It had to go, it was allowing an entire profession to be bypassed.Īnd why should Slicing be the only necessary and by far the most profitable skill while others wither away, becoming increasingly useless with each expansion? Lets face it the slot machine allowed people to augment without Slicing. And everything else BW has done that has hurt the economy (such as the 192 comp gear), is working as intended. But the point of the game is not to make billionaires in the in-game economy.

If trying to be the Warren Buffet of the server is fun for you, fine. This is a game, not a fortune 500 company (speaking of the characters, not BW) the point is to have fun. All because people were crying that their profits were getting hurt by them. This is all just my opinion, but BW really did just makes these things completely worthless. At least during nightlife you had pretty good odds at the golden certs to buy some kinda decent gear. The drop rate on the walker is so abysmally low, and with no other real rewards, the slot machines are now just really pretty (read: expensive) decos. And the faction specific walker, really? We already have faction walkers courtesy of the Yavin 4 rep vendor. Really was gonna make life easy for making those purple augments. But I was enjoying the scrap drops for my own personal crafting, making stuff for myself and my wife. I'm not a big GTN seller, never took the time to really learn the market. They did not nerf the slot machines, they dropped the nerf factory on them. I seriously believe BioWare overreacted by a large margin on this change.

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