I just opened a help ticket about this issue. It was my understanding that we we going to be able to dress companions how ever we wanted. It is bad enough that the message about not having access to old companions was so vague I lost some great looking items not to mention the 192 bound to companion gear awarded from Sor flashpoint on yavin that was turned into bound to legacy gear in 4.0 update. Then I was sent all the ol gear from companions that I removed and got rid of long ago. I thought the whole idea of this "GREAT COMPANION CHANGE" was to have the ability to dress them up and make them look how we wanted. It is kind of stupid to see everyone with the same looking Lana Beniko, Thank goodness I have some HK-51 Customizations so I can at least be somewhat different.

Also I just spent 800 reg comms upgrading companion to 186 gear, then read post 2 days later about companion changes. DO I GET A REFUND ?

I agree the credit farmers are a problem. I think they could have spent more time figuring out how to do this without taking away from the content that I spent a lot of time and REAL MONEY on. However I read other posts and agree they are dumbing down the game. If they wanted to get more 12 years old to play then they should have made an entirely new game.

When a game is expanded is usually means it is adding to the content. This seems not to be an expansion but a whole different game with all the changes. I am still upset about galaxies doing this crap years ago. What the Heck, should sell all the items off to a vendor day before expansion or are they taking away credits also.