For me, SWGOH died yesterday.

 All that's left is to bury it and forget it forever.

This is very sad for me. I played this game daily for many years. And I truly loved this game.
But what they have turned it into now....

The new characters weren't selling well. So they created a new game mode where only the new characters can be used. And they added very attractive rewards to it. Materials for R10, LST.
If you want to get these rewards- get your credit card ready. Every week, with every new character release - make a donation. Then you'll be able to improve the new character - achieve a high leaderboard rank - get a lot of currency - purchase materials for R10, LST.

They introduced a bunch of new materials for upgrading the new characters. To be honest, I don't even want to keep track of them. The game already had 30 types of currency, why add 20 more?! I have no desire to spend time searching for and collecting all these new materials. I don't want to do it. I simply have no time left for the core game, for the old characters that I spent years upgrading.

All the old characters are now pushed into the background. They are not important. Here it is - the new, shiny game mode in the foreground, it requires all your attention, because that's what brings the developers money.

And why should I upgrade all these new characters? They will become old soon too. Why should I give R10 to old characters? Why?

For years, players have been asking to change the player matchmaking in GAC, to rework Guild Wars. Hundreds and thousands of complaints and appeals on all forums. Hundreds and thousands of times we asked for this! Zero reaction from the developers. Complete and total ignorance. Those modes were already dead.
But instead,they decided to add relic delta, and completely bury the already dead modes. Completely destroy any tactics.

So what do I need this game for?
It now looks like this:donate $100 every week, upgrade the new character, get currency, buy R10 materials for an old character, go into an old game mode, rejoice that your number next to the letter R is bigger than your opponent's because that means you won. And so on in an endless circle. This is so much fun. This is very interesting (Not).

There are cheaters on the new mode's leaderboard. I'm not sure they will be banned promptly and daily. 7 months ago I reported a cheater. 100% a cheater. Without a doubt. And 7 months later, he is still playing. He has already unlocked SLKR. And he still, with a T8 SLKR, takes first place from LV R9, SLKR R9. No one bans him. There were other cheaters in the arena. They got banned after 3-5 months. That's how long it takes the developers to ban one cheater. Although I think they weren't actually banned, they just died of old age. Perhaps in the new mode they will be banned faster because it affects the company's profit. That's sacred.

Too obvious and aggressive monetization. Blatant pay-to-win, and even essentially pay-to-play. Complete and total disregard for the gaming community's opinion (relic delta, GAC, TW). Absolute deafness of the developers to feedback. Very slow bug and error fixes. Gameplay like a slideshow after every update. Devaluation of all the old content on which I spent a lot of time, effort, and resources.

All of this is the reason why I am saying goodbye to this game today...

Developers, thank you for such a wonderful gift for the anniversary of a beloved game. You really did a great job.

Thank you to all the players for the game! It was awesome!

MAY THE FORCE BE WITH YOU!