DS TB Phase 4 platoons [MERGE]

This is actually bad business. I’m just waiting for them to anger the whales. and then they will really be screwed. They’ve driven most of their normal player base away in reliance of dolphins and whales. But unless the entire guild is whales. These platoon missions will still be impossible. I say keep it how it is. Anger the whales enough to quit. And maybe EA will learn the simple business concept that if 10,000 people buy a 5 dollar pack they make the same amount as if 500 buy a 100 dollar pack. They already basically ruined battlefront 2 hype with poor business practice.

Edit: Didn’t realize “p*** off” was a bad word? My bad. Changed to “anger”

We had horrible platoons this phase. Talzin zombie spirit unmasked kylo (none us have him at 5 *) gen kenobi ( none of us have him) raid han ( only 2/45 have him) this is in multiple platoons at that..

Almost Everyone should be able to fill 2/6 platoons in each territory. 2 of the 6 should be generally underused toons. Getting to 4 of 6 should require a bit of sacrifice. Think a couple thrawn/cls/ep/Hans to complete. Going 6/6 is where those who spend should get their benefits. A combination of easy, sacrifice and paywall. This way everyone can feel like they are contributing.

+1000 as an attempt at public relations they have weened off “deleting” posts and started to “move them to the proper board” aka put them in a board that they have nothing to do with so no one sees it. Generally somewhere in the depths of the feedback board that no one pays attention to. Kind of defeats the purpose of a forum...

"BTBAMthony;c-1361402" wrote:
+1000 as an attempt at public relations they have weened off “deleting” posts and started to “move them to the proper board” aka put them in a board that they have nothing to do with so no one sees it. Generally somewhere in the depths of the feedback board that no one pays attention to. Kind of defeats the purpose of a forum...

@BTBAMthony thats an odd way to look at it since the last update included an update to GW, one of those sub forums that has been thriving with conversations asking for said update....

"Kyno;c-1361407" wrote:


@BTBAMthony thats an odd way to look at it since the last update included an update to GW, one of those sub forums that has been thriving with conversations asking for said update....

That’s a straw man fallacy. For the sake of argument though I will pursue this off topic point. Galactic war was also the only facet of the game that could be completed through strategy and with f2p squads. Yea it was difficult but It never encouraged buying characters like keeping up with arena, territory battles, or raids does. This is an easy change to make that has very little repercussion on sales.

I have seen two posts about platoons moved out of this forum just today. Posts that were clearly about Imperial Invasion. They were moved to feedback board. I appreciate your attempt and understand that it’s your job. But it doesn’t change the fact that people speaking truth are constantly “hushed” in these forums.

Edit: I realize this post sounds negative. I love this game and think it has a lot of potential. That’s the only reason I’m still here and talking in forums. That’s why we are all here. We wouldn’t waste our time trying to help improve something if we didn’t care about it.

"BTBAMthony;c-1361409" wrote:

"Kyno;c-1361407" wrote:


@BTBAMthony thats an odd way to look at it since the last update included an update to GW, one of those sub forums that has been thriving with conversations asking for said update....

That’s a straw man fallacy. For the sake of argument though I will pursue this off topic point. Galactic war was also the only facet of the game that could be completed through strategy and with f2p squads. Yea it was difficult but It never encouraged buying characters like keeping up with arena, territory battles, or raids does. This is an easy change to make that has very little repercussion on sales.

I have seen two posts about platoons moved out of this forum just today. Posts that were clearly about Imperial Invasion. They were moved to feedback board. I appreciate your attempt and understand that it’s your job. But it doesn’t change the fact that people speaking truth are constantly “hushed” in these forums.

Edit: I realize this post sounds negative. I love this game and think it has a lot of potential. That’s the only reason I’m still here and talking in forums. That’s why we are all here. We wouldn’t waste our time trying to help improve something if we didn’t care about it.

Firstly, volunteer, so not my job i'm here because i love the game and want to help the game and the forum become better.

Dismissing a change because you dont think it has a monetary value doesn't make it so.

There is no dev monitoring of GD, only the devs that are on the PR side of things. The sub forums are where the devs that can actually execute changes are looking, dividing them up helps the content be relevant to a specific topic. There is no way to hush things, if we wanted that things would have stayed as they were and things would get buried in GD every hour and never be seen by anyone unless they were flagged to be looked at. I'm also confused about how any of this is a "hush" since its still there for all to see and actually becoming more visible to the people who need to see it....

Most (if not all) posts about the P4 platoons are here where they should be, and nothing is ever deleted (as long as its within forum guidelines). <

anyway, i dont want to derail this thread any longer. people jump on the devs with any mistakes made, but never want to give them any credit when they listen......

"Kyno;c-1361407" wrote:
Firstly, volunteer, so not my job i'm here because i love the game and want to help the game and the forum become better.

Dismissing a change because you dont think it has a monetary value doesn't make it so.

There is no dev monitoring of GD, only the devs that are on the PR side of things. The sub forums are where the devs that can actually execute changes are looking, dividing them up helps the content be relevant to a specific topic. There is no way to hush things, if we wanted that things would have stayed as they were and things would get buried in GD every hour and never be seen by anyone unless they were flagged to be looked at. I'm also confused about how any of this is a "hush" since its still there for all to see and actually becoming more visible to the people who need to see it....

Most (if not all) posts about the P4 platoons are here where they should be, and nothing is ever deleted (as long as its within forum guidelines). <

anyway, i dont want to derail this thread any longer. people jump on the devs with any mistakes made, but never want to give them any credit when they listen......

http://ebusiness.mit.edu/research/papers/206_Dellarocas_ManipulationOfInternetOpinionForums.pdf

There are plenty more out there if you are willing to search. What constitutes a change? Notice how the EA post on reddit getting the most dislikes of any reddit post ever caused them to make a change in battlefront 2. But what if that post had been on here? And they were able to move it to a sub-forum that is much less visited by the public? What if they could scatter opinions rather than letting them form together and unite? It’s really actually common practice, whether you choose to acknowledge it or not.

I hear what you are saying though. I wasn’t dismissing anything, I was just trying to show how that is comparing apples to oranges. Many people were very happy about changes to GW. So that’s good. But that doesn’t change what’s going on through other aspects of the game. The fact that characters only accessible through $300+ Purchases are being required so heavily so early on is just counter intuitive. It Is either A ) poor planning (this would be more like oblivious planning) or B ) an obvious money grab. Either of which is easily avoidable if effort is put forth. Changes to galactic war is irrelevant to that. That’s all I was saying. And that is very on topic with OP.

And I’ll even add. I’m not dissing the devs... I’m dissing the guys telling the devs to add money grabbing incentives to their content. It’s clear the devs are experienced and know how to create solid content. But they are just cogs in a greater system. If anything, I feel sorry that the devs get so much crap. It’s likely not their fault at all. But yea keep doing you. I want this game to thrive as much as you do. We just go about it in different ways I guess.

Like having unmasked Kylo in platoons already?????????

I'm wondering... is it really fun for the whales out there, to spend lots of money for toons you can't play with, because you have to put them into the platoons?