G13 paywall collessum?

Yeah, It seems shady like a bait and switch. I heard meathead is looking into it so I guess we will see for certain when meathead responds or when its over and be able to make the decision to stop spending next era.

Didn't realise it was being looked into, fingers crossed they reverse or its been missed.

Otherwise may aswell save crystals for when shards are in store will be lots cheaper than buying day 1 packs.

Yeah Ahnahldt101 mentioned that meathead said he was going to look into it.

Just seen the latest video saying this is probably it. 

What's really bad is they don't even realize they are paywalling it.  The level of incompetence by decision makers at CG is astounding.  Like, who ties your shoes for you in the morning?

You have frackin' beta testers and you used them one time and ignored them again.  While you had beta testers there weren't really issues with releases.  Now you've created this monstrosity of coliseum and era battles, yet it's a broken pile of garbage and the only priority seems to be increasing the amount you expect players to spend on it.  (Especially for characters we can't even use in the live game until AFTER their era is finished.)

Quite despicable the lack of common sense being used.

I don’t see any purple gear in Rotta’s rewards with today’s update.  Anzellians release tomorrow.  Sure would like some official comms from CG.  Hoping everyone withholds their money until we have clarification. 

If they've purposely removed the ability for episode pass purchasers to get g13 characters for the era, then i am done spending money on the game. May as well save my money and slow farm things moving forward. The other value in the pass is not enough for me to wanna keep spending on it.

Meathead made a post a couple of months back, where he said (paraphrasing here) "They were unhappy with where F2P players were in Coliseum/Era".  (Note he didn't say whether they were doing too well or not well enough.  However, the nuance was that they weren't doing well enough).

That's not that worried me though.  What worried me was that he (and CG) had clearly looked at and decided (in their mind) what constitutes 'F2P'.  You could spend thousands on the game, but if you're not physically spending money on upgrading Era units past that paywall..........you're F2P.  It shows, that they've thought about this and like nothing before, they're splitting players into a "Pay to pass the paywall" & "Don't pay to pass the paywall" brackets.  Buying passes and whatnot is irrelevant....you're F2P and that's your....'class'.

So far, it's been quite painless to take Era units to G12 (for those not paying any crystals), R0 for those buying the pass or spending crystals to 4 star.  A bit more for 5 star, but it hasn't been quite as straight forward (I believe) as Era levelling mats were an issue.  Now, if we never had that and had purple gear from the start of Eras.....that's totally different.  But to take something away like that............sigh.

Now, they're taking that away from us.  However, they're increasing the relic mats received for players that do pay to get past the paywall.  Increasing the divide between what they have classed as P2W & F2P.  On what planet do they think it's a good idea to decide: "Actually, we've messed up the figures a bit and you know what.....you F2P peasants are getting too much for too little".

How much bad news and negative rubbish do they think the community can take.  From a personal stand-point, I've never been unhappier in the game since a continual conveyor belt of bad changes (for me) since November.  I feel that there have been a lot of changes that have affected me negatively.  I'm not F2P, I spend more on this game per year than I would on a brand new game.  However, it feels like CG sees that as insignificant.  

Now, it could be (doubtful at this stage) that we're all getting stressed about nothing.  "Yeah, but you're all forgetting about the new free 'Saploozabooble' pack you're getting at the end of the era!!"  However, as there's total radio silence on practically everything....we have no idea.  The fact that there's going to be a ravine sized gap between purple gear and low relics from the first 2 eras also makes it doubtful.

I really don't understand this company.  How much bad news is enough bad news?  How many poor decisions until (what you've classed as F2P) go away and don't come back.  I do not trust CG to do the right thing or even know what the right thing to do is, anymore.  I also do not know how long I have left in the game.