Bioware, please don't keep secrets. We Don't want an NGE

People seriously need to get over SWG

People seriously need to read more than the thread title.

LMAO...too funny......

Nervous???

Let's see....the expansion comes out...if I love it...I continue to sub and enjoy
If I hate it?...I click the unsub button and move on....

I wish I had a life where silly things like this actually made someone nervous

And because one developer made one horrible decision and killed off an unimportant game it needs to be brought up whenever an expansion is announced for this game? No, it doesn't.

As someone with a Marketing degree, you don't exactly understand how the process works. Because I have news for you, even those super-successful video games, TV show, and movies had decisions come from the six-figure end of things. To state that it's only the failures that did, is idiotic.

Whether you're the creative end making the content of said video game, TV, or film, or the financial end figuring out how much bang for what buck, or the marketing end trying to hit all the consumer behavior triggers your target demographic typically possesses, none of it works in a vacuum.

And marketing rarely, ever, determines product content. Unless you mean as a result of Marketing Research, which is a different area entirely. And if that's the case, you should look into Neuromarketing, which is being used by many big companies today.

Does this mean I can has my Billions back?!?

Not true. I remember some poor poster that got crucified on forums for saying that he had inside info about the upcoming changes. Jedi being a starter profession amongst other things.
Turned out he was right.

Two different games. Obviously. What I guess is a bit less obvious is how it was two different communities wanting different things as well. SWG was a sandbox; make your own adventure, make your own emergent story, make your own goals. For much of this, game mechanics, class balance and things like combat and classes feeling functional and "right" were actually really, really important. Need for devs to tune and balance this stuff was real. And possibility for them to fail horribly while at it was very real too.

SW:TOR is little bit more protected in this sense; I'd guess something like 25-50% of people in here have grown completely alienated from the actual game play elements of their game.
They are here to follow Bioware story and spin Bioware dialog wheel. When appeasing these people, Bioware has the remarkable luxury of - completely - ignoring things such as class balance and combat mechanics.

Just look at the soloable story-aligned content brought in during last 18 months etc. Like Dark Allegiances FPs and so on. Any fading trail of challenge or actual gameplay aligned need to do anything " right" or to perform " well" in any way has been completely removed from equation. I¨'m honestly not sure if it is even possible to die when soloing Dark Allegiances FPs. If you have your NPC companion out, you can actually go AFK for the end battle of ziost expansion. And all this is 101% fine for most people. They do not want gameplay that'd challenge them or require anything from them. They do not want to have a small possibility of failing a task as part of their gameplay. When no encounter is designed to have a real possibility of NPC winning any player class in almost any situation, what does it matter how broken classes or itemization etc are? In such environment, it is completely irrelevant how broken or unbalanced some class is, or how bad or useless spells of some other class are. Half of the people will never notice or care. As long as BW has them spells looking cool, they are golden.

You have a great knack for hyperbole and assumptions. I'm sure you fit right in here.

It's Forged Alliances, by the way.

Thanks!

You and I are players posting to thread about future changes in game. I'm not sure why you'd read such threads if you are very allergic to speculation, assumptions and such.

Instead of trying to make observations about me as a poster, you could instead try your luck with the actual content in my post. Would you say I am completely wrong then? Do you believe significant portion of the people here have -not - grown completely alienated from the thought of having to face boss fights or any other content that could be considered 'difficult' or challenging?