If you put those restrictions, there will be no backfilling. why in the world would I join an in progress raid if I wont get the points? why would I switch to a different character(say a healer) to help the team? would they stop people that backfill pvp matches from getting points?

thats pretty good for a 6 year old game.

Who died and elected you jesus? they asked for feedback, they didnt state your specifications for that feedback.

because we are the ones that pay them?

The devs are playing an imaginary game where they have internal secret metrics that only they know. They want all classes to meet these metrics and dont give a damn what they have to break to do that. They dont give a damn what parts of the game become almost unplayable for many of their customers, They dont give a damn how many of those customers leave. It is kind of scary watching them break the game to satisfy their inflated egos. Last summer was "nerfs as content" and this summer doesnt look to be much different.

funny thing is. those kinds of games today fail financially in a spectacular fashion. There isnt a market for that kind of game.

Its about ego. they have decided how it shall be done and they are never ever wrong..at least in bw dev land.

what did you expect? he invites you for coffee and cake?

I have to say that I have learned quite a bit about tank gearing from the explanations in this thread. Thank you. It added to what I have read in the guides and makes sense.

The delay scam worked for last year, looks like they will use it again this year. The used the skanks as an excuse to nerf all tanks, but they could just as easily "balanced" all tanks to lower levels. BW has never had good metrics. They tailor their data gathering to tell them what they want to hear. this has been proven out over a long period. A dev has outright told us that they dont balance to actual content, that they dont really care if content is clearable. They have internal targets that they meet and that is what they go for. Last years summer of nerfs was all about that. Do you actually think it took 4+ months to nerf every class? Thy drug it out over the summer just to waste time, all the while people were paying subs...

If the devs want to mandate what you are geared with, they could use the bolster mechanic and set your gear to the spec you are in. simple But they chose to gut all tanks instead.

The only thing they care about is their internal secret dps targets. They dont care at all if content is doable, or fun. They will not lift a finger to change anything broken by their devotion to their internal metrics. They will ignore all feed back, no matter how it is presented. They are running a delay scam on the game, to stretch out all changes and fixes to keep people paying for recycled content.

The inflated egos of these jokers is obvious.

It gave you the opportunity to show your undying love to the fine folks at bioware. You should be thanking him.

they have asked for feedback in the past. they ignored it. see a trend?

You cant invalidate an opinion. you have no idea what biowares strategy is to string out swotor subscribers. It is a strategy that worked for 2017, why not 2018? There was absolutely no reason to string out nerfs for the entire summer, much less go into a second year. It isnt like they too any feedback into account. It isnt like they actually communicated with us.

I am against them intentionally putting out a broken system, spending the next 6 months "fixing" it and acting like that is content. they did it last year and look to be doing it this year. some time in June they will start with "class balancing". another summer of nerfs.

that would be between them and BW, the people that own those rewards.

of course people that started the game last year and have faithfully subscribed couldnt possibly be loyal...............

proof?

could you please link proof of this?

the point of this change was to quell the incentive to play. it seems to be working. now if they just make changes to things like adding repairs to pvp, their effort will be complete.

it might be that they choose not to play the abortion that is conquest

unique is not the same as exclusive. If I make a sculpture that is unlike any other and give a copy to everyone, it is unique. If i make a sculpture that is almost the same but slightly different and give it to 3 people it is exclusive. If they made a copy of nico and called him pico, he would no longer be unique.

its like asking if someone wants the last donut. There will be more donuts, thats just the last one for now.