Where is this pay to win?

What are you talking about? The “pay to win” thing was removed before the game launched because EA received a lot of backlash. That was in 2017 and it’s now 2020... so it’s been almost 3 years since pay to win was removed.

You’ve got it backwards, OP. Because loot boxes never made the game, launch players had to work waaaay harder for what they got than players currently do.

Count your blessings, cause those first six months were BRUTAL. Like, “weeks-of-grinding-for-a-single-purple-card” brutal.

No double/triple XP and no Co-op, either. You young bucks have no idea how good you have it.

The game has not been pay to win ever since they revamped the star card system. In fact I'd argue that it was never pay to win even at release.

The closest would be 'pay to be ahead', but even if you paid, you didn't have an extreme advantage over those who didnt't.

What EA did at the start was to make the 2 most blatantly overpowered trooper weapons (CR2 and Blurgg) and their key modifications immediately accessible, if you bought the collector's edition. Plus some nice purple star cards for Rey, who was arguably the best light side hero when the game released.

Supercharged sentry was free to everyone though. LOL!

No the irony is it never actually was "pay to win" even with the loot boxes.  IGN bought $100 worth of loot boxes in the beta and didn't get a single Epic LOL!!!  The whole system was pay for a CHANCE to win...and apparently a small one at that.

Never mind that even if you got an Epic card, it might not be one you even care about.  It could be one you will never equip or one for a hero or class you never play.

No, as soon as they fixed the progression system, that's when long time players started showing up with Epics across the board.  They had all the skill points necessary to pick whatever Epic loadout they wanted.  That's what you are running into.  Players who know which Epic cards are the best.

This game is play to win now.Because if u are e new player u need to unlock all star cards and weapons and with out op cards and weapons u are trash bot that cant be good vs veteran players.

That’s.....not pay to win. 

Veterans clapping new players is a thing in pretty much every game ever made. There’s a learning curve 

> I’m not stating that you can still pay to win but rather the enhancements of the people that paid before it was taken out are still there making it really unfair to the general population.

The enhancement people paid for are guns that you unlock after 150 kills, we had to farm 500 kills against true players and then get 150 more to unlock all the atttachment. Today you can get them killing BOTS if you put 10 hour in the game you are on an equal footing to any other player in the field. It is more than feseable to get in 10 hours of play the best gun of a class with the best cards on the highest levels on a base class pluys one hero on each side with out even having to face someone with them.

> So EA if you are reading this I will gladly pay for gun enhancements, trooper enhancements, hero enhancements and passive enhancements that make your jet trooper tear through B2 Supper Battle Droids like tissue paper. 

Ironic, you are calling out pay to win but you want to pay because others paid for an insignificant advantage years ago that is not relevent today. Bear in mind it's not even a percent of the actual playerbase that bought lootboxes at launch. If you feel it's unfair log in in coop and play a few hours you will have caught up to the people with hundreds of hours in only a dozen or so. If everyone seems to have this unfait advantage to you just get your base class to 40 or your hero to 25 and you are on the exact foothold as anyone else.

Mad cause bad

Seeing a lot of people here argue that the lootboxes from the games pre-launch weren't pay-to-win, they were.