Things must be different at BW. No way I could call "worldwide" & "45 minutes" a small issue at my job...

I logged in specifically for the Rakghoul Event and it's bugged. I've seen nothing acknowledging it as a known-issue, nor any ETA on a fix. This was the straw that broke the camel's back and I've unsubbed. I don't expect EA to care, but at least they should be aware that this issues do have a monetary impact albeit small.

Me three (or four)! I played WoW since vanilla and it was like watching a multi-car accident on the highway in slow motion. Starting with Cataclysm, it was just bizarre to watch what Blizz did with the game, as if more and more monkeys were let loose, flinging more and more crap with no rhyme or reason. And then Pandas came, nailed the coffin shut, lowered it 6 feet down and let monkeys fling crap on the tombstone.

This is the most well thought-out, insightful and erudite post I think I've ever seen in the SWTOR forums. I think you nailed the problem with current MMO player experience with regard to these facets, and your proposed changes would do much to increase immersion and player enjoyment of the content (as opposed to enjoyment of their keyboard). Your description of the playerbase as suffering from Stockholm Syndrome is right on the money, and proved repeatedly in this thread.

Agalloch, Menace Ruine, Kataklsym, Lord Mantis, Edge of Sanity, Slayer (of course), many more but those are the main ones in current rotation.

85 person queue on Harbinger... W T F

It's okay as long as the gold spammers are able to log in. -- BW

BW, maybe if you quit letting so many gold spammers onto the server the players could login?

8 sorcs vs 8 sages gets old fast

People have been telling BW to stop the premades in regs practically since release. BW's response has always been, "We don't care, give us your money". Not sure why you think after 3 years of players telling them the same thing they're suddenly going to listen.

1.) Stop allowing premades in regs. Yeah, players have been asking for this for 3 years now. Maybe it's time to listen? 2.) Don't waste dev resources on a new WZ when the game engine is so broken that players are only getting 10 fps in the current WZs. Instead, put those resources on fixing it!

The THORN Containment & THORN Sanization armor sets are only available from the Cartel Market during the Rakghoul event...and yet they're not available?!?

+10 to AGSThomas It's always been my perception that Dailies are the equivalent of an MMO throwing in the towel, giving up; basically saying "We don't care enough to develop new content, but here are yet more dailies (that nobody asked for) to maintain the illusion that we're still working diligently." I do give BW kudos for Makeb, which completely blew me away and was much more than I had expected.

Did I seriously just read that? <speechless>

PvP players cheating, using exploits & abusing the system? Nothing new here...

/signed

The Scourge Invasion ---er, I mean-- Rakghoul Event was awesome.

Too many brickheads confusing "work" with "monotonous grinding". Nobody is asking for a free ride; they already hit 55 and experienced the great class-story in all it's wondrous glory. Funny thing about surprises, they're only surprises the first time...

b-b-b-but that would be a logical solution! One that's been suggested as-naseum for over a year by many, many players. If BW/EA hasn't fixed WZs with this logical & obvious fix in the past I'm not sure I would hold out hope of them suddenly gaining common-sense now. I can only assume that someone at BW/EA likes the current mess, or as the saying goes it's "Broken as intended".

singed!

If your concern is story-immersion have you considered a RP server? Besides leaving General Chat I can't think of much else that would help you. While I completely 100% understand (and agree!) with what you're saying I still like the MMO part of this RPG because there are large portions of the game that use 2-4 man heroics and FPs (and OPs) to progress the overall story. To the detractors that add zero to this thread I would conversely say "If you want to play an MMO that isn't a story-based RPG then go play another game."

And it only took 12 months for BW to look into this...? And please don't waste anyone's time trying to tell me that the same player that teleported from mid-field to the end-zone 6 times in a row in huttball is because of "lag".

The OP is 100% correct. Close the gear-gap so that <gasp> PvP can be about skill and not gear! (Crazy idea--I know!) And to all the people that say, "But it's easy to grind out blah blah blah gear" --maybe I don't want to grind at all? (Yes, another crazy idea: minimizing grinding!)

The Spymaster outfit changes are absolutely awful. Please change it back so I'm not playing the game looking like an airline stewardess. Or is my agent now serving pretzels aboard the X-70B Phantom?

1,2,3 - Thank You! 4 - I had no idea ignoring a single troll in a SWTOR forum means that everyone in the world now agrees with me; thanks for the heads up! I can finally end the Pepsi vs Coke wars!!! WOOO!!!