Encrypted Data Cube-credit boom

Of course everything pisses off players. But some stuff is valid and some is not. This is important to me and other players who value status quo (not even tiny part of lore in CM).


I'm not emotionally worked up, all my arguments are reasonable and there's no post in this thread complaining that this takes space from planned arcs..


I'm not overreacting, we just seem to value lore way different. To me it's one of the most important part of this game. I don't distinguish important lore from not important. It's part of the history of his universe and should never be in CM.

Again... you want to go off topic. What exactly do companion quests have to do with the topic? Are they selling them in the CM? NO. Companions quests though do actually integrate with your character class though, don't they? How again do these data-cubes integrate with your character class? Yeah...... apples meet oranges.

Of course everything pisses off players. But some stuff is valid and some is not. This is important to me and other players who value status quo (not even tiny part of lore in CM).

There is NO status quo in MMOs. They constantly evolve and change over time.

Your concern over throw-away cutscenes are no more (or less) relevant then players who are concerned that an armor skin released and only available in the packs =/= not status quo either. Both concerns are expressed out of proportion to the context of the game itself IMO. You are entitled to the concern, and I am entitled to rebuttal the concern.

If you want to maintain status quo in game play DO NOT play MMOs.

I understand there's no status quo to the game as whole. As I mentioned, I'm talking only about status quo of lore in SWTOR. This is something that should not be tampered with and I believe most games don't even touch on this subject.

Hey folks,

As some of you have already guessed, we made this change to address exploitive behavior. Players were able to create new characters, and with some craftiness, fairly quickly and repeatedly acquire the Credit Booms from the Encrypted Data Cubes.

Hope that explains the decision. Thanks!

-eric

There is no status quo in lore in MMOs either... at least not MMOs that live and expand beyond their launch year.

As for Star Wars Lore... 30+ years of the Lucas empire also demonstrates there is no status quo in lore. Even George can, and did, undermine his own lore creations... all in the name of commercial profit. Jar Jar Binks.... anyone??... anyone?? Cheezy toys sapping off the lore for a buck.. anyone.... anyone?? etc. etc. I don't begrudge anything George did over the years really....it was his IP and his Lore to do with what he wishes. But it exemplifies the invalid nature of your declaration IMO.

Assuming a credit boom gives ~50k each (I used 5 and got 260k, so that's not entirely unfeasable), I could use the 4 datacubes to give me 3,200,000 credits right off the bat for 16 characters I have. Nice return on investment, eh? THEN it gets worse. I could create a character, speed run them through Korriban and DK and run them to Nar Shaddaa to use the datacubes to collect 200k plus whatever he/she earned doing the speedrunning. Rinse and repeat ad nauseum until you get filthy rich exploiting a HUGE bug. This loop has since been closed since the credit booms have been removed. For those of you that are trying to make excuses for it to come back, understand that if they CAME BACK, you'd see those 15k medpacs, 25k stims and whatnot QUICKLY balloon into millions, billions or more EACH because of the abusers of the bug to get infinite credits for very little work.

It's faux story cutscenes. They have no playable context in the game itself and are not required. As such they are fluff. They are simply a different novelty item from the CM, and interesting to collectors IMO.

Now, you could argue that they are so worthless and that you'd rather have a gold plated butter knife for your smuggler or agent.... but that is arguing fluff over fluff.

I love how everything they add to the game now needs to be purchased via Cartel Coins and is considered "Extra" or "Fluff".

So that's it? The game is done? Everything from here on out is "fluff"? Nothing else? Why am I still paying a subscription then?

Money from the Cartel Market should fund Cartel Market content right?