if we get e.g. a red Gree sphere on one toon, we have it on all of them. The current mishmash is not really doing players any favours (although of course the introduction of Collections at all was certainly incredibly beneficial). But consistency would be nice.