Pub side HK-51 does not like Luxury gifts. Please correct that. Thanks.

It took me a long time to get used to the conversation style of acquiring quests/missions in this game. I came from Lord of the Rings Online, and that was my first MMO. While I was there, I enjoyed reading the quest text and getting more information than mere voice acting could give me about the quests. So, coming here was a bit of a shock for me. I can say I hated it at first. I thought it was a cheap gimmick they were using that would run its course and not be able to be sustained for long because of the sheer cost of voice actors. Over time I've grown used to it and to even enjoy the conversations. So much so that at times I tell my family when they're talking too loud "SHHH! Cinematic!!" They all know what I'm talking about, as they are SWToR players, too. We have four subs in this house and play as a team much of the time. But that's beside the point. The cinematic conversations are fun, for the most part. I do sometimes spacebar through them in flashpoints I've done a million and one times (exaggeration at its finest there, I know..hehehe), but not always, because at times I like to respond in a way that isn't quite how I might have at other times. And I love hearing my characters' voices in the cinematics. The new Alliance conversations break immersion for me, and That Is Not OK. I came from hating the cinematics to loving them, and now you're doing this to me, BioWare??? You might as well just make it the old style of picking up a quest, with a text box and the NPC saying a few words as you're skimming over the text to find the relevant bits. I know a lot of people loved KoTOR. I'm not one of them. I didn't know about it, thus I didn't play it. I don't know that I would have, had I known about the game, to be honest! Why? Same reason I resisted playing this game: Star Wars. I dreaded the thought of playing this and finding they messed up what was for the longest time one of my greatest joys. I can say this, though, from the look of the Alliance conversations, I would have abandoned KoTOR fairly quickly. How do I know? Because I've abandoned single-player games that had that kind of crappy excuse of a conversation before, for several reasons: I hate the look of it; I hate the sound of it; It feels cheap; It doesn't make me want to enjoy the story it's trying to convey, rather it makes me want to skip through it as fast as I can to get out of the boxed in feel of the picture. So, yeah, I agree wholeheartedly that this is an indicator of the death of storytelling in this game. It's a shame, too. This might have been a game I'd stick with for a good long time. I was with LotRO for 5 years, and still have an active sub there. Maybe I need to go give the new content over there a look again cause the new "content" here pretty much sucks.

Of the two MMOs I've played, and the several others I've looked into, this seems to be something that happens in at least several games. I don't get it either. It makes little sense to me to separate groups of players in such a drastic manner. While there will always be a separation of some sort between players, this is such a large one as to make it difficult for people to really enjoy both. It's one or the other unless you put in so much time and effort as to make it seem like a job.

I call BS. They have enough money to fully voice our toons in all conversations. The problem is they CHOSE to make tons of costly changes to the rest of the game, ruining it for some of us, versus putting full attention on what is supposed to be a major expansion.

Your opinion. As for me: I hate the "widescreen" crap, with the black bars at the top and bottom. I already have a widescreen TV as my monitor, why the hell would I want my picture to be any more narrow than it already is?!? And my character is not voiced?? UGH. It's nearly dealbreaker for me. I don't enjoy those mockeries of conversations. I spacebar the hell through them to get them the hell over with!!

This. Would. Be. Fantastic! As for the OP, I do PvP at least weekly. I'm not a hardcore PvP player in this game, unlike in my last game, where that was nearly all I did. Though, it's not necessarily because of the Expertise stat. It's mostly because the warzones are random instances and you never know which one you're going to be thrown into. I don't like that. I'd prefer to have the ability to remove Huttball from my healing force-users, and keep it on my stealthers, remove arenas for most of my toons as well. I'd also like to see more planetary PvP zones. Outlaw's Den is a great place to PvP, if it ever even gets used. I've only been ganked there once and haven't spent much time there because I don't see many people PvPing there. So yeah, expertise isn't necessarily a bad thing, but I think there should be more flexibility for warzones and for planetary PvP zones.

Because the companions no longer have enough skills to fill up the expanded bar. They nerfed their abilities, and overinflated their damage/heal output. It's crap but what can you do when developers don't talk to their player base?!?

It wasn't necessary to do it with four people. It was easily done with three. But even so, it didn't need to be solo. Even on Ebon Hawk, it was possible to get a third, and even a fourth, regularly. I've done it myself quite a lot. Ebon Hawk is my home server.

Please post your tips for the Hard Mode Red Reaper flashpoint. To start, I'll share that my bf learned today that to escape Chains of Corruption, you need to kill the pureblood Sith Zealots.

I agree, and I think the guild banks should have a second page/bay that is purchasable as well.

I agree. They need to increase the communication between the dev team and the players. If they don't, they will continue to have people screaming about things they want to implement. And once they do implement things, they will have more screaming because it wasn't as presented to us. Perhaps there needs to be a player's council enacted. It'd be a group of players the development team looks to for feedback, suggestions, and such. They, of course, are bound by a NDA for most things that aren't announced yet, but it would let the players feel like they have a voice in the game. Turbine has implemented it for LotRO with varying success. Their player's council takes suggestions from the player base and generally pays attention to the overall feel of the game, from the player's point of view. I can't say it'd make everyone happy, but it just might help.

I got that same comment. This is an OLD thread, though. And it appears that the issue has not yet been rectified since the FIRST time it happened. BioWare: Telling us "some" quests will reset is not good enough. You need to tell us which specific ones that you KNOW will reset, AND how far back they will reset. I paid 150k for the piece in Outlaw's Den on my Inquisitor and CS tells me "you're screwed" (not those specific words, mind you, but might as well be those words!!). And, BioWare, and anyone else who might say I should have known about this: I've Only Played Since MAY. I didn't know about previous issues. Nobody's ever mentioned them to me, nor was it anything I might have thought might happen. Another company I know of doesn't let this happen in their game, and they're actually pretty professional about it when stuff happens to quests during an update. They take a look at their end, verify that it was done, and reinstate it to where it should be. Why you can't do that, with the amount of resources you have, I have no clue!!!

Warriors, Inquisitors, Knights already did: Lord Scourge, Jaesa, Ashara. I'm talking about other players. Not NPCs.

You can talk with the other faction. You always have been able to talk to the other faction. The only caveat is they have to be within range of your /say feature. As for running fps and such with the other faction? Sorry, no. I don't want the other faction in my groups. If I did, I'd be running on the other side.

Ok. How is it wigging out?