Buying Data Cards

Did you get a character from the premium packs? The fist 3 packs appear to only drop items or on a rare occasion, a character shard. 

Packs are way too expensive... I could buy a full videogame with the amount of real money they ask for gems to buy one Data Cards pack.. I only bought the single cards, which drops nothing worth.. And it takes too many shards to complete or promote any characters, even the basic one-star.

It def takes a lot of shards. Id say they are going for the long game. Wanting people to play for several years. As to the costs, yes, they do seem to be pretty high. Id drop it down to no more than $10 for basic characters and $15 for premium. 

yes, i've mentioned as well earlier on that the shard system is really making things difficult, even for paying players.

as it is... there are so many characters, so a shard that gets dropped could be any of the characters. in terms of % of shards that you want, that makes it even less!

then there's the shard requirements... 65... or even more in higher level. do the calculations and you know how much it can easily cost (even if assuming you are extremely lucky and pull all the shards you want). buying a pack... yes, can be costly for long term. but hey... not to say what... but this is EA. <-- good or bad, depends on how one looks at it and i dun wanna get to that topic/ discussion.

the other way, which i think is cheaper... is to grab the starter pack (supposedly time-limited but it does seem to go on and on like an Energizer bunny -- lolz). its affordable and you get Count Dooku, which i personally think, is under-rated. he's got counter attacks, extra attacks, etc... dem useful. the only bummer is... if you already have him. in which case, it might probably give you shards instead, which isn't that useful.

maybe team EA should consider rotating the guaranteed drops from such package. i'd love to get Barriss. she's really a pain when not on my side!

I don't know if this is your first game involving "summoning" system, but generally all the other mobile games are price around this range. So they are just kinda following the market rate. However, I would appreciate if they could do more to make purchasing of data pack more compelling. 

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@LeeboyyyyJenkins wrote:

I don't know if this is your first game involving "summoning" system, but generally all the other mobile games are price around this range. So they are just kinda following the market rate. However, I would appreciate if they could do more to make purchasing of data pack more compelling. 

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hmmm... i've not really made a proper comparison... but... the games i played... usually they don't use "shards". once a pack is purchased, we get cards. no doubt there'll be common, uncommon, rare, legendary, ultra-and-what-not... but, at least in those games, there isn't a need to go and collect shards that we then use to "create" a character... :D

I'd rather have shared than some of the other systems I've seen. That Jurassic World game is a good example of how not to make a game, terrible!

Yep, totally agree the packs need to be separated.  Hero/shard ONLY pack, gear pack, xp pack, credits pack, etc.  I would never pay for a pack that has a chance to get garbage gear. I want to pay for hero's and heroes only or gear and gear only.  They need to discount the 10 pack for extra incentive to buy as well. Sure you get a guaranteed hero in the 10 pack but you would probably get a hero in 10 regular summons as well, unless the drop rate is worse than 10%... which I hope it is not.

I'll contribute that it's also entirely possible to not get a hero even in the 10-pack with guaranteed hero.

I bought the aurodium 10-pack with guaranteed character, and the drop was Dathcha (who I had already won). So instead of a new character I got 7/65ths (10%) of the way toward upgrading a toon I don't even use to the next level. That was VERY underwhelming, let me tell you.....

I got nothing interesting at all from a 3100 gem pack (would have been ~$25 to get basically nothing....)

This makes me have exactly zero interest in spending real money on these datacards....

A guaranteed character should be an actual character, or if no-dupe is totally not possible, getting shards instead of a character should give enough shards to upgrade them, not 10% of the shards needed to upgrade.. that's pretty insulting.

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@EndBean wrote:

I'll contribute that it's also entirely possible to not get a hero even in the 10-pack with guaranteed hero.

I bought the aurodium 10-pack with guaranteed character, and the drop was Dathcha (who I had already won). So instead of a new character I got 7/65ths (10%) of the way toward upgrading a toon I don't even use to the next level. That was VERY underwhelming, let me tell you.....

I got nothing interesting at all from a 3100 gem pack (would have been ~$25 to get basically nothing....)

This makes me have exactly zero interest in spending real money on these datacards....

A guaranteed character should be an actual character, or if no-dupe is totally not possible, getting shards instead of a character should give enough shards to upgrade them, not 10% of the shards needed to upgrade.. that's pretty insulting.

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@EndBean wrote:

I'll contribute that it's also entirely possible to not get a hero even in the 10-pack with guaranteed hero.

I bought the aurodium 10-pack with guaranteed character, and the drop was Dathcha (who I had already won). So instead of a new character I got 7/65ths (10%) of the way toward upgrading a toon I don't even use to the next level. That was VERY underwhelming, let me tell you.....

I got nothing interesting at all from a 3100 gem pack (would have been ~$25 to get basically nothing....)

This makes me have exactly zero interest in spending real money on these datacards....

A guaranteed character should be an actual character, or if no-dupe is totally not possible, getting shards instead of a character should give enough shards to upgrade them, not 10% of the shards needed to upgrade.. that's pretty insulting.

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The duplicate pulls getting X shards is the model that many other games follow and that is pretty disappointing that they are copying that because this is highly disliked in every other game.  I think 100% of upgrading would be too much but maybe like 20-30 shards would be fine.  

Also did you only get 1 "full hero" in the whole 10 pack?  Other games I am use to 2-5 "full heroes" in a 10 pack, duplicate pulls getting 7-14 shards.  However at a point these are almost always duplicates, with the lower tier heroes.