I don't understand why Thrawn event wasn't named in the event calendar. I mean awesome it's coming back but why so secretive and hush about it. Sure people guessed at it and the phx upgrades are a red herring but I still don't get it. Imo players on the forum could be called the most engaged. Whether it's trolling or helping or complaining- we enjoy this game so much that we spend time here. I understand somethings can't be said which is fine and I understand the oks and nays from higher ups but this is weird. I wanted to @ tophat but it wouldn't let me. He seems to be the man with the plan. Maybe it's just me but sometimes shooting from the hip is appreciated more. Especially to those that are as dedicated to this game as we are.

+1The 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 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!

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VeeKnea
9 years ago
"Dundadarr;c-1317407" wrote:
"Vinny_Vader_Vedi;c-1317358" wrote:
"Dundadarr;c-1317347" wrote:
Ewok event is a classic example of poor comms.

Either they dont know how often it will return (which would be pretty bad if true at this point) or they do know and are deliberately withholding this info from players (then we get to choose between the nefarious and the incompetent as the reasons)

Let's give it some time. The devs that were active last night have no say in it. So hopefully we ll get something today.

Surely that is what the release notes were for? Giving it time now really just means you favour incompetence as the rationale over more nefarious reasons.

I asked cap when the events would return. And he said it's not up to him. So I'll just give the devs the benefit of doubt. While I do agree everything should have been said all at once , hopefully they ll do it today and everytime something like this is released.
anavelg_o48shga
9 years ago
It feels like even the event ppl, not just CMs, are in a stranglehold from their higher-ups. Why? Because the event release timing, time between notes and release, time between farm nodes released or pack farm released and the time they are actually needed is getting shorter and shorter. This is despite frequent community feedback asking for MORE time to farm, regardless of F2P or P2P option.

We're down to 4 hours now apparently.
VeeKnea
9 years ago
"Anavel_Gato;c-1317472" wrote:
It feels like even the event ppl, not just CMs, are in a stranglehold from their higher-ups. Why? Because the event release timing, time between notes and release, time between farm nodes released or pack farm released and the time they are actually needed is getting shorter and shorter. This is despite frequent community feedback asking for MORE time to farm, regardless of F2P or P2P option.

We're down to 4 hours now apparently.

Corporate. Where there are meetings about meetings lol. It's what 7:50 am dev time?
Nikoms565
9 years ago
"Anavel_Gato;c-1317472" wrote:
It feels like even the event ppl, not just CMs, are in a stranglehold from their higher-ups. Why? Because the event release timing, time between notes and release, time between farm nodes released or pack farm released and the time they are actually needed is getting shorter and shorter. This is despite frequent community feedback asking for MORE time to farm, regardless of F2P or P2P option.

We're down to 4 hours now apparently.

Honestly, it's not even about "time to farm" - we don't even have time to make any kind of informed decision. With no event recurrence information, no double drops or packs until the start of an event. and a calendar that always has this: "DISCLAIMER: ALL DATES ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE" - it's virtually impossible to even have any type of plan.

I realize that they simply want everyone to make impulse purchases to be able to play in that event, that day, but c'mon. If my options are either:
1) Spend with a plan
2) BUY NOW!! OR ELSE!!! BECAUSE YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHAT'S HAPPENING TOMORROW - LET ALONE NEXT WEEK!!

Well, let's just say, I'm tired of getting the number two option from CG/EA.

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