From Eric's position I can see the appeal, given Zykken is just about as forthrightly honest and precise as certain community managers over the last few months. Then again, I personally (JMHO) find Zykken a pretty despicable specimen and wish there was a dialogue option to force feed him my lightsaber^^

Great this means they think they can now get away with lying to us with direct posts to the community ? Thanks a bunch and I guess "Goodbye and thanks for the fish Bioware !"

I'd say : apology not accepted ?

for the Jawa "Junk". It was not announced for the general chance of losing ( which apperantly has almost doubled), nor the [scrap parts or the droid parts. Or even the cartel market certificates. Serious omission aka "lie" if you go by the definition in the Merriam-Webster Dictionary And one really wonders why the community is pixxed about it ?

You probably would be sitting here, because if you have any remaining days of playing time, you count as subbed. I should know, I unsubbed yesterday(but have some time left on my account)^^ As for accusing BW - well it is the right of the accused to defend themselves, but there is no right not to be accused if the evidence points at you.

First you are slightly clueless since "adaptive circuitry" does cost 3 jawa junk/material (a conversion rate they could most easily have adjusted to fit their needs), and second, if purple mats are the problem, just why nerf the other materials (scraps and droid parts) as well as the certificates ? So I highly doubt that you put much research into your numbers and came to them by some rough rule of thumb.

Gosh they might simply have increased of the grade 11 Artifact level items by some factor (like they did for the Diplomacy and Slicing drops anyway). And/or increased the time between clicks on the machine.... or made the machine impossible to use with macros... Oh wait, too simple for the Nerfbat. Let's redact one's own statement and lose any trust the community has.

His problem is, that he requires some trust from the player-base. Which right now is obviously gone, which means he could immediately resign since only a foolish few will in the future believe something he claims . Perhaps a job in the understaffed Quality Assurance department for the poor soul ?

Oh well obviously you quite obviously love being lied to straight to the face. Your personal call, but I really don't think most people would take this lying down. Politicians resign over this degree of incompetence....

Not the worst of ideas. One can live off game cards quite well, and overall, no much fun playing a game with broken rules and buggy content.

Seems they can't get anything right on the first try, ?

Basically Eric Musco is finished as a spokes person or community manager, as least as a far as convincing the audience of his or Bioware's intentions go. He claims one thing during the weekend, makes it abundantly clear that everything is working as intended, then three days later everything changes. ...ooops. He is either very much left in the dark (which makes him not to be believed) or lies straight to our faces on his company's behalf (which makes him not to be believed as well) . If he was in a public office, I would call for his resignation. This way, all I can do is not believe any thing bioware will state in the foreseeable future. As I didn't see any bans over the last week, with exploiting of Ravagers going unpunished despite BWs claims, this look like a steady modus-operandi by Bioware. action is only taken if the company's credit line is threatened 'nuff said PS I absolutely think a tactical nerf was due (which I considered to towards cartel certificates and the junk-cost of grade 11 items), but this one is mind-blowingly misconceived

Most crafters I know really live "off" the crits their crafters git, selling off the extras as "the margin". And High end equip will remain in the hand of the Crafters since right now (and there likely never will be) a way to get mass tranmogrificators (?) or mass manipulators (or exonium etc. ) except by raiding/flashpointing. But few people will actually have the money too finance the crafting/reverse engineering off relics from temple etc.

you mean "dropping the bottom out of the market by underselling from competitors" ? Like OPEC does at current ? Oh boy we had that since the very first days of Swtor

This is a major blow to high end gathering, nevermind the freshly ability of 10th level bot-farmers idly sitting in a barren stronghold (save a set of slot machines) gathering up mats to sell on the open market. Although I am not a high end mass-crafter ( and never made much money out of it ) this truly sucks and takes any difficulty out of mission based gathering, Which means, even fewer people will invest in crafting, making things even more difficult with the next expansion (if that ever comes around). Also - by now it is freaking easy to gather credits inside the game to buy crafted stuff - unless one is exceptionally lazy.