I actually recently moved my saber attacks to the right hotbar and bound them to "Q" and "E," so if anything gets up in my face (or for PVP) I have them easily accessible yet they are not wasting main hotbar space. I love it so far, makes the game feel even more "action-y."

I don't give a **** who said it or what they said in the past, the OP list at the top of this thread heavily aligns with my own desires/interests and I fully support most of the ideas there. Yes, I want this game to play more like WoW in terms of ease-of-use, and if it doesn't I'll play something else. Judging by the controversy on this thread, I am willing to bet there are many others in the same boat (at least a 50-50 split between haters and fanbois, looks like.) What's half of 1.5 million? 750,000? Think that's enough subs to justify the amount of $$ this game takes to support?

As far as I know if you are rezzed before looting the boss you can get loot. I haven't had anybody not do this for me if I had died at a boss (its an old holdover from the days of WoW when you indeed could not get loot while dead) but I would imagine if you don't get loot when dead in a FP it is a bug that will be fixed.

Not sure where you got that, Game Informer's cover story on the game about a year ago cited nearly $200m (and that was over a year ago)

Please fix me not being able to see my party member's energy. It sucks as a tank to not know whether I'm OK to pull the next mob or not and have to constantly ask in party chat "Ready?"

Troll?

Closing a quest reward window also causes a little "Pending Rewards" pop-up somewhere on screen, I think near the top-right?

Ctrl+RIGHT click to mod items (someone earlier said ctrl+Left click, which is to preview the look of an item on your toon) There is an option in the preferences to adjust the width and height of the health bars under nameplates (useful for healers who want to really see those bars!) Keybind your bottom center bar to ALT+1, ALT+2 etc etc to make it more like WoW I re-bound "E" to Stealth on my Scoundrel, and "Q" to Swap Focus Target. Since strafing is easily accomplished by holding right click and using "A" and "D" Your recover ability charges your companions health as well as yours.

Best analogy ever!! In keeping with your excellent metaphor, look at Obama now; most people seem to think he didn't do anything like what he promised to do (expectations/hype for TOR) and aren't committing to voting for him in a second term. Things are looking up for Romney (Guild Wars 2?) Though if given the choice many Republicans would just go back to a Bush-like candidate (WoW expansions and/or Diablo 3) I definitely don't want TOR to be a "one-term game" but we'll see in a couple months. Kudos again for making such a crazy-good anaology!

Allow me to share a little anecdote. I got my girlfriend to play this game after she toyed around with a character on my Beta account. She liked it so much she unconditionally pre-ordered and subbed for 3 months right out of the gate. Now, she has never played an MMO before. Never played WoW, never played EQ, nothing. She does play games, but mostly Sims, Plants Vs. Zombies, and a little Civ. She did play Left 4 Dead and Portal with me too, but FPS isn't her thing. She's the ideal "Casual Market." She's what WoW hits in its 11 million subs. She's the Farmville demographic. And she's exactly what this game needs to attract to be successful in the long run. Now, we're around level 18 on our mains, she a Gunslinger and I a Jedi Seer. We've been questing the whole way together, working through Heroics, Flashpoints, and class quests and having a generally good time doing it. Last night, however, we were attempting to run Hammer Station. I'm already a healer, so we thought it'd be pretty quick to get a group. "1. General - Delro: LFM 1 More Tank for Hammer Station! PST" 10 minutes later... "1. General - Delro: LFM 1 More Tank for Hammer Station! PST" Another 10 minutes... "1. General - Delro: LFM 1 More Tank for Hammer Station! PST" An hour later, we've finally got a tank and are ready to go. So we get in the instance, start working through, suddenly the tank goes linkdead. Maybe he'll come back, we think. Half hour later, no tank, and I'm back spamming General chat. So my girlfriend is tired of this at this point, and suggests we just give up. "Why isn't there an easier way to get a group? This seems really bad," she says. I agree, but have to explain to her that other games do this WAY better and for some reason or another this game is really behind the times when it comes to grouping. "If its like this for all the end of the game stuff," she says, "I don't think I'll be playing very much after hitting 50."

I wish it wasn't true, because I want to play this game into the next year, but wake up, man. SWTOR doesn't have a chance against that "other MMO," Pandas and Pokemon and all.

Really, cause I know at least eight. And these are the hardcore MMO-nerds that play every one that comes out. They don't go on forums, they speak with their wallets. And they are already done with this game.

The problem is, most of the community IS going to un-sub following their 30-day trial.

I'm sorry, but if you Passed and they Greeded, they're just going to vend it. Pass is only if you're in a group with friends/guildies and you really really don't need credits.

Sucks for you too, considering how long you've been registered on the forums

I've been trying to do this as best I can on my healer, but no, with all the ability effects going off, people moving around, and damage/heal numbers popping I can never really tell who the boss is targeting. I have to rely on watching health bars drop, which even then doesn't always work when there is multiple enemies or an AoE effect happening. Seriously how much work could it POSSIBLY take BW to show me who someone is targeting? Also, target of target works the other way around too. In Heroic mode FPs you want to focus targets; its way easier to see who your Main Assist is hitting with Target of Target rather than just trying to guess and accidentally pulling an Elite mob onto your squishy Smuggler ***.

Come back in two months, I GUARANTEE the subs for this game will be under 750,000. Its sad, too, cause I f*cking LOVE Star Wars and am really enjoying this game, but without any sort of love for people who want to tank/heal/customize their UI to do those things better, the playerbase WILL taper off toward endgame (if not sooner!)

I came into this thread expecting a whiny wishlist of ******** unrealistic things, but for the most part I have been complaining about/desiring much of the same changes. Particularly the Threat meter (or something similar,) better healing UI options, target of target, and better game optimization. I don't think the first three are asking too much, and the optimization can wait as long as they let us know they are working on it. I'd like to add one more thing to the list; I'm not exactly sure what its called but in some games (CoX and RIFT are two I can remember) when you have an ENEMY targeted and use a healing spell, it will cast on the enemy's target, & when you have an ALLY targeted and use an ATTACK spell, it casts on the ally's target. This is EXTREMELY useful for healing and I would love support for this feature.

Why allow one more avenue for griefing when you can just disable cross faction talk? Seriously no one EVER is going to need to talk to their friends on the other faction. You have no friends on the other faction. They are the enemy. You want to play with your friends? Join the same side. Still not enough? Its called Ventrilo. Seriously, your weird desire to talk to people on the opposing side is less important than every players right not to have to hear the 12-year-old level 50 in the starting zone shouting "Yeah you pansy NOOB I OWNED YOUR ***** LOLOLOLLERCOPTERWTFBBQ"

In the video below, lead writer Daniel Erickson explains a little bit of why that is early on. It makes sense; basically he's saying that right now since there are so many people in the same zone, the zones are almost "over-instanced" to ensure stability. http://www.giantbomb.com/old-republic-new-interview/17-5441/

My healing/buff abilities automatically cast on myself if I don't have an ally targeted; so I don't see the need for a self-cast key. However, if they were to add "Target's target" then it might be useful. On that note I would love the option to make my heals automatically cast on my enemy's target, or my attacks automatically target my selected ally's (usually the tank's) target, so I don't have to keep switching back and forth between targets. If you have ever played City of Heroes or Villains you know what I am talking about.