The only recourse that the 'management' and 'dev team' will listen to is the sound of the subscribers leaving in droves. Which will happen. The changes to gearing, crafting and overall gameplay are terrible. Just terrible. Not even worth paying for.

Yes. It seems that the new lead producer, like the last one, hates the player base and wants them all to leave. Just like the last production team takes it way too personally when the players decide that the stuff they introduce is mind-numbingly boring and not worth the fifteen dollars a month to play. Complaining about it, voting with our wallets, or any other forms of protest will be ignored in favor of a community manager that chooses not to listen to the community, because they express opinions that run contrary to his pro-pvp and pro-trooper/bounty hunter/imperial agent/smuggler bent to listen to what the community actually says. Besides, at this point the people in charge of 6.0 have already decided that we need to have the mod as it is, and we are gonna like it. Or it gets the hose! Honestly, BIOFAIL and EA need to lose the license for Swtor, and it needs to be shut down. A new MMO is needed to service the Star Wars fans need to run around in a digital world with glowing sticks and pretend you are either a sith lord, or a jedi.

It won't matter a whit. If the storyline/content sucks as much as Kotet/Kofte did, then they will leave. Just as three quarters of the player base has left since 2.0 If the dev team responsible for the fiasco that is the 'fallen empire' story are behind or in any way involved with 6.0, then it will all fail. HORRIBLY. The gearing, play changes, crafting is all window dressing. What really matters to most hardcore players is raiding, and content to play with your alts and friends. When it stops being fun (which was two days after chapter one of kotet was released), then the fecal matter will interact with an air circulation device.

How about we just ask the dev's to do the entire game a favor and remove Umbara, Chiss and Nathema from the game. Right along with the entire knights of the failed expansion and knights of the eternal torment.

I also disagree. The requirement of pvp for the weekly spoils the entire update. Bioware, please remove this. It's outstandingly bad form to force people, like me, whom dislike pvp. There is no rhyme or reason to make us do something we do not like, just so that we can do a weekly quest series.

Does this mean that you are going to make Chapter eight of KOTET worth triple the amount of CxP? That's about the only thing that will make me finish it from now on......Chapter eight SUCKS!!

I would not know about the Empire being 'better' than the Republic, but I do know that the Developers and writers seem to hate ANY melee character right off of the bat. It seems that any force wielding character has been disadvantaged in favor of anyone playing ranged.

Okay, if you read the article, then you'd know that the OP is WAY off base.....With some of the things he/she said. I will, on the other hand, agree that the development and writing teams need to be terminated, new teams brought in to fix the glaring mistakes that have been left and generally perpetrated on the player base by a bunch of RANGE-LOVING PVP MONKEYS!

Don't bother with Immortal tanking. Shield-tech and Vanguard just do it all better. Jugg tanking hasn't been worthy of anything for over a year now.

Yeah, I'm in the same boat. It's really disconcerting, too, because I was looking forward to reading the patch notes. Now, I don't mind German.... I just don't speak the language fluently or read it. So, guys, is this a mistake or a bug, or a prank? Please tell us this is just a bug and it's not affecting the game itself. I think I'll be really upset if I get in-game and find out that the rest of my alliance speaks German to me.

Why didn't they listen to the beta comments? Well, it's simple: The dev's at bioware have come to realize that any and all play testing and beta testing of mods is totally subjective, and that because most of the team is so focused on pvp that they can ignore suggestions that in any way parody, deride or indeed make pvp seem less exciting or even less fun. Let's look at the changes to all of the abilities that they launched in 4.0. Most of them are geared towards pvp. Let's face it: The dev's have no interest in catering to the pve crowd whatsoever.

Why bother with a Jugg/Guardian in 4.0? It's been shafted again. It seems that the dev's hate anything that isn't a bounty hunter/trooper.

I'm more worried about the lack of improvement for the Guardian/Juggernaut ability Guardian leap/intercede. It's been around since launch, and it's nowhere near as powerful, interesting or useful as some of the other level 50 tank abilities. I mean come on, here we are debating more movement when half of the population neither uses or cares about some of the powers we already have. I can't see the point of these, except to salve the ego of Mara/Sent players. Even then, it's like the dev's are solely trying to focus on PVP. These forums are a bad place to get a balanced review or even feedback.

It still looks like they are going to remove it. They obviously hate the mDPS classes.....For the amount of constant nerfage that the class has received over the past three or so years, it's obvious that they don't want it played at an end game level, and it's more obvious that the only class they want to succeed at pvp is a stealth toon.

Sents, Mara's and all mdps toons will be ignored until the dev's feel like throwing them a bone. Sure, Jugg/Guardian MDPS does okay, but it's not in the same league as RDPS. That's because the devs are, and will remain range dps-loving pvp monkeys. They fail to see the issues surrounding the class, and fail to see that they need to address it. They also refuse to listen to the community. I agree with the sentiment that they are going to remove the class from the game. They may as well........

Imho, pvp ruins any MMO. Just sayin'.........

I'd like to see the dev's admit that the utilities they have designed and released have severely restricted anyone who doesn't play 'PVP' for more than two seconds, and I would like to see the dev's admit they are Range-loving pvp monkeys that hate melee dps.

For PVE; Re-roll and make a BH, or a commando. No point playing MDPS during 3.0

No, combat sent isn't bugged....Just fubar! The Dev's hate melee dps at this time..... Didn't you get the memo?

Then you, Sir, and I will have to agree to disagree. I'd call you all sorts of names, and make some threats, but that seems like a childish waste of time and energy I can better put to use expressing my dislike of the discipline system and the planet of Rishii.

There was at least some feeling of choice, and some feeling of being able to customize your character. Now there is nothing. What makes me sad is that the few choices are geared toward abilities that I see as useless or not worth pursuing. Sure, I get that the developers of the class skills want to increase the functionality of some abilities, but so far, that has not happened. Not only that, but we are given all of these utility points toward abilities that were useless, and have now become (with said utility points) next to useless. I just do not understand the logic or reasoning behind taking flawed abilities in the first place and trying to improve them. At the same time, you nerf the rest of our abilities. Dev's, do one or the other, but not both at the same time.

No, no it won't. Not to some people. I'm almost at the point of leaving the game, permanently. I dislike the changes to some of the classes, but the content of the new update is just so... Terrible. Sure there are some nice features, and Yavin 4 looks kinda cool, but the mess that the dev's have made of the utilities and disciplines is just beyond a joke. It's heartbreaking to see that the hours and hours I have spent playing and having fun have now been wasted. Any form of placebo-accomplisments I have made whilst playing this game all feel like they are for naught. And then there is the pirate outfits. Really? Pirate outfits? I always said the dev's had the worst taste in design, now I am sure that not only are the developers of this game suffering from some form of superiority complex, but they are 'fashion challenged'.

ROTHC was quite good, compared to the wanna-be Cap'n Jack Sparrow lookalikes that they have stuck us with on Rishii! I mean, come on, do the dev's think we are 12 or 42?

Whom?

Well, that's my opinion, and so far I can not find any one thing to change it. Oh, maybe Yavin 4. That's kinda cool, but the rest? Well, let's take stock, shall we? The dev's have killed any form of class customization. It was bad enough that the developers thought they needed to kill off half the classes, but this shoehorning of the utilities that really do no favors to any one class, let alone make any character playable is too much. So far I've lost more ingame patience with the system than ever before. So, yeah. I think the dev's deserve a round of applause for making and releasing the worst content and update to a game in the history of all mmo's.