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marty2017uk
Rising Rookie
2 months ago

Lightspeed bundles desperation

As predicted EA running out of characters  and packs to sell. If anyone is willing to spend nearly 100 pounds on 2 characters good luck to you.The game is in free fall and soon only thing left to sell  of value is GL. Then what.    .... 

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  • I mean they could always re-run through them. Apparently there are a lot of new and returning players who would like that. 

    The game also made money before LSB and still does outside of them. Especially with conquest pass, there is also the new episode pass. 

    So not sure where they are desperate but as we approach more recent kyro heavy characters and boba comes with all omicrons. They still save you a lot. I would not have got Boba with out the tier 8 abilities included as I have a massive omicron bottleneck. So I think that shows they have a good idea how to sell these packs.

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    marty2017uk
    Rising Rookie
    2 months ago

    You tell me whst characters are left to sell as LSB you be interested  in. Me 4 GL only.

    Profits and sells going to dry up this year trust me  then  minimum new content. The cash cow been milked dry.

    Tbf I passed caring..I cut my purchases by 90 per cent and no longer complete daily tasks every day.  

     

  • Ah, another poor soul who has ceased to view this game as what it is, a game. Why do you care how CG makes money? If you got all the characters you want, great job! Start on the GL grind, or gun for the next conquest character. CG uses LSBs as great ways for newer players to snag some much needed toons for an affordable price. If you can't stomach playing because of how the development chooses to offer purchases, the don't play.

  • I too have worried a little about the possibility CG released too many LSBs in too short of a time, causing them to have unrealistic investor/ stock holder expectations in the long run. I want the game to have healthy profits, so that it remains safe from closure, as I and many others have invested a lot of time and money into it and enjoy it. I have a suspicion that after they begab LSBs, they were forced to release so many more due to corporate greed, and I hope that doesn't bite them in the long run.

     THAT BEING SAID.... LSBs get players who have never spent, to spend, and then many of them will begin to spend on non-lsb packs. It's a psychological tactic, where once you've gotten someone to spend on something, there's a solid chance they will spend on other stuff they wouldn't have before. Not everyone, but enough to matter. So that will help. ALSO, CG has yet to discover another gold-mine that has a much broader lifespan than unique LSBs: "Resource LSBs". SO many of us are at a deficit for zetas, omegas, ship omegas, omicrons, mod slicing mats, and Relic mats, largely due to LSBs, but also simply due to the scarcity of them vs number of characters. There are very few packs currently offered that are reasonably priced for Zetas/ Omegas/ Omicrons; most of them are priced based on the original values of these mats when the game was younger. If CG were to release " LSB-like" packs for this stuff, it would sell VERY well. They could limit us to one or two purchases of each pack, so as to maintain the economy, but those packs would offer us solid value to catch up. Something like "200 zetas (which is only 10 zeta abilities), 500 Omegas, 150 Ship Omegas, 80 Omicrons" for approx $50. There would be a limit to the number of times we could buy such a pack, so it wouldn't hurt their value, but SOOO many of us would buy that, including MANY players who DON'T buy the regular resource packs. CG needs to offer more generous packs like that, for materials, if they want to maintain any profits similar to normal LSBs, and because their current prices for materials are out-of-touch with the game's age and total characters.

     I've given this a lot of thought. My father was a chief executive, Microsoft investor, wall-street business man: he taught me a lot, so I have a decent grasp of how this works. I hope CG makes wise choices going forward, or else they will have raised profits expectations way too high with so many LSBs at once.

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    Rius_975518199
    New Veteran
    2 months ago

    Not many because since the first LSB I have gone after new squads. But original BB has not been done. You still have a lot of conquest toons. And it’s always useful to do one before new PVE to ensure accessibility for new players. You have newer characters to start going through such as gungans. If they keep pace with releasing new factions multiple times a year they could release a few previous factions as LSB’s every now and then.

    Plus as I pointed out there are already other revenue streams for dolphins. If there is no LSB they will still make money. IMO it was more about catching players up so big guilds can still recruit when players retire. But newer accounts need sometime to develop the rosters they have built with LSB’s anyway. They have gaps which are obvious in recruitment. So a new version of flash sale on mods, zetas, or omicrons would work if they need a top up on revenue which LSB’s raised. 

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    marty2017uk
    Rising Rookie
    2 months ago

    Disagree with respect because there likey to put it on sell before I complete.  Happened twice now. 

  • The only  solution is to create another level tier for GL with new powers. ALSO move tier 9 to tier 10 with new currency  and link to monthly passes . Nothing else will work.not 1 to just moan ,

    Darth vader needs nerfing. He's no longer bad **bleep**. 

    There's like 9 speed bundles currently on sale. Ridiculous!  Old or new. Hard to justify.  

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