Are ops/raids outdated?

I enjoy SWTOR still after many years but I will confess I still play it mostly because there is nothing better out there at the moment. At least not in my view. SWTOR does cater to some of the things I like in a game that other games simply don't offer or are poor at. I am speaking of things like atmosphere, story and good voice acting and well, it is Star Wars after all.

I do like the raid content and have done a lot of it, but I guess now my main character is full 224, I am starting to get to the situation where there is no point to it anymore because the operations are all old. And then there is the issue that the other activities that do exist in the game are also old and/or underdeveloped like Starfighter, Conquest and Strongholds for example. BW get in their own way there a lot or rather in my way to enjoy it as much as I could.

So I think raid content is still viable but let's be honest, it's rather a bit of a mess in this game now. Try to think of a new player who never did raids before. There are no practice operations. The Story Mode operations are of an enormous variety of difficulty and yet are treated as the same by the game and HM isn't always really HM. Perhaps it's not raiding that's outdated but the way it's being done.

I personally Disagree with that, but Nothing I believe is proof (with facts) against what you believe, and nothing you can say can prove with facts, that MMO's are in the past. I simply believe that any gaming company needs MORE then a certain IP. They need to continually create content for the game on a reasonable time table (for as many aspects as possible PvP, GSF, PvE, Story etc). They also must consistently fix bugs (game breaking ones especially) within a reasonable amount of time. This has not happened here, so people are moving on, but from the people I know that have moved on, they are still moving to other MMO's.

Just as an aside here, because I don't care one way or the other, since I raid with my guild, or not at all, but if it wasn't a problem would there be countless threads/posts about how it's a problem? I mean, we have this thread, where the OP discusses filling a group as part of the problem, the latest iteration of the "we need cross server queues" thread, which suggest that there is a lack of players to fill these roles. Of course, most tanks/healers are limiting themselves to guild/premade groups to avoid the drama issue, that's been an ongoing thing since before swtor frankly.

It's true, not just SWTOR, most of the MMO of that era has failed, even the super mega WOW is going downhill since 2010 or 2011. Even if Bioware do all these, it's just another WOW.

If I ran a business and 90% of my customers wanted product A
and 10% wanted product B
The I would be an idiot, to ignore the 90% and cater to the 10% and at the same time expect to have a profit.
90% want the game more or less as it is now......10 % want radical changes.
Do the Math

Now I just saw hours being wasted because of a noob tank who can't find his way into Xeno and quit twice, causing the whole raid group to disband.

Lousy group..............I'd expect the norm would be to take a break and pug a replacement..........

OHhhh I forgot it don't fit in when we can cry foul!

But they had already wait for a long while. Seriously finding a tank(and sometimes heal) is wayy to painful today.

It's a tricky thing. A game like GW2 boasted not having the holy trinity in their game and had no raiding content. Now they are introducing raiding content and the trinity is coming back into it since some time.

I know it's hard to find tanks and healers sometimes but the question that has to be answered is why. I think it's important to have these roles because it gives more definition to characters. At the same time it should be rewarding to play them. I play mostly healers, but also tanks and dps. I do not like to tank pugs though because there is just too much crap going on in pugs. It's the players in my view that cause this problem and not the game.

Which is a big mistake for GW2, it went away from casual players since HoT.

So I think all classes should be able to do all three roles in ops and there should be no "tank gear". At least for OLD CONTENT.