New flashpoint is an abomination of lag, ability delay and not being able to attack the bosses due to target not avaiable. Bioware excels on "delivering high quality stuff"

Who cares, the flashpoint is the perfect metaphor for the current state of a the game... The game stoped making sense after ziost:rak_03:

Umbara bugs: - you can't attack the bonus boss randomly after he jumps... - second boss places dots that tick for 44 k - last boss has a huge delay on abilities that made me and my group wype so we could not have access to the loot.... - overall, 48 hours and Bioware deliver high quality crap, Bioware you really know how to please ppl. apart from all the crap they did not fix or broke the fp has a nice landscape, till they break that with a fix

So they delayed the update for 48 hours, what is wrong with this, quite simple, i go to the alliance base after doing the fp and Theron is still there.... guess whatever happened was enough to skip this issue

You can still pantom stride to the adds on Fractured and go straight to the boss.... working as intended...

This is a long shot, but i'm still going to try to get a reply. Keith a good % of players have jobs in their real lifes and i speak for myself that i need to constantly write reports on severall subjects and distinct areas. And, I at least, don't take 3/4 months to write a report as the ones as you did before, if i did take that time to write a report i'm pretty sure my boss would just fire me and hire another person. Although i understand that you are giving us reports every x months because a) Bioware is not releasing anything during that time and b) because writing a report that adds no info is useless i do fail to understand how this has not been written way back in april/may, since you clearly know what the other departments are doing and are going to release. I'm not going to say that a lot of players do not care at this point about the misteries that the next content brings, because most ppl will go to reddit or other forums and check the datamined, and i at least, think that this lack of interest is the result of one thing, the content being so scarse and not meaningful that the ppl who check it just can't wait for a plot that is not as thick and incredible as you think it might be. The story so far has been a little predictable, even when valkorion said "someone will betray you" i thought they are not clearly saying that we will be betrayed, because from previous expansions you have already told players that you like to put some info about future stuff. But coming back to the main topic. Is there a reason for why the roadmap will take a few weeks to be writen ? When you launched the previous one it wasn't complicated and most of it players already knew due to reddit, dataminers or other sources. Don't take me wrong, i like that you do a better job than anyone here did before you. Although Musco can't say much because i believe he isn't allowed Ben Irving or Charles Boyd never gave us the treatment that you give, so on that part you have my respect. I remember when i started paying the game there was almost no contact from the devs, which was a shame. Even Musco said that they could not reveal the contents of the ranked rewards because it would hint stuff about the next expanion, this was way back to pre 3.0., but the reports you give us, although they are a nice touch, they aren't anything amazing or reveal anything that the players don't already know. I still have hope, since it is the last thing to die, that we will see an expansion this tear, with the movie coming out and well trying to sell your product would mak sense, this is not taking the same path that shadow of revan took. Not just this, but bioware was supposed to excel on story and from what i've seen, and probably other players, Bioware, at least for swtor, neglects a lot of characters. Most of the vanilla characters have been neglected, Jakarro from Shadow of rEvan was never heard again although he said he was going to Kashick, which gave me hope to see that planet, but well that was a disappointment. I would have loved to see nathema asa planet as well and with a daily area where we could understand a little better what vitiate did there and how he performed is ritual. I know, from experience, that you read you pm's and i hope you can rpovide me with a reply. I, and as everybody else in the forums, would like to see swtor restored to the good days, where story was good, although opinions here are subjective, some liked the recent stuff others didn,t you can please everyone, not even jesus did, but now we have jesusdroid on flashpoints and he pleases everyone . I'm hoping that there will be an expansion this year, that the planets won't be dull, because lets face it, the planets have a really boring exploration, and although they are nice for a couple days after that they get really unappealling to visit again, again this might be subjective. If you gave players a manaan house, which most had been asking for ages, consider giving us stuff that we want. I understand that you can't do more unless you have the means, but you have a voice at Bioware, something we don't, we are only seen as ppl who pay for the product, the best example of this is that f2p ppl can't post on the forums, i think. Allowing f2p to post, if i'm not wrong, isn't something that would hurt or harm a subscriber. As i said before and state again you do a far better job than anyone before you did

Stahl no robes for you ;P

Quality you feel confortable, sir i know feel a lot better :rak_03: Funny i made a bet with a friend that Bioware would postpone the update more than once xD, free diner for me xD

Keith can you tell us if Bioware is planing to launch any significant amount of content. Cause almost 5 months and we were only given one fp, 2 raid bosses while other mmo's get far better content updrades. This is a real issue because the less content you deliver more ppl will leave. Delivering one fp is not worth paying 5 months of subcription. You should give less focus to Cartel Market and more focus to meaningful content....

