Whether people like FFG's business plan or not is immaterial at this point. They aren't going to change it.

We can criticize them on doing a barely adequate job of implementing their own plan.

• Weighted Head. WTF!?
• Bothans. Again. Really? They are pretty low on fan lists of favorite species.
• Two new weapons. That's it. It's a game about soldiers and their gear and we got two stinking weapons.
• Only one new ship mod despite the addition of new capitol ship goodness.
• No new armor mods.
• No new weapon mods.

They did some things right:

• Capitol ships. There are new mechanics around these space behemoths.
• New fighters.
• Mostly I like the new Careers and Specs. I love the Commander career in particular.
• The Galaxy Gazetteer.
• The Duty mechanic. See there is another new mechanic in the game!

Well, depends on if you consider french kissing a battery operated Jar-Jar lollypop as a sex toy. Some might claim that the innocence makes it worse. . . .

OK. I give. It had batteries. WTF did it do?.................

Mind you, it's been years since I had it - but it made the lollypop rumble slightly, kind of like holding onto a wiimote. Mind you, it was a tossup if dead batteries was a good thing or a bad thing. . . .

Egads. The mental images. Almost too much to bear......

Just think of BBT Season 5 when Howard and Raj test those kissing transmitters for Lenards long distance relationship.