for·tu·itous adjective \fȯr-ˈtü-ə-təs, -ˈtyü-, fər-\ Definition of FORTUITOUS 1 : occurring by chance There's nothing about the name that implies a better chance. In fact, the name suggests the exact opposite. A "fortuitous" pack is, BY DEFINITION, a completely RANDOM one. P.S. I was hesitant to post this since I already did a "goodbye" post yesterday, but I do still have a day left on my sub and I couldn't resist; people confusing "fortuitous" and "fortunate" is a pet peeve of mine, along with the misuse of "literally."

So this was my first experience with MMOs and it was a lot of fun. I was lured in by the Free-to-Play option and liked it enough to spend a bit of money and become a preferred player. Eventually, I was playing enough and enjoying it enough that I felt it was worth becoming a subscriber. After two months of subscribing and 7 months of playing, I'm ready to move on to another game (still haven't played Dishonored and I can't wait for Arkham Origins), though I'll probably hop back on every once-in-awhile. Before I leave though, I just wanted to thank everyone for a great experience, both in-game and on the forums (which became almost a mini-game of its own after awhile ). Andryah, I disagree with you a lot, but I'm genuinely glad you get as much enjoyment out of this game as you so clearly do--I admire your ability to enjoy the game for what it is. LordArtemis, I hope you continue to be a balanced voice of reason on these forums. Alec, I'm sorry to hear about hood-toggles, but I know you'll continue to fight the good fight--may the force be with you! Um... what else... I'd love to give you (yes, YOU!) my stuff, but it's already gone, so don't bother asking for it... death to the Cartel Market... anddd.... I think that's about it! Good hunting!

Seriously, I'm really frustrated with people's responses to some recent issues. Criticism is only constructive if it's consistent. You don't get to both ask for more info about future plans AND call Bioware "liars" if those plans have to change. It's completely irrational to simultaneously demand that they wait to release things until they're bug-free AND get mad that they pushed a release back a couple days to get it right. You can be mad about ONE of them. That is reasonable and a matter of personal taste. But being mad about BOTH of them is just irrational. (For my part, I want the former in both of those cases and am perfectly willingly to accept the latter as potential consequences.)

Seriously?! Eric gives a prompt, helpful response to the topic that this thread is actually about, and people immediately go complain about something else?! C'mon guys! Constructive criticism is one thing, but this is just unabashed trolling. We aren't going to see positive changes if every time the devs give us something people have asked for, in this case effective and specific communication, players fail to react positively.

But it's not something for nothing. It's something for $15 a month.

Excellent analogy! Now imagine you went to the store and gave them your coupon and asked for a box of M&M cookies and they told you, "sorry, we don't have any now and we're not sure when we will." And you said "But there's a stack of boxes right there!" and they said, "Oh, those? Yes, those are the M&M cookies that you have the coupon for, but the ones in that stack are only available for purchase. You can't use the coupon on those, even though it IS the product that your coupon is good for." You'd prolly be like "Huh???" Also, "W t f" gets censored?? Not the words, the abbreviation... who knew?

fixed it for you Also, I was actually suggesting not that they give one of those pets to the CE Vendor too, but rather that they give one to the CE Vendor instead. While they're busy coming up with a bunch of new pets for the retail chains, they could have come up with one for people who bought the CE. And for the record, I am NOT a CE owner.

+1 Brilliant!

Actually, I thought if you got vote-kicked you were then subsequently locked out of flashpoints for 12 minutes or something... so you're not just throwing them back in the groupfinder. assuming that's correct, of course. it may not be.

One of those fancy new pets, to the CE vendor should have gone, hmm?

Thanks for the reply, but why on earth is there no timeline for fixing this?! It should be as easy as typing in a new number for the level requirement! It seems a lot more likely that this was done as another way to force people to buy RoTHC...

So it sounds like this is something that subscribers HAVE to spend extra money on? What happened to being able to save up cartel coins for things? This is disturbing news indeed! I guess it shouldn't surprise me that EAWare is conspiring with Walmart though. Both companies have ABYSMAL reputations. Check how this fun article on how Walmart LITERALLY bulldozed mexican cultural heritage sites, physically destroying priceless artifacts over a thousand years old! http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/18/business/walmart-bribes-teotihuacan.html?pagewanted=all

This was definitely a huge disappointment for me. The way they were promoting it, I naturally assumed that they were planning to expand the trees "upward" instead of outward, and replete with new capstone skills. I even thought players might be given a fourth skill tree! That was my mistake, I guess--they never said anything explicitly to that effect and if I'd known Bioware then as I do now, I'd have realized they were over-hyping the expansion as usual, including the new skill trees. A couple "10% extra critical damage on Attack Q" abilities were quite the letdown. Also, expanding "outward" just makes for more skills that I don't want, but that I have to take in order to have enough points to be able to select from the next tier of the tree. Also, I think it is downright disgusting how they used the skill tree as another way to FORCE players to buy the expansion. As another poster pointed out, many of the new skills are for abilities that you can ONLY get if you buy the expansion.

Also, for the love of the force, JUST BECAUSE IT SAYS SOMETHING IN AN EULA DOESN'T MAKE IT TRUE. You can't, for example, sign yourself into slavery. Even if you knowingly sign a contract that says that by signing it, you agree to enter into slavery, it doesn't matter because slavery is illegal. Companies use things like EULAs to make people THINK that they have forfeited their rights. But no company has the power to override the law. If the law prohibits false advertising, accepting the EULA does NOT preclude you from suing successfully. I'm not saying this IS necessarily false advertising (nor am I necessarily saying it isn't either), but if it WERE false advertising, the EULA would be completely irrelevant. Parking garages LOVE to do this sort of thing. They put a sign up that says "we are not responsible for any lost or stolen valuables stored in the car." Guess what, they ARE responsible. You can't absolve yourself of responsibility just by saying "I'm not responsible." If that were true, no one would ever be convicted of anything!

IF YOU PAY $15 A MONTH, IT'S NOT FREE!!! If subscribers, and only subscribers, are getting something, then IT'S NOT FREE. They could start calling the operations "free" too, but that wouldn't make them free either.