Community Q&A Thread Blog Discussion: July 27th, 2012

These Q&As are a joke. Stop making them, or start answering questions we really care about, not cherry picking the softballs the dum-dums toss your way.

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Hello everyone - we appreciate your feedback on the Q&A and have read this thread, but ask that you continue providing your feedback in the discussion thread for the Q&A post http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=511491). We'd like to remind you to be respectful of other community members, even if you disagree with them, and avoid the "hater vs fanboy" arguments that tend to drag threads off-topic. Everyone is entitled to their opinion.

This stupid message ^ brought me to this thread.
Forum police are out in full force as usual. Here's my OP from my thread.



Link To original thread "Bioware's Q&A - What a Joke (14 pages of posts relating to this topic to read) here -
http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=511673

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Seriously, they have time to answer questions that no one could give a flying **** about, but when it comes to answering real questions, Bioware is nowhere to be found. The lack of 'news' in this game is appauling. The fact that Bioware's management team cant seem grasp that keeping secrets is detaching their community from the developers.

People only really come to the forums to post negative feedback now, with one to two posts occasionally being a positive note - how about you LEARN from this bioware, people want more then an occasional response from a Moderator saying "this is an known issue, i'm going to close the thread you spent time out of your day making"


It's becoming clear that people are responding to this topic without realising the kind of crap we're being fed by bioware. Here are 2 out of 5 of the questions they answered this week for your enjoyment.

Char_Ell:

What is the backstory of the seven pillars on Corellia commemorating the heroes of The Jedi Civil War in BTC 303 (Revan, Bastila, Carth, Canderous, Juhani, Mission, Zaalbar)? How did the people of Corellia arrive at the decision to build the pillars?

Hall Hood (Lead Writer): Monuments to these great heroes who saved the entire Republic were constructed on multiple Core Worlds after the war’s end. The motivations behind these memorials differed from planet to planet. Some were built by politicians cynically displaying their patriotism, while others were created by artists and refugees seeking to honor their saviors. Corellia’s pillars, like its many museums, were built as much for tourism as a sincere display of Republic solidarity. Trivia note: a beautiful monument to the heroes stood outside Coruscant’s Galactic Senate building for nearly three centuries, but was destroyed by Sith Empire forces during the planet’s sacking.

(Apparently this stuff is important in relation to the future of the game ^ which has had a lot of doubt cast towards it lately)

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Skendra:

Question about Legacy! Under Character Perks -> Travel, at 1.2 there was buff for Sprint Speed but locked and now in 1.3 it was changed to Priority Transport. Why?


Will Wallace (Senior Designer): There were both internal and external balance concerns about allowing players to purchase upgrades to Sprint speed, especially as it related to advantages in Warzones. We don't want someone to feel like they have to have an optional purchase to be competitive in PvP. The Priority Transport perks were created as a replacement since they are beneficial for all players without upsetting the balance of the game.


Apparently here, common sense couldn't just prevail for this one user ^ - Hmmm why did they take out a feature they intended on releasing, and replace it with something more balanced.

Invalid lock/referral.

We weren't discussing THIS particular Q&A, but Q&As in general, but whatever. >_>

Exactly, the closest you could come is the fact we used this most recent Q&A as a example... Possibly to relate best the community who tends to keep up with this sort of thing. Bioware you're going to have to start hiring people who's job it is, to sit on the forums all day and post fluff threads about how the games doing great and the communication between the dev's and the community is excellent.

I love how they direct the discussion here. In 24 hours i've seen 0 posts. Good stuff. Bioware you disgust me.

That's the trick.

I still enjoy this game and after all its the people and the content that make this game....

But come on what a waste of time... this was

I really enjoy this game but silly QA like this just add fuel to the fire that . this game is dragged in to the ground

News on Content !!!

" if u build it ( content ) they will come"

=P field of dreams

AND YET, they have Legacy Class buffs THAT HAVE BEEN affecting balance in warzones, without allowing players a way to purchase these upgrades, or remove them from warzones.

I know you only want to be "vague" about the future, but even a vague answer is better than no answer. I looked over last week's "many pages" of questions and there were numerous questions asked over and over by many people and none of those "hot topics" were addressed (not just the "hood" question). The quesitons that did get an answer were rather obscure and were only asked by one person. I'd think you'd want to cater to the majority of those that bothered to ask at all, even if the answer is, "We don't know yet."

The game is great, but having some sort of "roadmap" for the future would be nice to see. You know what we want to know, we ask it over an over (just look at last week's posts again). Hopefully next week's Q&A will have more in it that matches the questions we are actually asking.

What lame questions, How about answers on all this F2P talk and what's the future of pvp? since pvp took off alot more than they thought it would, does this mean very little in the way of maps?

Anyways, lame just plain lame.