That is the reason they are taxing email transactions I cant tell you how this is going to kill the game and guilds how many time have you given mats to a guildie so they can craft you something now the mats and the items crafted will be taxed . the Game is on life support as it is most players will see this move to broadsword for what it is Bioware cutting fat.

They took down Star Forge too or at least the said they were going to.

So the people that have been working since launch to build their wealth in game get punished this is just dumb and will be bad for the game cause the people that have been playing for a long time help fund guilds and have grinded and paid Real money for Cartel coins this suggestion will Kill the game.

Sorry this is long and not positive but Bioware has a terrible track record when making these changes. Most of this is garbage and most of these suggestions will just hurt Long time subs and players that have Grinded for years to make their money and bought items with Cartel coins or bought cartel coins to sell Items on the GTN. This won't end well. So when Guild members craft Items for other guild members and trade it or Mail it to them it is going to be taxed? When Someone Sends Money to a new character to help them or boost their new toon, What about smaller Guilds that pay out rewards via mail for top 10 contest rewards? because they are trying to compete with the larger guilds? BioWare better figure out a away so that Guild members and players are not taxed for doing someone a favor. They better spell it out before releasing it because not everyone has time to add a second install to play on the test server. All this is going to do is drive away the people that actually spend money on the game. Don't get me wrong I would love to see them fix the economy of the game but I don't see a way Bioware is not going to screw this up, sorry Bioware, but I am not sure how you run your sprints but it must be chaos. I am going by the way the last 5 updates have gone not the small let's fix a bug because we didn't test correctly stuff. Just In 7.0 alone, You make changes to the gearing of the game specially end game, when NO ONE asked for it. It wasn't needed and your time could have been spent on what players asked for new Content. Gearing change is exactly what Players asked you not to do, all you did was make the grind longer and harder with Minimal Story impact. Players and the people that pay the subscriptions asked for a few things but you couldn't even do that. They asked for more Story Content what do they get this chapter release stuff, that that ends in a dead end and people have to wait. They asked for more PVP Maps they got one. They asked for new Operations and the one you released was not possible to complete unless you grinded for the best gear in the game. Players have been asking for a new Class to play or Wookie since the game started, never happened. What killed the game was the lack of limitations on FTP players, as long as they could spend money on cartel coins the change the appearance of an outfit they were happy. EA makes money cuts finding and we get crap content. FTP is how I got into the game I get the importance but the lack of vision to the future and life of the game is what is killing it. If Bioware cared about the quality of the game there would be better content. not garbage fixes that make Subscribers leave the game and come back FTP once or twice a year to playe the new content.

So I saw something about people going around the GTN to avoid paying the tax, How will they handle that? I send Credits in game all the time to guild members as a Conquest rewards, so would the money get taxed ?

Why? Who asked for this ? This might not be the place for this but here it goes anyways Who asked for anything you did with 7.0 or 7.1? Players asked for 3 things more Story and not in Chapters New PVP maps New Classes or types of characters why is there no playable Wookie? When you do content stop with these dumb chapter releases, release the whole thing at once, spoon feeding content is why this game is dying a slow Painful death the same way the content is delivered slow an painfully. While Eternal Throne content was good, if you have more than one character it was the same same story for every class. Then with 7.0 you worked on it over a year and the time spent messing with the way gearing works to create a whole new 4 levels of grind to get the top rated gear was garbage yeah it brought in a few new players but it is not what the Players that have been here for years asked for for every new player I am sure you are losing an old one and most of the new players don't keep their subscription either. This game has to be less than 100K players total hence why there are only 4 servers worldwide, and unless things change in the next month or 2, I cant justify keeping my subscription either.

quick question, do you have windows 11? not sure when it started, but you might want to check out this article https://www.extremetech.com/computing/335100-microsoft-recommends-people-uninstall-optional-windows-11-update The update in the article has been causing random crashes in applications.

Hey Thanks for the open communication, As someone that works in DevOps whoever ran this update messed up. You guys did a lot of work but when you were done you didn't do anything the subscribers asked for! I don't want to be that guy but I have to. 1st of all we didn't ask for aa complete overhaul of the gearing system how it works or the additional grind we have to do 5 times to get the best gear in the game. SWTOR was fine with 306 gear and the way the gear system was. We asked for more PVP maps, story content, Operations and Flashpoints. Nowhere have I ever read since 6.0 someone ask for an overhaul of the gearing system. If you wanted to add more gear/ gear levels/ levels to the game fine, no one asked to remove set bonuses for an implant bonus that you had to grind for, as mentioned players now you literally have to grind for gear, 5 separate times to get the best gear in the game. We also didn't need to have the skill tree revamped but it did come with the secondary Combat styles the 1 good thing about the 7.0 update. The time wasted messing with gearing system, you could have added more than 2 hours of story content and a flashpoint. with the time it took there should have been at least 6 hours of story, 2 or 3 flashpoints and 1 or 2 Ops not to mention 4 or 5 new PVP maps. You notice I am not even bringing up the amount of bugs or the way someone forgot to put /stuck back into PVP cause I know it was not left out for abuse, it was left out by accident when someone was compiling the code that's why it is slated to be added back in 7.0.2 I just think you guys wasted time on things no one wanted or should have been implemented in a more gradual way once they were completely tested.

I posted her because for some reason I can't find a place to make a new post... How about you stop Changing things in the game and Just create new Content new stories or an actual whole expansion? That is all subscribers wanted, new Operations flash points etc.. all you have done is create a new type of Gear grind, if you want to add levels fine but your changes do nothing but break the game! quick bars Broken, Loot boxes Broken, gear people grinded for months to get, don't have a bonus any more, essentially Broken, Gear people paid Actually money for in the form of cartel coins useless because there are no Barrels, Hilts, Mods, Enhancements or Armoring so buying a saber from the market then opening it in Collections, spending real money now we have to wait to use it or throw it away. With all the broken Items in this game you should be reimbursing or giving current subscribers a free subscription until you Fix the Mess you created!

I had the same issue but I used the Launcher Repair tool from this thread https://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?p=10000367#edit10000367 and My launcher is working as it should . AMD Ryzen 1800X for a CPU

With set bonuses going away, what does it matter what gear you have if your super power legendary Items are all that matters? Hopefully this update makes this game fun again. kind of tired of Subscribing to a grind that later, doesn't matter. People grinded out getting gear now it won't matter.

To the OP they have lost quite a few times Before the Large Medium and Small yield conquest was implemented The reason that guild has not lost much recently is because it requires x number Conquest points for each and every Character in the guild. If you do not get those points the Character gets booted to one of their lower guilds. That guild also has Full membership both Republic and Imperial sides. They also run Events such as World Bosses, Operations Rampages Enemy commanders, multiple times a day everyday of the week. that doesn't include Flashpoints, Uprisings, PVP or GSF. You would swear the people running the guild do it as a second job, there is a lot of work put into it. So when a guild has Full Membership and runs 10 to 12 group events everyday multiple times a day and has people working hard you don't lose. The new changes by limiting new players and characters that join a guild, have to wait to contribute to conquest will hurt them and help them. It means them changing people out will hurt numbers but it will also hurt guilds that build an alliance with other guilds by joining each other to gain more conquest. The only way to fix it is to limit the number of consecutive times a guild can win each size conquest. So to recap it is a lot of work, and there is not much that can be done to stop people from working hard.

Just a quick question why does XP SP3 fix the issue? The OS has been Dead for 6 years!! It fixed my issue and the Steam launcher worked just fine, yes I have both for just this type of issue. BTW this happened after the patch for 6.2

looks like it is the windows update... I am still running the older Drivers 353.62