Yes it's important that in a story driven MMO that the 0.1% of the population feel superior for a couple weeks. Bioware will never wake up apparently and realize their community aren't hardcore raiders.

I hate to break it to you but even if they sold expansions for 50$ we still wouldn't get more content more more frequent content releases. The vast majority of the swtor playerbase is here for the story experience, people who wants to raid or pvp play WoW and FFXIV. People are HERE for a star wars story experience, the PVP and Raid scene is so small that they deleted ranked PVP. Despite knowing this Bioware is too busy focusing on making UI changes no one asked for and releasing 1hours worth of story within a 1 year time frame. JUST RELEASE STORY, that's all they have to do and the game will be just fine. But they aren't, and they won't because they clearly think they are something that they aren,t they are trying to be something they will never be anymore. I've also seen the new staff changes and needless to say this game is about to go woke and broke. Which it's already started down that disney path.

When was it 1300? did I miss some great datacron sale or something, it was 2000 for about 4 years or so. 1300 seems like a meme, but 2000 was a decent price. People must be paying 3200 CC to buy them though, if it's making Bioware money who cares it'll help them fund their next 30min expansion.

The ranked pvp scene is the minority in SWTOR, thinking otherwise is just being delusional. If you want to focus ranked pvp then play WoW. The vast majority of the player base in SWTOR is casual....all the "hardcore" raiders left 10 years ago. Not even 1% of the playerbase did ranked pvp in SWTOR, this change impacts barely anyone. This isn't my opinion it's a fact, if the ranked population was large enough to make any sort of an impact of upsetting the player base then Bioware wouldn't of removed it. But they did, why? cause they know maybe 10 people will be upset lol. Welcome to SWTOR, do the stories, watch some cutscenes and then when you get bored unsub and go play other MMOs like everyone else does. SWTOR is a rotating door of an MMO. You started playing in 2017, you were 6years late on the pvp hype train. It's been a meme ever since. Accept it and move on

No, Biowares solution to problems is to cover their eyes and pretend it doesn't exist, if they can't see it it isn't real. It's why nothing ever gets fixed or changes and why they add in stuff that people on the ptr in mass said were bad.

Can't afford items above 1million? is that a joke? anything of worth or note is almost 1 billion. The GTN is a disaster, the economy is tanked

The saddest part of this, is that the game is in outage by majority and bioware hasn't said a SINGLE THING, I haven't seen a single CM say anything at all. They just don't give a crap, they are like children closing their eyes pretending it's not real and hoping it goes away soon.

People complained and cried about KOTFE/KOTET, but at least both of them actually felt like an expansion. Onslaught felt like a 5$ dlc from paradox games and Legacy of the sith so far is a x.1 patch update at best

Let's see what they do? you just compared FFXIV's relaunch 10 years ago to Swtor's 8th expansion? This isn't a... "lets see what they do to salvage it" situation, swtor had that moment 11 years ago

You're not very smart if you think Bioware had nothing to do with this "expansion" being released in this state

It's hilarious, they aren't even doing damage control or trying to calm the flames they are literally sitting back and watching the flames burn it all down

Yeah they promised you stuff IN THE EXPANSION but didn't say when. They'll milk this **** for subs because they are lazy, it's like WoW except WoW atleast gives you initial content to grind and keep busy but 7.0 was just a 2hour crappy movie that made no sense. They'll release a planet every year and then in 3 years say "See we told you we'd give you 3 new planets"

Except the main selling point of swtor is the story, because prior to all this 6.0-7.0 non sense the story for the game was amazing. If another MMO is made it won't be story driven, it'll be PVP focus because pvp requires the least amount of content...you don't need to design raids or raids bosses or new loot tables and balance, the only concept they'd keep is the cartel market

LOL this patch wannabe expansion is such a joke omg lol Their only form of income is subs....and cartel market. This patch was so bad that people are unsubbing and now they broke it so you can't even use the gear you buy from the cartel market LOL they are SINKING THIS game

You should, Bioware released this patch...it's not an expansion it's a patch let's be honest. They released it and ignored ALL THE FEEDBACK. They won't suddenly start now, they will never fix your class.IF they do, big IF... it'll be in 6-8 months. DOn't give them money

I get the feeling whoever is in charge of balancing is an IA story fan boy. Years and years of force users laughing at them for making no sense in the story.."Meerrr im a secret agent I could sneak up behind arcann and stab him!" finally got in a position of power and now are just going full merc mode on everything but the IA(PT can come too I guess)

