Enough is Enough. Stop Spending Money.

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.

50k??? Thats like $500 a month, I hope you own your own place and driving around in a lambo!!

First off, you don’t speak for all players so please don’t act like you do, cause nothing you said I agree with. Star Wars isn’t the biggest thing for Disney anymore. Hasn’t been for quite a while now. And Disney couldn’t stop to care for one second about what Capital Games does with this game. It is just a game. Boo hoo. 

I think Ahanld did a look at the numbers and it showed more people spending. I suspect these are the fresh blood that CG are looking for. The people who have huge rosters can always get stuff for free as they have decent crystal income and it was just the 7 which may/may not cost them a bit. So this era crap R10 is for them to squeeze these guys. We are the fallout. The newer players who did not have the roster depth/mods/relics can now compete with the whales on the leader boards if they themselves whale too before this it was impossible. I suspect this was the net gain they were looking for. The reason why they did not reveal maul was exactly as planned. If this venture was a fail reduce the cost if it is going as planned up the cost. So in seeing this reaction it is obvious revenue is good so continue the squeeze. Also " in for a penny in for a pound."  If we have invested now do we just stop ? I will 7* is just not worth it. For these guys who have invested I am sure that when migrate out to legacy they still wont be as good as what we currently have in roster at almost triple the cost.

Roger Roger - same here

Aye, total ripoff. You used to get anything with crystals but needed to save if you really wanted something. Only problem is that I can see that more people are spending and economy wise at least short term this is good plan. So in the end everyone is wrong and this is great improvement - follow the money.

Now even 7* hate (how appropriate) maul is on a paywall.
6* either has to be very good (and its no use for TB for example)

But even more I hate coliseum "compete with other players for top rewards" idea where you really dont compete. If theyd said it without that part it would have been fine. And of course that there are so many microwalls everywhere. It was great before when those weren't rubbed against your face.

But I get it - theres no free lunch. I just wonder that AAA game costs 70€ and here you get with 70€ well....

The unfortunate reality is CG keeps showing us that they don't concern themselves with long time players.  Their priority, their resources, their effort is all on bringing in new characters.  People who have been here and been loyal are low priority, if not zero priority.

Relic delta helps players with more developed rosters, but at the same time they made relic building easier for everyone, significantly.  The coliseum punishes everyone, but long-term players who used to spend 150 bucks and before that 300 to get characters 7-star quickly are being pushed to spend 450 to build them in this stupid coliseum event.  Then we have to build them anyway.  

The spiderlegs maul event is plain rubbish because now you have to get your whole team of 6 to era level 85 which will require spending money to do so you can get him at 7-star.  Probably something they should've waited to talk about until AFTER Christmas and especially not as response to a bug fix where they dusted all our DCs.  

And whatever they're doing is being decided by people who aren't playing the game, aren't consulting players, aren't even asking their literal beta testing team to give them feedback on it.  (Which sounds like something EA would do.  Tell us about the game, but only good things or we won't listen to you!)

Stop trying to be a mini-EA.  Go back to having actual gamers make decisions about the game.