Message from the EP

You know it is bad when the devs have to start damage control the same day as an update. And that is the response we get, give it time? I think in your heads time means money. Thanks but no thanks.

I am all for making more characters viable, increasing variety but this? This has gone too far, you make defense play a bigger role, added a "shield", and reduced damage across the board...really? Battles are painfully slow and boring now, not to mention you completely ruined galactic war.

Your game is going downhill and these threads are only proving it. I am glad I did not invest hundreds of dollars in this game because you have royally screwed up here. Admit it, apologize, fix it and let's move on to more content, not more ceasly grinding.

"HappyWompRat;301378" wrote:
"You were supposed to bring balance to the Force, not leave it in darkness!!!"

Never wrote about the game before. Just played and enjoyed it. I was building up a team and it was becoming gradually more challenging but remained fun. Now... Enemies are wildly more powerful, "protection" doesn't protect anywhere near as well as my old health bar did (I feel like I ordered an armor vest and was given a polyester T-shirt), squad arena games that were hard-fought victories now time-out in a draw, the whole game takes longer to play - perhaps longer than I want to play. It was getting lengthy enough already with all that character building and gear hunting and now it feels like my efforts were wasted.

I was considering spending cash on the game for the first time and buying an Ewok bundle. Now I may just give the cash straight to the WWF and call it done here. You ripped the fun out of it for me - I'd rather have my teeth pulled out through my ears...

I have spent cash on this game. Never commented before either. Signed into EA and created an account just to post.

Agree with so many that as a mobile user game, this update makes the game too cumbersome to bother with. AGI Health challenge just took about 8 minutes to slog through for a few items I have hundreds of and 1 50 purple hairdryer out of 5 "possible" rewards. If I spend 8 minutes in a challenge and actually win, I should be rewarded. That was an insult.

STR Attack challenge could not be won on highest tier last night. There is no way to hit both Veers and Tarkington hard enough with nerfed damage to avoid getting hit by their AoE and having your entire team wiped out in one move.

GW takes way too long now.

I could complete all daily progress in about 60-90 minutes of daily game time and do enough extra stuff to keep advancing / adding interesting toons. I don't see myself spending 4 precious hours a day on this now. I have a wife, kids, and work. This was a very nice distraction and something I had fun sharing with the kids. I'm 42 and grew up with Star Wars. Hate to see the fun part of advancing through the game taken away just to balance the Arena.

Maybe consider adding protection feature to Arena only and returning game play the way it was for the rest of the game. Arena is by definition only 1 round, so you don't need to recharge protection. But GW, Challenges, L&D hard battles either need some way to recharge Protection, or just go back to way it was.

"EA_Jesse;28044" wrote:
Hey Everyone,

@CG_JohnSalera wrote up a message about today's update, you can find it here: https://forums.galaxy-of-heroes.starwars.ea.com/discussion/28040/4-14-update-thank-you-for-your-feedback#latest

Keep all talks about the post in this thread.

Thanks!

I notice there was no attempt to justify the protection instead of health baloney.

I appreciate the response/explaination for your update.
My comments are this:
I blew a grand to play your enjoyable game, even though the drop rates and grind were excruciating.
I agree a few minor adjustments to extremely strong characters was necessary.
I spent that money on jedi to get Yoda who is now useless, and support characters that can now not even get me through GW.

If you think I will spend another dollar on crystals, you are mistaken. I had mentally decided to spend a certain amount each month on what I considered a fun, though time consuming game.
That is now over, you can't keep changing who is the best character after so much is invested.
My only regret is that I will not see the ship wars.
After I use the last of my crystals, I'm out.

As a F2P and facing lots of P2P in arena (some already reached level 77), I think the update is good overall.
- Like:
+ Better defense so I can keep close to 1st and reach there at payout time without a single refresh.
+ Many squad builds are viable.
- Dislike:
+ GW was usually finished in an hour but now should be trippled.
+ AGI and INT challenges are much harder.

Personally I think all the changes are dumb. Reason being: I, like many of you have played this game for 4+ months. We played to the pros, and cons of the game. So to come in and obliterate all the work we've done is like making a painting for 4+ month just to have someone say sry the colors were all one big typo. Why would you do that? Okay now more points less personal feelings.

I played the STR Gear Challenge 3 times today on auto (which is a terrible player anyway) and beat it, came back after the update barely made it over half way. I have a geo soldier,(gear lvl 9, six stars) sidius,(gear lvl 8, 7 stars) IG-86,(gear lvl 8, 7 stars) Luminara,(gear lvl 8, 7 stars) and Consular(gear lvl 8, 6 stars). My squad power is 28k (ish). I fought a 25k (ish) squad. And lost twice.
My geo soldier could do 10k damage combined attack with critical damage on both. I did a 5k damage with critical damage.

I hate the new way. I loved the old life meter much better. If you think that I'm wrong please let me show me what Im doing wrong. That being said I despise the update so does my whole family (who plays the game).

I love this game and I don't want to erase it. Partly because it's an interesting game, partly because I love star wars. I have gone through many games (marvel: contest of champions, marvel: future fight, Jurassic world, Avengers assemble 2, star wars: worlds at conflict) and no game has compared to this game.

And I'm looking forward to the guilds and raids I've
saved a thousand crystals already just to have my own so I love this game a lot.


So in summary I love the game.
I hate the update with all of its content.
And EA please fix it.

I woke up this morning wanting an explanation as to the reasoning for these changes, so thank you for that.

I have only been able to do a few arena battles so far. The things that upset me the most are the changes to Yoda. He is the reason that I invested in this game. I put the effort/resources in to get him to 7* and added him to my squad. Before the update, the AI used him badly which made me an easy target. I accepted that, because it's Yoda. Now after the update he's just bad.

I look forward to the challenge of GW and the class challenges and will post a review if I have anything productive to add.

After now trying my galactic war and the challenges, I just don't care if I finish them. They take so long and some of it is me making mistakes but this is just too much at once. I enjoy figuring out new ways to do things but this change has made me just not care.

Time for me to uninstall. This has been the only mobile game, scrap mobile, the only game ever to hold my attention Every day for nearly 4 months. But this update has almost doubled the time you need to invest into it to get through the dailies, and that's the breaking point for me.
I approve that the update spices up the strategy, giving viability to more teams, but the daily 2 to 3 hours spent on the game is something I regret. Time to turn this lost time in my backlog. I hope you get the balance sorted out for the rest of the players soon!

What's up with the droids ? They die so fast now. In battles i won in Auto mode without Problems,
i can't finish without loose a char. The Balance ist not good at the moment. My Healer can't help Right in the GW. Please correct it

The update actually penalises your best toons because as you progress the arm brnrfit is lost but new challenges get armour.

GW is harder than before because of the armour.

Challenges take to long because of the armour and we kenning of some tons but boosting of the AI.

You have managed to turn a good game I was willing to pay money to to something that is as poor as a lot of mobile games.

Whoever approved this without proper testing needs to be diciplined.

Undo the patch.