I agree that they need a change to how they do business, but I think they should copy ESO and charge 40-50$ per expansion, provide content updates in between for subscribers, and do away with F2P restrictions on most anything UI or functionality related. F2P players can get base game updates like the combat changes they did in this expansion because they'd have to for the game to work.

I don't know what the solution for this game is, anymore. Personally, I would like them just to try and copy ESO's business model of charging $50 for a guaranteed amount of content per expansion, while delivering content updates that are included in the subscription, while freeing up more F2P restrictions. It works for Bethesda/Zenimax, and I think because this is the only Star Wars MMO on the market they would end up succeeding with this but they've also severely let down their player-base over and over for years, now and this one has been exceptionally terrible so who knows if they can even turn this ship around at this point. I'd like to think so, but I've pretty much given up.

While it definitely feels like the game is in it's sunsetting stage, Arcann's story is confirmed to be continued later. How much later?? Who knows.

I think the bottom line is SWTOR is no longer BioWare's, or even BioWare Austin's priority. They most likely have a very limited budget and team to do the bare minimum to keep it going until the next thing comes. Most of their SWTOR profits are likely being fed mostly into new projects since realistically (BWA) can't live off SWTOR forever. This expansion has been an enormous let down in just about every single way, but the worst to me is that the story was 2 hours long. It was a good story, but it was bite sized, and that's not enough to constitute calling it an expansion. They should have marketed 7.0 as a content update. The only way this is redeemable in any way is if they plan to provide far more frequent story updates than they've been doing for years, and I don't see that happening.

Nice. We'll learn more about that later in 6 months.

Yeah, but they made us have to choose whether to send Arcann on the mission or not in order to continue with the story at all and that's why I don't think they scrapped it, there's obviously more to come with this story given how it ended and I really don't think they'd bother to put that scene and choice in the game as a part of the main story if they weren't going somewhere with it but yeah at the rate they've been going it's probably going to be ages from now. Perhaps if we wait 3 years there will be enough content accumulated for it to be worth subscribing to play through, and that is what I find most depressing.

I've loved this game since it came out, but this cannot qualify as an expansion. To say I'm disappointed would be an understatement, but I can't say I didn't feel it coming with how short Onslaught was compared to previous expansions. The content cadence for this game has dramatically slowed, and what they do provide when the content drops is not worth the subscription money it takes to access it. Most of it has been a 30 second conversation on Odessen for the last year, anyway. I can honestly say, unless something changes this will be the end of the road for me with SWTOR.

If their plan is to stagger story updates, it's a bad plan when your stories get shorter and shorter. I can't say I'm overly surprised, I felt it coming with how short Onslaught was compared to previous expansions but honestly they're giving players scraps and calling it an expansion. I can't help but feel like it's making the future of this game look hopelessly bleak and as a long-time player since this game launched it's making me want to never come back because it's not really worth it anymore. As for Arcann, I'm sure nothing was scrapped, they don't generally do something like that with no payout planned but given the tremendously slow content cadence for this game, it will probably be months before we see it and it won't be worth resubbing for what will probably be like 30 seconds of content.

I re-subbed and am un-subbing as well. 2 hours worth of content max being labelled as an expansion. After so long waiting for new story chapters to drop, too. Yike. I will probably never return for an expansion again, Onslaught was pushing it with how short it was, this is inexcusable. I can't believe they are selling a $40 Collectors edition for this LMAO. Back to Lost Ark and FFXIV I guess

Yeah it's pretty bad, they really shouldn't be able to label this as an expansion and get away with it. Why would you spend so much money on a crazy cinematic trailer only for the gameplay to be a couple hours, max.

That "expansion" was like 3 seconds long, so I'm not surprised.

LMAO wow, they certainly made it sound like it was a lot more than it was didn't they? This can't be called an expansion, I'm sorry. Onslaught was disappointingly short, this took it to the next level. If they can't deliver on actual expansion sized releases, they should just call them content updates from now on and stop labeling them as expansions.

I like these ideas, in other BioWare games you can continue to interact with your companions even though you're finished with missions, and I think that would be something cool to be able to do in SWTOR, even if you have to go to your stronghold or something.

I would love this if they start adding reasons to explore new planets. This is a problem SWTOR planets/zones have always had in comparison to many other games, the areas of a planet are usually there to fill a purpose and there's very little to see or do in them outside of your missions.

At the very least they should be adding skin color, tattoos, and access to the newer eye colors. It's not like they need to add hairstyles or anything to them