did you not read the part where the quick-travel abilities for these are now on cooldown because they didn't reset along with the missions? This game used to cater to convenience and fun. Now it just caters to keeping you in the game as long as possible. The reason people are vocal about these kinds of things lets the development team know where they need to make changes. When you dismiss constructive criticism, you're not helping improve the game.

Yep. I'd probably continue to subscribe if I could do Hammer Station and The Red Reaper on Story Mode

I would be all in on this. There's a handful of flashpoints I like to run, just for the sake of doing them. I don't feel like I need the weekly bonus, but I do like to have things to do in game. Right now I don't feel like I have things to do in game so I'm pulling my sub. It sucks, but why should I pay for something that doesn't have anything for me?

That's helpful. Glad to see you're letting them know about story mode, because most people just either kick or rage

As many bugs as this game seems to have, they should be pushing out updates daily, yet, they don't. Pathetic.

That's all well and good, but a lot of those lowbie characters are new players to the game, so they might not even know that there are story mode versions of those flashpoints. And they're not likely to know about what high level players are going to expect of them. The problem is, everytime I see someone ask people to hit the spacebar, it's not done in a polite manner. It's always "SPACEBAR" and nothing else. No explanation. Sometimes you get a 'please', but most times it's just a demand. Prior to these changes, at appropriate level, lowbies could queue for Esseles/Black Talon and be paired only with other lowbies. Now when they queue for it they get paired with high level players.

The fact that he had to pay for a subscription to unlock the expansion means he did, indeed, pay for it.

Frankly, I don't miss that stupid popup coming up while I'm still fighting trash mobs because someone couldn't wait to loot the boss. I do, however, not really care for all of the garbage that winds up in my inventory that I used to just pass on because I have no use for it and the guy that's leveling in the group might actually need it.

I scratched my head at that too. Why should he care if someone else wants to skip some encounters? A 30 second limit on stealth isn't going to prevent that in most cases anyway.

I can read. I don't need to test their changes to see what they're doing. It's their game, they can do what they want. But I have every right to give constructive feedback on what I think they're doing. If we remain silent, they have no way of knowing that we don't like what's coming down the pipe.

I'm sorry COVID has so drastically affected you. It really sucks.