Bioware: Most of your players are pvp'ers.... figure it out!

The problem is, if this is done, some of these arguments fall flat, and we can't have that, can we? Hell, he's even gone so far as to defend some of the changes, exhibiting the same behavior he condemns in everyone else. This must in fact mean that he believes the game is better for these changes than it was, meaning that it is fundamentally different, from his perspective, than it was a year ago, since these changes that he defends aren't a year old.

It's not 1945 anymore, please try to get with the times.

You still don't get it? There is nothing wrong with defending individual balance decisions! The problem is when you defend the overall mediocrity of the game.

... you lost me bud.

You still don't get it? There is nothing wrong with defending individual balance decisions! The problem is when you defend the overall mediocrity of the game.

You still don't get it? There is nothing wrong with defending individual balance decisions! The problem is when you defend the overall mediocrity of the game.

Oh this is just plain ridiculous. Reading through your past responses you seem to be an intelligent and sharp individual; this is just borderline flame bait.

I have a very hard time believing you take yourself here with this post seriously.

This game is objectively mediocre, with respect to the vast amount of money originally invested, and the gaming community as a whole's expectations of it (that it was going to be somewhat of a WoW killer). It is obviously not a game's obligation to completely live up to its hype, but SWTOR was on another level of letdown. Talk about SWTOR in forums and games outside of this one, and you'll get laughed at. This game has a TERRIBLE reputation in the gaming community compared to other games.

This game didn't just do poorly compared to the gaming community's expectations- but also EA's expectations. This can be demonstrated in several ways:

Large cutbacks to EA's staff following a large exodus of subscribers.

Promises of future content that were never realized (cross server Qs, "hundreds of planets", etc.).

The transition to F2P (you can talk all you want about how that was a good move for them- the point is that the only reason that this transition brought them more revenue than they would've received otherwise is because the number of subscribers dropped below a certain point. If the number of subs had remained the same or increased as one would reasonably hope, a transition to F2P would've been neither necessary nor profitable).

Your public denial of the objective mediocrity of this game is poisonous to its growth. When developers see in the forums that people are satisfied with the game, they became complacent. You need to learn the concept of bargaining. When you're looking at a potential purchase at a venue in which haggling is acceptable, and someone offers you a ... meh... decent price for it, you do not reply with "alright sure, sounds good!", even if you would be willing to part with that amount of money for it. Instead, you act dissatisfied with said price, and negotiate for a lower one. In the same way, it is unwise to express your complete satisfaction with the game on the forums, even if it is completely true. If they know that they don't have to increase their development efforts in order to retain subs, they will not do so. Assuming you would like for them to put more effort into the continued development of this game, I suggest you take my advice and ask for more out of them. This has nothing to do with PvE or PvP.

This game is objectively mediocre, with respect to the vast amount of money originally invested, and the gaming community as a whole's expectations of it (that it was going to be somewhat of a WoW killer). It is obviously not a game's obligation to completely live up to its hype, but SWTOR was on another level of letdown. Talk about SWTOR in forums and games outside of this one, and you'll get laughed at. This game has a TERRIBLE reputation in the gaming community compared to other games.

This game didn't just do poorly compared to the gaming community's expectations- but also EA's expectations. This can be demonstrated in several ways:

Large cutbacks to EA's staff following a large exodus of subscribers.

Promises of future content that were never realized (cross server Qs, "hundreds of planets", etc.).

The transition to F2P (you can talk all you want about how that was a good move for them- the point is that the only reason that this transition brought them more revenue than they would've received otherwise is because the number of subscribers dropped below a certain point. If the number of subs had remained the same or increased as one would reasonably hope, a transition to F2P would've been neither necessary nor profitable).

Your public denial of the objective mediocrity of this game is poisonous to its growth. When developers see in the forums that people are satisfied with the game, they became complacent. You need to learn the concept of bargaining. When you're looking at a potential purchase at a venue in which haggling is acceptable, and someone offers you a ... meh... decent price for it, you do not reply with "alright sure, sounds good!", even if you would be willing to part with that amount of money for it. Instead, you act dissatisfied with said price, and negotiate for a lower one. In the same way, it is unwise to express your complete satisfaction with the game on the forums, even if it is completely true. If they know that they don't have to increase their development efforts in order to retain subs, they will not do so. Assuming you would like for them to put more effort into the continued development of this game, I suggest you take my advice and ask for more out of them. This has nothing to do with PvE or PvP.