10 Black Hole Commendations Per Day Is A Little Much, No?

I will end this thread right now, Hardcore gaming is dying. The money is in appealing to the casual base. After the success of the WII, gaming will never be the same. It is possible to get more then just the people who play all day, everyday. 10 Black hole commendations a day is too easy for the hardcore. It is just right for a person with full time life commitments.

fixed that for you.

Don't worry about it. First of all, you'll be lucky if you get 1 group a week with the same server LFG, and even you get lucky enough and get that group, you will get destroyed by the first boss in every single HM FP you will try and will never even come close to getting your BH commendations.

Unless they changed operation lockouts, I see 5 a day here for HM FP, then up to 10 a week for both operations

I would agree with the OP if not for the fact that SwTor Encourages Alts alot, and i have 3 level 50's with another on the way. Esspecially with Legacy where alot of people have Reps and Imps. Gearing up all those toons, i welcome the quicker gearing. I know a few people have like 5 or 6 50's already good luck to them trying to gear them up. can you imagine taking 2-3 months just to gear up one toon then haveing 6 more to gear up after that!? Theres no way i could do more than 2 sets of dailies a day, just dont have that kind of time.

I agree that it is a bit much, i have spent a long time getting my columi gear and don't want to see my efforts becoming void by people getting BH gear so easily, it should be columi commendations at best in my opinion.

It's this kind of attitude that ruins games. You don't want a reward to be available because it will then make the game boring.

a. You are perfectly able to not acquire that item which you obviously don't want
b. Others may like it and prefer to obtain those things, because they don't have as much time or like doing the other things you would rather be doing.

Asking for something like this to be changed because it's 'shortsighted' by allowing players to have options is just redunculous. Don't request options be taken away because you are compelled to 'ruin' your own gaming experience.

Harcore gaming isn't dying, people didn't vanished, they are still here.

But yes most of the time now companies are targeting more the casual audiences which is a good and a bad thing, for us players and for them as companies.

Making games for people that wouldn't fit in the previous model makes thoses players happy and enables companies to make predictable money quite easily.

It's bad because it means no game for all the different niches (not only the hardcores), it's bad because it doesn't push companies at making better and different games.


One of the biggest problem of TOR is it's an in-between game, a bit casual, a bit hardcore, not completely one or the other, not really pleasing anyone.
As for the BH commendations, I understand who they do it for and thoses that are upset about it.

Multiple progression paths in an mmo is a good thing.

I'm sure spending 4 hours a day for 2 months farming the 2nd best gear will be very appealing.

Alternatively you good join the many guilds that have operations on farm and have then gear you up, which would be the more logical thing for the harcore pver to do.

They should take a page out of WOW's book and just make a weekly cap on how much you can get. That way, you could play all day and cap, or spread it out over the week. I hate having to do the same exact thing every day or be punished. I'd rather be able to get the weeks work done on my own time.