Crafting: I just read a few posts that spoke about crafting pre 5.8 and wanted to talk about it for a moment. Crafting has never been exploitable, it is just that when it came to Crafting weeks, obviously the larger guilds had a distinct advantage over the smaller ones due to sheer number in size. That being said, even during those weeks, there were multiple guilds that were able to vie for any planet they wanted to achieve. Further, most of these guilds were more than willing to invite members of smaller guilds into the bigger guilds so they could get the planets achievements. But, what people need to understand is that the gathering of materials takes time regardless of who you are or what guild you are in which takes away from game play time. Not many people want to spend hours gathering materials, nor do they want to wait in FPs or OPs for people to gather along the way. When is the last time you were in one of these where a person was allowed to gather without the other members saying something? Nonetheless, the devs will come up with a middle of the road decision by 5.9. Will it revert back to pre-5.8, no, but, I doubt it will remain as it is right now either. LadyTremor

I was on of the explosive side of berated the devs as much as anyone prior to the announcement that major changes were going to be made tomorrow due to all of the complaints. In fact I was so bad that I got suspended from the forums for 3 days and it was completely justified. But, now that I am back on the forums, it is time to pull a 180, I like what Eric said a few days ago in the Dev Tracker. I am a big Crafter, so that portion does not help me immediately, but, I understand their position on analyzing that data and making a decision prior to 5.9. I also love PVP and other aspects of the game, I am sure they are doing a lot of hard work to get the adjustments in place for tomorrow. So lets see what happens tomorrow and how Conquest looks from there. Before my account was suspended I did not even see the decos, and they did a great job with them. They are some of the nicest decos I have seen in a long while. I have yet to try Izax too, all over being mad about a part of the game. Let's give the devs a chance, LadyTremor:)

Well at this rate I hope someone makes a new Star Wars MMO because Keith, Eric and Bioware and driving this game quickly to its grave.

Were you also on the team that attempted the HM run, heard he has yet to be taken on HM, can only imagine what that was like.

Lets talk about how much of a joke this comment from Eric is: Last week they screwed the pooch on Conquest when they did not have Revenge of the Revanites as Promised by Eric and placed on the Board by Sticky. So can we really believe anything Eric says, no not really. The only time he responds to feedback in the Developer Tracker is when someone says something positive about him or Keith, trying to suck up to them. The best thing that EA could honestly do is sell the rights of SWTOR to DISNEY and let their development team run the game going forward. Obviously Keith and Eric have little to no clue what is going on. They have absolutely no communication skills what so ever. Eric is suppose to be the Community Support person, I would say more like the Ghost who appears once in a blue moon. The real problem is that neither of them were probably even born when the origin of Star Wars was created and they view the Star Wars Universe as a Job rather than an adventure the way all of us players do. I really thought it would be different when Keith took over, but, the grass is not always greener on the other side, maybe Ben was not all that bad, just saying.

They Fd up the Dark Projects, the mats are different now, have fun with that, some of the mats are useless now. I don't craft those myself but people at points in this thread were raging about that too. Sorry for the bad news. Thank Eric And Keith.

One other thing NightBlazer, this was the release that they had everyone hyped up about with Izax coming out and the challenge he was going to be. They down played conquest so the assumption was that the changes would not be drastic and that all focus would be on facing this tremendous Boss. But, instead, people were quiting the game, all focus was on Conquest, honestly I went from looking forward to a First night attempt at Izax to caring less about fighting him, what a shame.

With most things you have said in your threads I have generally agreed with you but not in this one, whoever made these changes and without consulting the players who pay for this game to survive deserve a reprimand. This is arguably the worst mistake ever made in this game. And to make it worse, they completely blindsided us with it. There was no communication regarding what the changes were going to be. They led us to believe that the changes would benefit conquest and instead they have made it a giant mess. I have been involved in the main thread all day where Eric encouraged feedback on the second page and there have been hundreds of negative replies. But, beyond his one post he and Keith have been silent. So I took it one step further and contacted the EA Executive VP who oversees Bioware and the SWTOR project through a PM on Facebook about the discontent in the forums. Hopefully he reads it. This game is supported by the Subs and we should have say in its content, period!

Yep you are right they are out of touch, probably turned off their computers as soon as they saw the mess they may and the piece of trash they turned Conquest into. I am 100% sure that this never touched the Test server. The feedback would have washed this down the drain so hard it would have overflowed the septic in 30 seconds flat.

Hey, Look, Eric responded on Page 2 of the thread, but since then, NOTHING, surprising? NO!

You said you used over 1000 invasion forces and got 3 characters done, so what are you going to do next week when you don't have those 1000 invasion forces. War Supplies are not as easy to make anymore.

I did not find an email, however, EA is the Parent Company of Bioware and I reached out to Patrick Soderlund through a PM on Facebook with my issue and the fact that a response requires a timely answer. He is one of the Executive VPs of EA who has worked with the Bioware Platform and Star Wars! Keith, Eric, I refuse to watch this game implode because of this idiotic mistake regardless of who I have to go to. Next, maybe Social Media would be a good source, if we get no response. LadyTremor

New Idea, Thinking about going to Bioware itself. I am sure that either I or one of my geeky computer nerdy friends can get a email address for one of the senior members of Bioware. Maybe to get escalation this issue needs a helping hand. Will follow up on this post when I have more info. Tremor

Let's be Honest Ladies and Gentlemen 1. How many people think that Eric and Keith actually read each of these Posts? 2. How many people actually think that they give a damn about our opinions on the subject? 3. Who actually thinks they will do anything about it? 4. How many Subs will Quit before they do? 5. Who thinks Keith's days are numbered if they don't? (sorry Keith but someone's head is going to roll if enough subs quit)

Revert Bact to 5.7 and Fire the Idiot who came up with this idea, it was a waste of Bioware's money and time!