[Mega] An Ancient Journey of Redemption

"davdeluxe126;d-184434" wrote:
Hello,
I want to voice my complaints about Revan. People are screaming and yelling left and right but I hope a rational criticism may actually reach the devs.
To preface this, I am a huge fan of both this game and of Revan and his lore. I am also a F2P player.
Since the moment the characters had their marquee events, I started saving up my crystals for refreshes and energy. I starting farming Bastila and Jolee the second they released. I started farming Mission Vao, Zaalbar and T3-M4 when they came out. I had only saved a few hundred crystals, and I am currently only making 150ish crystals a day so I get 120 cantina energy and 1 refresh that I’m using on Zaalbar. I ignored the Bounty Hunters to farm Revan.
I currently have Bastila 5* 21/85, Jolee 5* 2/85, Zaalbar 4* 51/65, Mission 4* 60/65 and T3 4* 3/65 and all of them are Gear Level 8.
By using the panic farm calculator, I would need just shy of 41,000 crystals so to get them to 7*, without accounting for having to buy more gear. I am a student and can not afford to spend $250 on these characters for the chance of getting Revan and am disappointed. I was betting on him being unlockable at 5* with which I would be okay with, and unlock him at 7* the next time. As we know that is not the case. It is unprecedented and frankly unreasonable for him to be a 7* with so little time. Some characters have only been farmable for 2 weeks!
If he were announced today, along with the packs, and we got a week of double drops for the characters, and were told that his Hero Journey would start on Thanksgiving, we would be giving a LOT of thanks to CG that day. With the current arrangement, only whales will be able to unlock him and will probably seize their arenas with this probably-meta-defining character.
The vast majority of the SWGOH community is F2P players and this betrays our trust in the community.
In order to remedy this, I will propose a few things.
1. My suggestion to have 7 days of double drops for the characters and a promise that he will come back on Thanksgiving (with the packs being available from now until then) to allow F2P to catch up in about a month.
2. In order to appease the F2P community, the event is postponed until Thanksgiving or later to allow for the vast majority of overall players to unlock him at the same time.
3. We get triple or quadruple drops from now until the 25th (when I assume the event will end), 5 crystal refreshes, 50% refreshing energy (so 25 crystals for regular energy and 50 crystals for cantina energy) and an assurance that we will only need G8-10 for the characters (especially since some characters are commonly perceived as useless).
I hope that some developers will read this and consider what I have said. I love this game and want it to succeed, but this seems like a betrayal of trust with a hint of cash grab, which is bad publicity for the game. Revan was a man of the people, and he should be accessible to the majority of players who have invested every single point of energy (since Bastila first came out) to obtaining him, even if we haven’t spent money on the game.
Thank you for your time, and I hope you consider what I said. I would be willing to talk about it further if necessary.