BW yes but EA no. They have become the bane of gaming. Rockstar has taking over though.

BW yes, EA no. This was my first EA game after i boycotted them from back in the Madden days lol

I think it has burst on the gaming world in general. The golden age of gaming has grown older ( families, careers, etc ) and right now, games are being dumbed down for console reasons to bring in a wider audience. This crosses over to PC gaming too, as the current generation of younger gamers are coming from ps3/xbox360 to PC rather then vice versa. Before you had small companies building up & competition was forcing companies to be creative. Then some companies just started buying out competition & becoming complacent. All about the quantity rather then quality. So yes but not just on this game. Look at diablo 3. I played 1 and 2 back in the day but wasn't into dungeon crawlers. I tried D3...my god it couldn't get any more simple. Same thing happened with Dragon Age 2, Mass Effect 3, Skyrim ...all consolized basically to appeal to the new generation of gamers. When you have gamers use to those types of games, it is going to be hard for any MMO to hold up anymore.

Mix of a few things. Unrealistic expectations from the customers. Face it, this generation of gamers are cross over consolers. They are use to having everything there in the game ready to go. No patience at all. ( not all but it seems like a decent amount, WoW also seemed to dumb down the player base for MMOs too ). Rushed...simply put, game was rushed before it was even ready to be released ( points at EA ). Everyone knows it. Just looking at the legacy system itself shows it, how valor & the bm bag system was "only temporary" shows it. Had to make that holiday push for sales though. Combine this & you have what is happening now. Its a shame too, because this IS a good game. Its not like a bad game that is dying out because its bad. It had a great launch, it is pushing out patches the fastest i ever seen in a MMO ( you have to admit that ). Its just they are forced to work on features that should have been done at release but do to what i said above, wasnt possible. Its just people are not going to stick around paying $15 am onth to honestly be testers. I know that comment is cliche but it holds true at this point.

That first part just baffles me. Have they been absent from MMOs the past 10 years? PVP is a huge part of MMOs. Merges should & have to be the #1 thing on the to-do list. It will help alot towards keeping subs.

I shake my fist at EA. This legacy stuff should have been implemented prior to release but nope, had to push it out for the holiday sales! It does suck. PVP needs alot of work still ( too much CC, too much damage ) but BW is set on doing legacy because they wanted it all along. Game lost alot of pvpers ( imho ) before they announced ranked. Then when ranked was pulled, it lost a great amount of players. Now with nothing in the horizon for PVP...they are essentially alienating a decent chunk of players. It is going to take alot to get those players back ( myself included ) when you have PVP based games coming out in the near future. Yea my server when i started ( i think feb? ) had a great pop ( dark reaper ) & was alot of pvpers ( instant queues ) but like i said above. From the valor changes to no ranked, the server pretty much dried up cept for a few. Now we go anywhere from 10 to 30 minute queues...vs the same people since pub side has even less players. I am just curious what carrot on the stick change they will do to PVP in the upcoming months. FIrst was the valor grind which just vanished. That itself I think killed some PVPers...all the grinding for..nothing. That whole system was apparently put in as a temp solution?...a temp solution at release? Yea...good job on that one. Its a shame. They could have pushed the game 3-6 months to get things in order ( legacy, pvp balance, etc ) but nope, they got EA'ed

server merges & pvp related things. Sat in q for an hour and a half so far, just logged out.

Really a lack of PVP features. Have no real wanting to do PVE content. Legacy seemed like a great idea, if it was implemeneted at release. Prices on legacy items don't seem to make alot of sense. Dead servers. Too much EA seems to be involved with the game ( rushed release ) which is a turn off personally.

Still getting this.

Huttball....toss on a shield and use guard. Everything else, go DPS.

Shield techs are...the off tanks, If there happens to be no Jug or tankassin in the group, you are looking to get the ball. In PVE they may do well but in PVP, they are kinda at a disadvantage, would be better off running a DPS build instead.

Do something at least. I really see no difference between a tank spec and dps spec, pretty much die just as fast without the dps though. Makes no sense cept the expertise change affected damage better then it did defense

I have no proof of this but in my mind i put the blame on EA for pushing this game out sooner then it hsould have been. Legacy should have been at release. Obviously EA wanted this out for the holiday season. I have never been a fan of EA from back in the Madden days and how they just strung that title along year after year completeing butchering it. More concerned about quantity rather then quality.

I dont get how ill have the loading screen still but but ill be able to click things in game. Say I queued for a wazone, i alt tabbed out, then back in ( loading screen comes up ) ill still be able to click the wz pop if i remember the placement of it before the loading screen even disappears.

see, before those people that didnt care would just leave the wz, allowing someone else who might care to join. Now they dont leave period

Actually PVE is required for PVP. You have to make money somehow to remod augmented gear. 500k for 5 pieces of gear for me last night.

Agreed with OP. This encourages people to not put forth any effort. At least before if you got down 1-0 and people left, new people would come in and maybe they would help change the game. Now, people don't leave. Just becomes a t-minus till comms/daily. You are changing the wrong things BW

After the 1.2 ranked wz thing, im just riding out the free month. I tried to be patient but EA is shining thru this game too much.

EA...its all you need to know

Great this is being address as I have half a bank tabbed filled with non crit Battlemaster & War Hero gear in hopes this change goes through

Or your cover is bugging out, likle mine is doing today. Graphically looks like I am in cover but by game standards, I am not & vice versa, happened during 2 wzs already for most the match.

We are squishey as hell. There is no real range class in this game as nearly every class has the ability to close the gap without effort

PVP is the only reason I played. No def date on ranked warzones has me unsubbed. Also take note any future developers...stay away when EA comes knocking

found preferences option. thankfully

Way to make it a pain in the butt BW. Since we can't buy multiple items at a time, the enter button allowed us to spam fest our way through buying comms.