2.5 Five Years Of My Life Invested.... all gone in one fell swoop
Its not... New. Its the same crap dressed up and disguised as something new. You can change your keymap back to the way it was before the NGE.. The use of specials and such for me, was not that hard to get used to. For a lvl 80 veteran player, there is no new content. Hell you can't even level your toon if you don't have the newest expansion. So instead of killing Pickets and Bols or Dewbacks and Banthas, we're killing lava fleas. Same thing, different scenery.
PvE wise I haven't tried anything personally, but I've heard that its pretty much impossible to kill a Kimo or a Krayt or anything along those lines. I've heard that the only class that can make it into the deathwatch bunker is a crafter. But like I said... None of this is new... Its just more old stuff that has become even more broken.
PvP wise... Eh. It will probably be okay for group pvp... Maybe. I fail to see how having 8 combat professions instead of 30some odd options and crazy mixed/custom templats is going to make things more interesting... But only time will tell I suppose.
My Jedi is my main toon. Always has been. I have invested so much time and effort into this toon. It has become my identity in this game. And I wasn't even a hologrinder... Can't imagine how those people are feeling. Fact of the matter is I cannot do anything on my main toon, except kill lava fleas over and over until my brain wants to fall out. Those of you know me know that this is coming from someone who loved the template that she built on her toon... Its never been my style to be "uber" or want to prove how awesome I am. I have always played this game to have fun. And the template that I built on my jedi allowed me to do that. It wasn't an easy template to play... It gave me a challenge, to be successful. I may not have been the best at it, but still like I said, I had fun with it. And now its just as generic and regular as everyone elses template. And I have no say in the matter.
And now with more and more people posting their goodbye threads, it simply makes me more and more bitter.
I am trying so hard to give this a chance still... And give SOE the benefit of the doubt. But the fact is, they've had time to fix things... They've had many opportunities. But they keep doing stuff like this instead. Its not a "new game experience" its just more broken crap that we all have to deal with.