Message from the EP

I wish some whale pop here and say to devs : Don't worry if you don't see any more money from me, just give it time. Like the reply they gave us on that mess they made.

"TrustfulLoki;301998" wrote:
Thank you for the message. I love the update and the potential for a more diverse game. People always have a hard time accepting change so Ian glad you are going to give it time before making changes in immediate feedback from the squeaky wheels. Keep up the good work!

Thank god you are in a very small minority!

So ... what changed?

• every char got Protection (of course gear level 7+) ...
  
• almost every chars damage-multiplier got lowered (atleast what ive seen: lumi, sid, jc, gs, dooku, poggle, fives, yoda, ig-86, ...)
  
• very, very rare chars got buffs: barriss level 7 went from 1.001 to 1.066
  
• poggle is now weaker in def, but got more base attack power with less crit, BTW: why does poggle get so much special damage boosts and special crit boosts from gear, when he doesnt even has a special attack skill??
  
• every chars power got raised (is the arena power still an indicator for gw-matchmaking?)
  
• protection is not healable and once its down to zero, it will not regenerate anymore (= GW-AI-teams got another advantage after their - official not existing - RNG-bonus)
  
• game is slowed down massive.
  

So far, i've only done 4 nodes in GW ... the last 2 chars lost their protection in 4th battle, will see, how node 5 will be without protection against protected chars ...

i made both challenges, both on auto, but i was wondering, how long it took for them to clear even stage 1 and 2 ... looks like the challenges got buffed? The droids at healer challenge seems to last way longer (maybe just because of damage reduction to almost every char?) ...

cad bane? ya ... he killed 1 or 2 of my chars, but honestly, thats it ... he got killed close the same time as before. just his needless mobs at stage 1 and 2 take a bit more time, what annoys.

in sum ... everything just needs more time, but think about: time has the highest value nowadays, its kinda stupid, to make something, that you dont need (like a mobile game), consume more time.

Currently im not sure, if i should continue on the game or not - and no, its no rage quit because a dooku team defeated mine or something childish like this, its a quit for reason, because im not interested to make a mobile game a full time job.

No!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Not a good post by John Salera...

More denial and failure to acceptresponsibility.

I have done retarded things in my life.... I admit it and try to mitigate the damage.

I do not respect someone who stands by a retarted decision like this.

Power to you if you chose a different path, but I was convinced that the path EA wanted me to take was to pursue the Yoda path. If you remember that was on the heel of a horrible update that drove most of my friends away from the game. I pursued that path for months, put all my resources into it and now have a garbage team for all my efforts, I couldn't beat a dirty rug.

If you can still beat GW with ease.....

YAY you!!!!!!!!!!!! you are an amazing gamer and made all the right decisions, and spent the right amount money!!!!!!! Bow to you!

Or, more likely you work for EA and are asked to post positive things on the forum, because no one else has anything positive to say......

Sure, once the thousands who quit the game yesterday quit posting the truth, you will have different feedback.

Buyers beware.....

It's a trap!!!!!!!!!!


Ok. If you want us to give it a chance give me a chance.....

Take my 7* gl 9 Yoda, and give me something worth having......

Just looking at my power level 6359 Yoda, makes me want to barf.... Worthless!!!!!!!!!!!

If you want me on board..... Take my freaking 7 7*Jedi and give me a team that will work.....

I cannot afford two or three months of getting drummed and rust rated to try to rebuild something....

Oh yeah, as soon as you announced I start trying to get fives... I guessed right, but the grind... I have 5* fives, not leveled up.... What am I supposed to do.... Replace a 7* level 74 Jedi with a 5* fives level 47?

Give me a break..... Then maybe I'll give you a break...

You, with foresight and malicious intent deceived me into pursuing a course of action that landed me here..... You tell me, John Salera......

What am I supposed to do???

The update is terrible in every way. It used to be fun because you could play the characters you like. Now it looks like you are forcing players to do things the way you want. I just feel ripped off and my time has been wasted by your worthless update.

I hope the overlords at Disney take a look at this game and the characters they spent Billions to own being so misrepresented that they pull licensing from EA.


Sidious
Yoda
QGJ
Old Ben
Darth Maul
Boba Fett


these are guys people want to use and see....not Royal Guard and Geonesan Soldier and Tie Pilot.....



This wouldnt be nearly as bad an update if Old Ben had RGs Skillset

or Darth Sidious had Geonesan Soldiers.



Seriously EA....THINK.....

They dont make halloween costumes and action figures of the Bugs....People dont dress up in a Royal Guard outfit to go watch the movies at the theater....people dont cosplay as Tie Fighter Pilot........

