Beskar Mandalorian feats [MERGE]

They set galactic challenged twice a week, it was too good to be true so they found a way to screw this good thing. Game has always been a pay for win game, nothing new to me.
Just keep your money in your wallet and play at your own pace.

"VeNeNo;c-2206484" wrote:
Game has always been a pay for win game, nothing new to me.

It's been "pay to win immediately", it's never been "pay to win permanently" before.
For example, just after the first two Galactic Legends were released I fell out of the top 100 and struggled to even get into the top 200 for several months. Finally, I finished my farming of GL Rey and now I'm a permanent fixture in the top 50 again.
I accept that I will eventually fall out again as newer characters are released but then I can farm those characters and hopefully get back into the top 50 again.

But if I can now never get the slicing materials that others can pay for, I might never get into the top 50 again. And might end up outside to the top 200 permanently.
And that's the difference. With other 'Whale releases', the 'dolphins' and f2p players can eventually catch up. But if these slicing mods are now going to permanently be behind a paywall, they never will catch up again.

So the event is for Resistance vs Geos. Now unless I am missing something what has Beskar Mandalorian got to do with any of those.

Did I miss the reveal when Mando removed his helmet and he is now a bug or transformed into Finn.

I would have no problem if this were a Scoundrel event... Or even a Bounty Hunter event at a stretch.

But if you are going to do themes then for the love of ...... make sure they are consistent.

I'm a little surprised, but mostly I'm just disappointed. I'd really gotten the feeling these last few weeks and even last few months that we were moving more in the right direction after years of crap, neglect, and abuse. The rewards for the challenge pit were definitely concerning, but I still believed that it didn't mean the end of the progress that had been made. I still had hope.
This...This brings us back to square one. I'm disappointed because the old CG has once again reared its ugly head. I thought we were over this, but clearly I was just naive. I'd love to see the devs respond to this thread, or Kyno, but I don't think they will. Regardless of whether or not this decision was technically wrong, it is most certainly morally wrong and is once again abuse of the player-base. The terrible IG-11 and Kuill drop-rates, Beskar Mando event being permanent immediately, this GC happening only 2 days in. The fact that they split the feats between two GC's. The Beskar Mando feat along with a Resistance themed GC. This was all carefully thought out and calculated to inflict the most harm possible, piss off the most people, and destroy all the trust we had started to build up in one fell swoop. I honestly don't understand what CG could possibly think they gain from a decision like this. If they haven't seen the improvements from them actually communicating with the community and not being horrible...then there truly is no hope.
I've had many times when I considered quitting this game. I never once did. But this time is different. This time, we caught a glimpse of the possibility of a better game, a stronger community, before it was taken away. This time we saw what was possible, before it was cruelly taken away by the clawed hands of greed. This time, I don't know if I'm willing to accept whatever solution might be offered as a band-aid. There are only so many times you can patch up the injury without fixing the base problem. At some point, band-aid's are no good anymore. You have to fix the problem at the core, and if that can't be done, then it's all over before it even began.
Doja, Crumb, if you see this, and I have my doubts...but if you do. I don't know what power you have, I don't know what is in your capacity to do, but if you can do anything, please tell those who do have the power to make those choices, This Is NOT The Way.

This mando feat is disgusting

"Veserion1;c-2206494" wrote:
Future GCs:

Use GL rey/kylo/JML/SEE in your team

Put all slicing mats behind this feat.

Watch the world burn

Nah

That would imply SEE owners get some sort of advantage in this game

"Edgar_the_Bug;c-2206475" wrote:
Could be a very smart move from CG. Redirect the rage from how terrible the ‘flat’ rewards for the rancor raid are into something that will be forgotten much sooner.

In general, I don't think "Make your customers angry in as many different ways as possible" is considered sound business strategy. There's a reason EA won a particular award two years in a row awhile back. Looks like they brought in Mark to rekindle that old flame

"Nauros;c-2206508" wrote:
Resistance isn't paywalled, though. And it makes sense that when you don't have the faction, you don't get the rewards.

Not having the faction wouldn't stop anyone from getting some mats before.
If it was the usual "all units standing" feat i would have gotten some even without the right faction

Rename feat to "This is the whale"? ?

As an aside - this doesn't even make sense from within the game. This GC is Resistance - not scoundrel or even BH. I'm not usually one to accuse CG of "cash grabs" - but this is clearly it.

"Accessibility" was a term @CG_Doja_Fett used several times n the podcast about the event. This ain't it.

If anyone ever questioned if CG was "listening" or cared about player experience this is the clearest communication CG has had in 5 years - a resounding "No."