Hyperdrive Bundle

"HondoOhnaka;c-2020978" wrote:
It is enough to ban accounts which people are selling that is all. I do not care about main accounts, they can stay until owners decide to sell even them too. Issue is also that people don´t need to have alternative accounts they sell their main accounts as they are tired of all ... which cg is giving us for over a year...

Definitely because I know a guy who can post your ally code on a buy swgoh accounts site and say your account is for sale then you get a lifetime ban.

Great idea.

"TVF;c-2020945" wrote:

"JacenRoe;c-2020935" wrote:
This bundle won’t help me survive P1 of LSGeoTB, and it doesn’t include a Mace rework, so I don’t care about it.

However, based on the little we do know I am worried that the bundle will effectively be a requirement when you start. If you are already in arena, and someone buys it, but you haven’t will you be screwed? Will it be a whale or else experience for all new players? Who knows.

You are only screwed until you catch up to the rest of your shard, which is always possible.

Do we know for sure that it’s always possible, or is that a guess? The game has changed a lot. Can you get far enough ahead now that you can’t be caught?

My main account is Dec 15 tip of the spear F2P. (I even have a 7* G$) I finally caught up to the whale arena leaders after 1 year of playing, and have managed to mostly keep pace ever since.

I also have a 2 year old alt account that has never caught up, and I don’t see any way that it ever will. That’s despite knowing WAY more about arena than I did initially.

In the old days you could only get so far ahead because you would cap out, and just kind of spin your wheels until new progression paths were added. That wheel spinning time was also F2P or low/moderate spender catch-up time. Now there are so many progression paths to race down I don’t think you can catch up as easily if at all. Giving spenders a 600k GP head start (according to the dev post) and immediate access to tons of farming opportunities and rare characters is not going to make that easier. There is something called the Matthew Principle. It plays out frequently that a slight advantage early on will snowball into an insurmountable one later. Is it possible this pretty solid boost will do exactly that?

It’s not a bad thing that spending be rewarded... obviously. And new players DEFINITELY need a boost to not be overwhelmed by years of overlapping progression systems. But it should at least be a concern that the game could become hard paywalled from the start instead of “free” at first then entice spending once players are hooked in.

According to crumb a 6 star character can be g12. We as players know this is impossible but devs seem to have forgotten how the game works.

Definitely feels like the devs dont know how the game even works. I doubt they even play it, if they did they would realize what they are claiming is impossible

From @CG_SBCrumb in dev announcements

Player has already collected a specific character and its attributes are as follows:
Star Rarity (cumulative shards): Activated at 6* Stars (250)
Character Level: 35
Gear Tier: 12
Ability Tier 2
The character is already activated and at 6* Stars
The 6* Star status is retained and the player does not get additional value for this character.
The character is upgraded from Character Level 35 to Level 80.
The character is already at gear tier 12
The gear tier 12 status is retained and the player does not get additional value for this character


Ps... to his credit maybe they are offering Malaak shards in the hyperdrive bundle then crumb could be correct (but ONLY if Malaak is offered in the bundle, which I doubt is true)

That's just lazy writing / proofreading, which we see constantly. It doesn't mean they don't know how the game works or they don't play it.

"TVF;c-2021022" wrote:
That's just lazy writing / proofreading, which we see constantly. It doesn't mean they don't know how the game works or they don't play it.

So at no point when he is writing about how a 6 star character can be g12 did the lightbulb go off in his head saying *wait a minute this is incorrect?* that definitely shows a lack of understanding of how the game works. Its ALSO lazy proofreading that it wasn't caught, but saying 6 star then g12, not once, or twice, but three times is definitely 100% proof he has no clue how the game works...especially so close to the whole malaak debacle anyone who actually plays the game knows this.

If he said you can put relics on 5 star toons would you also say that's just a proofreading error?

Maybe you do still... but then why are there so many proofreading errors from a multimillion dollar company with a full time community manager? That's an even bigger issue if true because it shows incompetence.

"BobcatSkywalker;c-2021045" wrote:

"TVF;c-2021022" wrote:
That's just lazy writing / proofreading, which we see constantly. It doesn't mean they don't know how the game works or they don't play it.

So at no point when he is writing about how a 6 star character can be g12 did the lightbulb go off in his head saying *wait a minute this is incorrect?* that definitely shows a lack of understanding of how the game works. Its ALSO lazy proofreading that it wasn't caught, but saying 6 star then g12, not once, or twice, but three times is definitely 100% proof he has no clue how the game works.

It's like you've never read a dev post.

Bobcat is being obtuse on purpose

Why is everyone getting so up in arms about their made up examples of how picking the better version of the character when merging works? Who cares if they wrote that your 6* R7 character would stay R7 rather than drop to G8? The point was that if the character had more than the Hyper-drive version it would stick with yours.

"littleMAC77;c-2021051" wrote:
Why is everyone getting so up in arms about their made up examples of how picking the better version of the character when merging works? Who cares if they wrote that your 6* R7 character would stay R7 rather than drop to G8? The point was that if the character had more than the Hyper-drive version it would stick with yours.

I am filing a class action lawsuit on this bait and switch, which is a slap in the face and begs the question if hordeing is literally unfariable.

For $1000 get increase of 1M GP