Game doesn't reward Player for Veterancy
TL;DR: Arena shards, Tournament brackets, and lack of new content create monotony and leave really old players playing for same rewards over months. When your enemy is almost always your peer (shardma...
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It's a sad fact that games of this ilk have around a 4-year lifespan (although the Star Wars franchise may well artificially extend that).
My evidence for this is mainly Marvel : War of Heroes. Big franchise, massive fan base, released October 2012, servers switched off mid-2016. True, it was a TCG, but I don't feel it's a stretch of the imagination to be able to compare the SWGOH characters to cards.
Rage of Bahamut also suffered a similar fate although I believe it lasted slightly longer (and is still going strong in Japan).
I used to play War of Heroes, but quit when they started this kind of anti-Robin Hood kind of atmosphere - where only the players prepared to spend the most money could compete in the events which, unsurprisingly, had the strongest cards as their rewards. I feel that this is starting to happen in SWGOH - AP can for sure be linked to real-money spend, albeit indirectly. If this trend continues, you can add me to the list of people uninstalling; I like this game but if it keeps going in this direction with the tournaments and power-creep from tournament rewards, well, the writing's on the wall if you ask me.
My evidence for this is mainly Marvel : War of Heroes. Big franchise, massive fan base, released October 2012, servers switched off mid-2016. True, it was a TCG, but I don't feel it's a stretch of the imagination to be able to compare the SWGOH characters to cards.
Rage of Bahamut also suffered a similar fate although I believe it lasted slightly longer (and is still going strong in Japan).
I used to play War of Heroes, but quit when they started this kind of anti-Robin Hood kind of atmosphere - where only the players prepared to spend the most money could compete in the events which, unsurprisingly, had the strongest cards as their rewards. I feel that this is starting to happen in SWGOH - AP can for sure be linked to real-money spend, albeit indirectly. If this trend continues, you can add me to the list of people uninstalling; I like this game but if it keeps going in this direction with the tournaments and power-creep from tournament rewards, well, the writing's on the wall if you ask me.
