You know I thought the exact same thing the first time I saw that sig. Mind you, when you seem to have complete forum mod immunity I guess your arrogance level would be of galactic proportions. Ooops, forgot the obligatory and i'll add a to really cover my bases.

Welcome back. I enjoyed your post thoroughly, but perhaps you could have left the doggie out of it, it kind of came off as you trying a bit too hard to be zany and quirky. Other than that I enjoy most of your posts.

I fully support this Cartel Market direction they are taking. For almost a decade I have seen a certain part of the player base be pandered to and believe only their play style should ever grant anything nice or worthwhile in game, and nearly all resources be spent on creating content strictly for them. If any casual brought up an appeal for nice clothing, weapons, content etc they were immediately shouted down by arguments of "you don't need it, you don't deserve it, maybe this game is not for you". I applaud the direction this game is going, and if you keep putting this sort of thing on the CM then I will happily keep buying it. The tears of the "you didn't earn it so you deserve nothing!!!" crowd is just icing on the cake.

The Cartel Market is the main reason I resubbed my two accounts. It was refreshing to see decent looking gear / mounts / items etc available to all and not just raiders. The fact that I can buy things like that off the gtn or with cartel coins (600 per month allotment or spend some real cash) will keep me happy and subbed. I have plenty of disposable income and welcome more additions to the store.

^ This! Thank you to all for this transfer, you have made my day.

Yet you were so entertaining on the forums when they officially announced f2p. How did your insider miss that juicy tidbit?

I think it was the graphics that got me. We'd (a mate and I) been playing Eq2 for a bit and decided to give it a shot on the recommendation from another friend. Just didn't grab me. This is early 2005 I think.

Ahh gotcha, my bad. I only played WoW for a month and couldn't stand it.

Don't hold your breath for them. You keep asking, they'll keep feeding you the same vague response. Takes no time at all in resources to cut and paste the same response so you keep paying them monthly.

Do they care if they do lose those subscribers though at this stage of the game? Just how big a group are we? With f2p ops are not available, limited acces to warzones, flashpoints and space. The story they have admitted is expensive to make. So they concentrate on operations, flashpoints and pvp, to make it attractive for the f2p people to sub and to try to keep those that like that content still subbing and possibly bring back previous subscribers. It's more bang for their buck time and cost wise for developement and I don't blame them. Wether they will ever be able to satisfy the raid / pvp crowd is another topic alltogether, but best of luck to them if that is their focus. People that are not here for the multiplayer focus content push they look like doing are probably acceptable sub losses and have allready possibly been factored into the equation. Just my take on it.

I'm very easy to please. As long as you have at least some minigames or worthwhile crafting I can amuse myself for hours. To me this game has neither. If down the road they put in some content that would keep people like me happy, i'll resub on one account for a month and check it out. Until I see actual content and not more promises of "we're looking into, it's in the works, we have nothing new to tell you, it's coming soon" pr spin drivel to keep stringing those on the fence to keep subbing with no intention of adding anything in the forseeable future for them, then I unsub. I'm not bothered anymore. If there is content for me in the future, i'll resub, if not, someone else gets my cash pool. /shrug

I agree 100%. The story was what brought me to the game and was why I had 2 accounts. That interview however has changed my perception on wether or not I want to keep subscribing and I cancelled both accounts. From what i took from the interview they are ditching the story to make this another generic f2p 'raid, pvp or don't bother' game with a SW skin. Fair enough. I wish you the best for your new direction.