Forum Discussion
"LtGenStu;c-1642504" wrote:
I was so happy when Jango was announced. Now I'm sad.
Same, and now I don't care. I'll get him in a few months. May not even play the marquee. There's no point, really. Which is becoming a common theme lately.. Not spending a penny on this game going forward tho. Yay ftp forever!"vice;c-1642548" wrote:
this game should be under the definition of prisoner's dilemma
if everyone wants marquees to stop, then stop buying $10 (or whatever) packs! it makes the game a lot of money and most likely has upped the average periodic spend compared to when they had the crystal subscription. if you stop buying those packs, then marquees will stop. but you won't, because you will act in your own self interest and fuel your desire to be ahead of the next player...
The $9.99 packs aren't really a problem. It's the 1299 crystal gamble packs that go along with the marquees that are the real problem.- You guys complain about everything.
- At least marquees let everyone play with the new toys. I’m personally am happy with the CGs communication Just don’t let the CG Nerf loose. Nothing worse then paying for something and having someone strip it away from you
"Sarith_LeKit;c-1642533" wrote:
There isn't any character that I feel too strongly about that should require a certain release structure. As long as the kit is good and true to the character (and fun!). I love Darth Nihilus, and he was a marquee. I love Darth Sion and he was a marquee. KOTOR II's protagonist can be a marquee or a raid toon and I wouldn't complain either way as long as its Free-to-play at the end of the day. Mother Talzin and Wicket had a special release structure that was more premium and it was awful. Imagine if that's how they released Jango just so he isn't marquee. Darth Vader had a very premium unlocking feature (Achievements) and, so did Baze Malbus, Chirrut Imwe and ShoreTrooper (SQUAD TOURNAMENTS) -- Two no name toons that were given premium unlocking conditions. I think highly popular characters deserve a premium unlock but its fine if they don't (Sion, Nihilus, Jango). Its the reverse that I would complain about (Droideka's getting legendary release for example). Shoretrooper and Baze, and chirrut being premium unlocks is very weird given how highly competitive it was to unlock them."Darthsetty99;c-1642520" wrote:
"Ultra;c-1642501" wrote:
"Darthsetty99;c-1642474" wrote:
They literally told you 2 hours after the kit reveal :/
Makes absolutely no sense to not tell everyone he was going to be marquee when his kit was revealed. Devs are just trying to **** everyone off.
My point is they've known jango was a toon that alot of people wanted. They've also acknowledged that some of the player base is upset with marquees. They could have got out in front of this and told everybody when they posted the teaser that the new toon would be marquee.
They should have delayed someone like Jango (and when i say someone like Jango, I mean fan favourite) for a 2 or 3 weeks and release him as legendary.
"Ultra;c-1642501" wrote:
"Darthsetty99;c-1642474" wrote:
They literally told you 2 hours after the kit reveal :/
Makes absolutely no sense to not tell everyone he was going to be marquee when his kit was revealed. Devs are just trying to **** everyone off.
Maybe you dont think he should be legendary because he is not your type of character but imagine if they released jedi luke as marquee because it was allready on schedule as a marquee. Would that be good enough explaination for you
I think when they introduced quests, they missed an opportunity for a unique character unlock similar to Darth Vader
People are complaining that Jango is marquee but were open to the idea of Jango Fett being a new Territory Battle reward similar to ROLO.
Lets take a minute and consider that option,
New TB = high difficulty for special mission (G12+ and 6 dot mods would be recommended for that new TB.)
Most guilds won't be able to do 100/100 shards. You get 2 TBs per month. A third TB would be rotating every 1.5 months. Even if you do a perfect score, you would need to do 4 TBs of Jango to get 330 shards to boost him to 7 stars. Then there are bugs, and other issues of a new TB. That is at least 4 months of TB on the bare minimum. Not that different from marquees.
I will admit I do think no name characters like Shore or Baze shouldn't have a premium status for unlocking but the reverse is fine. Premium characters like Nihilus, Sion and the likes being marquee or not doesn't matter. To me, the kit is more important.
I don't have an issue if Jango was legendary. Do I think he's the hype people make him out to be? No but I do see the love that the community has for him and wouldn't be strongly opposed to it or complain about him being legendary.
His kit is spot-on"Nori703;c-1642484" wrote:
"Sarith_LeKit;c-1642432" wrote:
Do you know what worst part about this is? They dont care what we think about it
I rarely comment but that’s just **** man.
CG Crumb didn’t have to post but he did. This game makes enough money they could completely ignore these forums and it wouldn’t impact their bottom line.
I’m not a CG apologist but to me, they have been very open in sharing a lot of their thought process around marquees, as well as addressing other matters.
Im not the biggest fan of the way they have been releasing toons, but I feel pretty good with the information they have relayed to the community and I have a better understanding of why the flood of marquees- because, I’m my opinion - they cared enough to share some insight.
You're right, they can just ignore the forums, like they've been doing. And no, they're not open about anything in their own damn forums. They just dump a post on here and then run back to Reddit. Well guess what, we shouldn't have to go to Reddit to find out about their damn game when they have their own forums. Which, by the way, has a link inside their game to bring you here, not Reddit.- I understand that marquee change can't happen quickly, buttttttt why hype up Jango like he was gonna be a unique event? By the way I love the mysterious pixel picture you guys did. It really hypes up people of what it could be. Hope this becomes a regular little game with the community!
- This point has been mentioned by others before, but before Marquees, getting a new character to 7-Stars, especially a worthwhile one, was a very pricey afair as there was no guarantee that character would EVER become F2P. At least with marquees, if one must spend, $110 or so dollars will get the character to 7-Stars once they go into shipments ($9.99 pack and a vault and a bit of patience) within a relatively short period, and there is comfort in knowing the character will eventually make it to the board and be F2P. In that regard, I prefer the marquee system. Those of us who spend a little here and there but not often enough to be classed as whales can live with that once in a while to keep the game going and get what we want faster.
However, the main problem with marquees is that there are now SO MANY of them coming out so regularly and generally not going into the easier farm locations that it’s rather overwhelming to consider just how long it will take to max a character, let alone a ton of new ones. Not to mention, waiting 6 months to get a character to 7-Stars, then many more months to fully gear and zeta, with so many options is a mega grind. The gear grind, I understand. It’s the way this kind of freemium game works. But gear AND forever hard node farms is not sustainable in my opinion. The GW, arena, and cantina stores SHOULD get new characters in them. Period. Save some of the very best for hard nodes to keep them from being spammed by everyone (Nest, as annoying as her farm will be), and put those iconic characters we all want into Legendary or Heroes Journey events, NOT a marquee...
Ultimately, it’s was clear since a long time ago that players wanted Jango to be a Legendary character (even though the way things are getting him to 7-stars will probably be easier/cheaper the marquee way). In that sense, CG has missed the mark. If the system was different, like a legendary event with bounty hunters required a la GMY or Palpatine, not only would that strongly encourage people to change up their pace and go after/explore a now worthy/fresh faction, but it would also provide choice with a good mix of easily accessible F2P bounty hunters, and more viable harder to farm ones that would be more of an ultimate goal because maybe they were in the guild store or fleet store vs GW store for instance. - How boring and unimaginative. I mean...what else did we expect? Why do we keep referring to CG when we really know who’s boss? CG are simply pawns to EA.
- I can't believe people are so upset they are finally getting a toon they've been asking for for so long... who cares how he is released? At least he doesn't seem like he'll be trash.
