But you must realize what is first thing that comes to straight men`s/lesbian girl`s mind when you say "i`m girl gamer"

This is huge issue in games in general. You can`t just have people who don´t have "life" (as it is said) being better only becouse they have more time to spend. Time is not something we can just buy with for 10€ to get extra week. At the moment this game has huge amount of stuff that is nothing more than time sink. Why do i have to defeat those skytroopers again and again and again and again... I play this game for story, not becouse i want to press buttons in same order all the time. I would love to see lot of pointless combat removed or combat being made actually interesting, and not just something you need to do before you get to your goal. Game should not be a work, that is why RL exists, game should be fun. All the time. Of course you can`t just get rewards for free becouse that is not fun anymore - but that basically is what current combat is. Go and do same thing you have done entire game just to get more of same reward. I seriouselly hope we get improved combat. Or button to skip combat on everything that has nothing to do with story and is there just to present artificial challenge. Combat in Mass Effect is fun. More slower paced and improved version could work in this game. I would be fine with button system like at the moment if you would have to react to situations and do different things. It makes no sense why even in melee i should use my non-melee abilities on my Imperial Agent just becouse they do more damage... Would be great if combat would actually be tactical and what you would do would actually matter, instead of searching for best rotation, which is just another word for "do it all over again in the same way". In shooters you at least have to aim. In this game you just press button so it happens automatically. Combat should be about skill. Level 1 player should be able to defeat level, lets just say, 20 player without bolster if level 1 player has more skill. Stats should be important as this is RPG, but they should not decide the winner. And using same rotation all the time every time every day every fight should never be what wins battles. Why not just bring combat from Star Wars Battlefront? Combat system from it would fit perfectly into this game (don`t remember about lightsaber combat, i remember that being dull), just add in lots of abilities from this game in addition. It could be slower paced, closer to what original Battlefront had and less about spamming shots towards target hoping to get kill, but even current SW Battlefront combat system is already superior to what we already have. It just takes huge amount of work. But if this game wants to stay around for next 10 years, combat needs to be improved. Then PVP would actually be fun! Sure current fans of MMO combat may not like SW Battlefront combat. But overall, i would say that most people like it more than TOR combat. .

If you care about story, certainly first do class, then Revan and then Fallen.

This would be good. They have same story anyway, just need to change abilities and weapons etc. I literally have no way to find out if i like playing as sniper or operative before i have tried them and levelled them to higher levels. And if i am average guy who does not play 24 hours a day like i do, i would not bother to making new character. Advanced classes share everything expect weapons and abilities - should not be hard to give players option to change without having to play trough the game in exactly the same way just to get advanced class you want. No it is not same as allowing you to change from Imperial Agent to Sith Warrior, as story and weapons and abilities and companions and dialogue and armor and so much more is completely different. Advanced class is quite close to being just that, advanced class. Not different class. I don´t care what other games do with their equilevant of advanced classes unless it helps to improve SWTOR, as i am not talking about those games, i talk about SWTOR.

I just hope they update this game to DirectX12 and/or Vulkan. It takes very long time to get benefits from it, but if this game wants to stay around for long time like MMOs want to, they should just add Vulkan and optimize this game for that, instead of optimizing DX11 (or did they use something else? DX9?) which has far more limited potential and might have to be replaced at some point anyway. Also i think my own problem is processor or game or server (and well intergrated DX12 and Vulkan improve processor utilization too), as i get the same FPS on lowest settings as i get on ultra, so clearly graphical processing power is not limiting me.

I really don`t see why they can`t unlock lot of gear in collections.

As a choice? Yes please. But i love red eyes and would love if it would be a choice. They also should let you choose what level of dark side corruption is visible. Lots of Sith who would qualify for level 5 corruption don`t suffer dark side corruption. Entire Lost Tribe of the Sith is good example of Sith who don´t suffer from any dark side corruption. And lots of Sith have ability to hide it. Also would be awesome to have small effect for light siders that would heal scars a bit and maybe make them just slightly glow in yellow-ish/gold-ish color that would so tiny that it would only be visible on dark like with dark side eye glow. Glow happens as Jedi let force take control and become more and more part of it (there is no death, there is only force) . If Jedi lets force take control too much, he dies as body can`t handle that much Force, like almost happened to Jaina Solo. So it makes sense Sith would not glow since they are about controlling force instead of letting Force control them.

Making game "easy to use but hard to master" is what good game design is about. Or making it easy and simple to use without removing any options like armor color customisation. It is extremely easy to color your armor to your preferred colors, instead of having to choose same colors for all armor pieces, you only have to select colors for chest piece and press unify, and if you want difference colors for gloves you can "un-unify" them and give them their own color. Streamlining by giving your option to color your armor red or blue is horrible. Streamlining by allowing you to unify colors is really good. Streamlining itself is not bad. It has become bad word, but streamlining itself is neutral.

Why do people like raiding anyway? What do you enjoy in it?

Subs who say free to play restrictions are just fine, then complain that there are not enough players playing Ops. By giving everyone access to Ops, subs would get to enjoy them more. Lot of other sub elitism is annoying too. Imo sub should be subbing for big rewards instead of being forced to sub to play the game properly.

oh awesome idea Male imperial agent has perfectly fitting voice for light or dark side or neutral, but Sith Inquisitor male has best dark side voice. Voted for male chiss Imperial Agent light sider.

If you ask me, you should be able to play story from level 1 to level 65 by joining your friend. You would get all the XP he gets and all the rewards he gets and you can play with him all the time. Pretty sure lot of people don`t have friends who they can always play when they feel like it, so playing story trough with your friend should be separate from your SP story. Same story, just different "saves". Or something. I just want to play with my friend from level 1 to 65 without having to always stop when he stops and only play when he plays.

