Time to end Old Republic and Revan

"ewokarmageddon;d-197791" wrote:
I have been playing this game since the beginning and it has been a fun game. I have fully enjoyed the time I have played, even with the addition of Revan at the beginning. I figured it would just be a temporary issue and the game would balance itself out, just like Luke. But, now it is getting discouraging with “all Revan, all the time.” It has caused a large divide between those who have and those who haven’t. Even in Territory wars, this group has turned into a gate that is all but impossible to whittle down with multiple teams. It is either you smash the team or waste multiple other teams in vane attempts. The mechanics were cool, but take away skill and replace with overwhelming strength of teams. The gap with Revan is greater than Luke ever was and has hindered game play, i.e. there is only 5-6 non-Revan teams in the top 100 of my Arena. I can only imagine the annoyance of mirror-matches of the those with Revan in the top 100.

Secondly, we have followed a story line that has only catered to a smaller percentage of the population. Whereas Revan was a great addition, the characters associated with the Old Republic are scantly known and provide little-to-no interest. We all grew up with Lobot and even though he is weak in this game, he is also a critical character to the cannon and worth farming for that point alone. The Old Republic, while a game, is still less known than Mara Jade or Darth Bane who would have made the Star Wars Nerds giddy with joy.

I am not saying that Revan’s addition wasn’t a good idea, for I think it was. But the mechanics of gameplay change with Revan has significantly taken away from the “fun factor” of the game. Hopefully this will balance out in the near future with a greater mixture of teams.

I'm sorry, but a lot of this is complete nonsense. Addressing the most important part first, when CG did polls asking which characters people wanted added to the game, the Old Republic era was persistently dominant. The OR characters are extremely well known by a large part of the player base. Probably to far more people than those who ever cared enough about Lobot to know his name. And trying to say that the Old Republic is less well known than Darth Bane is completely absurd. The two KOTOR games are the most critically acclaimed Star Wars games ever, and have appeared on many lists of the greatest video games of all time.
Darth Bane is a character who prior to a single brief appearance on a cartoon was known solely from third tier novels and comics. And Mara Jade will almost certainly never happen. She is from a time period that was completely rewritten as the result of the Disney takeover.

As for the game mechanics part of the argument, that is just a temporary issue. Darth Revan will help balance it out, and they also need to rework the Rebel and Resistance squads to make CLS and JTR more viable.