Don't really need to? if you see those numbers and try to justify it as a means the expansion is not a flop then you need to leave your sheep pen and open your eyes. This is the release of an expansion after 3 years of the last one. It should be hyped and overplayed, people shouldn't be logging off. But i'm sorry, if on the day of release the "Majority are in the game enjoying it" and that majority on average of the numbers you post during 24hour peak on an expansion launch day is 19,000 people....that's a flop that's a huge flop It means the game from sub numbers is bringing in 3.4 Million a year in revenue lol. IF those numbers stay the same for an entire year which they won't they will decrease. They better hope they make some amazing broken cartel market releases to milk the sheep or this game is bye soon.

That i've logged out of an expansion within 2hours of playing it. FFXI/FFXIV/WoW/GW2/Swtor I've been there for them all, I have my crappy founder title. I've been in all those games for every expansion, this is the FIRST TIME i've ever had no desire to take a day off work or stay up all night in preparation and anticipation for an expansion pre and post launch. You should be ashamed, this isn't an expansion it's a joke. How dare you title this an expansion, it has less content in it then a side mission in FFXIV, it has less content then the planet of Korriban. Disappointed

I do agree a name purge would be good, another solid proof method and the one I use is to always keep a character slot open for this reason. Log out, create new character, type in names til you find one you like that's not taken. However I also have 39 characters and not one of them are double names or have any funky letters in them, so maybe you're just trying to pick obviously common names.

Give Bioware a break, they've only been working on Swtor for almost 10 years. It's not their fault they're bad at making their own game ok. As a founder, this is nothing new. I'm used to them derping up their own game after every single patch. I mean i'm getting red ms every 5seconds, or D/C's. Now I know the BW fan boys will say it's my isp... or my system, but when something works perfectly fine and then doesn't right after a patch? nope... that's not me fanboys, that's allll bioware. Thankfully while i'm having constant red ms spikes on swtor, I have 30MS on WoW and FFXIV, so I just play those if needed.

You're making it sound like the malgus storyline has been going on for 10 years. He's basically been dead for the last 8 years and just got reintroduced in a story we haven't finished yet. "The Eternal Empire story line has been played out. Please end it for good and move on to another story." They did, the eternal empire is gone, you have nothing to do with it anymore? have you even played since being back? Speaking of that, someone who hasn't even played for the last year crying over content is pretty funny in it's own. Just go back to WoW

Increasing monthly CC instead is a much better option as others have said, it might even lower the price on stuff on the GTN that's way over priced. I mean Black/Black dye and Master's datacron both literally went from 30-40M to 200-300M over night.

Pretty sure they stated Covid was an issue, you know that virus going around making people lose work, die... stuff like that? A game that uses voice acting for everything would be kind of hard to regularly make content for considering all the rules and restrictions from social distancing

The star wars universe has unlimited lore. If bioware does it right they have content for many many many more years. Hell if they wanted to they could find a way to create a story for an expansion where we have to face sith lords that have been brought back to life and we fight Tulak hord or Marka ragnos Or who cares, it's Star wars they have the technology to warp through space why can't they create an expansion where the PC is sent back through time and we fight in the Mandalorian wars along side Revan and witness his fall to the darkside? Or the Rakata Empire? Lets relive KOTOR/KOTOR II Or you know what? forget all this expansion non sense where we all share the same story, i'd rather have class stories back. I'd love for my inquistor to actually be on the dark council and do dark council stuff in a story, or my sith warrior feel like a wrath, my jedi feel like a blade master. Let the PC take on an actual apprentice or smuggle stuff through space. The BH still doesn't even feel like a Mandalorian or a bounty hunter. Give us class stories part 2

GSF being dead on your server isn't going to change, it will probably be dead on all servers soon too because Bioware/EA have no idea what they're doing. The new crates/caches? rewards garbage. You now need 10 wins/losses for the weekly, it's hard enough finding one match with 1-3hour ques. And now they added a 15min debuff if you leave the match early, which means if you spend 3hours in que and get matched up against one of those pre mades you just wasted 3hours for 1/10 on your weekly, you're now forced to spend 10min getting beat up by a premade knowing you won't win. Or it's a deathmatch and you have a suicider on your team and you're stuck with them too, instead of fixing the vote kick system to get rid of these people, they punish those who don't want to waste time playing with them. Just stop subbing, not giving them your money might slap them in the face for actual changes people want.