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Seasoned Newcomer

23 days ago

Enough is Enough. Stop Spending Money.

UPDATE 19/12. So I decided to quit over a week ago, after 8+ long years and a huge amount of money spent. It wasn't easy, but Im glad I did. I started playing raid shadow legends. While its a c...

Seasoned Ace

23 days ago

I agree with a lot of what you said, but I can sum up the Disney response. Bob Iger does not understand the video game industry which is why he dismantled Lucas Arts and sold the IP to EA for ten years. He wanted nothing to do with video games. He still does not want anything to do with video games. He is on record, publicly, saying as much. As such, Disney does not care, they get their royalties until CG is shuttered and boarded and the servers are taken offline. As long as Disney gets it's tribute, they will not intervene.

Scrybe, and I'm not speaking for him, just paraphrasing so watch his video for yourself, has now stated he's spoken with reps at CG and they plan on pressing forward with how the game is now until the end of the era in Feb 2026. Any changes to the game will come then. They are invested in pushing this on us no matter what we say or do. If the game ends because no one buys anything, I'm sure they will just drop LSB to make up the revenue. Which is why we have not seen any new LSB this month for the "BIG ANNVY" month celebration which it went with a whimper.

I'm livid with how bad this lay-away program for toons is rolling out and the sad state of the game for those of us remaining to play it. I'm even more angry that I bought the episode pass and it appears there is no way to get to 50 without buying pass plus or buying StRomtrooper Luke to get to the LST at the end of the chain. With no Galactic Challenge mode, they've monetized all aspects of the game. It's just a matter of time before Conquest rewards will cost money or we'll be asked to pay money to spend energy or access our accounts. Greed knows no bounds and CG has definitely surpassed EA's expectations of loot box mechanics. I am actually starting to wonder if it's possible to show the court EA lost in for loot boxes how this game is capitalizing on the system which the court said was unlawful. Belgium had the right idea, gambling = outlawed activity.

FrancLeFrew
Rising Traveler
23 days ago
BobRomel
Seasoned Newcomer
23 days ago
This is super funny seeing hom much Bob Iger doesn't care about video games because George Lucas was so insightful that he founded Lucasarts in the 80s because he knew this market will skyrocket in years to come.

This only tells a lot about the state of things in Disney.
mykdapet
Rising Ace
23 days ago
I imagine that they need to stick with the current system til then for some very big reasons. You have to evaluate the whole, not the first 7-10 days. I hate to sound like i'm defending these tools, but it is entirely possible things start coming around with the 2nd toon. We haven't completed the first 2 weeks out of 12...we're maybe at 13% of the the first era at this point. Could the next 5 suck as bad? Sure, absolutely. Hell, we're talking CG it could actually get worse. I think they designed this looking at the last 2-4 weeks, not the first 1-4 sadly.
You can't fix something, really, til you run through it once. The problem here is that 'once' is going to take like 12 weeks. We (and they by extension) can't know that weeks 11 and 12, for example may be very overloaded in our favor at this point. Where the boat was missed is that there is no method of advancing on merit and play. Only through cash which is pathetic design. Still, you can't redo the entire 12 week layout before knowing how the rest play out. Communication was abhorrent, there's no denying that. No warning that if you don't pay cash you won't advance worth a **bleep** the first 2 weeks. And yeah, i get it, it severely dampens your message, but i can't imagine it dampens things any more than the reaction to this point. I can't imagine a release going worse.
Again, communication is the problem, but, face it's CG - that has ALWAYS been the biggest problem.
I mean, a post that says I know we blew it here and we will be revising things for the next era but please bear with us and play out the first era so we can worth through all the issues as they come up. It buys them 10 weeks til the next era and it tells people they're hearing the response. But what do we get? Silence. which to be honest feels like a big fat middle finger.
The overriding problem is the same problem all businesses are facing anymore. There is no more 'put out a good product and people will pay for it philosophy'. That seems to be dead and buried. The new mantra of big business whether you're making a mobile game, producing oil, clothing, electronics, etc. seems to be, how can we pry more money from our customers while giving them less and less and less.
It's how business dies, not thrives, but they can't seem to figure that out.