Are ops/raids outdated?

Not caring about it is a pretty good way to get me to not play it. Hard to care about jumping into what amounts to someone else's character at level 60, especially when I'm not even allowed to tweak the "backstory" from all the Bioware defaults.

Because I received it as a gift, I played ME2 before ME1, and I felt like I was playing a cardboard cutout, or filling in for another player at an RPG player. The had to download a "savegame creator" and read up on ME1 to set up a character with some actual history, before I could really enjoy ME2 (and it was even better once I was able to download a copy of ME1 and play through it).

OK, I can accept that (and more than accept it; it's a pretty good viewpoint). And I would agree with the notion that it would have been nice for KotFE's start-at-60 option to have had the ability to choose at least "important" branch points (LS/DS "viewpoint," which romance flags were set, and important class decisions); though doing it in-interface rather than by being able to set up a "save game" would be tricky.

You do understand that the existence of poor players years ago does not in any way invalidate my point. Nor would the presence of high-caliber players today. I am not painting the picture back in ~1.2->2.0 as butterflies and rainbows. So.... I think you aren't actually arguing my point. You're arguing with the fact that I disagreed with you.

The level of ability of the average new Operations player today is far below the level of ability in the past. Anyone who spends a decent amount of time doing Operations content in this game - and who has been since Denova came out - cannot possibly disagree with this statement. I'm not sure if I've ever seen anyone aside from you argue this.

The game simply does not prepare players for this content. If anything, it encourages new players to learn poor play. I do not blame "casuals", I blame the developers.

So why still keep them and rescale them?

Why are you asking gagibool? The developers are the ones that did it.

I just think it's dumb. They should make new ops if they really care about it.

Your posts in this thread are all over the place.

Sometimes you want "tactical ops". Sometimes you want old ops to be rescaled down to be faceroll easy. Sometimes you want new ops.

Formulate a clear though as to what you want, go to the suggestion forums, and ask for it.

I just think they shouldn't use these old ops to keep the challenge and make people spend so much effort on it and endure personal drama. Just let them be as easy as possible for people to enjoy. Even Revan is long gone, no point to rescale them up as zombies anyway.

maybe the next operation will have nothing but insta kill mechanics.


KAPPA

BW wanted to raise the level cap to 65.
BW wanted to have Raid content at par level for this new cap.
BW did not want to spend a significant amount of resources to provide this Raid content at par level for the new cap.

Raising the level of existing Ops allowed BW to say that there are nine max-level Ops available, without them having to expend more resources than they were willing to devote to it.