Communication

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The original panic farm made sense as it would make a lot of money but as Phoenix are now a fairly staple farm due to being needed in TB, it could have been declared and probably made more as people would have been happier to pay to get shards if they knew it wasn't a gamble.

You're not seeing it right. This game is a product. An enjoyable product, but it's a product. CG is the curator of this product. They take the time to polish it, make it look nice, and make sure it doesn't break. EA is the vendor of this product. They make sure it's making the most money for they company as is possible.

EA wants money from this event. And a quick glance at the forums every now and then reveals what sorts of things will get otherwise stingy customers to open their wallets: panic farms. And despite my, and others', attempts to explain this to everyone, people still buy into the idea of needing these legendary characters. As long as that continues to happen, we'll get more and more legendary characters with less and less lead time. That's how CG can get EA to allow more fun features and characters to come along. Territory Battles is a massive undertaking, one EA would be well advised to prevent them from making (too many resources on a free event, potentially rewarding players with upgrades they don't have to pay for). But CG used the panic farm device with Captain Solo to get EA on board.

Unfortunately, the panic farm will persist on legendary characters for their first few cycles. A bit of foresight and planning helps get around this, but if you waited for notice you're in the same boat you were in the first time the event came out.

It’s a SURPRISE!!

It was said in last months calendar that it would be back. Also what im starting to notice is that they do give you a hint at what is coming you just need to read between the lines.

We all got the hint and we all knew he would be back at some time. I farmed them since the last event as I was not going to miss him in the next one. Hope I farmed enough!

They all but came straight out and said it, multiple times.

It's still a business with rules, the fact they gave us such an obvious clue was actually cool on their part as non-forum users would've had no idea.

So thank you CG and especially Kozi for showing me where to focus and now I'm ready (:

I don't think packs are being released though. Again totally agree was easy to see. And I'm happy it's back. And I enjoy the "what's ahead"
But this was just kind of counter productive. Even in a business standpoint what was gained? I just feel it was an easy lay up that some/most would have been super appreciative about.

Also my way of thinking is different - I really feel for those that are on the forum should be used in a good way. Set up a good give and take for those that are engaged as we are. I'm in no way saying we should know about CLS return if it's in November or a ns legendary event or whatever. But a better relationship. How do people feel about rancor ties now? Hey we mentioned clone helmets with tb and other stuff it's taking longer than we wanted. Maybe I'm just too much of an idealist.

Agree with this. I get the surprise releases, the new stuff. I don't like it, but I get it. But this has been around before, and especially the fact that it was coming within a week of the calendar being posted. It really makes no sense. All it did was cause a lot of drama and confusion, for no reason.

We all knew Thrawn's event would come back.
If you are waiting it to be officially announced here, you're doing something wrong.

All your phoenix characters should already be 7*, and thanks EAgod, it's not too hard to have them all 7*.

Special advise for you: prepare your resistance's toons asap.
Second advise for you: First Order too

And expectative advise: start farming nightsisters from GW/arena/cantina shops ;)

It works...panic farming is a thing.

But if you have been on this forum for the last two week...plenty of discussion about Thrawn coming back and September 7 was the date given.