"Sucka;438392" wrote:
This is exactly the kind of mindset I cannot wrap my head around. You are a paying customer so you have likely bought furnaces right? Each furnace you buy can save you months of raiding time (I have been doing heroic raids for a month and haven't gotten the salvage to make a single one). That gives you an advantage in future raids which allows you to gain raid gear at a faster rate than others.
Here is a system that allows you to progress faster without spending as much money at the cost of time. Any guild that does heroic raids is capable of making an alt guild but it requires a lot of time and coordination to do, and one person making a dozen alts is frankly unrealistic so you need help from your team. This whole game boils down to two things: do you want to spend the time to grind things the hard way or the money to do it with less effort? Like it or not, the alt guild system is open to all and requires a lot of effort to pay off. If you don't want to spend the time to do that that's fine, but it takes work to achieve and can you really fault people who are willing to do that when you would pay to get around it given the choice?
Here's the problem: I pay to get a competitive edge. Some of the Raid Rewards (the Nubians) cannot be purchased with crystals. Therefore, I cannot trade money for time in this situation. If I and others stop paying to get a competitive edge, the game will lose its source of funding and get shutdown.
I played another mobile game Star Wars: Galactic Defense last year and earlier this year. A situation arose there that allowed anyone to generate unlimited Premium Funds--Gems (the equivalent of Crystals here) and therefore progress as fast as they were willing to spend time. The situation arose simply due to a poor Reward structure. You could repeat a task and on average earn back more Funds than you spent. These unlimited Funds allowed you to play the game in essentially Wizard mode (ie. unlock everything to its maximum potential), which while initially fun, turned the game into a tedious grind. Moreover, it cut off all reason to spend real money, marginalized those who had spent, and lead to the discontinuation of the game within months. (BTW I was FTP in that game.)
Do we really want to turn Galaxy of Heroes into Galaxy of Alts? Utilized to its fullest, estimates suggest that 6 times as many Raids can be completed versus sticking with one guild. At best this change may make the game an even more mind-numbing grind. At worst it may cut off incentive to spend money and support the game leading to less content updates and possibly a shortened lifespan.
Capital Games Team
