Pretty ridiculous that "Epic" characters like Malak and General Skywalker, who require an INSANE amount of resources, and multiple legendary characters to unlock, let alone gear, should then be stuck behind a GET1 gate to 7* (because they're mostly useless until then). In fact, we know that GAS was originally supposed to be a 7* unlock. So what happens right after GAS ends? An epic event returns, accidentally gives out shards, and creates one of the biggest controversies and headaches for everyone (devs included) involved (and that's saying a lot).Clearly, our cosmic overlords (the Force?) have determined that Epic characters should just be 7* with this bug. So embrace it. I'm sure you have the data, find the number of F2P players who got General Skywalker this go around. Probably not very many. Find the number of people who unlocked Malak, but still don't have him 7*. And if CG is worried that they're "giving" them away (LOL) there's still kryo pieces, relics, mods, and all sorts of other gates (with many more to come I'm sure) to ensure the grind continues. Spenders on the other hand? I'm sure they'd be much more willing to keep spending when you throw us bone every once in a while, instead of very obviously squeezing players just a little harder. My thoughts, do what you will with them :smiley:

Gs was originally meant to be 7* unlock? I don’t think that’s accurate.

The developers are very out of touch with reality. Malak was useful at 5* albeit diminished, but General Skywalker is a flaming dumpster fire at 5*, expensive to gear, glass jawed, noodle swinging loser.Locking such a character who needed so much behind a currency the developers TOLD us was for gear IS the problem... Couldn't agree more with you CaptainRex

I don’t see this as karma or divine intervention. This is a move similar to politicians. Create a distraction. Check. Provide communication that you’re working on the distraction. Check. Provide a solution that seems to “make good” on the distraction. Check. Move on totally ignoring the major dumpster fire people were screaming about before the distraction. Check.I have a hard time not seeing this scenario being the case to divert attention away from the absolute garbage 5* GET1 locked GAS situation that has the community raging, rightfully so given the steep requirements and power creep that make G11 irrelevant. They really need to move G13 to the 7* requirement, not G12. That’d be a start in the right direction but still a far cry from righting the situation.

It's simple - after GAS event MANY people stopped spending, MANY top (and obviously spenders') accounts are listed for sale at the moment. Everyone unhappy with the direction game evolves should just stop spending and hope CG will notice that.

"CaptainRex;d-216423" wrote:In fact, we know that GAS was originally supposed to be a 7* unlock. Source please

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naver666
6 years ago
Legendary
Requires 5 to 7* - unlocks 5 to 7*...i'm cool with that

Journey
Requires 7* - unlocks 7*...cool with that

Epic confron....ah you'll get the rest together by yourselves
BobcatSkywalker
6 years ago
"Jarvind;c-2007199" wrote:
I came in here expecting a conversation about the teachings of Buddhism and now I'm very confused

If we can determine if budda is a 5 star or 7 star unlock then we made progress... like you I'm still confused what this is all about it looks like random arguments mentioning karma
CadoaBane
6 years ago
"Starslayer;c-2007096" wrote:
"Naver666;c-2007056" wrote:

The question is, are you happy about 5* unlocks? At all?
Yea we knew it will go that way. No reason to be fine with it!
And yes, Malak was less of an issue because he was viable at least for Arena when he unlocked 5*.

OK, this I understand :)

So yes, I'm fine with it. If Epic characters, devastating mini-bosses, become a thing (and it seems it does), I'm quite happy that it's very very very difficult to have one up and running, because the alternative would widen the gap between ftp and paying customers. As you can't buy GET, you can throw all the money you want, you won't be able to build an Apex predator team with just money. I don't see this a a bad thing. Furthermore, it means less Relic level GAS in Arena and GA (for a time), and I don't see this as a bad thing either.

The fact that GET is a "character resource"(Hoth people, Epic characters, Capital ships) and not a "gear resource" doesn't help alleviating the gear crunch, obviously. It may be misleading as there are tons of tasty gear pieces to buy in this store, and it's frustrating not being able to buy them because it's a character resource, but I won't blame CG to give me the option to do so. I won't blame CG neither if they give me ways to buy more gear (more GAC tokens?) because I need to save GET for Epic characters :)

Totally agreeing here. Plus we even have some kind of diversity atm at least in my shard. NExt to the regular DR meta teams, there are 5-6* GS, Padme teams and the one or other GG Nuke team for an easy climb. Far better than a top 50 full of 7* reliced GS would be... the time is going to come eventually, but I am glad that it didn't happen so soon.
tvsfrink
6 years ago
"littleMAC77;c-2008044" wrote:
"StarSon;c-2006723" wrote:
"Oldeuboi;c-1986669" wrote:
Gs was originally meant to be 7* unlock? I don’t think that’s accurate.

Pretty sure GS is a 3* unlock.

False, from here on out General Skywalker will officially be shortened to UP as was decided in the Super Secret Whale Discord

FTR, CUP is still CUP but it now stands for Co-UP.
nothingfac947
6 years ago
"taquillasun;c-2007201" wrote:
"Starslayer;c-2006777" wrote:
I still don't understand something in the torrent of complains regarding 5* unlock for Epic characters.

We knew Général Anakin was an Epic confrontation, as Malak was. 5* unlock and 70k get1 needed to 7* him, as for Malak.

Relics were out and 5* can't reach Relic level, nothing new here.

So we knew it was a 5* unlock without possibility to relic him.

So, those who used a lot of ressources to unlock him are disappointed that a 5* character cannot compete against relic level characters ? I'm geniunly confused.

It was never officially announced that all Epic confrontation characters would be 5 star unlock prior to the event.

In fact, I don't believe we knew for sure until the patch came and people looked through the notes to find out it was a 5 star unlock. Only to have CG confirm like 1 to 2 days prior to the event, after people found out on their own it wsa a 5 star unlock. a few days prior...

We were already **** in preparing. It was - a low blow to be honest. They knew no one would have invested heavily getting ready leading up to if they knew it was only going to be a 5 star unlock. And don't be naive thinking it wasn't intentional to hide that it was a 5 star unlock. That would have crippled the bottom line. I know, you know, and they sure as hell knew it. Don't play dumb.

And - you know i'm 45/85 and it sucks looking at a character that won't be ready for months...still... and the marquee character needed... this is a mess.

Disagree. There's no way to know people wouldn't have invested the resources even knowing he'd unlock at 5 stars. In fact, everyone in my guild fully anticipated a 5 star unlock.

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