Almost 2 years .. and they still don't listen. Thank you BW and EA ...

Funny how you guys keep dropping this line. Yet so many other aspects of the game copy elements from the movies. Starships, weapons, droids, speeders, shuttles, and now even a new companion which from what people say didn't exist back in that time period.

Wait for it.....

Wait for it.....

Wait for it.....

Funny how you guys keep dropping this line. Yet so many other aspects of the game copy elements from the movies. Starships, weapons, droids, speeders, shuttles, and now even a new companion which from what people say didn't exist back in that time period.

Wait for it.....

Wait for it.....

Wait for it.....


Here it is......

There fixed it for ya.

There's a lot of odd gear out there but it's gotten a lot better also. I am not so sure you represent a majority of people here. You've got to realise that your appeal to "game developer doesn't listen" is just a bit silly. They have listened and changed a lot of things, but as in life, you can't always get what you want....or the way you want it.

Could they do more? Sure but to say they don't listen at all is just not a fair assessment. Your title thread is misleading therefore. It's not about EA/BW not listening for two years but you not being happy with your wardrobe choices. That's not the same thing. I am sure they have heard you....doesn't mean you are gonna get what you want and how yo want it now or ever. It sucks sometimes but that's life.

BioWare seems to think we desire new gear more often than we do. They also have gotten lazier and lazier about it's creation and design.

At launch each class had a certain gear model for both PvP and PvE gear. The textures were actually different for each subclass. The Marauder's vs. Juggernaut Centurion / Battlemaster gear is a great example of this. They used the same models but the textures were substantially different for each subclass. Helmets were totally different for each subclass: Here are some examples:

1.) Bull horn head vs. Dunce cap of doom.
2.) Snail head of the Rakata Juggernaut vs. the Terminator skull for the Marauder.

From the introduction of the Dread Guard armors things already got lazy. We had different sets for PvE and PvP but there were no more differences between subclasses. So the only thing that differentiated the Juggernaut from the Marauder was color. Back then we couldn't dye the armors so that was the differentiating factor in our appearances. But the War Hero armor looked nothing like the Dread Guard armors.

The last couple of sets were the laziest yet. Essentially Partisan / Arkanian armor shared models as did the Conqueror and Underworld Gear. So we got two new models where as PvE and PvP armors shared appearances between tiers. Now we got new armors for each tier (69 vs. 72, 63, vs. 65) but PvE and PvP sets looked the same aside from color.

Kell Dragon was worse. They just added some really stupid glowing / lighting effects to the hideous existing models. Color schemes were even worse. (Brighter red vs. a burgundy on the Warrior armor for example.) Firebrand gear shells were pretty much the same and actually had no value. I've never even seen those shells in use on a PvE server as ranked PvP is non-existent on the Harbinger.

So in 2.4 we get horrendous World of Warcraft looking armor sets that essentially look more or less the same for all classes and factions with minor differences separating them. PvE and PvP sets will likely look identical.

The point is BioWare is getting worse and WORSE with their end game armors. Even when they do strike gold with a set they still stop just short of making it great. The Dread Guard Sith Warrior set looked good with the exception of the helmets. The Verpine / Underworld Agent jacket was fantastic but the pants look like spandex on male toons. I could go on and on but essentially BioWare seems to have the best design talent working on the Cartel Market stuff and the same horrible designers working on end game armors we aren't paying anything additional for.

What goes beyond comprehension is the fact that customers / players of this game have *****ed about the non-Star Wars (not even good by any standard) looking end game gear from the days of the very first level 50 characters and nearly two years later BioWare has done NOTHING to improve the situation. Each new tier of gear is cosmetic FAIL time and time again. BioWare gives us everything EXCEPT what we've ASKED for.

I'm not saying that all the gear need look precisely as the stuff in the movies do, but it should carry the same feel while retaining a period look which binds it to this time period in Star Wars history. The KOTOR games already showed us that Jedi and Sith have more or less worn the same style equipment for thousands of years as monks in our world have done the same for centuries. Why is it so hard for people at BioWare to grasp this concept?

More to this point, they've failed to achieve the desired results outside of the Cartel Market for any class. I can make a bounty hunter look like Boba-Fett or Cad Bane to some extent. What I can't do is make anyone look vaguely like Darth Maul or the Emperor, or even Star Killer which is what I should be able to do. The Eradicator and Valiant Jedi Armors are great examples of how gear should be designed. It's clearly a different period of gear than what you saw in the movies but it still screams "Jedi" or "Sith". The problem is that I don't want all 6 or 7 of my force using characters to look exactly the same because there are only one or two armors that look right in the game.

This underwater zombie welder pretty much says it all when it comes to BioWare's end game gear design. They don't have a *********** clue what they are doing and what their source material is all about, nor how to replicate the look and feel of the universe while still being unique.

http://i.imgur.com/2DVyKrr.jpg

You Good Sir, obviously haven't read the previous posts I've made referring to the above mentioned. Don't be lazy and make some half witted comment without looking first .. just saying.

I am surprised at the fire back and forth....I wonder if it has anything to do with the OPs confrontational attitude at the beginning of the thread.

How about you don't make an ignorant post like you just did in response to me. You know we were talking about the color crystals, my post was about you talking about the color crystals. What I quoted FROM your post was about color crystals.

I have read the previous posts you made in this thread. If you want me to look outside of this thread, then please do provide me a damn link before you act like P.O.S. know-it-all with an attitude.

You said red, blue, and green crystals are the only canonical crystals in Star Wars, I argued that George Lucas created the Clone Wars series, episodes 1-3, and worked heavily on other assets in the Star Wars franchise that say otherwise. What the Hell are -you- talking about? I have read your previous posts in this thread, nothing you said suggests otherwise.

Arrogant. You were talking about the crystals, I was talking about the crystals in response to you. Don't change the damn subject to make yourself appear smarter than you really are.

I can't wait for your next egotistical response to me that has nothing to do with what I said. Perhaps you're the lazy one.