I think the game is just outdated. It's 10 years old and its had a long run but I don't see another 10 years. It's gotta evolve gameplay wise quite a lot

I mean, what else can BW/EA actually do at this point? Obviously EA don't want to pump any more money into developing content for this game. But what exactly is going to bring in more players? More raids? More story content? The same stuff we've been getting most expansions? GSF was a breath of fresh air, but since then I've not seen anything particularly innovative. The game is 10 years old and could never be as big as WoW. The game needs to port to consoles and go the ESO route. Dumb down the abilities for classes and improve player movement. Create an amazing gameplay trailer showcasing the port. The game is a story based MMO. The story is already there. They just gotta change up the mechanics a bit.

Man, I just wanna go back to the old days. Gear drops during raids and flashpoints. Why is this such a difficult concept to keep in the game? Why did they have to dumb the game down sooo much?

Founder here. I wouldn't even call this an expansion. It is more of a story update (but of course we will have those people in denial who obsess over the definition of expansion). This was way overhyped and way underdelivered. It's not that difficult to just pour extra money into hiring developers and making content. The passion doesn't seem to be there any more. EA obivously don't see any financial future in this game, and it really does seem like it's on maintenance mode. The updates over the years have changed the game completely and looking back, I miss the old days. Like I said in another post somewhere, I logged in ONE DAY on this update and never logged back in. That's how bad it is for me. I feel the only future for this game is going to consoles, give us only a select few abilities like DA or ESO, get rid of armorings/enhancements, dumb it down enough for a controller. The game is story focused and you don't need a keyboard for story.

It's an expansion. It expands the time for EA to make money from cartel whales before they turn off the servers for good.

I'm in the exact same boat. Being a founder I've only managed to log in for a week or two sometimes in the past 3-4 years and go through the content. I didn't even log in the next day after checking out what's new with this one. My guess is the dev team is just a shell of it's former self. Plus this is a 10 year old game and resources are probably focued on going into money making content, such as the CM. The trailer, although nice, was just to get people hyped

Completely agree with this. The information they gave on this info page is misleading. They should have just said it how it is instead of being so vague.

You know what, they should just delete the forums because the majority are happy playing the game right? Who cares what a "minority" has to say?

its in the juggernaut abilities

I've only come back after 2 years just to check it out, I don't think I'll be staying long though.

I guess I was misinformed about that. But another thing, how do you "secretly" use dark side powers when being a member of the jedi order, when your dark side user class is labelled for everyone to see?

Tell me how it's possible to be a Sith Inquisitor and wield two lightsabers, as they quoted on their website?

Read this text from the Legacy of the Sith page on this website: As far as I know, right now it's just a class switch feature. I'm seeing Gunslingers and Shadows running around on the Imperial Fleet when I mouse over other players...so much for "secretly using Dark Side powers". I'm pretty sure it's the same on the Republic fleet too. This isn't an "even greater customization experience" as far as I know. When I switch combat styles, I'm unable to weild weapons and armor from my previous combat style, which is the impression I was getting. Like I said, this is just a plain old class switch feature. No..you can't be a Sith Inquisitor and have a lightsaber in each hand, because you have to switch to your Marauder class, and your character will be labelled as a Marauder, and all of your weapons and armor will be removed if you can't weild them. All you're doing is switching your class, and there's no mix and match. Overall I'm pretty disappointed with this update. I thought I'd have more freedom when it comes to weilding weapons from other classes, such as a Sith Juggernaut weilding two sabers. But no.

Wow, I thought we could just mix and match the abilities from our combat styles, when instead its just a straight up class switch which is pretty underwhelming. I already have characters for other classes. Overall very disappointed with this update.

Same issue with me

I straight up bought up to rank 100 on the first week. Had loads of CC's saved up as I took a bit of a hiatus. After I did that, I stopped playing for a week. The easiest option was there, so I took it. I find it very weird that BW decided to allow players have the option to just buy the ranks without putting any effort into playing the actual game. If they never added this option, I bet you'd see more players, you know, playing...and putting in the effort to unlock items and show them off. It's a shame to see MMO's nowadays going through the real money progression route. It's no surprise that people wanted Classic WoW. I would not be surprised to see a nice package on the cartel market which gives you all mounts, all pets etc without having to move out of the Fleet.

I response to your pretty holstile and misguided reply: 1. OP said nothing about server population in general, they were suggesting there is a server inbalance between rep and imp sides 2. OP suggests that maybe people don't like to RP as much on the rep side on that server Please read what the OP is writing first than just assume he's writing " just a back-handed way to stoke a conversation about what... server population?". (which you have indicated you seem to disapprove of discussions about sever population for some reason) Also, fleet levels DO indicate a general server population when compared to other servers, and they DO indicate faction imbalance.

What exactly needs to be done so they don't get focused every match?

Any news on if we can replay our class stories?

So 6.1 on Feb 11th, then 6.1.1 and 6.1.2 in a "couple of months" after 6.1 is live?

In reg jugs are fine In ranked they are always focused 4v1. And I agree with the poster above there is no anti focus button. Jugs are always the first to die becuase they are always getting focused. Take away the class icon on the scoreboard at the beginning of the game and you move one step closer to fixing the problem.

Happened to me twice today. Killed me instantly. Lost because of it.

I agree on this. I want to block anyone who uses a gunship because they are overpowered and quite frankly annoying to play against. You stand no chance against them using other ships. It's just so boring when one guy has 20 kills and the next has 7

So would you support a pay to gear option? For example if you had to kill a boss to recieve a certain item, would you rather pay for that item with real money instead of doing a long and difficult raid? That's good to hear. I enjoy the fact that people don't have access to certain content/items because they weren't there at the time that they were given out. It makes my character stand out and people can instantly recognise what I have experienced. Showing off your items and achievements isn't a good thing? Why? Do you get jealous or something? I disagree. That's fine for you to express your opinion, I'm just saying if you think everyone in the game should get access to everything, including items/titles etc that were given during special events, then that is a minority viewpoint because MMOs are about fighting bosses, getting items, showing off items, attending special events, subscriber only rewards etc...

But you would agree that HOW you get the item matters...right? I agree with this. And I completely disagree with this. It puts the value of those items to 0. For example the first anniversary fireworks were obtained by those who were present during the first anniversary....now everyone can just buy it, putting those items value for those to 0. Like why on earth should you get the first anniversary fireworks if you weren't even there for the first anniverasry? It's stupid imo. Guess what? The "Founder" title was given to those because they were subbed a certain time. By your logic you want all new players to get this founder title too? What's wrong with bragging? Like I said, bragging is a core part of MMO's. You wouldn't want all players to be exactly equal right? Where everyone shares the same items? There's a certain word for that. This is where me and the OP completely disagree with you. Why should you get the option to buy the founder title? Do you even know why the founder title was released? You are in the extreme extreme minority when it comes to this opinion for MMO's in general.