I sometimes feel that the posts I write and those of others are like those of a couple who have recently split up. So many players, including myself, seem to be saying to bioware it'll all be alright if we just change a little and grow together. We have had so many years together do you really want to throw it all away? Do you remeber the time you made smash monkeys? oh how we laughed together after they got nerfed to normal levels.

But the sad truth is bioware is the abusive partner. The partner we hang on to because we feel they offer something that others can't. It's all locked up inside them and we try to make it rise to the surface. We paid for a game from the shop shelves at a premium price, and continued to pay maintenance on it but the truth is it isn't the same game anymore. It didn't grow. We continue to invest time, money and love but Bioware only uses this to see what we can be made to do. "Make them do 100 more levels of cxp. make the grind from 0 to highest even bigger". "Give them the biggest encouragement to have alts and then take away the possibility".

Many MMOs are on the market and they are grind based or microtransaction based, they have never been as successful as Swtor. So why else would bioware be following these unsuccessful business models? It must surely be a sadistic nature of the developers.

Refusing to balance classes at the earliest opportunity, sorc healers have been this way since 3.0, nearly half the life of the game. It makes a mockery of the gaming system, they boasted at the time of launch 8 individual classes, but only 3 are now playable. They said it would be an expanding game, but 2 new warzones in 3 years (8v8) and the first new op in 18 months? They said legacy would matter. They told us class balance was easy with utility points and there would be no delay. They told us that pvp would be easier and easier to gear.

They told us many things but like that abusive partner they lied as they slipped eel like through our hearts. What started as an imperfect relationship with many bugs we worked together and became closer for it. In those early honeymoon days we forgave mistakes and they provided maps and ops. But after 5 years and so many unasked for changes in direction, so much wasted on frivolous things, they now know they don't even have to appease us the paying customer. "There will be no class balance in 5.2" A statement of fact, an order to stop asking for their attention, a demand that you will put up with all their decisions.

Like every abusive relationship there comes a time. It's a time of sorrow. A moment that stills holds you still. As you walk away today, tomorrow, in another 5 years time, you will look back on those good times with bitterness. A bitter taste taints the fruits that had been, and the a resentful glance that one wrong word can turn to hatred. A lost love that so little resembles what you fell in love with you wonder if it was ever there at all.

I couldn't resist.

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