Sorry mate, the key word of this point is disappointment, so no fp for you today xD muahahahaha:rak_03::rak_03:

Geez, here i thought i would be able to play tomorrow the insane amount of content bioware is releasing, need to wait another day ....

Also this new update has a big issue, not for me, but probably for other ppl that cba to get gear above 230 or 236. The requirement for the master mode fp, let me explain. For me it isn´t a problem because through ops and pvp i was able to get my full 248 gear, but i know a lot of good players that deny themselves the pleasure of the thrill of the hunt for gear and still do the dps, healing check for hard mode with 230, 234 and 236 gear. This is a problem, but a good thing as well. I ve met ppl on hard mode fps with full 248 that were really bad, but the opposite as well, and i met ppl with 230 gear that were really good. The idea to prevent ppl who do not have a certain level of gear is good, because you won't be queued with low skilled players. This way we prevent that ppl with low gear and low dps or healing skills join a fp they can't do and deny other the possibility to do it as well. Might be bad as well because you won't be able to queue with all your other alts, you now have to have a gear requirement, and if you are a good player you are going to be penalized here for this new method. Also there is a new issue with this, ppl who unsub and that have a gear rate lower than 242 won't be able to join the new fps, because they can't equip legendary or artifact gear (unless they have the cm unlock), this will cause, probably, a decline on ppl that queue or hard mode, which isn't high as it is right now. The only good thing is that you can still enter with a pre made group. I doubt that the flahspoint is going to be as difficult as Lost Island and Kaon under siege were, but lets wait and see. About the other points i think they ware relevant to the way we will play or access to this hard mode fp. A good way to counter this is let ppl buy 242 gear only with the green or yellow tokens, i'm colour blind so i ve no idea what colour that is. Remove the pvp tokens and make pvp reward you the command tokens, increase just a slight the amount of tokens you need to buy something, like 20 units per piece. Requiring a player to get 2 kinds of token is horrible. Yes back in the day there were basic, elite ultimate coms and pvp coms, but they were easy to get than the ones that we currently have.

I still <3 you Eshavara :rak_03:. Some ppl just won't accept that you make a statement that goes against what think. While i was not making rants and stated a clear argument with valid points that is affecting part of the player base, like : - lack of decent places to explore (and as someone aid Rishi was really well done. When i think of Yavin i'm just sad with a few things, missions being dull and lack of exploration on that place, there were a lot of opportunities, like making the Big temple where we face revan an exploration area, but instead it is just the operation. i would have suggested a little exploration inside, some battles with ancient force ghosts or other entities, some daily missions or weekly, a little bit of story regading the rise and demise of the massassi, and other stuff) -although iokath was a much need wave of fresh air it failed because it is almost deserted. Met once aplayer there who we started by killing eachother and ended up with him raging because i would not leave him alone and progressed to us using walkers to kill each other. In the end we reamined friedns and when i see him online i talk to him) - missions, everywhere, are stll so damn boring .... all missions consist on kill x enemies. I don't mind if the game is not 199 % focused on imps vs reps, but if they do not focus on that they should at least give us places to go, and stuff to do. apart from the ppl that run heroics for money, most spend their time inside their strongholds runing from one place to another, while others do the same thing since launch, run in circles inside the fleet and getting stucked everywhere. Adding different missions that progress in a chain would be nice to see rather than the usual go to place X, kills Y k enemies, and repeat the process over and over again. They tried to implement something different on Iokath, but the amount of grind one has to do to unlock the walkers or anything else is just painful. I played as Tyth once and i fealt cheated because i experienced a bug where Tyth had 10 % accuracy, so i ended up getting killed by a 50 k droid.... :rak_02: I even reported this and the employee said it was a known bug, so i asked for a refund, but he said he could not do it because i had bought the Tyth token more than 3 days ago.... Like what kind of lame excuse is this ? :rak_02: Although the game has good points it derrailed with 4.0 and 5.0. They said that star fortress was to be a kind of fp, but after doing it 6 times i never went there again. I might end up doing it again to get some decorations. Bioware should have realised by now, and after what happened with rakata, because a lot of players back in that time complained that it was not a planet as well, that they should give us more stuff than they are currently giving. Eventhough they are going on the right path the pace is just to damn slow and the amount of stuff they release is done probably on 1 hour, tops, if you walk slowly and appreciate the environment. A while ago Bioware stated that they were aiming for something big this year. I don't think they were talking about the current stuff they released, i hope at least. And most of us have already played other games to know from first hand experience that just giving us a phased area is not what we want, since ppl like to explore things and places in game. If by stating that giving Umbara as a phased area is a negative thing, well i guess he is just happy enough with what he gets. I for once always want and aim for more than what i currently have.

