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"rawman;686906" wrote:

"Palanthian;686875" wrote:
If CG goes whale only, the game will not survive.

Can't imagine they will do this. The last updates regarding cantina-refreshes and chars added to cantina are more addressing micro-payments, not whales. They are very aware to not make the game to "whaly" imho.

I don't know at this point. Right now, with speed mods being the meta, whales enjoy a bigger advantage than at any time in the game to this point (I'm a late November shard).

F2P and guppies are already behind with super-speed mods (and lack of Rex, SF, etc.). The issue/problem is that strong advantages now, create an ever-widening gap over time, as the advantages compound and become exponential. Continuing to add to the list of advantages for whales, without some degree of balance, only worsens the problem (and speeds up the process).

Don't get me wrong - I love whales and I appreciate what they do for the game. But a good business model would have a whale's advantage be temporary for two reasons:

1) So they have to keep spending to maintain their advantage.
2) So the f2p/guppies have incentive to spend "just a little bit (more)" to be able to keep up.

The problem is, if that balance isn't maintained, f2p and guppies say "Forget it - I can't keep up" and close their wallets completely....then fall further behind and leave in droves.

Then whales are just fighting whales. Except that whales don't want to pay for an advantage over other whales - they want to pay to dominate thousands of f2p/guppies. If whales are the only ones left - and the game simply turns into a spending contest, things get really quiet.