Dread Fortress SM Reaches, Hands, Brontes are broke.

Not sure I buy this... if the intent was truly to have them in no later than 4.3 but hopefully 4.2, then the original post would have said so or at least a clarification response would have been out much sooner than this.

It is what it is... and it's still a month at best for a fix. I'm afraid at this point, the damage has already been done. I know it hit my raid team really hard.

No matter what you say; a bus is in your future.

Agreed, it needs to be fixed next tuesday, unless it results in like a bug of equal caliber, it needs to be fixed.

Why start now?

I fine with that, better than april

Quite frankly Eric, making people mad by telling them "we plan to have raids fixed two months from now" is a really bad way to go at it. This is a major issue for a lot of people.

Hello Eric,

No matter what you say, you're gonna get flak from the community. But I honestly believe it would have been better in this case to say "we will try and fix it in 4.2, but may be unable to until 4.3".

I think the problem is that your staff often gives definitive statements which they can't always live up to. Giving and clearly stating that an "estimated time [or range of time] when this can be fixed" might be better. Giving "At best, in x days, at worst in 4.x and we will give a more precise estimate as we work on the problem", just for example, would probably be a much better way to communicate.

I know from experience as a Rome: Total War modder that giving a definitive date and not living up to it can lead to lots of disappointment.

That being said, I think that maybe you should work hard to push for a fix sooner than 4.2, because that may be what it takes to keep some of these ops communities.

I don't usually address the Devs directly, I can be very critical, but I mean this in the best interest.

~ Eudoxia

I assume what this REALLY means is you're actually quite hopeful that you can make these changes in a hotfix sometime in the next few days. In this instance you wanted to play it safe as you would rather tell us it is fixed sooner than you expected, than say hotfix and lump it into some future update.

It does not.

This could have been fixed in less time than it took to be acknowledged.

This is a hotfix caliber issue. Do not mistake it as otherwise.

Don't get me wrong, I'm glad you guys are at least aware of the fact that the community considers this important. But this retraction does not fix the issue of you treating this with the same degree of weight of say a cartel market toy. These are fundamental core gameplay mechanics that are horribly broken and affect numerous people.

Hotfix.

No offense to the QA team, but your QA are donkey *****. At least your QA process is donkey *****. Don't you have like a list of things to check out in your close testing? If not here's a sample one:

1. Test the things that was changed
2. Test all related NPC vendors
3. Do a run in the most popular flashpoints, with no death god mode, and check completion time against records
4. Do a run in the most popular operations, in god mode and check completion time and note anything odd.
5. Do 2 hours of PVP.
6. Do 2 hours of Starfighter.
7. Check cartel item drop rate.

Make sure you do the first 5 every time and you'll have much less complaints.

Don't even need to, we have a long list of bugs that have been there for up to 2 years buried somewhere in the GSF forums. They've never fixed a single GSF bug.

None of them are game-breaking as far as I can tell, just a nuisance.

~ Eudoxia