Did you really lock regular path points behind the Episode pass?

I would honestly put it at around 95% of our guild, mostly very active, over half in Kyber. Virtually none of our members want to spend another cent on the game after this. 

I actually like that idea with split rewards. Maybe not the division between the amount ftp gets compared to premium you're suggesting (I'd prefer something like 40-60) but, even if they used the division you mentioned it'd be more palpable because it doesn't look as if everything is locked behind a paywall

isn't that similar to conquest?  You can get a pass or not and you move on the same track. You progress on the same track in the same way.  it is just the rewards are different. Why set this up differently?

The whole layout is very confusing.  I feel like it would have gone a long way to give everyone a free episode pass for the first time, kind of like a beta test, since they obviously did not do any testing.  Then at least everyone is getting stuff for free while figuring it all out, and even if there is some frustration and anger with the system and layout, its lessened because everything you would be getting is a bonus freebie.  Give us time to get used to it, and then start charging the next time around, when everyone knows what is what and isn't having to pay money and go in blind

Zero transparency.  They're hoping people will blindly throw money at the app.  Really, I'm considering quitting altogether, when just a day ago I was thinking about the JML pack.  I can't even stomach logging in now, I genuinely start to feel bad inside at the loading screen.  It's just become too much.  There are SO MANY problems still unaddressed from earlier in the year, I am personally still missing crystals from a bug a month ago, and now they're paywalling a large portion of daily content.  

Just be blunt, already (stop playing everyone for suckers) and just make it a subscription game.  The people that don't want to spend (which will likely be most of them, at this point) will stop playing altogether, and everyone feels less frustration.  

I don't know how it's determined, but EA was on a streak for years with "worst company in America" for years on the Consumerist list, and I'll nominate them for the award this year in a second.

tbf getting Huyang to 7 stars can be done ftp how much of that is expected in their assumptions 

I’m really sick of this..
I considered the $10 per month I spend on Conquest to be enough, but $20 for stuff we used to get free is insane..
this $20 Episode Pass should, at the very least, include the $10 Conquest pass!
I agree with the top comment: giving it a month or two, but seriously considering quitting, or joining a ‘semi-retired’ guild for basically inactive accounts..

The difference is that the rewards from the Episode Pass are REPLACING the rewards from Galactic Challenge. So they're potentially removing rewards that were once free and are now possibly putting them behind a paywall. It's also the missions that are the issue. Yes, there's a paid track in the Episode just like conquest. But unlike conquest, there's also exclusive missions for the episode with there being like 9 paid missions for every 1 free one making it seem like 90% of this content is locked out to the ftp players.

Don't get me wrong. Part of this is also we don't know what all the free quests are or how easy/hard maxing out the Free path will be. They claimed it's possible without buying the pass. Until this Episode is over, that's unknown how viable it is.

For example, I doubt this would actually be a mission but, say one of the free missions was Defeat an Enemy with GL Kenobi. Technically speaking yes, this mission would be possible to complete without purchasing anything meaning what Meathead claimed is "accurate". But anyone who doesn't own JMK will be out of however many point completing his mission would be and might be enough to stop them from completing the pass because of it meaning they are now getting less rewards than they were with the old GC system

Why the hell they do something stupid like this.... they can't tell me that they don't make enough money, only in my guild so many people buy crystals, LSB and other stuff and I think just like the most of the players that this is to much.... who has that awesome (braindead) idear to make this game dead? 

What is the problem there with you guys ? Do you want to destroy the game ? The old system worked and please don't tell us that you need more money... CG kill the game step by step... I'm rly pissed about this... omi now lower then before, and if you think about it there are also kids playing this game, I don't think that they can pay this prices.... change it to hold the players... make it that everyone can get all points and don't need to pay for it only if they want the higher rewards and get it back with the omi on 4... happy 9 years on swgoh... let's kill the game.... great idear guys.... 

And yeah I am sad....

I'm finishing off the TW so my guild can get a replacement....I'm done.