"Qeltar;371056" wrote:
@reizse - I refreshed 6 times yesterday and 6 times today. Yes I understand it is RNG. It is also ****ing frustrating as hell and unnecessarily dumb.
You got lucky. I didn't. I can accept this with regular drops. Doing it with purchase options is insane.
They are annoying their customers and even cheating themselves of money.
"Dantefire;371025" wrote:
But the fact is you shouldn't be competing for top tiers in arena and guild rewards with that little spent. If you could, the whales would leave the game as there would be no incentive for them to spend the much larger amounts of money than you have. And I have for that matter.
What came to my mind reading this was the end fight in Episode 3 on the lava when Kenobi screams at Anakin: "Well then you are lost!"
A primary strength of this game was that the spread between big spenders and moderate spenders and low spenders and even F2P was not as huge as in other games. I left my last game because I either had to pay thousands to compete or had no chance. I stayed in this one because until this gear fiasco, it was different.
I am on pace to spend over $1,000 a year. On a mobile game. In any reasonable world I would be considered borderline crazy for this. (My wife thinks I am.) But here I am considered too light a spender to be competitive?
So what, should I just quit now? Do they really expect me to spend five years farming gear at just one level?
In addition, note that the main complaint here isn't that I have to spend more money, it's that I am not even able to! :)
Thinking I didn't do a good enough job in making my end point. Freemium games push new content to make money. All of them do. New content releases, whales spend like crazy. Eventually that content settles into the mainstream. Again, I can't help but feel that this gear will become more readily available later. Just not
now. Yes, even players such as we who have spent a few hundred are still at a disadvantage, and that blows. But it'll change. It has to.
And please... Calling yourself Ewan Mcgregor is all well and good. But calling me Hayden Christensen makes me a sad panda. ;)
Capital Games Team
