Hard Node Farms

"Aesuarez;c-1602028" wrote:
C'mon. New toons are nothing more than new toys. Don't call them investments. We pay to play with a new toy for a couple of months. But as with any other product they lose value over time. This happens because the novelty wears off, because other characters are released, because they stop being exclusive, because they mysteriously stop showing up on platoons when they become F2P... The point is that they devalue over time.
It makes absolutely no sense that a year and a half old character is worth the same as a newly released character, and for devs to artificially make it a scarce good is only going to hurt themselves in the long run. It makes it impossible for newer players to catch up (unless they spend an amount of money almost no one has available) and it only makes it more frustrating for F2P who would otherwise consider spending. I for one don't like feeling blackmailed into spending, even if I would pay occasionally for some toons

TW and TB keep toons valuable for way longer than their farm time. If anything mods (or lack there of) hold toons back from being more useful than anything.

Leia and Sun Fec are 2 prime examples of very old toons that are still versatile in game.

New player to catch up to who? They face players at the same level and rough time in game as they are. They dont face players that they need to catch up to a year of farming ahead of them unless they want to put themselves in that position and there is almost no real reward for them doing so.