Player's Get Away from B*itch*ng Girlfriend Seems a good one:rak_03:

Dude it is ppl like you i do not understand.... The game is offering one operation throughout the entire year, so it is offering a boss, not one fully scaled operation. Second if ppl don't show how unpleased they are they won't, try at least, to change something. Just because i don't like the road they are taking (which since 4.0 has followed the example of the umbara train) i'm not going to quit. Although the game offers little new content and i play it less and less till i just won't play it anymore. While i still enjoy it, till some degree i will paly it and as someone that pays for the game i've the right to complain about what displeases me. If you are happy receiving litte crumbs throughout the year well i guess that works for ppl like you. Also, it isquite sad to see that one of the fp boses is just a resking Eyeless from the rakghoul event.... cause reskining that fat bastard took them a lot of time. I giess that since he glows now he is the new version of that vasmpire fromt wilight that glows when he shows his breat.... Making new monsters should be one thing directly linked with new content and not reskining old ones

dude you are not a sithshadow, if you are a sith you and an assasin, A jedi that aligns himself with the Empire becomes a sith, doesn't require much brain activity here. If you fight for/with the Empire you can't say you are a jedi. When Darth Vader joined Palpaltine he wasn't Jedi Vader, he became a Darth.

So Umbara is going to suffer the same fate of Rakata. A planet that could have some some "exploration" is going to be transformed into one phased area and a stronghold(which after sometime most ppl won't even go there because there is no way to communicate or see any group acitivity that happens mostly on the fleet. I thought Bioware had learned from their previous mistakes and that players want places to go. Although iokath was a bit of a failure, since it is even less populated than section X and makeb on their bad days it would still have been nice to have a daily area. The fact that Odessen is growing is not a shocker, it was something that most ppl were expecting since the "hangar" area where our ship is is currently under construction. Would be nice to see Odessen expanding a lot more than what we currently have. I hope i'm not the only one disappointed with the fact that Umbara is just a flahspoint and not a proper planet.

She does :rak_03: if i ever see her in game i will give her a taste of unlimted powah :rak_03:

Something that displeased me a lot since we finished the vanilla story, the force users barely ever use the force to kill, heal, or incapacitate anyone. Is this a result of lack of funds and poor writing from Bioware. On kofte if we take out the moments we are forced to use valkorions powers or the ones we choose to use them, apart from chocking Tora, our characters barely use them. Maybe for the warrior it is more accurate if he just stabs ppl with his lightsaber, but when playing with the inquisitor i would actually enjoy if he shoot ligthning to ppl more often, or used some dark sith voodoo to torment ppl. At this point the only thing i ask is that our characters are not some random emperors. asking for a good story might be to complicated after the fiasco the previous 2 "expansions" were, but i would like to see the force users using their powers more often. Cmon for the sith inquisitor who absorbed sevrall ghosts he barelly even cares that they are there.:rak_02::rak_02:

Probably you were never good in the first place and were lucky to have good players in your team who carried you man. There are a lot of players that will earn rewards thanks to being carried, win trading or constant farming. Like players who never reached above 1k elo, but have 600 wins and 800 losses

When you say "takes forever" you mean it takes like 5 minutes ??? Unless your dps and the ppl in your group is really bad and you hit enrage it should not "takes for ever" :rak_02:

I will hunt you down and kill you with my double lightsaber. Your cries for mercy will please me :rak_03:

NExt Expansions: Valkorion is coming back for luls and lels with a bastard family. From his previous experiences as a sith he understood the pleasures of the flesh were far more enticing than absorbing the life in the galaxy. He randomly visited planets through his journeys creating new mini valkorions everywhere, and therefore more disfunctional families with dady issues. Although we might think we are the Eternal Emperor we are Mary Poppins in a twisted away, if you can't educate them just plain slaughter will work just as well. Don't miss the next expansion, where we announce that revan also created a bastard family and we meet satele's long lost sister, was a brother but he had personality issues so he choose to change sex. We will also discover that the force is not a thing, but in reallity a Porg, a pinguin from the future that has sent his henchman, C2_N2 to terrorize players everytime they enter their ship, well everytime they used to enter, since now it is useless. Don't miss the next episode of Family Feud :rak_03:

The traitor is Eshvara :rak_03:, burn her so vette's memory may rest in peace:rak_04::rak_04:

What we currently have is a generic story that applies to all classes despite their vanila background though :/