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I suspect you are under estimating the number of folks who have no intention of playing a jedi as their main.

I really think that Jedi and Sith will be the number one and two spot for most played classes but I don't think that the gap will be that great. I was out with my buddies a few weeks ago and out of the six of us only one had plans to make Jedi/Sith their main. The rest of us are far more interested in the other classes and what has not been announced yet.

In the end though people gravitate towards what is fun to play which at this point we can not predict.

Well you obviously weren't a PRE-NGE player, and didn't see the server when NGE went live on SWG, when they made Jedi a starting class. All I saw were people with glow sticks wanting to duel Pre-CU Jedi (I was one of those Pre-CU Jedi, and that was the last day I played SWG). Then, becouse everyone thought he was going to be the next Anakin or Mace Windu, they nerfed Jedi... BADLY, to the point were a Medic could slap you with his stethoscope and kill you. Also, DK in WOW is a bad example. A LOT of new players went DK for the "free mount" and "free armor", and I saw some people that had no clue how to tank or dps when the class came out, but used the class because it looked cool and they wanted to be Arthas, hence giving DKs a bad rep the first few months after launch. Most of those "bad" DKs are now bank mules. I want to play SWTOR very much (probably will make a BH), but one thing that people must understand is that, to make it fair, you CANNOT make Jedi an alpha class (what it should be next to Bounty Hunter). People thing just because you can wield a lightsaber you will be the shit, and its that mind set that gives classes bad names. If some players would understand that, Jedi overpopulation wouldn't be a problem, like it has been on the past. Please, control the Jedi population, have your noob neuter :) j/k.

Nice ignorant assumption about people who play Hunter. I bet you also make posts about everyone in your opposing faction being "kiddies"

@Mavicz

It has nothing to do with opinion on the Hunter class. Huntard is just a nickname for hunters who don't know how to play their class. Since people know what a Huntard indicates, they use it to indicate players of other classes who also can't play their class, but adamantly refuse to learn how to play it better. There just aren't convenient nicknames for other classes who fit those criteria.

But on topic, I do agree with Maika. Many people(like the cliche of children and young teens) will only roll Jedi and Sith because they liked how flashy they were in the movies. Then you'll have kids who rolled Jedi/Sith because of the movies, without any real inkling of how they'll actually end up playing. They'll end up playing very poorly and being nothing like the movie Jedi/Sith. It's their choice, but it'll be weird.

Agreed. I don't care if everyone is a Jedi/Sith/Wookie Cantina Dancer -- I'll play what I want. :)

Exactly.

I think what people forget is that there was a reason why luke skywalker was one of the last force users in the galaxy. cause the Mandalorians are freaking awesome, that's why.

I will be rolling a Mandalorian, I don't even care what class. I mean Canderous Ordo in KotOR 2 was probably the most awesome sidekick you could have in that game, other than HK-47.

Well actually Vladeon, I could care less about Mandalorians. I'm not fan of Jedi, but Mandalorians are getting pretty overrated these days. They're even more overhyped than the Jedi/Sith. And for the record, I think Bounty Hunter is the closest you'll get to Mandalorian, since Bounty Hunter players start out in the tryouts for the Great Hunt that the Mandalorians are holding. But Bounty Hunters are part of the Sith Empire, no thanks. Too many kids and teens wanting to be "badass" will be rolling Sith. It'll be like the kiddies in the Horde on WoW all over again. But Trooper on Republic? I'll be there.

And Luke was one of the last Jedi because of the Clone Troopers and the Sith, not because of the Mandalorians. As of the time of the 6 movies, the Mandalorians were nearly extinct, and only grew again decades after the movies, under Boba Fett's tutelage. Palpatine's masterful plot with the Clone Troopers is what killed 95% of the Jedi.