An interesting tidbit of news just dropped for the 7.0 update of Old Republic; the devs have finally modified the outfit designer (which is now Outfitter) to include not just clothing but also weapons. Now; I have a fair number of cool moddable weapons lined up, but if I'd had this, I just might well have used more of my crafted weapons as cosmetics. I might yet, depending on how much of this I play....
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UPDATE: Apropos of very little, I put two tickets in to the subscriber helpdesk today. Both were, ultimately, closed without any resolution. The first one was for my original Jedi Knight character. I'd been working on the HK-51 unlock quest, which is a very tedious and time-consuming thing to do with the exception of the spooky abandoned space-ship part, which is very atmospheric and kind of cool. However, when I let my subscription lapse, I somehow lost the components that I already had. But the mission log shows that those missions are done, so I can't do them over. Of course, I can reset the entire thing and restart it, which is looks like I'll have to do. But I put a bunch of hours already into that and was looking forward to not doing it again. Sigh.
I also noticed that the Ashfall Tauntaun and Thermal Retention armor set were a reward given to people who entered a code because they had bought a physical copy of Star Wars Battlefront, back when it was new. Hey, I bought a copy of that! (Technically, my in-laws did, and for my sons. But the point is, we have a physical copy.) I asked how I could get that redeemed. Turns out the promotion is over, and they can't manually give me credit for it. It also turns out that it was supposed to be the PC version (of course, we have the PS4 version.) I had thought that this one was a bit more of a long-shot than the first one, although I also thought that the second one would have been a very easy one for them to just push a simple button, or send me a code where I could push it, and be done with it. The mount and the outfit would appear in the mailbox for every character I had on the account, the same way the two pilot outfits do. No such luck. They shut me down on both of them.
To be fair, the thermal retention outfit is kind of silly. It's like Han Solo's Hoth coat, but with skin-tight leggings. I don't know that I'd have used it for anything, except maybe a female character, or a companion. But I do really like the goggles that it comes with, and I'd use them for an alternate outfit on most of my characters, if I could. And for some reason, I love the tauntaun mounts. Not the geared up ones wearing some kind of armor or padding, but the regular ones. I've got my old Imperial sniper, who's story I finished and who is already at level 75, sitting on Hoth running around luring tauntauns so I can buy more and more copies of the mountain and tundra tauntauns to give to my characters so that they can have them early on, instead of waiting until Hoth to get them. The tundra tauntaun is the "basic" one who's main color is light gray, and who looks the most like the movie version. The mountain tauntaun is a brownish color swap. The ashfall tauntaun, which I wanted, is a much darker gray color swap. I would have loved to have all of my characters running around with all three. You can't even get them on the cartel market for cartel coins (i.e., microtransaction currency.) And you can't even get them on the GTN either, and even if you could, the economy there has gotten ridiculously inflated into insane levels in the last few months. Everything is way over-priced.
In any case, while I admit that I certainly a not entitled to have had them give me that, I kind of hoped that they would as a consolation prize for the other issue that they couldn't fix. Blegh. I'd love to sit here and tell you that customer service for BioWare is top notch, that I highly recommend them, that they are above average, that they took care of me, etc. But they didn't. They just were... eh, sorry, mate. You're on your own. In other words; they're customer service for EA now.
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