SOE should give each player 1000 certifications and 2x points on January 30.

The question in this case is, what qualifies as "large changes to game mechanics?"

Adjusting some metrics on a weapon is an entirely different situation than a top-to-bottom redesign of the entire game.

In marketing the Trials of Obi-Wan expansion that hit just weeks before the NGE, they dangled the new rewards available in the expansion in front of us knowing full well that the classes they were meant to be used by would be entirely removed from the game never to be seen again. That's far and away an entirely different kind of situation than tweaking a few variables for balance.

Believe me, I'm at the head of the line when it comes to making sure SOE's feet are held to the fire over how SWG was handled, but it only diminishes the seriousness when you start comparing that to comparably minor changes.