This request goes against the developers vision for the game which is to leave it in a state that has the least reasons to play it or have fun in it. I cannot believe that a single developer that took part in the creation of 7.0 plays this game at all. They clearly have no idea what is or is not fun.

Turns out they did not make level syncing better in many cases. long thread going about for some levels its actually worse which means this type of content is going to be harder. the Revan battle is being complained about more often now also.

This. I came in a little under 2 months before 7 hit and the changes to the game were drastic enough to notice. While my experience in end game was limited as the lvl 70 I made via the token was only at 75 for a few weeks, what I can say clearly is that I do not like the current gearing system at all. I started to play this game because I was told its great for casuals and was not like a few too many other games that felt like a second job. That is clearly not the case now and there is no chance at all for me to get close to the top gear in game which is now only for those who work for the game via doing OPS. Sounds like a clear shift in who the developers are focusing on which is actually a little funny seeing as how low this games population is. Weird idea to make such a major change in the games basics with the games player situation.

Is that why they ignored it for the 6 months it was talked about on PTS before 7 was released? You can put me on the "Vote of no confidence" list in these developers being able to do anything to make this game better before the population loss is so great the game cant recover.

I see now from your replies to many that you are here to just disrupt. Good job. Its clear by those on your side of the argument that its just trolls and elitists that just want to ruin the game even more instead of actually get it fixed.

So, it matches the rest of the UI changes and everything said by the PTS testers went unheard because they never listen to feedback until after release and only if there is a major blowback that they dont mind actually changing.

Are you being obtuse on purpose to not have to address my actual points? seriously... If you dont know what a bot is, you have no idea how to fix this issue and should really stop asking to make the game worse while also leaving in the root of the problem which is the gearing system which made Tech fragments THE currency to get while also making GSF the easiest way to get it with little effort. Making it the way some elitists are saying to do it will not change the fact that people will ALWAYS take the road of least resistance to get what they want and the developers need to flipping make the **** they ruined, fun again, to allow for people to do other ****, to get these rewards. Also, the route people are asking for will only increase the MOVEMENT of BAD PLAYERS PLAYING BAD and make it take LONGER to realize that the group you are in is trash. As is, I can find out in about 30 seconds just how bad a team is in a deathmatch by how quickly noobs die, or in a dom match by not being able to take a single sat right away. Your way, they will fly around like chickens with their heads cut off, still not being able to get kills and it will take longer to realize how crap they are to then either quit for an extra 20 minute wait or start suiciding to end the trash match faster. You cannot FORCE people to get good at PvP when their heart is NOT IN IT...focus on getting Bioware to IMPROVE what they flipping broke, that pushed people into GSF when they DONT LIKE PVP. Seriously...jesus people, the issue is people are being pushed into doing what they do not want to do. Fix, dont ask to have even more broken.

Its losing a lot of players is what is happening with SWTOR. https://steamcharts.com/app/1286830 Only 2 months on record with a lower population and no signs of the drop stopping. Bioware needs to start firing key people and replacing them with those that understand the game is for players to play and have fun and knows not to mess with things that do not need changing. I really doubt there is anything Keith or anyone else can tell the community to bring them back and retain those that are pissed outside of there being a slow rollback of key changes made by 7.0...which wont happen because those that made the changes will never allow themselves to realize their "plan" for the game is wrong. Silence is their only hope of clinging to their job for another year as the game becomes a liability for EA.

I would never list out how it can be done. With this current team of developers, risking them seeing it and finding a coming update where they nerf the **** out of it even more because they believe it shouldnt be that way, that it should feel like having a job instead of playing a game...this team is hell bent on making this game as unfun and as tedious as can be so I would answer with "you find your best way and keep it to yourself".

Or...daily, weekly and season goals should either be removed, or have something none PvPers actually want to do added so its not an option. Most of you were silent or blindly defending the changes 7.0 was going to bring and were WARNED by those on the PTS about it. Well, now we have a system that basically FORCES people to do crap content they dont want to do to get the flipping gear this garbage gearing system has brought to us. You were warned. Now you got the game you got. A game where people are pushed into content they do not want to do. THAT, is the issue. And guess what? For those of you that DO NOT ACUTALLY THINK...All it takes is to create a generic email account, open up another account, set a BOT to run it and watch the second account do what you hate while the prime account just flies to the second for easy kills in some corner of the map. One team ends still gets screwed and the person cheats the award system. It wont happen as often but it will still happen and your actions ONCE AGAIN wont fix the ACTUAL PROBLEM which is the current CRAP SYSTEM that is causing this.

