Hi!
At first I remind you that the Operation should already have been present 1 month after the release of the extension in December, that is to say January.
The delayed expansion we could have hoped for, even HAVE the operation on time, except it is not ready and worse a boss is removed! I can't understand how anyone can accept this without saying anything knowing that there is no apology, compensation or anything from the Devs, we just have to say Amen and congratulations for the work done ? No, I defended them enough on the previous expansions despite the errors, but we are reaching a far too high level of errors.
I consider that each player has the right to explanations, and to have the complete operation!
For Valeo, why a good choice? As I said all this should have already been ready, so without explanation I cannot accept. We have one less Boss, what will be next?
Lady Dominic? It is presented as innovative, and having only the SM, it is to start with this mode that we should see the innovation out of it is not the case. We avoided burning the Boss precisely to try to see all the mechanics so no I'm not talking without having read the mechanics around him.
Certainly it's a 1st iteration but all the mechanics wanted in SM are there, they are already late I completely doubt that he adds or removes mechanics, so apart from the scale nothing will really move, and so I repeat it for me and my group, the Boss is not totally bad but not innovative as it is presented.
To believe that they are trying to present it to us like this to make Lord Valeo disappear more easily.
So all you care about is resuming sales runs? How is it possible to be taken seriously after this sentence seriously? I remind you once again that the content of the game will not be rescaled (Words of the Devs) so the more we advance the more powerful we will be, and having such a large increase in power all at once will make the content of the game completely obsolete when next mounts of ilvl (No more Dirty run since people will be able to roll on the content with the head)
The 5.0, yes from 242 to 258 but not in 1 patch, and that took time which made the old content simple only at the end of the extension.
If the ZL, Operation, etc. content were more regular, that wouldn't be a problem, but that's not the case, we have to wait 1 year or more each time to have the entire Operation (SM, HM, NiM )
Gods was supposed to have a NiM when it was announced, but then the NiM was dropped so that eventually some people at Bioware insisted on keeping the NiM as promised.
And with what happens for R4; the delay, 1 less boss, bugs etc. it is not absurd to doubt a future NiM.
The Operation and the Bosses (R4) are fun, I like the atmosphere, the bosses, the difficulty (in HM) but it's far from the expected innovation, and one of the bosses that could have been the no longer ambitious. So yes, I no longer defend the Devs on these errors.
If the development is so complicated, why not go back to paid extensions, they have shown in the past that they can make content with paid extensions!
For the last point, no I don't think they communicate, we have almost as much response as when only Musco was on the Forum. The messages present at the moment are to tell us that they have seen the bug(s) but almost nothing else, with all the worries at the moment, more communication is needed, a roadmap, explanations on what is happening ! We are at the 10th anniversary and the game is doing worse compared to previous years.
You may have a discord with the Devs which allows you to affirm that they communicate?
And no, it's not to rage or anything, but when you invest time for a game you like it's normal to expect the minimum announced, and this is not the case for SWTOR!