"Olga;c-1185700" wrote:
"JacenRoe;c-1185655" wrote:
Newer and better characters are added in ways that are difficult to acquire, and older junk characters become easier to get. That's how this game has always worked.
Some have, some haven't. You can't say that's how it's always worked, when clearly it isn't.
Vader and Grievous got added to fleet shipments. Mace was added to arena shipments. The list goes on, and on, and on. Did this devalue anyone's effort? Sure. Does anyone care?
No-one had vader 7* at that point, so there were no complaints. Everyone needed his shards. GG was garbage and still is... very few people even had him 7*. Maybe they were upset, maybe there were too few of them to make their annoyance known.
Now there would definitely be a huge outcry if Thrawn was made free instantly. And rightly so. But nobody would care if HRSoldier were given to everyone free at 7* right now.
Except people have already stated in this thread that they would be upset.
I actually did hard farm FOTP, and he's actually decent. But I would be more than happy to see him made easier to get. Won't hurt my feelings a bit
It might not hurt your feelings, but it might hurt other people's. If you're not in that group, then why does your opinion matter?
Characters being made more accessible over time is exactly how it has worked for all but a tiny number of toons. If you disagree with that then you're being dishonest. Off the top of my head, Rex, Sun Fac, Geo Spy, B2, Aayla, Kit Fisto, QGJ, Anakin, IGD, Zam, Maul, Mace, Leia, Rey, Ewok Elder, Wedge, RG, Snowtrooper, Farm boy Luke, Resistance Trooper, Vader, Grievous, all of a Phoenix, Cody, Echo, Tuscan Shaman, and on, and on, and on were either pay only, or hard node only. Then they were made easier to farm. Even legendary characters (Yoda and Palpatine) had their rare events become a more frequent regularly scheduled event. It's a relatively tiny number of launch toons that not more accessible than they were.
Do you know for a fact nobody had a 7* Vader? I'm pretty sure that some whales had been refreshing the shard shop, and did have him. I can't say that definitively, but I know for a fact that free players in my guild who started after me were further along on Vader than I because they chose to grind him from the shard shop. (Their 6* vs my 5*) He was made easier in the exact manner you're pretending didn't happen. No massive outcry because that's how this game works. See above.
And the fact that a few people have said they would be upset means nothing. Not all opinions are equal. Some are silly, and held by an insignificantly small number. Others are based on something substantial. Hard data shows that most characters have become easier to acquire in this game after the shiny wears off. And it seems like a logical inconsistency that bad and old characters be really hard to acquire. Others "feel" butt hurt at the idea of what others can or can't get, and try to create an imaginary mass outcry when that has not been the case when it comes to bad characters being made accessible. (Some wanted Rex to stay P2P for instance, but nobody cared when Geo Spy became free).
As for why my opinion matters? It doesn't. But I can give a reason for my opinion that reflects facts from the reality we live in. You haven't made a coherent point yet.
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