Iokath, GotM Tyth and A&E

Hi Eric

What’s wrong with you and your team?

Now, the next boss is released and it seems that your dev team are misfocused. Iokath was announced as a great new planet for dailies which follows the storyline where your faction is not where you was born but what you chose. We got a mob filled planet where no one is online after finished the achievements. This was waste of dev time. The new daily concept where you get only 5 quest and need 5 quests to complete to daily mission failed, or not? The open PVP idea failed, or not? Farming resources failed, or not? How many players are online on Iokath and is this, what you expected?

The next thing it the new OP GotM. But first some comments to SWTOR. SWTOR is for casual gaming. Its great and makes fun, but its an outdated content where progress make no sense because too seldom a new content is published.

You invited the semi-progress gamer to PTS to test the new OP. You got feedback that this gamer wish more challenging contents. As a result, most of the players on the live server get 248 equipment from PVP or CXP farming (SM OPS, dailies, easy HM things) not from OP bosses like Tyth or the sisters or the NIM OPs. Is this, what you expected? The dev team spend a lot of time in boss mechanics and the results are nice. But does it make sense that only few groups defeat Tyth HM after weeks? Revan HM and Ravagers HM are still challenging because its feels like more NIM mode then HM. I don’t complain that the new OP is too hard but I complain that the difficulty between SM and HM is too different and most of the mechanics of HM are more for NIM. As I mentioned at the beginning, SWTOR is for causal gaming. If more 90% of player get the current 248 equipment from CXP Farming not from NIM Ops and GotM then its something wrong, or not? How many groups defeated on PTS the sisters? 50% or less? How many casual gamers defeated on PTS the sister? 5%? And how many are interested in GofM after they got the kill achievements? Do you see in your logs many groups who are playing 16mode NIM OPS every week or only once to get the achievement? Its Tyth HM is complicated? No, but contains too many RNG elements. How many groups defeat Tyth HM week by week first try? Are the sisters too complicated? No, but overloaded with mechanics. This fits better to a NIM mode. I thing, in general the concept doesn’t fit to the existing community. Yes, we need challenging content, but we need playable content for the majority either.

Do you really think, SWTOR gets more player with the new Iokath content as it is?

All SM content should be possible for nearly everyone, HM should feasible for 70-80% and NIM mode for 10-15%. All other make no sense for me for SWTOR. Many content fits to this eg. FPs (SM, HC, MM), many SM, HC, NIM Ops, Chapters (solo played), eternal championship (incl. time run). Please, do not use PTS results for calibration if the PTS is not open for everyone.

Based on what was delivered with Iokath, I expect for the next bosses jumping/balancing elements where player senseless die again and again in jumping or climbing phases. I’m sure your dev team is working on this. This would be a good time to closed my account.

cheers