I would cut them some slack if they stopped being so silent all the time and actually listened to us. When I first subscribed to this game I was thinking the same thing you are now, "cut them some slack. Why is everyone so rude to the devs?" But I was ignorant and didn't see how they constantly ignore all the feedback they get back then. Trust me, they deserve to be called out for their wrongdoings.

I honestly think the developers are just trolling us at this point. Who in their right mind would release an update that literally makes it IMPOSSIBLE to obtain gear? I did multiple weeklies already and haven't obtained a single loot crate. And I'm not the only person who is isn't getting loot Go check bug reports, there's multiple people having the same exact problem. So here's what game update 7.0 brings us: 1. An extremely short story 2. A horrendous new gearing system that is grindy and bugged, making it impossible to obtain gear. 3. A new user interface which is waaaay worse than the old one for multiple reasons: It is so big and ugly that you can't even view your character from multiple angles when changing outfits. We used to be able to see other player's outfits but now we can't The inventory blinds you with ugly blue boxes Purchasing a new slot in outfit designer doesn't update until you close and reopen it. Moving an item from your cargo bay to your inventory sometimes causes that item to completely disappear unless you close and reopen your inventory Dragging the window around with your mouse cursor will sometimes cause that window to "stick" to your mouse cursor. And those are just SOME of the bugs that I have personally experienced. Imagine how many bugs thousands of other players experienced. Speaking of bugs: Infinite loading screens Crashes Loot crates not giving people gear Loot crates not appearing in inventories Launcher corrupting the entire installation during patching. Yup, I had to reinstall the entire 40 GB + game on launch day. 4. Dumb changes Ability Pruning Combat Styles Can't change specs in group finder unless you /leave the group. Nope, exiting instances doesn't work either. You have to /leave and get a 15 minute lockout. I can literally go on and on all night, but I think I'll just stop there...

I think a lot of us already knew deep down inside that this so-called expansion was going to be a failure even before it went live. I sure as heck knew... I mean, look at the quality of content they've been releasing these past few years. They can't even properly balance a FLASHPOINT anymore. Look at secrets of the enclave for example. It is possible to do that entire flashpoint on master mode with a group of 4 DPS! You don't even need to have a healer in your group to complete it, and it is significantly easier than VM Hammer Station. Ask yourself why they would make a MASTER MODE flashpoint easier than VM HS? Let me tell you it's because the devs have no clue what they're doing. Remember how underwhelming SOV was? Again, trash mobs in hammer station hit harder. The devs can't even balance a fp properly. And remember when they released all these new sets of gear and augments that no one needed or asked for such as 258 and 306 gear? You know what's funny about that? They were too lazy/busy reworking the gearing system as per the usual that they didn't even get around to the most important thing, rebalancing the content! So we had massively overpowered tunes running around in full 306 gear doing 16k+ dps when 6.0 launched. Yes, It became more difficult to survive on some missions, but everyone started doing tons of DPS so most content became a joke. 7.0 is the complete opposite of 6.0. All that freedom of gearing and "play the way you want" crap? GONE! Instead of letting everyone remain extremely OP, they took away abilities that we've had for years, retuned all of the content, and are forcing us to wear crappy green / blue gear. Now all of us will feel 10x weaker when we play the game, even though we're used to feeling so overpowered. Smart devs, huh? And yes, you also have to look at the ugly UI and put up with a ton of bugs. The developers obviously don't play this game or debug their own code. They just write it and hope for the best.

The only useful thing 7.0 had to offer (weapon in outfitter) got pushed back to 7.1

Have you lost your minds? Are you intentionally trying to kill this game? This new update is a joke. Seriously, most people don't even like it. The gearing system is extremely grindy and convoluted, the new UI is ugly, you removed abilities we've had for years... and you're forcing us to do content we don't even want to do. If you don't want to permanently lose tons of subscribers, I suggest you pay your people overtime and spend the entire day reverting back to 6.0. You should be ashamed of this so-called "expansion".