This is an excellent hotfix / patch and should make the event much more enjoyable - particularly with the increased population this weekend. Thanks for listening to the feedback - keep it up

I hate to break it to you, but there's even less to do at 55. Where you had previously ~10 HMs to play with, you now have 4. Where you had 4 Ops to run, you now have 1+1 recycled. So you can do, what other 55s are doing - have fun with some some dailies on one toon, run any FP (50) on another and have a good time revisiting OPs without ever caring about gear anymore. That's about it.

As the previous posters stated, this has no negative effect. If anything it will have a positive effect. Your limit for comms went from something like 13.000 down to 50. You can only buy gear at exactly or below your level. At best, you can keep 3 or 4 pieces of gear at level with that - the rest will come from the GTN or crafting. Near the end, everyone will try to hold on as much as possible to their comms for the Makeb gear at 50. Any overleveled char doing grey quests for "profit" is beyond help and won't have much negative effect to your sales on the GTN. (Doing any heroic content at any level takes time. Even a 50 will have to spend quite a bit of time running through "greys" on say Tatooine. In that time he could have easily completetd dailies or the Voss weekly which has a much, much bigger return on time invested.") Since crafting those mods (by that i mean everything - mods, armorings, enhancements, barrels, crystlas) is fairly cheap for the majority of the level range, you shouldn't have a problem making a living with one of those professions. My FP addicted chars have actually lost their main source of income with this change - they didn't craft before because it was cheaper and faster just "dump" the mods i've "outleveled" on the GTN. They can't afford to do that now anymore. Now they will have to craft stuff again - and get upset by the "undercut wars"

"You may view another player’s Achievements at any time by right clicking their portrait in-game and selecting Additional Commands -> Inspect Achievements. You will be able to fully browse their progress in any category, as well as see their overall Achievement score and any recent accomplishments they’ve achieved." <sarcasm> Thank you for valuing my privacy and giving me a say what i want to share about MY legacy and MY achievments. But why stop there? Why not giving everyone access to my ingame mail? My inventory and cargo hold? How will i ever be able to show off my 20 Crimson Claws? </sarcasm> But seriously, (this is my first, only and most likely last MMO) can someone explain to me, why everyone feels the need to rifle through someone else's recepies, legacy and god knows what next? Note to trolls: Before you start flaming this post, please don't mind the stranger sitting next to you, going through your purse, bag and wallet. Thank you.