Best Gear Should Be Soaked in Tears and Blood

Because if everything was hard to get, people would cry everyday at how they shouldn't have to put all this effort into the game to be the best player ever.

I must have missed the patch where haz and dread lvl gear was made available on the gtn and for comms.

I would really love to know the reasoning behind the super-fast gear progression in this game. It's too easy to get the best gear. Between buying mods off the gtn, racking up the BH comms with daily hm runs, and shifting pieces through legacy gear, gearing up is way too fast and easy. Maybe that wouldn't be such a big deal if there were other ways to improve your character, their ship, or whatever, but gear is largely the be all and end all of character progression at the moment. It's a system that is fun for a short period and then quickly gets boring.

Slowing down gear progression gives people a carrot to keep playing and something to brag about. Call it epeen or whatever, but if people have put forth time and effort for some item, be that gear, a mount, a title, whatever, then it's an outward sign to other players of their achievement. Human beings are competitive critters. We tend to spend a lot of time and effort proving we're better than other people, even at something relatively unimportant like playing a game. Making it so easy for everyone to achieve the top gear reminds me of those fake sporting events where everyone gets a medal. Thanks for participating.

And once a ops team is tricked out in the best stuff, why continue running ops? Sure, it can be fun to blow through content with friends, but there's no goal to hit, no loot to hope for, no achievement to be had. And at that point, people stop playing their mains. They level the alts they're interested in (which they can gear up even faster), and then they stop playing those. And then they stop playing all together. Which is where a lot of the players are at.

I like that it's easy to get op-functional, but the best gear should be more of a struggle, based on long grinds, weeks' worth of wipes, lucky drops, and so forth. Tears and blood, people! Tears and blood!

I would really love to know the reasoning behind the super-fast gear progression in this game. It's too easy to get the best gear. Between buying mods off the gtn, racking up the BH comms with daily hm runs, and shifting pieces through legacy gear, gearing up is way too fast and easy. Maybe that wouldn't be such a big deal if there were other ways to improve your character, their ship, or whatever, but gear is largely the be all and end all of character progression at the moment. It's a system that is fun for a short period and then quickly gets boring.

Slowing down gear progression gives people a carrot to keep playing and something to brag about. Call it epeen or whatever, but if people have put forth time and effort for some item, be that gear, a mount, a title, whatever, then it's an outward sign to other players of their achievement. Human beings are competitive critters. We tend to spend a lot of time and effort proving we're better than other people, even at something relatively unimportant like playing a game. Making it so easy for everyone to achieve the top gear reminds me of those fake sporting events where everyone gets a medal. Thanks for participating.

And once a ops team is tricked out in the best stuff, why continue running ops? Sure, it can be fun to blow through content with friends, but there's no goal to hit, no loot to hope for, no achievement to be had. And at that point, people stop playing their mains. They level the alts they're interested in (which they can gear up even faster), and then they stop playing those. And then they stop playing all together. Which is where a lot of the players are at.

I like that it's easy to get op-functional, but the best gear should be more of a struggle, based on long grinds, weeks' worth of wipes, lucky drops, and so forth. Tears and blood, people! Tears and blood!