Well, they finally did it. They may have actually killed SWTOR. The latest patch (7.0, even though it's called an expansion, it is in reality, just a larger than normal patch) has convinced me to drop my sub after a year and a half. I'd previously put some money into the game for cartel coins in the past, and bought the original first 2 expansions (when that was still a thing you could do). I genuinely enjoyed the game, both for it's combat, and its story. The current path the devs (or at least the management behind them, typical of EA/Bioware) chose to take, however, especially with the skill cuts and removal/remodeling of various other features that are not at all player friendly (with 2 or 3 minor exceptions) has convinced me to stop giving any more money to these people.

Edit 2024: I managed to get legendary status and then dropped this game in a heartbeat in favor of FF14 back at the beginning of 2022. At least with that game, I have greater confidence in the developers to not ruin their own game (though Square might eventually do that themselves given their more recent track record).

Well, they finally did it. They may have actually killed SWTOR. The latest patch (7.0, even though it's called an expansion, it is in reality, just a larger than normal patch) has convinced me to drop my sub after a year and a half. I'd previously put some money into the game for cartel coins in the past, and bought the original first 2 expansions (when that was still a thing you could do). I genuinely enjoyed the game, both for it's combat, and its story. The current path the devs (or at least the management behind them, typical of EA/Bioware) chose to take, however, especially with the skill cuts and removal/remodeling of various other features that are not at all player friendly (with 2 or 3 minor exceptions) has convinced me to stop giving any more money to these people. Edit 2024: I managed to get legendary status and then dropped this game in a heartbeat in favor of FF14 back at the beginning of 2022. At least with that game, I have greater confidence in the developers to not ruin their own game (though Square might eventually do that themselves given their more recent track record).