Exactly. I was upset about the price increase for maybe 5 minutes. Then I realized that I watch Netflix streaming and disc far more than I watch my cable TV. Netflix will increase to $16, cable TV was $56. So I cancelled the cable and saved myself $50/month. I have an antenna to watch local news and the occasional broadcast show. While the selection on Netflix streaming could be better I have found more things on it that I want to watch than I have time for, so it works for me.

I assume from the wording in the article that these questions are going to be answered "off the record" - I can't imagine getting actual straight honest on the record answers from these folks.

So here are my questions:

1. What happened with Chimera and Bloodfin? Unforseeable catastrophic failure of backups? Or did someone just fuck up royally and forget to do the data backup before the CU was applied?
2. Do the devs honestly feel that this CU is the best possible solution for balancing the game, or was the kludged up design of this the decision of folks higher up?
3. Do you actually use the feedback you get from people on Test Center or do you only listen to internal testers, and just leave Test Center up to give the community the illusion that they're helping? With every major publish hundreds of bugs, many game-breaking, go live. The vast majority of these bugs are reported on test center and discussed in the TC forums, yet get pushed live anyway. Or is it a matter of NEVER having enough time?
4. Whose idea was it to add all the magical particle effects? Have they been flogged yet?
5. Who thought it was a good idea to turn doctors into priests?
6. How were such horrible icons allowed to go live? Why was the decision made to re-do the icons anyway? No one asked for that. And, are they left over icons from EQ or something? No one uses a bow and arrow in SWG, yet that's what we get for our ranged firing icon.
7. The combat upgrade was originally supposed to, and was expected by the community to be just a balancing of the professions in a PVP environment. How did the PVP balance turn into a redesign of the entire combat system, both PVP and PVE?
8. Why was a level system implemented? One of the really unique things about SWG was that it was skill based, not level based.