These packs you can buy in the Cartel Stores, are they like scratch off lottery tickets?

MMOs is a gaming service and not a game you buy, good service will always succeed.

Sorry to tell you this but Guild Wars 2 is not much better.

To my understanding this game will go F2P before the next expansion or maybe a little after.

Let's be fair, they have been doing for 7+ years and in the beginning they had the same problems.

I have to be honest, I don't believe any MMO developer can do anything about the community, it's up to the players to do that. There are MMOs out there that have very strong communities but the games are not very good, however I would say part of the reason for some of the lack of interaction is that the game is a little too single player friendly.

I think some people think that Sandbox MMOs are greater than Theme Park MMOs, but I believe that one is not better than the other just different. What MMO players do crave is something that is in between the two genre of MMOs. 1. A world that is non-static but with define direction, however this does not mean being guide by the hand 2. Huge customization on all levels of gameplay 3. Decisions made by players that has a real impact to the environment 4. Well define endgame, but with huge amount of choices on what they are

They just need to add the ability to add a cross-server buddy list, this way if you find players you love playing through a cross-server LFG you can continue to play with them.

To say that a player is lazy because they want a LFG tool show me how little you know about the reason why players want it. A LFG tool allows players to play the game without having to wait around not skip planets or story content, in fact it would allow more players to see more content. I level a Trooper from 1-50 and only saw two flash points (the first and second one) not because I'm lazy but because I didn't want sit around in a spacestation spamming general chat for a group instead of skipping content. And in case you didn't realize it but once you hit 50 there are no planets to skip.

The LFG was the greatest feature added to WoW, without it I don't think many would have stayed around.

Voss is one like.

I think the features coming in Legacy with 1.3 will add to features for the casual player.

Can you give a small example of the kind of features that a causal player would want? Right now most (IMO) causal players don't have issues with the game, it's mostly those "hardcore" endgame players.

There are only two things that are hurting the game subs right now: 1. Lack of a good LFG matchmaking system 2. Lack of endgame content The good news here is both of these things are very fixable.

Casual players are the ones supporting this game right now.