Making balance changes is all well and good for the health of the game, and let's face it, the game needed to be adjusted, however, unfortunately, it looks pretty clear that the changes were not tested enough due to the sheer amount of issues now pervading the game. If they had been tested extensively, and things like the Strength challenge being crazy overtuned had been caught, then you might not have had as much backlash.

Considering how things went down, and how especially with this patch it looks like you may need additional testing, plus that it always helps looping in the community, it may behoove you to set up a test version of the game that would have the new and upcoming changes on it and allow the community to test and give feedback for you ahead of time (granted this is a mobile platform versus PC, so not sure how feasible Google and iOS stores will be).

Here are the issues as I see them:

1) GW - with protection added, it needs to regenerate no matter what level of protection you have left, even if it has been depleted. If you don't do this, this puts characters like tanks in a bind, as generally their protection is going to always be depleted after the first couple of fights, and you'll be starting with a disadvantage.

2) Strength Challenge - I know it has been mentioned that this is being looked into, but given the current state of the challenge, it is nearly impossible to complete. I'm not looking forward to the Tank challenge.

3) Light Side, Dark Side, Cantina Missions - the difficulty of some of these fights have gone up dramatically. Cantina 6G for Dooku shards looks impossible to clear as it looks like everyone has been upgraded to orange gear. You need to go back and do another pass and make the difficulty equivalent to what it was before.

4) Arena - unfortunately, the balancing has not had the desired effect you were going for. It's become very clear, especially given their sheer amount of Protection, that Royal Guard will continue to be the trend to succeed and Fives is probably going to be showing up a lot on defense as well. Getting rid of the one shots is all fine and good, however, I feel like you're going to decrease the amount of viable characters. Worse, with Protection added, you've now pretty much killed the point of most healers unless you have Royal Guard on your team.

5) General Balancing - it's become clear based on the notes, that you didn't exactly balance characters based on their speed. Characters with very slow speeds for some reason had abilities (yes, I know these are based off of level 80 stats, however, nerfing slow character's damage doesn't help unless you increase their speed). While it remains to be seen, I feel that we're probably going to end up trending back to the usual characters since none of the characters were really improved enough, aside from the tanks.

What used to be an hour a day is now three hours. Nope. Not for me in a mobile game. No money from me, period.

I've been very critical of the changes as I truly do understand the rationale for changing "something", however don't understand the rationale for this being the "something".

It seems to me the thesis for the changes was "characters are dealing too much damage and matches aren't taking long enough as a result"

With that as a thesis there are multiple ways to skin the cat. You chose "protection" for some odd reason rather than just re-balancing health / damage. I can live with it but think it wasn't the best decision for the game.

Ultimately I understand the conundrum and I'm not sure there really is a great solution; you have a game where you allow people to continuously "upgrade" and we play and play and play to get a character to a certain level to deal an amazingly fun amount of damage and then you neuter him. That makes no sense...

GW took me 80-90 minutes; this is wayyyy too long... it was fine as it was before. I was able to beat all LS / DS battles with my level 64 team against level 70 teams; this probably shouldn't have been the case and a slowing of that type of progression is probably in order so that by the time you are getting through the last battle on the table you are unlocking the next level not waiting 5-6 more levels before unlocking the next table. On the other hand; I ONLY worked on my main 5 guys for arena so my team "was" fairly powerful so perhaps I earned the right to march through those battles?

It makes no sense having your protection rubbed off after the first couple battles and then face fully protected teams. Is it beatable? Yes, does it make a difference in the outcome of the battles? Yes, they take forever now and at times I need a taunter and at times I need 3 healers... did adding protection to MY characters help me in ANY form or fashion get through GW? Absolutely not... it did zero for me and I didn't even try to strategize because the inevitable was well... inevitable. All my main dudes were going to lose protection. My Barriss who was key for me to get through GW is only gear level 6 and I see no reason to upgrade her gear level just for the purpose of protection as it adds nothing. This needs to be rethought...

Challenges - I'm only level 66 so they're still doable but the savage challenge was always annoyingly long (kind of like this post?)

Arena - you state that we'll start seeing more team compositions used and viable; this is ultimately only going to be true if you treated the characters damage / health / protection with the mind of a socialist where everybody can beat everybody.... otherwise as a community we will figure out what works best (and to me it still looks like speed / damage with a flavor of healing) and the above average characters will be everywhere just as it was before. This reminds me of the old let's raise our taxes because our teachers have below average pay argument.... by definition, someone will always be below average and someone above average. It is a moving target and that's all you have done is moved the target. The above average toons will be found and will be everywhere.... you didn't stop that.

#notafan

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