Personally I like it, and I hope you get to keep it!

Shamefur Dispray!

I really really wanted to get this game, but after watching that clip the other day it was so obvious how PTW it is. I'm going to see if they really are going to make changes or it's just the usual EA PR speak to placate the masses, get the sales, then put it all back in as it was. Not sure how effective the boycott will be as a lot of people will probably buy EA's usual lies and go "Oh, well, they said they will change so I will buy it now". Yes, that's exactly what they want you to believe. I hope they do make meaningful changes, but with EA's track record, yeah right.

Might be a bit different if there was a legacy wide ignore system. As it stands now there is little repercussion for having characters specifically designed as troll toons. I don't think I've really looked at Fleet chat since the merger, day one was bad enough lol. Now I ignore it for the most part unless something catches my eye.

I will be very sorry to see so many fellow APAC players leave. It is quite appalling the indifference EA shows towards gamers, but that seems to be par for the course for them. I haven't tried any pvp, but I count myself as lucky that my ping has only gone up about 50-120 odd and I can still play without too much delay. I am, however, very saddened by those that were hit much harder. I hope you all may give the game another try down the line, see if anything magical may have happened, but I totally understand your decision to leave, and to be honest support it. The callous disregard and indifference EA / BW has shown for this matter, not to mention their very obvious lie by omission of the closing down of the West Coast server is quite disgusting. When this game does finally get sunsetted I will be very interested to see if someone "in the know" does a John Smedley and shows exactly how they managed to **** up ANOTHER Star Wars game. An IP that SHOULD be a license to print money. And by that I mean a blow by blow factual detailing of the mess the game is in now.

OwenBrooks is one of the most knowledgeable and helpful people I have ever seen on these forums. I have seen him help countless people with tech problems over the years. If there was someone I could recommend to give you advice on this matter and many others, it would be him. My advice is to be polite and play nice if he is offering help. My 2¢

Brisbane player here. Previous pings were between 150-170. Currently between 226-286, with fluctuations into the very high 300's. It is still playable for me, but i'm lucky. My friends who live in the outer areas and hinterlands are probably going to be seeing much much higher pings. Sadly I think they will just go "Bugger this", cancel and move on. Not sure why you chose the "We won't tell them what we've done, we'll make it a fun game and see if they can guess what we did!" approach. Maybe there were a few wagers placed, maybe a drinking game you thought up? Or why tell the truth when it's so easy to do what you always do, lie to the player base and make up **** weak excuses. Not happy about the obfuscation pulled on us, but i'm not surprised. I'm sure there will be more and more cost cutting exercises in the future, we just happened to be an acceptable loss to the bean counters. What is strangely absent is a certain poster who would be having an absolute field day trolling the many threads that have popped up. Oh where oh where can my little troll have gone?

You forgot to add "bloody whingeing" before "pommies". After all, it is an Australian thing. *PS: I only have sincere love for Poms. They are damn fine people with a beautiful country and music that has shaped my entire life.

70 million for Anarchy and Mischief I'd monitored the GTN for weeks and it had stayed at 70-100 million or higher. Literally the day after i'd bought it I saw it listed for 44 million /Le sigh.... Same as the Monocycle. I'd been saving and watching the GTN for ages. Finally plopped down 40 million and took it home. One week later the pack it was from was brought back for sale and the prices plummeted lol. Ah well. I like them them both. Now I don't buy anything and wait for packs to come back or direct sale items. Bugger paying a fortune for items that will come back waaaaaay cheaper.

Just redeemed my prize for Trajus' SH. Thanks again Quintain and all who participated and helped out! :)

Congratulations to all the runners up and a huge congratulations to the winner, Taiari!!! Wow, what an absolute stunner of a stronghold, you should be very very proud of what you created on Yavin IV! Massive thank you to Quintain for running such a fun event, providing the grand prize, and all the hard work you put in to making the contest a success! Loved the highlights reel and I look forward to visiting all the strongholds that entered the competition, especially Taiari's! Big thanks to Eric for providing the runner's up prizes! I look forward to seeing more themed stronghold competitions in the future that highlight the creative skills of proud homeowners the galaxy wide! Thank you Quintain and another congratulations to Taiari for a well deserved win!!!

Trajus' Imperial Sanctuary : Kaas City Apartment, Dromund Kaas.

