Darth Malak GET Cost

"Jarvind;c-1834503" wrote:

"GrantusMaximus;c-1833291" wrote:
Why is it some people want everything handed to them on a plate like NOW. Have patience, Malak is meant to be a long game, if they wanted you to have him fast they’d have made him 7* but just chill. Farm him like Hyoda and Wampa. Some people here sound like children who want everything immediately.

That's not really what's going on. His shards cost dramatically more than the other GEC characters, on top of also needing to beat a brutally difficult event, requiring numerous well-geared characters, just to unlock him in the first place.

I get the "long game" bit, but he'd still take a while to max out at the same cost as Hoda and Wampa shards. Jacking up the cost an additional 50% just feels rude.

Hopefully the increasing cost is not a trend of any future released characters.

"Javin37;c-1834589" wrote:
It's all to wipe the slate clean and wipe out the stashes hoarders are sitting on before they drop the new meta.

Spenders will benefit as will those that missed it and are still sitting on their stash.

If their goal is to rid people of stashes this is a terrible way to go about it. Rewarding people who stashed just encourages more people to do it moving forward, and those people who stashed will just build a new stash while everyone is frantically spending everything they earn on Malak.

"Javin37;c-1834751" wrote:
... They forced you to spend months worth of event store currency to have a character that will be replaced by the next meta which will be sooner than people think.

And those that hoarded will be depleted when that rolls around.

Now those that hoarded and skipped malak..they will be the real winners.

Even though it's pure speculation, I agree with you on most of this, and I do think that Malak is a way to drain GETs before the GE toon from the Geonosis TB lands.

They don't want people to get that toon too fast, so they release Malak this way, go through data to spot how much GET the typical hoarder has stashed, adjust the price accordingly and hope people will drain to get him quickly. Then when Geonosis TB drops and the next GE toon (Midriff Padme?) is revealed a lot fewer will get it from the start.

And then we'll get a Meta of GK, JKA, Ahsoka, Midriff + 1

With GET needed to get 7* Malak, by the time the masses get him there, he (and KOTOR as a whole) will be obsolete. Replaced with Clone Wars content or whatever major shift is next.