Joystik/Massively SWTOR executive producer leaves BioWare; new layoffs rumored [updated: BioWare responds]

would have been nice if the links would contain a description what each link is about. (and even nicer if the forum itself would fetch the links name itself - other forums can do this and replace a normal link with the page title)

Did you forget about Skyrim, Aion, Minecraft, Rift, Dragon Age, IPhone, IPad, Android, Firefox, ....? I would like to see a readycheck for Parties and Ops as well.

Funny Thing is this was all posted in the Group Finder feedback thread back on PTS. P.S.: I am still wondering what needs to happen, that I get a Planet Group pop. If FP >> Planet, then I need a tank and healer to queue only planet wise? I got a planet group once on PTS and ever after on 50's or 25's.

I am tired of the "I do this / like this / am fine with it therefore it's fine for everybody else" argument. *really* And yes, we are looking back to years of WoW addon history and a very complex API that might have opened up things that were not intended by the developers and were crushed later. So there are 0 exploits within SWTOR right now? Is an API the sole Evil? Maybe you want to have a look at Meet Your Makers Black temple movie. There you can see a single guild with lots of different interfaces and hardly one alike the other. I just don't see why disparity is such a bad thing. I just feel like I am stuck in a Windows versus X-Serve fight. Some saying the Interface needs to look the same to everybody else so people will feel at home. The other will say, I want to use a window manage that fits my needs, I want to change the context menus to the ones I use most, ... I was never a fan of "you need that addon for our success". But it's just the same as "you need that gear (score) to compete" / "show me the achievement". You can keep your basic UI and you can like it / but why should I miss things that I need for my game play. Humans are the same under the law - but for their personality all are different.

I am not sure if hardcore correlates with IQ. Yes, maybe those games were a niche, but if the IQ was higher or lower needs to be proven. So far I hardly met any managers with a 70 hours per week job in an MMORPG. One could assume that for one part success does correlate with some sort of IQ. And you would know that IQ measures what the test measures. It's artificial. It does not measure if you can play an instrument, how your map, 3d world or real work orientation works. If you can solve differential equation or think outside of the box. If you can speak 4 languages or are empathic. Only a small portion of Intelligence can be quantified in an intelligence test. So even if your statement would be true, there could be far more creative, musical and language abt people in the later than in the former.

It's not really about easier. It\s about getting the information you want in the way it fits you - if it did fit you well so far, I see you do not see any need for an improvement. Why does one need 5 clicks if a single would suffice? why do I need to strain my eyes to determine in a 200x100 pixel area if there is an icon present on not if there could be different ways of presentation. Not sure if the medical department agrees with the screen design.

One reason they said, they don't want people to automate, they want action / thus no auto attack / facing in pvp, but not PvE,... They said it would make people equal. I do disagree. While a color-blind person and a normal sight person see the same UI - the color blind is at a disadvantage. Same for people with attention deficit / while normal people might filter the information well enough / others need different approaches to reach the same result. One-size never fits all in a sufficient complex environment. Even phones, TV, web-browser bring a certain ability to extend their functionality. I belief their reluctance was based on the sole fact, that they needed to test their client / server engine and extensions would have made that even harder. Does the FPS drop, lag spike, ... come from an addon or ... Even WoW GM's first hint on problems is "reset your UI disable all addons". And there are usually bugs people detect from using the LUA engine or exploits. Now after 6 months of game play and a lot of engine optimization they can look forward to add another resource.

Nah. Suggestion Box is just a pile of threads, that don´t belong in another forum or have an inconvenient point of view. Those threads get moved in the suggestion box to catch some dust. While other forums get "policed" with moderators and double posts get locked and people directed towards other existing threads - the suggestion box can easily be polluted with the n-th re-suggestion. So far I cannot remember a yellow post in the suggestion box apart the lonely customer support sticky. It´s hidden down in the cellar far away from the public crowd, the cantina or the coffee kitchen.

i would like to see: macros - "ccing %target": cast force lift -- use relic cast ... -- wardrobe - configurable item sets for pvp and pve selectable (de)buff size difference between own and other (de)buffs -- which of the 3x sage dots is mine? -- e.g. extra bar dispellable debuff coloring of frames - coloring based on out of guard range - grid based ops frame - colored dots in certain locations - icons in certain locations - color changing - selectable text (in/out of combat) unit frame configuration - size/show portrait - size of HP/ressource bar - location of (de)buffs display of legacy characters gear/bags/bank/schematics click2cast on unit frames incomming healing spell / incomming healing amount

[...] characters on any character-transfer-destination-server will receive the reward. People on the source server - aka those who could move - will not. If you started on a destination server - you don´t have to move - get a reward. Is this rocket science?

Achievements or Challenges are a two-edge sword. For one they give something extra to do or reward you for your personal style-of-play. A pet collector gets an exclusive pet - a mount collector a stylish mount and the no-lifers insane-in-the-membrane. With most I am ok - especially guild achievements did bring some extra action and made focused / older guilds (combined with a guild affection rating) more attractive than new ones and as such reduced the number of guild hoppers. The very downside is that people started to ask people to proof they have already done X, Y, Z - in a similar fashion as gear score. Making a bit of sense, as it might indicate that people are familiar with the boss mechanics. But it immediately created a hen-and-egg problem. If you knew the mechanics or did complete the fight with another character you were not allowed to join. Another downside is, that new people joining some years later are presented with an overwhelming number of achievements and will have a hard time to catch up - some content is "unavailable" if it belongs to an older expansion then it´s pretty hard to find people to join up. I am very happy of Blizzards announcement to make achievements account wide - so you do not have to worry that you need to take toon X over Y to an instance as there is a chance to complete an achievement, but you need the gear on Y instead of X. So if there is an achievement system it should be legacy wide.

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