The game cant be DEAD, its still going with some people playing. It IS dying though, the population is dropping and that is not opinion, that is fact. Only this time, the population is dropping, fast. https://steamcharts.com/app/1286830 The game is back down to June 2021 numbers. In fact, there is only TWO months on record with lower numbers and the break in between them was their ending the player referral program which got a bunch of players to re-sub one more time for a money boost off of referral links. Also, those numbers are still dropping. Watch, next week the numbers will have dipped yet again. This game is not in a position to lose too many players, its barely making a profit as is which is why the games development has trickled down to near nothing with an "expansion" with just a few hours of actual content.

At first I thought this was being serious and then came the thing you cant even do. Nice joke post...

What a load of nonsense. Did you even play this game? All MMOs have inflation issues. It comes from people having too much money and not enough things to spend it on. P.S. The new gearing system is by far the worst this game has seen. It helped sucked the fun out of the game while making it so only the elitists get the best gear. If I wanted to play an unfun game that required you to lose your life playing with a large group of elitists doing large time consuming content I would be playing World of Warcraft not SWTOR.

You keep everything you buy when it comes to strongholds. So, buy them all if you want just make sure you open the rooms up before your sub ends as most of them cost over 1 million each. Also, enjoy the +150% conquest point bonus once you hit it!

Yes. 10 year old game. Low population. Who would think its a good idea to make such radical changes risking driving away many long time paying customers in hopes to pick up a tiny amount of people wanting to play an MMO on a portable device? Jesus...just because it exists, does not mean its good for the game. And the players have already spoken. Steam numbers are back to December numbers and still dropping every single week and the complaining about this horrible update has not slowed down.

Why would I chose to AFK in my stronghold for an HOUR for bland seasons items when I can AFK in GSF and hit Conquest goals? I get the PvP gear from GSF and I make millions from conquest rewards not to mention 1k tech from doing the GSF weekly and, I can easily get in 4+ matches per hour. With 2 hours I can get 2 characters to 100k conquest, both having done GSF weeklies and be working on a 3rd character already. and who knows. I might actually put in some effort into those horrible GSF matches. Might. Bioware needs to stop trying to force people into doing what is clearly content so bad they dont actually want to do it and bring back what the game had, which is rewards for playing many different ways. The changes to conquest points and rewards and this new gearing system is terribad for everyone that plays. Its too gated. Bad choice for an old game.

I feel you. I was finally convinced to give the game a try in December by people I knew from other games, many of them have been playing this game on and off since release and they all quit SWTOR the day 7.0 hit. I can understand why, the game was a lot of fun before it, now it isnt so much. I cant see myself staying once im done with the class stories. Just the combat changes alone are enough to have made me quit. Taking away so many skills with the addition of making combat take so much longer was a really bad idea.

I just recently started about 5 weeks ago and joined a guild that I knew from another game that had a branch playing here. Before this week, there was always and I mean ALWAYS 35+ logged in and playing. At one time I saw over 100. Since this patch hit, There has been me. Yes, just me. The entire guild quit. I thought they were joking when talking about the upcoming expansion and leaving... Now, just a few days later I can understand. The UI changes are gobsmackingly bad. Who actually came up with this design and WHO approved it? Seriously, who thought it was a good idea to double the size of the inventory window, separate the boxes that much AND have them glow?!? The skill changes are too radically different. These are the kinds of changes that should only be done to a game that is in beta stages, not released. And why, why why why why why would anyone take away an action tab? I go into cover with my smuggler and no change in tabs anymore? The flow of combat was basically just shot down. Its just not FUN TO PLAY ANYMORE. And that was one of the few classes I remotely enjoyed playing...sure, sorcerer was fun for the a few days until the "unlimited power" feel wore off. I can only imagine what long time players are going through since I havent really had a chance to do end game yet and feel the changes done to that, conquest I can only get a small feel for as I only have a few characters so far...well, will only ever have a few because I am not sticking around. They ruined this game for me real quick. Signed, first time and last time subscriber.

New player here. I started playing about 5 weeks ago and subscribed 3 weeks ago because of how much fun I was having. Was having. I do not recall ever experiencing anything like this expansion in an MMO before. I cannot fathom how many of these changes could have gotten approval from anyone that has actually played this game before. They make no sense and has gutted the fun I was having. The skill changes, the...DOUBLE SIZED inventory window with glowing boxes. The removal of the cover action bar which completely wrecked the flow of combat on my smuggler. This is horrendous. Anyway, back to FFXIV I go I guess, I can only hope I can manage to bring myself to finish at least one full class story before my subscription runs out and am actually regretting having spend the $15 right now.

Well, I have only been playing about a month, and logging in to this change was a punch to the gut. Combat with this class is radically changed, enough so that I no longer want to even play the class anymore. This is a shockingly bad change and I cannot fathom for the life of me how such a change was approved other than those that came up with it and approved it never played the class before. Combat went from smooth action to an awkward mess of stop and go stop and go. I now have one very large reason to not continue playing the game. I do not like melee classes, trooper was boring for me which means I am now left with Bounty Hunter and perhaps Sorcerer to play. So much for finding a new MMO home that will last.