Smuggler Archive

How long is too long to wait? Next March, it will have been 21 months since the release of this game. In the first year, the following things have been done to/for the smuggling profession, a profession that was pretty much slapped together during beta:

- We can talk and trade junk to Jawas: slightly interesting
- Feign Death made useable while running: great change
- Panic Shot nerfed once, rendering it fairly good: for the best
- Panic Shot nerfed again, rendering it totally useless: senseless
- Low Blow nerfed (along with all KDs): annoying at first, but for the best
- Stormtroopers conduct random searches for contraband: doesn't change anything, but sort of funny
- Spice downers made worse: totally unnecessary

I've been sitting here for a few minutes trying to think of anything else, but that's all I can come up with. What we're left with is 2 small content additions, which are cool but minor; 1 much-needed and much-hurrahed fix; and 4 nerfs of various forms. Some of those nerfs were justified, but the end result is the Smuggler profession has been made far weaker than it was to begin with, a concept that's outright laughable. Great ideas are brought up in this forum every day, we've had a dozen different developer promises to fix up our class and then go right back to ignoring us, and in a year of playing time--roughly $200 for the game and subscription fees for anyone here from the start--we're worse off than we started.

How much time and how much money do we have to invest in this game, waiting for a fix for the profession we all love, before it becomes too much to put up with? How long can we be patient before it becomes time to hang up the slicing gear and move on to a game we won't be paying to neglect us?