And as for the gamers/twats topic – my experience is that most gamers aren’t twats, however most regular posters on official forums are. And just for the record, I’ll contend that I’m not a twat, I’m an arrogant, opinionated asshole. There is a difference

Another interesting implication of that official post is that there might be undisclosed “per level” currency norms used to determine how much a character is allowed to make in the game. While my characters weren’t anywhere near Ilum, I might be on their radar due to the amount of traffic I generate on the GTN. I’d hate to get a timeout for that. I think I’ll just hope that your zone flipping theory is correct .

Thanks for the reply!

My particular issue is that a lot of the problems cropping up are ones you could have forseen just by looking at WoW. From the somewhat disturbing faction imbalance (And I have no idea how they’re going to fix that because combining the the ability to look pretty with the skulls and spikes faction was always going to be a thing) to the Illum issue, these are things that have cropped up on WoW before TOR development even began, so they should at least have been aware that they were going to happen and taken them into account.

The more innovative the product, the more “room for error” I’m willing to allocate. In fact, I have a great deal of patience for companies and people that are trying new things.

But Bioware is making rookie mistakes for which they have no reasonable excuse. Their implementation often strikes me as copying something they don’t quite understand. Maybe that’s the Mythic influence? Because goodness knows, when Mythic tried to copy their =own game= they somehow failed to understand what had made the original successful and what had led to its failure….

But this happens elsewhere in society where females who act often call themselves actors to signify they take their work seriously etc

Another minor irritant is that they pair honorifics with titles wrong. A Count should be addressed as My Lord, not Your Highness and so on. They get that wrong almost every time (as do most American fantasy authors).

Also there are always grey areas. I’m one of the people who kept a slicing crew member running all the time while leveling before the Great Slicing Nerf. Was I exploiting? From a certain point of view… yes.