Also they have not been developed 5 years post launch.

That is horrible. Here in Finland i get unlimited/month 20 ms ping and 31.02 mbps download speed, need new cables to get any faster. I still remember horrible days when i took entire day to download 1 GB. These days i don`t bother stopping any downloads when i am playing. And i live in very old house, no idea why internet here is so great. Can´t wait for days when wireless is good enough to get services from long distances, say you use French internet service in Poland. Sure i have great internet here, but can`t expect that in every place people/i live.

I tend to spend lot of time on forums as i always prefer to read rather than hear things, that is also best way for me to learn stuff, and i think many people on forums are the same. So posting short conclusion would be appreciated!

Oh i certainly would not expect to get item you want from hypercrate. It is 95% something you don´t want and sell on GTN to get something you do want and 5% of something nice to keep for yourself.

Are you one of those people who play games so they can earn something, instead of earning things in real life and having fun in video games? I understand that earning can be fun, but do you really think that anyone who has a job wants to go home after hard day at work to earn gear by doing tedious and boring grind treadmill, or do you think they want to just have fun? Sir, if you want to play games to earn something, you are either in minority or you have far too easy time in real life. Games are for having fun, not for "earning" anything at all. Of course people like it more when they earn something in fun game they like instead of getting rewarded automatically - but that is exactly what cosmetics are for.

Look at amount of games that are free 2 play and get their revenue only from cosmetics. I don`t think it would be different for MMO. But i certainly am not MMO expert.

I can see why you don`t like it. But i think most people would love that! People love customising looks of their characters a LOT, but they don`t like combat in SWTOR/lot of other MMOs or grinding for better gear.

Lets remember that HUGE amount of free 2 play games ONLY get income from cosmetics etc. So certainly it has potential to work. I certainly have had FAR more fun time customising my characters and companions for coolest looking gear than ever in SWTOR combat. I no longer remember what it was like to play pre 4.0, but at the moment you certainly don`t need to worry about grind, game is really easy. Which is good, becouse combat is extremely repetitive min maxing and you just have to press same buttons in same order in same way every time all the time. In Mass Effect you actually need to aim and use tactics and strategy. It still is not most tactical game out there, and without massive perfomance improvements for SWTOR it is not good idea for MMO, but slower version of Mass Effect combat would be great to see as it would actually be interesting. Current combat system was made for grind. It is designed to be test if players have good enough gear or not, and nothing else really. It does not really have anything to do with anything else besides grind. Give us something like slower Mass Effect combat where skill actually matters, and instead of winning becouse of better gear you win becouse of better skills. I have not played Destiny or Division, or even watched videos outside review, but maybe SWTOR players would enjoy improved version of gameplay like that? Both Mass Effect and Destiny like combat can made more or less gear dependent depending how much people want SWTOR to be about gear and how much about skill. I think most people agree that it can`t be reflex based. But without better combat, i don`t want combat to be harder or it is too much about grind for better gear and nothing else much. And without harder combat, there is no need for grind.

Depends on where you compare it to. My old PC that was 6 years old when i gave it up 1 year ago and built new one had better specs than so called "next gen" consoles. And that PC was not most price efficient, as my father bought it pre-built, don`t remember the cost though.

As i heard it from British, they use miles with Europeans and say metrics is uncivilized, but when they are talking with Americans they use metrics and say USA should get civilized Thanks for the laugh

Can i just update this: maybe also give subs 1 year "early access" to newest content of any kind, after which it is all available for everyone for free. 1 year might be long enough time that people want to pay to get "early access" to it, but after 1 year has past and another expansion gets released, free to play players would get access to content and fill it, keeping it populated much better than subs only ever were able to. And that would make it more enjoyable for subs too. At the moment we have system where only subs get access to new content and free to play players, who in free 2 play are most numerous, don´t even get access to old flashpoints without SEVERE limits. That means free to play players won`t be able to play flashpoints/ops/etc, which means subs don´t have anyone to play them with either, which means we won`t get new OPS etc. When SWTOR turned into free to play, it should have already learned that free 2 play is best way to get large population. And best way to maintain population is to treat it as well as possible. That is best way to make money as proven by free 2 play games. Thoughts?

Maybe Bioware wants to get rid of crystals and change everything to credits only so they can better manage inflation? Dunno what happens long term, but i know that when everything changes to credits, at first there will be big inflation. One way to manage this would have been to be allow you to sell stuff you get from Galactic Command crates, as that would increase amount of items on GTN reducing inflation. Maybe they should add vendor that only sells items that are in highest demand/most expensive/something like that. That would allow them to force maximum price and prevent inflation. It would force people to set prices lower on GTN than maximum price from vendor is or else people would not buy from GTN. Ironically, vendor would serve its purpose if nobody buys anything from it. But i wonder if cartel market items should be limited on price? After all, 5 000 000 000 000 credits cost you 0€ real life money - it just is stupid. I personally would limit cartel market prices too. Also subs should be possible to buy from cartel market, a lot of games do it and it works well. EA is of course afraid of being fair and making consumers happy, so this propably won`t happen.

It is really annoying when you can`t change (at least i can´t find it) dating system. To me it is illogical to use "1.11.2016" when we are talking about first of january two thousand sixteen. It is far more logical to go from day, month, year or smallest, medium, largest instead of medium, smallest, largest. I wish USA would never have become independent. If British would still rule USA, Americans would be speaking English, use metric system (you know, the system that American scientists used to go to moon becouse miles were too inaccurate) and proper dating system etc.