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I love Star Wars. I’m certain anyone reading this also loves Star Wars. When I first tried this game 2 years ago and I saw all the characters and gameplay, I was immediately addicted. I have continued to feed my addiction through all the ups and downs and despite all the reasons for any particular gripe you may see here on these forums, I had none. The game was growing and progressing organically and it was/is awesome.
I know you may think I am complaining with this post but please believe me, I’m not. I still believe this game is great and continue to log in multiple times, every day. I still willingly slog through the duldrum this game has become, out of love. It’s not the Sith raid, not the difficulty of the TB, and not the character release cadence that I consider the slog. No, the slog is the gear grind rotating around the MK 5 A/KT Stun gun prototype salvage. This single piece of gear is, at the same time, the most common need and most rare find.
I have a roster of around 80 toons and approximately 60 of them are stuck at a gear grind pinch point involving this same dreaded stun gun. In order to “buy” one of these rammon (rare+common) gear pieces, 2500 crystals are needed, making it the single most expensive piece of gear in the game. If I don’t want to spend 2500 crystals on one of them, I can farm it in all of four nodes, two of which have a daily limit of 5 attempts. Unfortunately, the drop rate on these nodes is abyssmal as is the possibility of getting them as a drop in a raid (I should know, I’ve completed hundreds of raids).
Therein lies the slog. I’m bored. Not because I can’t play, not because my toons are under-geared or underpowered, and not because you keep moving the lines of completion. No, it’s because I log in day after day, and day after day I look at the same goal, the same mundane task of farming the mk 5 stun gun. Over and over. I’m trapped in a cycle of repetition at this pinch point because the vast majority of my collection simply doesn’t get better without them. And despite my already finding a whole slew of them, I still need a lot more of them. You could even “guarantee” each attempt of finding one on those four nodes and would still be a massive, up-hill, slog because they just don’t show up often enough in the shops (once a week? really?)
So yeah, the game has become boring for me. When I look ahead, I see even more of these things in my future so, yeah, I’m not super motivated to continue the slog. That doesn’t mean I'm threatening to quit, calling you greedy or any other what have you but seriously, you created it this way and have done nothing to address it but talk. For months now. Obviously you want it this way and someone, somewhere made the decision to maintain the status quo. I respect that, it’s a business, and money is simply a means to an end.
Of course, I hope you understand there are a whole world of options for me to have fun, and I think you do. I think you understand that, in the same way you made a decision to create that pinch point slog, I make decisions on where I put my effort when I’m looking to have fun. Truly, I do not/will not want to quit this game, I have “invested” significant time and money into it but, you know, a fellow gets bored.
Again, please understand, I’m not threatening to quit, I’m pleading with you to end my boredom before I gradually wander away without intending to and end up forgetting how much fun I had with you to begin with.
Please.
I know you may think I am complaining with this post but please believe me, I’m not. I still believe this game is great and continue to log in multiple times, every day. I still willingly slog through the duldrum this game has become, out of love. It’s not the Sith raid, not the difficulty of the TB, and not the character release cadence that I consider the slog. No, the slog is the gear grind rotating around the MK 5 A/KT Stun gun prototype salvage. This single piece of gear is, at the same time, the most common need and most rare find.
I have a roster of around 80 toons and approximately 60 of them are stuck at a gear grind pinch point involving this same dreaded stun gun. In order to “buy” one of these rammon (rare+common) gear pieces, 2500 crystals are needed, making it the single most expensive piece of gear in the game. If I don’t want to spend 2500 crystals on one of them, I can farm it in all of four nodes, two of which have a daily limit of 5 attempts. Unfortunately, the drop rate on these nodes is abyssmal as is the possibility of getting them as a drop in a raid (I should know, I’ve completed hundreds of raids).
Therein lies the slog. I’m bored. Not because I can’t play, not because my toons are under-geared or underpowered, and not because you keep moving the lines of completion. No, it’s because I log in day after day, and day after day I look at the same goal, the same mundane task of farming the mk 5 stun gun. Over and over. I’m trapped in a cycle of repetition at this pinch point because the vast majority of my collection simply doesn’t get better without them. And despite my already finding a whole slew of them, I still need a lot more of them. You could even “guarantee” each attempt of finding one on those four nodes and would still be a massive, up-hill, slog because they just don’t show up often enough in the shops (once a week? really?)
So yeah, the game has become boring for me. When I look ahead, I see even more of these things in my future so, yeah, I’m not super motivated to continue the slog. That doesn’t mean I'm threatening to quit, calling you greedy or any other what have you but seriously, you created it this way and have done nothing to address it but talk. For months now. Obviously you want it this way and someone, somewhere made the decision to maintain the status quo. I respect that, it’s a business, and money is simply a means to an end.
Of course, I hope you understand there are a whole world of options for me to have fun, and I think you do. I think you understand that, in the same way you made a decision to create that pinch point slog, I make decisions on where I put my effort when I’m looking to have fun. Truly, I do not/will not want to quit this game, I have “invested” significant time and money into it but, you know, a fellow gets bored.
Again, please understand, I’m not threatening to quit, I’m pleading with you to end my boredom before I gradually wander away without intending to and end up forgetting how much fun I had with you to begin with.
Please.
