A simple fix to the “whaleboard”

Sooooooo, you may be aware of the Loot Box system that EA employs in FIFA, and the huge backlash they got for Loot Boxes in Star Wars BattleFront 2.  Well, this is no different.  There are reams of news articles and opinions about EA's P2W and incentivizing pay models, but the fact is, the bean counters at EA have spreadsheet after spreadsheet on player transactions.  They are not going to partition any game between Kraken, Whales, Dolphins, Guppies and F2P.  This game simply makes too much profit.

EA/CG has made tons of money off this game in the 10 years it's been around, to the tune of $2 billion US dollars.  Just in 2024 they made $88 million dollars on this game alone!  If there is one thing EA knows how to do, it's monetize a game and get players to part with their cubits.  Your simple fix would actually hurt the game and benefits EA/CG in no way, and the game would become stale very quickly.  

Just choose to enjoy the game at your own pace.  If you started the game in 2017 and you have the crystal income, then you should be pretty far along in GP and owning GLs and Conquest toons.  You should also have a stash of Kyrotech and other mats to level the era toons right up and slap decent mods on them to where they are at least R5-7 and competitive.