Shibbstah Posted February 3, 2017 Share Posted February 3, 2017 You get a re-skin! You get a re-skin, and you get a re-skin! Really. It's actually getting pretty sad. The newest companion is a re-skin of the Nexu model, the Dais mount, re-using Armor pieces, etc etc. You know people are going to spend money on this, and I imagine that's why you just throw some things together. I'm sure it's primarily EA and not BioWare, but man... A lot of the old packs that came out actually had unique items and sets. Either the artists have gotten lazy or they're just running out of ideas. I'm not one to typically lash out and such, and I've supported you and this game since Launch. But please... you're killing me. Less throwing my money at the screen and more actual content. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rankyn Posted February 3, 2017 Share Posted February 3, 2017 Dear BioWare Stop trying to do things that businesses try to do. You know, like make money. kthx. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyuuu Posted February 3, 2017 Share Posted February 3, 2017 if the stop this they really will be in hole seeing majority of all the profits is from cartel shop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shibbstah Posted February 3, 2017 Author Share Posted February 3, 2017 I have no issue with them trying to make money, but it just seems that when it comes to an in-game shop, they're trying to make money with as little effort as possible nowadays. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dr_mike Posted February 4, 2017 Share Posted February 4, 2017 if the stop this they really will be in hole seeing majority of all the profits is from cartel shop. This. A single artist can push out new items quite easily, especially if they're reskins. Something like a new planet takes the effort of both programmers, map makers and artists. Plus it takes time to write things up, QA to test it, additional programers to bug fir it, etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Talon_strikes Posted February 4, 2017 Share Posted February 4, 2017 Dear BioWare Stop trying to do things that businesses try to do. You know, like make money. kthx. It's the principle @OP: As long as the whales and gambling addicts keep throwing their bi-weekly paychecks at the CM, it will continue to thrive unfortunately. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aeneas_Falco Posted February 4, 2017 Share Posted February 4, 2017 (edited) The game only exists because of the Cartel Market. SWTOR doesn't earn enough on subscriptions alone and the Cartel Market became a necessity after SWTOR had a disastrous launch, and transitioned F2P in record time. I can understand the frustration and not getting enough new content, but requesting that Bioware completely ditch the CM is impractical. You might as well request that Bioware shut the game down entirely at that point, because it is the same thing. The game can't exist without revenue. I think the main problem with SWTOR is that it had years where it was very successful with the F2P and Cartel Market model, but there's not a lot of evidence that a good portion of that revenue was being reinvested in the game. EA seems to be treating it as a cash cow, milking as much profit from it as possible while investing as little as possible in it's continuing development and maintenance. I think since it failed to be the WoW killer they hoped it would be, they've mostly written the title off. Edited February 4, 2017 by Aeneas_Falco Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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