Current marquee farm allows you to take a toon from 3* to 7* in 6 weeks after it’s F2P on a single hard node. Even quicker if it has multiple farming locations. That’s pretty good if you ask me
MT / Wicket model was the worst and 10 shards a month and some months dev forgot to schedule the events is awful
Even if you made it bi monthly the devs will end up pushing the calendar and when you have a lot of toons there will be tons of complaints of having to log in every day of month to collect toon x then next day for y then z
While they rotate once or twice a month they aren’t in shipments or any other venue other than refresh 900 crystals for another 10 shards
Marquee farm requires patience. The pay to play option is to feed your impatience. The game has longetivity because there are characters to farm and having nothing to farm because the nodes are just gear would be stale and boring and the newer ways will be harder grinds
I don’t mind the release structure and it gives everyone equal time to collect the toons before all of them are needed.