Is F2P dying a slow death?

"Shadowscream;c-1646118" wrote:

"Roopehunter;c-1646096" wrote:

"Shadowscream;c-1646042" wrote:

"JerrickKharr87;c-1645921" wrote:
FTP are about to fall behind even more when the new legendary requirements are announced. Casual spenders like me will as well. Only the addicts will keep rolling.

Really? How will it be anymore than previous Legendary/Heroes Journeys when FTP had to get it 2nd time round....I’m puzzled what’s changed this time?

Its changing for new players, not ppl with 1.5 years+.
Reason is simple, yes you can get all legendaries and heroes as ftp,but it takes like a half year each. Or buy them instantly. Having 3-4-5 legendaries will extend the ftp journey to 3 x half year, 4 x half year, 5x half year... Or buy it instantly.

So the point is, if you dont spend, youre in a half year delay.
If these legendaries come online, then if you dont spend, youre in a 2 years delay.
(in case of new accounts)

Being in a 2 years delay is an enormous disadvantage, so you either start spending, or you wont have any success at the competitive areas of the game (arena, fleet, raids..). Essentially, both of these outcomes are the end of ftp, so yeah this game is moving to p2w model very soon.

Going to question your maths here - I’m FTP. Started 17th Dec 2017.
Got 7* Palps, 7* Thrawn, 6* Chimera, CLS, 7* R2D2, 7* GMY, 7* BB8
Working on Vets....
If we ignore Chimera...
That’s 6 heroes journey or Legendary characters out of 7 (No JTR - plus I’ll probably miss her this next time)

6/7 in 9 months for a new FTP player doesn’t seem that depressing?

Youre still not fully done, the vets are a very long farm. So how much time to get all these special chars from 0? 9 months?

Now if we add 2 more legendaries, that will take at least 6-8 months more.
Maybe its not 2 years delay, 'just' 15-17 months, thats still looking like a pretty massive disadvantage to me.