Is F2P dying a slow death?

The hardnode farm affects P2P and F2P in nearly the same manner imo. Very few whales would drop hundreds of $$ on crystals for hardnode refreshes and energy refreshes unless the character lead to a legendary. The real issue is the gap between high end players and lower end players. This gap is partially created by paywalls. The majority of the problem is the amount of time it takes to farm certain characters. The Vet Han/Chewie are a huge part of this gap between high GP and low GP. The time it takes is utterly insane to farm 2 characters to unlock JTR and then they become useless for the most part. Shard drops or energy taken per node is where the change needs to happen at. Give us 2 shards instead of 1 per drop on characters that take over 10 energy per node. With CG announcing that the next character after jango will not be a marquee event will make this gap between players worse then it is now. So those who have almost every character farmed are ready for the new legendary. Those still grinding CLS or JTR will fall further behind. By making the time it takes to farm those characters shorter the gap will close in. It won’t close in so much that CG will loose the business of the whales. Imagine a new player starting today. They will never as a F2P or even a dolphin ever be ready to take part in new raid content. CG make the gap smaller with out loosing your financial side of the game.