From memory those packs dropped the Upper, Lower and Supplementary boxes of certain armours and individual pieces of the "ultra rare" armour sets. I've never ever known those packs to drop complete sets. I still have individual pieces of the Temple Guardian set floating around, multiples of bracers, boots etc that I couldn't sell for love nor money. I could be wrong but I honestly don't think they ever dropped complete sets. That's why those hypercrates were such a gamble.

I know where you're coming from and I have to say, frankly, you've been pretty tolerant of the abuse heaped your way. If the set was given just for being a friend of a Bioware employee then yes I could easily empathise with people that would be a tad miffed, and rightly so. For me I am not bothered. I don't know her, she seemed really chuffed to get the set, and seeing how happy she was to receive the gift made me smile. If something were to come from this, if it was in fact a Bioware employee giving a mate a freebie, then I would hope that they would then start doing this to random people on the servers as a gesture of goodwill. Heck if I saw someone post in fleetchat "Omg I just got this 'insert random gift' from Bioware, What the Frack???" I'd think that was bloody awesome!

I would be very naive to think that nepotism, whether rampant or isolated cases, isn't a part of pretty much any online game. Life is not fair and often in game it is exactly that. I am sure there are people that have committed every exploit in this game and managed to keep their ill gotten gains each time with a very minor slap on the wrist. I am sure there are more than 1 or 2 people who are fabulously wealthy now because they bought gold farming currency way back in the day and used that initial capital to build their current wealth. As a paying grunt who is not a blip on the Bioware team's radar I just go '"meh" and go about my daily activities. 'IF' this is a case of nepotism then there is nothing you can do about it but move on. Again, life is not fair. /shrug

I think it was wonderful she got an armour set she had obviously desired! Whether knowing someone at Bioware got her a freebie spawned set or her friend bought it for her and thought it would be cool to have Keith give it to her I don't think matters too much. How she got the set doesn't bother me in the slightest, and I paid for my set, albeit when it first came out and wasn't the price it is today. She was genuinely thrilled to bits and to me that is what matters. The look of happiness on her face made the gesture totally worthwhile. Enjoy your armour, it is a great set!

Edit: Nevermind.

I consider the 26 Chance Cubes you now get as basically bronze items, as that's pretty much the only rarity I get when I open them. I opened 3 packs with 600cc I had spare and got one of the new orange dye combinations this pack contains. It was an orange / black with a gold rarity symbol. So it seems the pool of items you have listed on Dulfy's site for this pack http://dulfy.net/2017/05/02/swtor-steadfast-champions-pack-preview/ will also be diluted with 8 orange dye combinations. http://dulfy.net/2017/05/01/swtor-upcoming-cartel-market-items-from-patch-5-2-1/#Dyes Exciting stuff!

Thanks for the warning! I was going to buy 3 hypercrates as a treat today but it sounds like the new formula is even worse than they previously were. No surprise there. They rarely change the formula with our benefit in mind even when they say so. If the packs still contained Cartel Certificates or you could deconstruct the inevitable ridiculous amount of multiple copies of rubbish you can't even give away for something beneficial I would probably still buy them. Now with an almost guaranteed 26 bronzes and even more chance to get duplicates of rubbish and less chance of anything good I think I will pass on anything but direct sales.

Ditto when I try to log in.

The price is a little steep, but for people like me with abysmal luck with hypercrates and platinum items (I got a platinum Blue dye once.......yay me?) this is welcome. I saved up and bought this saber when it first came out and I have no problem with it as a direct sale. Pop the Vented Lightsaber for direct purchase and I'd definitely buy it. Interesting to see how successful this little experiment will be.

Space PVE missions getting nerfed into the ground in 3.....2.....1.....

From what I can gather they increased the price because they can and tried to obfuscate it in a meandering explanation that, to me, could be condensed to "We raised the price because we felt like it and if we give some ******** excuse you'll lap it up and keep buying them." I see no incoming change that necessitates a price increase with this shipment compared to the last one. Same amount of items I can see but with a price hike. At least have the balls to just say you increased the price because you wanted to, not some waffle that deliberately tries to mislead your customers. That's just my take on it and I very well may be misinterpreting what he has said and be completely wrong. /shrug

She came into the thread to troll you. See the ''? That's generally the sign that she / he / whatever is about to have some fun at your expense. I'll leave what TUX said for your perusal.

So everyone involved in working on this game deserves to lose their jobs because you're not happy with the direction your online hobby has taken? That seems perfectly rational and acceptable to me.