Free to play dead ?

I'm 100% F2P and I stay in the top 50 pretty easily each day. Can get all the way up to number 1, but there's no point as I can't play during my payout. It's definitely possible to keep up without spending, you just need to be aware of what to work on.

To address your last remark, this game stopped feeling like a Star Wars game around the time I went online to look up what I should be trying to accomplish and discovered that sticking to your favorite characters was typically a recipe for disaster. The game has been some kinda weird resource management hobby with a Star Wars skin pretty much ever since.

This game is still super f2p friendly.

See above.

F2P have to be smart to stay flexible, that's it.

The 2 key toons of this current meta are 100% free (palp and vader),and nihilus has been out long enough many f2p should have him too. Sion is viable at 3*, which is free...

Will f2p be the guy everyone has trouble beating, probably not, but with a 50 crystal budget towards both arenas, you can easily be pulling top 20 maybe top 10 without any issue. That's a budget of 100 crystals bringing in 300-450 crystals. That is pretty friendly.

P2p adapt faster and will get more immediate use of a toon, in raids and TB, but everything evens out in the end, f2p are not locked out of anything, at least not any more. They are just slower.

"Rebel_yell;c-1569243" wrote:
I don't mean this to sound like an attack, but you're conflating two separate issues.

EA is a business that has revenue projections and a stock price driven by meeting those projections. So yes, they have an incentive to create enough tension in-game to encourage you to spend money on something you enjoy playing.

I have a lot of respect for F2P individuals as I've never been able to resist the competitive itch to send a little coin EA's way in order to accelerate my progression. There is nothing preventing you from being a contributor to your guild. The challenge is the focus. F2P is simply going to take longer to be a strong contributor, but in my (125mm GP guild) we don't ask F2P to work on toons for every phase of HSTR. We ask them to focus on a very specific phase with a very specific group of toons that we expect them to spend all resources on. Phase 1 is a perfect opportunity for F2P guild mates to excel. Save gear, ability mats, zetas, and currency. Grind out First Order and the Vets. Get JTR in the next release and voila, you have a phase 1 and arena viable team. Both of which will advance your gear and crystal accumulation so that you can advance even faster.

The issue you're encountering, and one I run into often, is the anxiety of the grind between point A and Z. Focus narrowly. Hoard relentlessly. Ignore the woman in the red dress. You're always going to be behind the P2P, but the P2P finance your ability to be F2P. Can't have it both ways.

I agree with all of this....except I never ignore a woman in a red dress. It's a weakness.

Not in the slightest.

"ARougeRogue;c-1569039" wrote:
To address your last remark, this game stopped feeling like a Star Wars game around the time I went online to look up what I should be trying to accomplish and discovered that sticking to your favorite characters was typically a recipe for disaster. The game has been some kinda weird resource management hobby with a Star Wars skin pretty much ever since.

Take my like, sir. Looking back since I started this game in March 2016, I would say I was baited good because of GMYoda, the only legendary toon at that time.

Thereafter, it has been, as what ARougeRouge said, a weird resource management hobby with Star Wars skin.

Alive and well.

On a side note:
Traya cannot be bought in any way and is available for f2p players. Of course payers should have an advantage. The fun thing is, that free players will catch up eventually.

If you are able to place high up in arena (fleet and squad) and can horde crystals for when new characters come out you can stay FTP.

I should have Enfy pretty close to 7* through her packs without a cent spent. It wont be as quick as those who spend, and I am not saying its easy, but it is doable.

Lately you do have to pick and choose though because of how quickly they been releasing characters.

I don't mean this to sound like an attack, but you're conflating two separate issues.

EA is a business that has revenue projections and a stock price driven by meeting those projections. So yes, they have an incentive to create enough tension in-game to encourage you to spend money on something you enjoy playing.

I have a lot of respect for F2P individuals as I've never been able to resist the competitive itch to send a little coin EA's way in order to accelerate my progression. There is nothing preventing you from being a contributor to your guild. The challenge is the focus. F2P is simply going to take longer to be a strong contributor, but in my (125mm GP guild) we don't ask F2P to work on toons for every phase of HSTR. We ask them to focus on a very specific phase with a very specific group of toons that we expect them to spend all resources on. Phase 1 is a perfect opportunity for F2P guild mates to excel. Save gear, ability mats, zetas, and currency. Grind out First Order and the Vets. Get JTR in the next release and voila, you have a phase 1 and arena viable team. Both of which will advance your gear and crystal accumulation so that you can advance even faster.

The issue you're encountering, and one I run into often, is the anxiety of the grind between point A and Z. Focus narrowly. Hoard relentlessly. Ignore the woman in the red dress. You're always going to be behind the P2P, but the P2P finance your ability to be F2P. Can't have it both ways.

find your shard chat and try join it, it makes life a heck of a lot easier and you can talk to those with the teams that you cannot beat they may change their team for you to climb or remove mods for your battle etc.... plenty of ways around it and you no longer have to spend for crystals either