Capital Games Team
“When considering our choices of courses of action, we are satisfied with how Punishing One is performing in all other battles. Due to this we are not currently planning any action to adjust Punishing One directly.” - well you just lost a reasonable amount of the player base. You simply spit in the face of Profundity owners who spent time and money in your game. SHAME! Your actions are a good example how not to develop a game…
CG is just using the predatory monetization schemes of all this "free to play" games. They release overpowered toons, intentionally totally destroying most of the stuff out there, let it trickle in, then in a year or so they will release another overpowered toon to counter it. (Problem is, there are too few ships and fleets out there, so counters are rare - and this single ship was (intentionally) designed to hard-counter most of them.
It's win/win for them: tons of money combined with "new content". From time to time release some progress enhancers called LSB. Just recently with the Negotiator bundle which brought lots of players on par with Executors once they farmed the Marauder (with a crew of 3 heavy Kyro users) and the Y-Wing. I mean this ship was clearly designed to be a "I WIN!" button available for money to keep this players again at a distance.
Do I like this? Hell no. But CG was never more honest what they care about and how they relate to the players. You can be part of this or just quit. They won't change a thing unless too many players vote with their wallet (and leave/spend less). And most people are willing to pay from the looks of it (when watching my fleet shard for example).
