I honestly don't want my comps back now. Knowing how they butchered our character and didn't recognize their class stories like at all, they will probably have butchered our companions as well. I mean they already made Dark Jaesa leave you for someone else. I literally paid BioWare to turn my character in a cuckold lmao thanks BioWare top tier trolling. 0/10

I guess there's not much point in being dissatisfied, not like it is going to change anything lol. I understand your point about creative freedom and Imps vs Pubs all the time would get stale. I'm actually fine with third factions, I would just like to be able to choose to fight them without the aid of the Republic. ROTHC is a good example, there was a greater threat to face but it didn't abandon the dichotomy of Republic vs Empire (but a ROTHC type story should be changed so you could form an alliance if you wanted to). Speaking of stale, the last three expansions have all had the same exact main antagonist behind the scenes (Vitiate). Plus, if they were always going to make the one size fits all story, I mean that's just cruel. Don't bring my hopes up only to tear me down.

In reply to RoboticRobin, I see what you are saying. Honestly if they bring a 4th faction in that would be the worst thing ever. Now the alliance which I already hate, has to work with even more pubs to stop a new enemy which is somehow mysteriously all powerful while the rest of us are timid weaklings. No thanks. Allying factions is the worst thing ever for MMO stories, like why does that always happen? There would be a lot less room for error by just making it a continuous war between factions with the occasional (but not all powerful) third faction springing up that both the Republic and Empire have to fight (without needing to ally with each other of course). If it is war on a galactic scale, there is no way for it to be short and sweet, even with the technology of Star Wars it would take decades. Honestly there is nothing more Star Wars to me personally than Sith fighting Jedi, I wish they hadn't deviated from that, or at the very least made it a CHOICE not to ally with the enemy faction so that people who don't like the dichotomy of imp vs pub get something else. I feel sort of deceived, dare I say, by the original game trailers such as 'Return' and 'Deceived' which were the ones that got me hooked into playing (I started the game after 4.0 came out, but I didn't watch the trailer for KOTFE so didn't have an inkling of that mess)

That would be great, wouldn't it? "Sorry guys we know we screwed up, we'll start over." Honestly I would be so happy if they did, even if it took a really long time for the next story to come out. I think you should have included Shadow of Revan in that list imo. I think this game really went downhill story wise with Shadow of Revan, and since then it has just gotten worse. At least in ROTHC we weren't working with the other faction, it still had that Republic vs Empire dichotomy that makes it feel more like Star Wars and not poorly written fan fiction. I don't play through SOR/KOTFE/KOTET anymore. For my characters its just class stories up through ROTHC and then endgame content. I pretend like it never existed lol. Honestly I see no good reason to stay subbed anymore if all they are gonna do is defame my characters with every new expac (not to mention new content, uprisings are a joke).

This is my thought as well. They really created too expansive a story concept to really make it consistent/enjoyable for everyone. A third, powerful faction with its own history and philosophy, multiple antagonists and protagonists, and all of them have to tie in with your character somehow despite characters being radically different from each other. In my opinion I would have liked it way more if they had decided to just make more class stories completely unrelated to each other for the expansions, such as: etc, etc. The more I think about it the sadder I become that it didn't happen lol.

It should be noted, spoilers for class stories and expac stories here. It should also be noted that I am aware I have too much time on my hands, lol. So I played through KotFE and KotET, and I have to say I am more than a little disappointed. Let me preface this by saying I typically play dark sided and Imperial, and those characters are the ones I felt disappointed on. Here are some of the reasons why I felt the story was lacking:

I hated it, along with kotfe. We didn't get to rejoin our old factions at the end like I was hoping we would. When we were talking to Acina it felt like I wasn't Sith at all, it felt like I was just another cookie cutter gray Jedi, which really frustrated me. I would have felt infinitely better about commanding a new Sith Empire or even just being on the dark council instead of the Eternal Alliance (has to be the most flaccid boring name of all time, we don't even have the luxury of calling it an empire). My inquisitor would have immediately used the eternal fleet to destroy Zakuul, but we didn't get that option. I was hoping we would get a chance to use our force ghosts against Valkorion, but we didn't get that option (I kept them bound in the class story). Overall extremely disappointed. I also hated that along with kotfe and sor, we had zero choice but to work with the Republic. Even on the neutral character I played I was disappointed. The ending wasn't really epic, we didn't get to do anything cool like take Valkorion's power or bind the force ghosts of Arcann and Vaylin. It felt like they rushed everything.