Mods Update II: It's Another Mega Thread!!

"BradGoodyear;550635" wrote:
Personally i think you all need to watch this video about cheese.

https://youtu.be/16hxCB1Dvd4

It's about responding to change. The game is in desperate need of a change manager and whilst EA Jesse does a good job communicating to the community, it's clear the understanding of change management is missing from the dev team and they could probably learn alot by studying or training in this to understand why they get such overwhelming negative responses with their updates and changes.

IRONICALLY, the first time I heard this story was when the company I worked for was purging people because they took an 8 million dollar tax write off and were filing for bankruptcy.


There are a few things here in play:

#1 - Mods actually were NOT a bad idea. I think they're a great idea, but their implementation of them was terrible. Health mods should just give HEALTH. If you match two of them, THEN you get something secondary. Same on down the line. Health should not increase EVERY OTHER STAT down the line. I'm looking at one of my 5* mods for Rey. It's a MK V-A health receiver. Stats are: +100 Defense primary, 102 Offense, 4% Tenacity, 5% Defense, 577 Health with a Set Bonus of 10% health stacked on top of the Maxed Set Bonus of 15% Health. Offense, Tenacity And Defense shouldn't EVEN be in there because there are OTHER MODS for that.

#1A - On that issue, maybe there should have been a Protection mod as well with the Nightsisters getting some love.

#2 - This really is precraft 2.0 on a wider scale. The devs said something like 1% of the player base precrafted. NOW how many people are taking advantage of this? I did and I can't blame those who did.

#3 - The credit crunch is BEYOND ridiculous now. It cost 1.3ish million to level all mods to level 15 for each toon. I don't even have 7* on toons I can actually use.

#4 - The lack of communication. Yes, I know that I'm posting in @CG_NotReallyAJedi 's thread. He (or she) has been fantastic with communicating with us. HOWEVER, if they would have come out and said "yeah, it's broken right now, BUT you WILL need these for new content we're creating like the Grievous raid, Tier 8 Rancor and / or ships...just hang with us guys" I think a lot of us would have said OK, we get it. But they didn't and because of that pitchforks and torches are out.

#4A - We all know that Arena WILL balance itself out. It always does in a few weeks to a month. HOWEVER, every other aspect of the game is broken like Raids. My guild started a T7 raid. I took a quick shower and we were halfway through p2 with everyone doubling their normal damage. I did close to 600k just on p2. I'd never dream of that.

#4B - Galactic War - You see how many people cannot complete GW lately? We still have NO resolution on that. Refer to item #3 to see why people are upset. There's really no way to get credits and even then it's not enough. The credit fix for GW hasn't been implemented yet, node 6, 10-12 are straight from the depths of Hades and there's no end in sight unless you mod 3 squads minimum.

This is why the player base is so ticked off right now. It's too much, too fast and an unnatural progression. What happened to the gear slots that don't have gear available? THAT would have been the next logical step. My guild core has said we're staying in, but we have one foot out the door and the other foot isn't even on the threshold - It's ready to take the step with its foot lifted. We have some Krakens, some whales and some large dolphins and a lot of us have closed our wallets. Maybe they're closed permanently.

Edit - BTW, cheese is delicious.

Edit #2 - I didn't even touch on these using Cantina energy. That's a whole other debacle.