[Bioware: Will you be tweaking Slicing or should I drop it?]

I wonder if they considered asking the public about slicing before nerfing it? Kinda awesome I dropped my high level cybertech for slicing, then patch day comes and I'm out in the cold cause Bioware decided it'd be high time to ruin it for a late bloomer like me that has a job.

 

Same exact thing happened to me except it was synthweaving.. dropped it the day before the patch and now I'm screwed. Kinda takes the wind out of your sails. I'm a full time student, with a full time girlfriend. I'm not good at math but that's like 3 jobs or something. I don't have time for another one.

[Slicing post-nerf, please look at the numbers BW]

This is the truth. Which is why level caps should have been implemented before launch.

 

Sad part is, we've all pretty much decided the knee-jerk reaction was too much, and still have yet to see a response.

 

To me, the lack of a response from Bioware is them waiting for the dust to settle, for everyone to slowly lose their rage over the issue, then hopefully forget about it...and never issue a response.

 

And, if this is the case, I will not be supporting this game past the trial period. I already cancelled the re-subscription to wait and see what is going to happen. I hope others do, and I hope they see that they need to communicate WITH the community in order to make this game function well and exceed previous MMOs. The moment I hear communication elaborating on this issue, explaining their decision and talking about their future plans, I will sign back up for my recurring 6mo plan.

 

I waited for this game for a very long time, bought the LCE, but I do not want to start playing another MMO just to be abused the same way we were in SWG and WoW. It's just not worth it.

 

 

I couldn't agree more. A response from BW would go a long way at this point. I canceled my re-subscription last night.. the lack of communication is really inexcusable.

[Slicing post-nerf, please look at the numbers BW]

Like the majority of posters here I felt compelled to express my disappointment with today's patch and subsequent nerf to slicing.

 

I decided yesterday to pick up slicing after spending the my first few weeks with the game trying to make ends meet with SW/Arch/UWT. By the time I was level 24 I had about 8k to my name.

 

Now I know lots of you will tell me that is a direct result of how I play, and that may be true, but I'm a full-time grad student, with a full-time girlfriend, and believe it or not other responsibilities I need to attend to. I don't have time to complete every single quest that BW thought up to just upgrade my inventory, train my skills including speeders, and repair my equipment.

 

For me, slicing offered me a way to actually pay for some of this stuff without selling my soul. Was slicing perfect pre-nerf? I would say no, it wasn't. Was the nerf the best way to solve the problem? I don't think so.

 

Why not put a level cap on the higher level missions? Why should a level 25 character be able to run missions at 400 slicing? Maybe BW could have made it so that you could only run slicing on one character.. I dunno exactly what the answer is but nobody is paying me to figure that out.. I don't work at BW.

 

At this point I will be cancelling my account. This entire mess reminds me of WoW waaaay too much. I saw slicing as a way to keep my head above water and finance my way through the game as a casual player. Hopefully this gets sorted out in a way that works for everyone. We shall see.