Darth Hater

And it's been months since their "coming soon" Codex clean-up pass that they announced and promised, with still the same things bugged since LAUNCH. I'm so pissed at this game pulling a DCUO, and I swear, no matter what, I am not ever playing a subscription-only again game so long as I live. I've had my nose rubbed into the dirt (and my money gone for near-nothing) far too many times. The developers have time to add additional quickbar slots so they can charge real money for them, but they don't have time to fix basic database and trigger-placement errors for people who already gave them money all this time.

Never again.

May I be ignorant, but what the fuck are you talking about o_0

@Kremdes

A lot of codex entries are unattainable despite showing as available in the codex. Click a planet's codex entry, expand the magnifying glass there, it shows how many codices of each category are available on the planet, along with how many you've gotten. A great many show some available that have been confirmed many times over as unattainable(like a title for Taris/Balmorra, Nar Shaddaa, Tatooine, and Alderaan), as well as codex entries for the other starting world for your side(like Troopers/Smugglers can't get all the codices for Tython despite them showing as still ungotten in the codex).

A few of these(like the Rep-Taris title) were areas that were reachable in beta but blocked off between beta and live and they forgot to remove the Unattained Codex thing. We've been waiting on a promised codex cleanup pass since launch, but 11 months so far and still the unattainable codices mock us in the codex.

I can understand not liking the codex entries from a polish standpoint, but seriously, you would rather they fixed that instead of working on new content?

Yes, I absolutely would prefer they fix existing bugs in their game before working on new content, or more realistically, with a team of however many people they have, put one guy on codex cleanup (even get an unpaid intern in for college credit or something) and get him to monkey around with the trigger points until they work, while the rest of the team works on new content.

Ever heard of "If something's worth doing, it's worth doing well."? Tracking codex entries with progress bars and completion ratings is DIRECT and DELIBERATE to people who collect these things, and then they're not collectable. Don't you see? The system is designed specifically to not only have you complete the codex, it even gives you extreme detail into your progress...but it's not actually possible.

That's why it pisses us off: If there wasn't any tracking, and you just had stuff you could read for fun if you wanted (like books in an Elder Scrolls game), it would still be slightly irritating to have them unobtainable, but most of us wouldn't care and would do something else. But we like collecting, and the game says "Here!" and then it says "Nope!".

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And it's been months since their "coming soon" Codex clean-up pass that they announced and promised, with still the same things bugged since LAUNCH. I'm so pissed at this game pulling a DCUO, and I swear, no matter what, I am not ever playing a subscription-only again game so long as I live. I've had my nose rubbed into the dirt (and my money gone for near-nothing) far too many times. The developers have time to add additional quickbar slots so they can charge real money for them, but they don't have time to fix basic database and trigger-placement errors for people who already gave them money all this time.

Never again.

Couldn't care less about the Codex, they should implement a normal achievement system.

It truley amazes me what sets some people off like this. Really? You're talking about something that is never even encountered until you go looking into the codex. OCDordramamuchbro? I doubt any adult working on this game intentionally left that out to "rub YOUR nose in it". Relax and enjoy the improvements to the game or don't play, it's your choice of course.

Personally, I am very happy to see the list of things they did fix that were affecting the actual gameplay. If you were in charge of the development team and had to prioritize all the bug fixes and game enhancements, I doubt you would put your resources onto removing codex entries that are not really available. Sure, if you still had the full staff of devs (back when they talked about fixing it), but not after all the layoffs. Reality has sunk in and they need to apply those resources where it affects or enhances the actual gameplay.

Now that I was reminded about it, jakj, another little thing "broken" since launch they should fix that'd be easy to fix would be to add the Quesh Commendations vendors to the Imperial and Republic Fleets. All other planets have their comms vendors on the fleets, but since launch you've had to directly visit Quesh to see its commendation items. Very inconvenient, and gives a bad impression on being a world BioWare didn't care about as much, especially given that it was the only world created entirely(name and all) for TOR. It wouldn't be that hard. Just copy-paste the comms vendors from Quesh and put them in the appropriate level range room on their respective fleets(between the Rep-Balmorra/Imp-Taris and Hoth vendors).

Just another little thing, like the much-delayed Codex Cleanup, that has taken ages to fix what should be a relatively simple thing to fix.