Summer of SWTOR

Thanks for the post and I appreciate the effort but unfortunately I feel compelled to join the majority of the posters here who complain about the lackluster nature of the upcoming content. (Admittedly, I haven't read 57 pages of posts, but I did read the first 15 or so to get a general feel for the people here and I got a distinctly negative one.)
Let me share my opinion (about which you don't give a **** probably) of why the upcoming patches are disappointing.



- A Nightmare Mode of the top end Operations might be fun and challenging content for 0.1% of the players who are lucky enough to be in top end raiding guilds. I would hazard a guess that less than 1% of all players have ever stepped foot in a Nightmare Mode Op. So you're dumping a ton of money and effort to create "content" that only an extreme minority of the players will ever experience (and even they might get sick of doing this rehashed instance over and over again). This will naturally upset 99% of the players who want something more accessible. Not to mention that these new Nightmare Modes still suffer from the same old glaring issues:

1. Having looked at the stats on Dulfy, I have to say that Kell Dragon armor is as ****tily itemized as every single previous tier. You know as well as we do that no self-respecting raider would ever wear the baseline mods that come in stock armor.
2. There is no commendation equivalent for Kell Dragon gear, making itemization virtually impossible. It's not craftable, so raiders will have to rely on random numbers to get gear. Since this tier cannot be crafted, min/maxing will be likely impossible.
3. Armor uses the same models, it's just recolored. Why can't you design at least different looking armor for each tier? And what's up with the ugly models? No self-respecting Consular would wear the Kell Dragon set.

- More XP for active people in the guild sounds like a good idea on paper. But there is a better idea that is accessible to smaller guilds as well! Maybe a 0,5% cumulative experience boost after each legacy level for a total of 25%? Maybe make those legacy levels actually worth something?

- Craftable 72 gear is a logical move if you're introducing a new tier. But for God's sake we need a set bonus-less, commendation based peer-tier for each gear set for itemization purposes.

- Global chat? Hope we can read fast...

- Seems you deliberately missed the new Cartel pack for 2.2. Probably to avoid the ensuing *****torm considering the otherwise epicly lackluster "content".

So yeah, all in all, 2.2 is a huge disappointment for me as well. When you teased "content-packed" I was expecting at least 1 new flashpoint for PvE. I believe Titans of Industry is about 14 months overdue. On a particularly happy day, I was actually thinking about getting the Imperial Warlord flashpoint as well in 2.2, which is close to a year overdue as well now. And at least a new warzone for PvP. But nothing new until August.

Perhaps you don't seem to understand that people want NEW content. That is, NOT Cartel Market, NOT reused old Operations, NOT recolored old gear designs etc. Or perhaps you just don't care.

So... no server transfers or even new warzones mentioned. It's like they want us to stop playing -,-

Actually, they are planning on including server transfers in 2.2.

Hello everyone,

First up, Game Update 2.2, which is currently targeted for launch on June 11th:

• Recycled content

By July 9th, more Recycled content again

July 23rd look for a new recycled content again and again.

August 6th is our target date for Game Update 2.3, which we are working on right now and will be our biggest update since 2.0. Some of the bigger parts of this update are:

• New Flashpoints
• New Daily Area
• New Recurring Event
• Significant graphical upgrades

they are planning but it is not official for 2.2

Thanks for the post and I appreciate the effort but unfortunately I feel compelled to join the majority of the posters here who complain about the lackluster nature of the upcoming content. (Admittedly, I haven't read 57 pages of posts, but I did read the first 15 or so to get a general feel for the people here and I got a distinctly negative one.)
Let me share my opinion (about which you don't give a **** probably) of why the upcoming patches are disappointing.



- A Nightmare Mode of the top end Operations might be fun and challenging content for 0.1% of the players who are lucky enough to be in top end raiding guilds. I would hazard a guess that less than 1% of all players have ever stepped foot in a Nightmare Mode Op. So you're dumping a ton of money and effort to create "content" that only an extreme minority of the players will ever experience (and even they might get sick of doing this rehashed instance over and over again). This will naturally upset 99% of the players who want something more accessible. Not to mention that these new Nightmare Modes still suffer from the same old glaring issues:

1. Having looked at the stats on Dulfy, I have to say that Kell Dragon armor is as ****tily itemized as every single previous tier. You know as well as we do that no self-respecting raider would ever wear the baseline mods that come in stock armor.
2. There is no commendation equivalent for Kell Dragon gear, making itemization virtually impossible. It's not craftable, so raiders will have to rely on random numbers to get gear. Since this tier cannot be crafted, min/maxing will be likely impossible.
3. Armor uses the same models, it's just recolored. Why can't you design at least different looking armor for each tier? And what's up with the ugly models? No self-respecting Consular would wear the Kell Dragon set.

- More XP for active people in the guild sounds like a good idea on paper. But there is a better idea that is accessible to smaller guilds as well! Maybe a 0,5% cumulative experience boost after each legacy level for a total of 25%? Maybe make those legacy levels actually worth something?

- Craftable 72 gear is a logical move if you're introducing a new tier. But for God's sake we need a set bonus-less, commendation based peer-tier for each gear set for itemization purposes.

- Global chat? Hope we can read fast...

- Seems you deliberately missed the new Cartel pack for 2.2. Probably to avoid the ensuing *****torm considering the otherwise epicly lackluster "content".

So yeah, all in all, 2.2 is a huge disappointment for me as well. When you teased "content-packed" I was expecting at least 1 new flashpoint for PvE. I believe Titans of Industry is about 14 months overdue. On a particularly happy day, I was actually thinking about getting the Imperial Warlord flashpoint as well in 2.2, which is close to a year overdue as well now. And at least a new warzone for PvP. But nothing new until August.

Perhaps you don't seem to understand that people want NEW content. That is, NOT Cartel Market, NOT reused old Operations, NOT recolored old gear designs etc. Or perhaps you just don't care.

well you obviously havent tried ranked since at least 2.0.

1)Ranked wzs pop on a regular basis. people want cross so that new teams dont have to face people that have been queing together for months and elite teams from different servers want it so that they can que against each other.

2)Min/Maxed Partisan is all you need to be competitive in ranked WZs and that only takes about a 7-10 for the average person to get if they have a plan. conq is nice but the difference isnt large enough to exclude a person from a ranked match.

3) people are upset at you because you arent playing your roll of guarding the node. You can do that in infiltration now. heck, some teams prefer that so that you can put pressure on their node when they need it. your problem is you say you are going to guard the node and then leaving it. who wants to que up ranked with someone like that?

anyway, i said my peice even though i doubt you will ever read it (lets be honest, i know i wont come back to see if you replied lol)

Not a single cent of profit is put back into the game, It's how EA operates. You can find the evidence to support this claim easy enough if you choose to. It's how every single game under EA works, don't delude yourself into thinking SWTOR is somehow a special case. They operate the gaem at a bare minimum with no plans whatsoever in place to increase it's funding, ever.

I can confirm this. I have played other titles including MMOs and not a single time EA re-invested any of the revenue, the just sit on stuff till it slowly dies.