Yeah, maybe not. But my withdrawn subscription means nothing if they don't know why I'm pulling out. Also, your comment was a fairly accurate TL : DR of my post. I should thank you for that.

Money. Been a lot of complaining in the forums. People unhappy about PvP, unhappy about bugs that take 2 years to resolve, unhappy about the now lack of ability to customize companions, changes to classes like Power Techs/Vanguards who despite having blasters, never really use them to shoot lasers. People unhappy about in-game support tickets that remain open for weeks at a time... the list goes on. For the most part, these issues go completely ignored. Why is that, you say? I'll tell you. Because, in the minds of developers, they know what's best for us more than we do. You see this with iPhone/Android OS changes. You don't get a say in that stuff either. They just change it because reasons. They know what's best (apparently). For most game developers, it's the same. "You don't get to have that ability any more because we think you don't need it. Don't like that? Aah, that's too bad. We're developers. We know better than you." Do any SWTOR vets remember how long it took them to fix the blasted companion weapon bug? Heck, it wasn't until KotFE that they finally addressed the unify color issue for comp gear in cut scenes (though it doesn't matter for any of the new KotFE companions since you can't customize a single dang one of them anyway). But you know what? My opinion doesn't matter. And neither does any opinion of any player who's ever complained about it. Why? Because we've just kept PAYING (be it through subs or cartel purchases). Well I'm done paying. A legacy level 50 subscriber who's maybe missed only 1 or 2 subscription months in total, since launch, is pulling out. A loyal subscriber who has 23/24 characters, and has spent (I'd wager approximately) $2000+ on subscriptions, expansions, and cartel market stuff over the span of this game's life... gone. And not because of the changes to companions in the most recent patch (which apparently has everyone up in arms with fury), but because of the half-*****ed, laissez faire attitude they take to the issues in the game and in the forums. The behavior reeks of condescension. Their opinion is the only one that matters. So I will speak the only language developers (and their investors) understand. Subscription: gone. Cartel purchases: gone. Translation: In the words of Darth Vader, "You have failed me for the last time, [bioware]."

Alright... I've calmed down a bit. But in all seriousness, Bioware... what's up with this?

Seriously, who is in charge of Trooper/BH classes? Sometimes I just wish I could sit in the room with the developers as they, with serious faces, make decisions like this. Then yell at them when they suggest stupid changes like this. The gap creator ability is completely useless to me. I will likely NEVER put it on my bar. Why would I? I don't PvP. First they take away Full Auto/Unload. Lets talk about that. The reasons they said they took it away is because it was not part of the dps rotation... So what?! Neither is force choke/stasis. There's never a time during my dps rotation on any of my guardian/sentinel specs where I use choke/stasis. Or Awe... don't even have that one on my freakin bar. Or Flash Bang on my smug. Or Project on my sage. Cripes, I used Full Auto/unload all the time on my PT! I don't care that min/max fanatics never used it in THEIR rotations. But back to my point, why are those other skills still in the game but you took full auto/unload from my VG/PT? I mean, I would understand if just one person brings it up in the meeting, but that the whole slew of developers went, "Hmm. Good idea. Okay. Lets take it away from VG/PT completely," ...mind... blown. Then to increase the CD on overrides which I used all the time in PvE when tanking to mitigate the knock-back/stun that ALL npc's seem to have... And then they throw storm/charge up to level 61?!?!? What the literal ****? WHAT? ... WHAT? WHAT IS GOING ON?!?!

I know this comment is buried on page sixty-something, but this has me SOOO freaking excited. I've been wishing and hoping for this since launch. OMG thank you for these changes!

Prob get flamed but whatever. So I just renewed my sub after a few months away. Finished DL/installing the patch to enter the game and find these abilities are gone? Were they so horrifically problematic that they had to be completely removed? From both an RP and PvE standpoint, I absolutely loved this ability! I'm now a super sad panda that they're gone and now have essentially no desire to pick up my vanguard and shield tech characters again. I'm sure they're still great classes but it's just not the same. So go ahead trolls, type your "boo hoos" and "qq more" comments. I don't care. I just wanted to let Bioware know that as a consumer, this kind of nonsense will drive people AWAY from your game. Not TO it. Badly done, Bioware. Badly done.