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I for one LIKE this Publish. I never bothered with Stat Migration until I had to (slow and annoying, and it meant days of downtime while your stats moved, sitting around waiting). The ID color options...Hitting master JUST so you can have all the options a players does making their character? Uhh..No thanks). The Interface is great. No more getting stiffed, and folks getting used to seeing the price for what they want right there, no more getting 'what you charge' 80 times in a row because of cantina spam. And, I always thought a physical trainer should be the one moving stats around (and folks...stop whining..Other games don't even let you re-allocate points, or drop skills to elarn new ones, or any of that crap.) And sure..Players could migrate on their own for 10 months..SO WHAT? Read the EULA sometimes? Read the Manual? It says things can and will change all through it. If the original lead had the cahoneys and insight of JG, Folks would have been migrating the way they are now from day 1. So what..it cost you 10K for a migration, to have it done in 10 minutes? Man... that's a HUGE improvement over the days it took before.

You need a buff? You see a doc. Need a mind buff? Entertainer. Want some hide? Go see a scout. Need a gun? Check out a weaponsmith. So on an so on... Want to get a bit buffer? See a personal trainer. Why is that so hard for people to swallow? And no, 'I could do it myself for 10 months' don't float any better than a sleeping bag full of rocks. Why? because in a few months, things are changing. Want a spaceship? Using that logic...Too freakin bad. You couldn't fly 10 months ago, not gonna do it now. Remember that crafting change? We ALL freaked...Me included.. They took it out for us, and know what? I want the freakin thing back! I based my thoughts on the people who claimed to know what they was talking about, as many others did, turning the protests of a few meatheads into a rabid horde, and to keep us happy the devs revoked it even though the response to the changes was overwhelmingly positive once people tried it, myself included. I made BETTER armor, as a noob, with that update, than I do with the crappy old system. And thanks to the people screaming, we lost something that was a very cool new system, that the devs put a ton of time and effort into. Now we're facing a repeat of history here, Give it some time people, see what else is coming, and why the devs think it's essential. They know alot that's going on, we don't. And before you all scream foul about that.. this is the FIRST dev team, to actually ask for player community leaders to help them point the game in directions we want. The level of communication here is unprecedented, and the devs open themselves to full bore flamethrower heat and constant putdowns and rants, with few compliments for their hard effort and work they do for us. Remember the fires? They didn't bail until the fires were right outside their freakin town practically! How much damned dedication do you people want? JG on a cross or TH on a stake? Come on, they're people, going WAY past the call of duty, to give us the game we want. So the Devs make ONE change, and everybody cries because now they need to see someone to have something done. Gah. Makes me wanna hide my lightsaber and put on some Spock Ears, I feel emberassed to be a Star Wars fan right now.

For all you devs, here's a big ol Wookiehug from Chaz, he gets to be pink finally, lol. Keep it up, and forget the naysayers. They been wrong more than right, myself included. Next time, remember, we're ranting, because it's the first time we get the chance to rant when something in a game cheezes us off. We're human too..Even the wookies and Rodians and Moncals..You get the idea

TH, You still got friends in the game dude, even though I doubt we've met. I know for a fact the devs play the game, Especially TH. You been there since beta, offering input, now you're ONE OF THEM, and I don't envy you for the world. Congratulations on doing the best you can (and folks.>Next time you flame TH for messing up some technical terms, or not being able to explain why a feature won't work..Remember.>he was hired to just tell us what the devs say, not because he's a master game programmer. If he knew half as much about the game as you expect him to, He wouldn't be talkign to our pathetic arses, he'd be working on the space expansion! Geez! Even I know a bit about corperate setups, and the guy delivering messages, and picking up the calls, rarely knows what's goin on on the other side of the doors. Even if he DOES... NDA, Lucasarts contracts, SOE contracts..This game tied in more red tape than..well..the US government probably.

JG, Since you took over, We've seen the fall of the Hologrind (slowly), DE become a fun, useful profession, Vehicles, CH become a profession where master meant something, and dabblers were just that- dabblers. ID got a ton of cool new features. A new dungeon with cool new loot (something everyone cried for since launch), the long-broken ID hair bug put on schedule for a fix, finally, the addition of armor for wookies. The constant, hard and delicate task of rebalancing a badly out of whack game, and even taking the time to wade in, sleeves up, and slug it out with 10,000 irate fans over each and every single one of these publishes, Even while managing the E3 promotion, handling the imminent Beta of the SE (if the launch schedule is on track), the Fan Fest.... Anyone who says you ain't listening needs to try even half of that at once. Managment isn't as easy a job as it looks, Especially when keeping Lucasarts, SOE, and a horde of SW fanatics and plain ol' gameplayers happy, or at least non-violent, at once.

And all the faceless dozens, who crank this out, only to hear us all whine and cry each time. Don't let it get you down folks. If we were all half as disappointed as we say..We wouldn't pay for 2-3 accounts each, would we? We appreciate the hard work, the time and effort, and I for one know that many of you probably have no TIME to play. Yet, with no chance to enjoy your own labor, you crank away, making not only a full expansion but a constant stream of updates and publishes at the same time. Fixing bugs (yes, I can name dozens that have been fixed, and many more scheduled to me), adding new features, new content, new mission types even. They promised vehicles and mounts and cities..and had them in our greedy, ungrateful hands in the first few months. We complained about them listening, they gave us correspondents. We whine about the GCW sucking..they give us a MASSIVE overhaul, that is taking HUGE resources to pull together, and keep giving us more of what we ask for the whole time. I've hopped around to a half dozen other MMOs out there..and know what? They stink, they have less than half the depth and options Galaxies does. Horizons, EQ, A couple Beta's I can't name, Ryzom... Give me Galaxies anyday, bugs and all. It's the nature of the beast, anything this complex is gonna have errors. Live with it, and enjoy. If you must speak up, then do so, but please, keep it civil. it's too easy to forget, these are people giving up THEIR time and lives, to keep us happy. Every day they spend doing this thankless job, they could be in Blizzard listening to fanboi's heap praise on them instead, but they stick with us. Be grateful for it folks, or SOE might not be able to FIND devs willing to put up with our crap and work on this game, or they might simply close the whole project down, the MMO closings have started already, keep it up and they just might pack up and leave folks, then where you gonna play Star Wars? KOTOR? UGH. Take your scripted crap home please, I hate that game.