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Unbelievable.. CG produce arguably (no arguments) the best mobile game I've ever played. They play on my pure love for the franchise and then ruin it these past couple of months. Introducing a raid ...
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Quite frankly, I'm peeved. That's a very, very mild way of putting it. Irate. Livid. Highly upset. Entirely unamused. All of those are quite accurate, and probably still a bit mild.
I've been expecting, based on all previous releases, for RJT to return April-May. May the Fourth? Why, that would have been just over 4.5 months, which is just what it was for CLS to return! It's almost too perfect! And, on that basis, I put the Smugglers into my cantina cue at the beginning of February, with the expectation that I'd have them completed by the end of March, giving me a few weeks lead time on that front at a minimum. Why, I had even originally had Chewie slated to be done tomorrow, but the changes to the ROLO shard drops made moving CHS up to be ready for the guild a priority. After all, when CLS returned, we had hints and a couple weeks notice, so of course I should be fine the schedule as posted.
But this sudden change, with such short notice? I do three cantina refreshes a day. I'd have to double that, for 10 days, realistically to get Chewie. And I just got laid off, so I really can't drop 50 bucks. I get my crystals from my fleet payouts, which is the only way that's doable. If I wasn't doing well in fleet, it would have not been realistically possible to farm them in time, even if I had started in December!
And combine this with the, again quite mildly put, awful Sith Triumvirate raid that has the most abysmal payouts relative to time investment on anything in the game for anything less than a guild with 50 G12 RJTs (i.e. virtually all of them) has left me extremely upset. My guild is upset. Everyone who has any care about this is not pleased--again, you guessed, an extremely mild way of putting it.
Why would I consider spending when my finances change? How can I trust you when you release content that is completely inaccessible, and won't be accessible for the vast majority of your playerbase for close to a year, and capriciously release required characters with absolutely no notice? The entirety of the game, even for anyone willing to pay less than hundreds of dollars or more a week, requires us to plan. But you've altered those cadences to the point where they're meaningless. Did you not learn from Mother Talzin and Wicket?
This isn't fair. And I'm not using the term lightly; most people use fair to mean "to my advantage at this time", and unfair to mean "something that is disadvantageous to me." And, hey, I just barely hit the "disadvantageous to me" side of this. Barely--like, if double drops were to happen for the next 10 days, I could *just* make it. Or if I win the lottery and don't have to worry about the whole layoff thing, whatever. But the reason I'm disadvantaged here is that I made plans based on your past behavior and statements. CLS returned with hints, and followed a cadence similar to previous legendary events. There was an expectation, a means to plan and prepare, and a way you could be reasonably assured of that. Not perfectly assured, I get that. There's a lot going into every aspect of this. But this isn't a small, or even moderate, change--it's quite major, and it's with absolutely no notice. And it sends a message--you can't plan for what we'll do. You can't expect anything consistent. And that lack of consistency and, thus, equitable behavior is what makes this unfair. If the cadence had always been 10 weeks for first return, there'd be no room to complain. Heck, if it had been 12 weeks, this wouldn't be that big of a deal either, small change. But for every single legendary event thus far, first return has been 4 months. All of them. That's the expectation that the game has created, those are the rules that we have learned to depend on and we have adapted to. An abrupt change, with no notice, is fundamentally unfair.
This isn't right, CG. You know it.
I've been expecting, based on all previous releases, for RJT to return April-May. May the Fourth? Why, that would have been just over 4.5 months, which is just what it was for CLS to return! It's almost too perfect! And, on that basis, I put the Smugglers into my cantina cue at the beginning of February, with the expectation that I'd have them completed by the end of March, giving me a few weeks lead time on that front at a minimum. Why, I had even originally had Chewie slated to be done tomorrow, but the changes to the ROLO shard drops made moving CHS up to be ready for the guild a priority. After all, when CLS returned, we had hints and a couple weeks notice, so of course I should be fine the schedule as posted.
But this sudden change, with such short notice? I do three cantina refreshes a day. I'd have to double that, for 10 days, realistically to get Chewie. And I just got laid off, so I really can't drop 50 bucks. I get my crystals from my fleet payouts, which is the only way that's doable. If I wasn't doing well in fleet, it would have not been realistically possible to farm them in time, even if I had started in December!
And combine this with the, again quite mildly put, awful Sith Triumvirate raid that has the most abysmal payouts relative to time investment on anything in the game for anything less than a guild with 50 G12 RJTs (i.e. virtually all of them) has left me extremely upset. My guild is upset. Everyone who has any care about this is not pleased--again, you guessed, an extremely mild way of putting it.
Why would I consider spending when my finances change? How can I trust you when you release content that is completely inaccessible, and won't be accessible for the vast majority of your playerbase for close to a year, and capriciously release required characters with absolutely no notice? The entirety of the game, even for anyone willing to pay less than hundreds of dollars or more a week, requires us to plan. But you've altered those cadences to the point where they're meaningless. Did you not learn from Mother Talzin and Wicket?
This isn't fair. And I'm not using the term lightly; most people use fair to mean "to my advantage at this time", and unfair to mean "something that is disadvantageous to me." And, hey, I just barely hit the "disadvantageous to me" side of this. Barely--like, if double drops were to happen for the next 10 days, I could *just* make it. Or if I win the lottery and don't have to worry about the whole layoff thing, whatever. But the reason I'm disadvantaged here is that I made plans based on your past behavior and statements. CLS returned with hints, and followed a cadence similar to previous legendary events. There was an expectation, a means to plan and prepare, and a way you could be reasonably assured of that. Not perfectly assured, I get that. There's a lot going into every aspect of this. But this isn't a small, or even moderate, change--it's quite major, and it's with absolutely no notice. And it sends a message--you can't plan for what we'll do. You can't expect anything consistent. And that lack of consistency and, thus, equitable behavior is what makes this unfair. If the cadence had always been 10 weeks for first return, there'd be no room to complain. Heck, if it had been 12 weeks, this wouldn't be that big of a deal either, small change. But for every single legendary event thus far, first return has been 4 months. All of them. That's the expectation that the game has created, those are the rules that we have learned to depend on and we have adapted to. An abrupt change, with no notice, is fundamentally unfair.
This isn't right, CG. You know it.
