[To a relative newcomer, the negativity here is overwhelming]

I was introduced to SWTOR a couple of years ago, and played it for a couple of months. Other games came out, and I left. With The Force Awakens out, I became nostalgic and resubscribed, and am really enjoying it. Sure, it's become a bit easier, but the story-telling is terrific and there's so much to do for someone with limited experience.

 

The biggest downer is this forum - however. So much negativity. I understand that the veterans amongst you are disappointed (isn't that always the case, after a while?) but to continue to post about it does nothing but put off fresh blood. And fresh blood is presumably needed to add to the game's revenue base, which will help fuel its longevity. Don't get me wrong - constructive feedback is always a good thing, but there's a big difference between constructive feedback or criticism and outright negativity and - dare I say it - whining.

 

Of course, a whining post about whining will draw criticism in and of itself. But going on, and on, and on about how EA/Bioware doesn't care, puts no thought into development, makes each iteration "worse" is hardly going to help anyone. In fact, I think it has the exact opposite effect.

 

I, for one, enjoy it. And judging by the "gazillions" of people I see online whenever I play, there must be plenty like me - which is good news! So let's get positive - or at the very least - constructive!

 

The forum is but a tiny fraction of the player base and same goes for any mmorpg. Some simply don't post because they don't want to deal with being called a fanboy or whatever because they are enjoying themselves and just looking to get some questions answered.

[It's interesting how the game actually got worse over years (articles predicted it)]

Been here since closed beta and it's still a great game and the expansion what I was hoping for so all is good.

[Census agrees this is a trainwreck and doomed!]

Indeed, a mass exodus from those other MMOs that suck to the greatness that is SWTOR .

[No Dev feedback speeds up SWTORS demise.]

I hope the local law enforcement agency had been notified. If I understand the facts correctly, then a criminal act has occurred. A felonious crime has been committed, and the perpetrators need to be arrested, tried, and sentenced for said criminal act.

 

Making death threats is and they should be arrested which I hope they are and sentenced to the maximum sentence allowed which is something like $5000 fine and 5 years in prison. People need to learn they can't go making death threats all willy nilly.

[Latency Issues]

Hey folks,

 

I wanted to let you know that we just implemented a fix to begin addressing some of the lag issues you have been experiencing on Yavin. Although this fix won't address everything immediately, you should start to see an improvement in performance. If things still seem the same to you as the did before please let us know. Alternately, if you haven't seen a performance change, please try leaving Yavin and returning to the area. In some circumstances (along with our fix) that can help.

 

Thanks everyone. We will continue to monitor the issue and give you updates as we have them.

 

-eric

 

Apparently said fix fixed nothing because Korriban and Tython FPs are unplayable on Shadowlands.

[Collectors edition vendor]

It was supposed to get "regular" updates which thus far they've failed to deliver on and at this point will continue to do so from past experience.

[What are gonna spend monthly cartel coins on?]

After the last round of gambling for armor, I'm done buying or spending them until they actually just offer up the armor sets I want directly on the market.

 

That's been my issue. The market has been dry of direct buy armor for several weeks and decent armor for much longer..

[Collectors edition vendor]

CE vendor has been mediocre at best considering how long it's been and how many updates it's feasibly could have gotten over 24 months. As mentioned the statue and journal were cool and all but as much as the CE vendor was hyped up there should be far more there.

[Breasts, Butts, Big Hair and Lightsabres?]

I just consider bikinis on Hoth non-movement impairing clothing .

[Cartel Market Update: April 24th, 2013]

As far as I recall, they said the Eradicator Warsuit mask was supposed to supposedly come with this update but nowhere to be seen.

[Collectors edition vendor]

they never promised regular updates

 

 

They did in Dec 2011.

[Collectors edition vendor]

Hey everyone,

 

I just brought this back to the development team to get some clarification. One thing I can say is you will see something added into the CE vendor in Game Update 1.7.2, so look for it.

 

I cannot go into any details but I can say that we are exploring different ideas on how to give more consistent and regular updates to the CE vendor going forward. Again I cannot go into any details and these plans are not finalized, but we have definitely not forgotten about the vendor!

 

-eric

 

It's just sad it took over a year to get a response to this after the last one and just as sad that it's been 15 months and the vendor still sucks and EAWare's failed to deliver on the promised "regular" updates to said vendor. Just sayin..

[Subs paying for new Expansion]

Don't want your stuffs but will take the cash.

[Cartel Market Update: April 10th 2013]

Eradicator's Warsuit is nice but the mask should have been out at the same time with it. Still hoping for a CM version of the Hydra armor.

[Considering leaving subscription]

In my case, I didnt pay for early access

 

That would be a personal problem.

[Patch 2.0 Awfull]

I agree, that game was pretty awful but this game is alright.

[The Eradicator's Warsuit Screenshot?]

Not including the mask is fairly lame.

[Less than half a day to get to 55??? Really..]

Can get from 1-90 in WoW in under 24 hours, shouldn't be all that surprised about 5 levels in SWTOR.

[Harbinger- log in service currently unavailable]

From the launcher or server? Had a problem with the launcher saying that a couple weeks ago.

[Thanks for 15 hours of content - what's next?]

15 hours of content? That's more than most AAA single player titles released these days. I assume if these people are so hardcore, they likely have a few other toons needing leveling up.

 

Considering ME3's last dlc was $15 for a couple hours, getting 15 hours out of $10 is golden.

[Can we just have Double XP Weekends and ditch the expansion?]

Actually VA work is cheap. Just ask the guy that voiced Grand Theft Auto IV. Most professional voice over actors make (relatively) normal wages. Supposedly it was the engine, not the VA work, that ate up SWTOR's budget based on Ohlen's most recent talk at GDC.

 

Thing is we don't know what's considered "low" when you're talking $100million+ . Pretty sure Jennifer Hale, David Hayter, Nolan North aren't making "normal" wages.

[Can we just have Double XP Weekends and ditch the expansion?]

I'd rather have that than this DLC add-on. I mean expansion.

 

They really need to continue the class storylines. Or even add some new classes to tell some more epic stories if they can't expand on the classes already present.

 

Oh I'm sure if you hook them up with say $10,000,000 they just might do that. VA work isn't cheap.

[Last Handmaidens Set]

I got mine from Enforcer's.

[SWG Revive?]

With less than 5,000 people playing at the end of SWG's lifespan, there's no incentive to bring it back and besides I'd much rather see someone else take over SWG and revert it back to what it was pre-cu. SWG is dead and gone though.

[No where's safe!?]

Might have been me, pub was fighting like he had too many "special brownies"