Gear Crunch

I’d guess it’s really how they(CG) see’s the monetary structure of their game. What I always hoped was that they’d put something out and let the big spenders have an edge for a few months, a little time later the small spenders catch up, then lastly let ftp catch up, and then release the next big thing. The thing is, with it being Star Wars, it seems they’re likely making a ton of money because the spenders will keep on spending the money. Truth to tell, I guess if I had a stake in the company I’d probably do the same thing, even knowing I don’t like like the position it leaves me in as a light spender now. It seems to be humans nature to get everything they can get out of a business. I’ve been around the game for around 4+ years and the goal post has always been moved a little farther than I would like, but the game is still here and that says a lot about the success they’re having with it whether I like it or not.

I think a nice little gesture of goodwill that they could implement VERY easily is;

Revert Assault Battles back to 48 hour runtimes.

This has been done before - it directly eases Kyro gear crunch, it softens zeta/omega mat crunch (though many end game players have hit parity if not saturation levels on those), it can ease signal data crunch a bit to actually allow people to farm Cantina node characters while also providing a slight increase in bottleneck gear (both directly with prizes in the lower tiers and indirectly by increasing shard store income), and mod income - and yet still incentivizes players to broaden their roster by developing teams that can complete the Challenge Tiers.

Best of all, it is something they could turn on at the ‘flip of a switch’, since all the programming is already done.

Still do not understand why we don't have the next tier of the daily challenges.

It's a resource management game. Part of that is monetization, part of it is longevity. You've been dealing with it since the day you started playing and you will continue to deal with it until the day you quit.

You either skip factions, wait to farm them or you pay. That's it really. Been like that for close to 6 years now.

People have spent 200K on this game. They should be the tip of the spear.

If you look back every now and then there are changes to make things slightly better. Accelerated farming, cheaper refreshes etc. But don't be fooled the objective is to always make you spend more

"Rath_Tarr;c-2282806" wrote:
It's a resource management game. Part of that is monetization, part of it is longevity. You've been dealing with it since the day you started playing and you will continue to deal with it until the day you quit.

How can it be a resource management game if said resources keep losing their value/use as they are nerfed?


Narrator: "Because it is not."

It is a collection game.. Collect the new shiny toy every 3 months..

"SotaDraken;c-2282838" wrote:

"Rath_Tarr;c-2282806" wrote:
It's a resource management game. Part of that is monetization, part of it is longevity. You've been dealing with it since the day you started playing and you will continue to deal with it until the day you quit.

How can it be a resource management game if said resources keep losing their value/use as they are nerfed?


Narrator: "Because it is not."

It is a collection game.. Collect the new shiny toy every 3 months..

Either you manage your resources effectively or you come to the forums and whine about how you don't have enough resources.

"Rath_Tarr;c-2282841" wrote:

"SotaDraken;c-2282838" wrote:

"Rath_Tarr;c-2282806" wrote:
It's a resource management game. Part of that is monetization, part of it is longevity. You've been dealing with it since the day you started playing and you will continue to deal with it until the day you quit.

How can it be a resource management game if said resources keep losing their value/use as they are nerfed?


Narrator: "Because it is not."

It is a collection game.. Collect the new shiny toy every 3 months..

Either you manage your resources effectively or you come to the forums and whine about how you don't have enough resources.

That's not really fair to say. Most people in this thread at least have offered solutions or suggestions and when you look around the community there is consistency when it comes to them having a gear crunch. Sure is there people out there that come just to complain? Yes, but the same can be said for several of your posts (HT being OP, GAC auto deploy etc). Just because the issue doesn't affect you doesn't mean it's not an issue and throwing out infamitory comments that are not constructive in any way doesn't really offer anything other than confrontation and trolling.

"Rath_Tarr;c-2282841" wrote:

"SotaDraken;c-2282838" wrote:

"Rath_Tarr;c-2282806" wrote:
It's a resource management game. Part of that is monetization, part of it is longevity. You've been dealing with it since the day you started playing and you will continue to deal with it until the day you quit.

How can it be a resource management game if said resources keep losing their value/use as they are nerfed?


Narrator: "Because it is not."

It is a collection game.. Collect the new shiny toy every 3 months..

Either you manage your resources effectively or you come to the forums and whine about how you don't have enough resources.

That's an over simplification. Gear is restricted so that CG can sell it. What tends to be in the advert pop ups ? Yes all the usual bits of gear that people are often short of.

I'm not arguing that the game doesn't require careful allocation of resources but the game is financed by creating bottlenecks.

"AlexanderG;c-2282853" wrote:

"Rath_Tarr;c-2282841" wrote:

"SotaDraken;c-2282838" wrote:

"Rath_Tarr;c-2282806" wrote:
It's a resource management game. Part of that is monetization, part of it is longevity. You've been dealing with it since the day you started playing and you will continue to deal with it until the day you quit.

How can it be a resource management game if said resources keep losing their value/use as they are nerfed?


Narrator: "Because it is not."

It is a collection game.. Collect the new shiny toy every 3 months..

Either you manage your resources effectively or you come to the forums and whine about how you don't have enough resources.

That's an over simplification. Gear is restricted so that CG can sell it. What tends to be in the advert pop ups ? Yes all the usual bits of gear that people are often short of.

I'm not arguing that the game doesn't require careful allocation of resources but the game is financed by creating bottlenecks.

As I stated in my first post in this thread, SWGoH is a resource management game. It starts on the first day you play the game and doesn't end until you quit. That's the way the game is designed. It's partly about monetization but also about longevity - this is a game where goals take weeks, months even years to achieve which is why those who stick with it are still playing years after we started.