Minnow v Whale v Kracken (Tuna🤦‍♂️)

"Kai_Mulai;c-1688951" wrote:

"Ultra;c-1688938" wrote:

"Crazygone510;d-186866" wrote:
I hear these terms thrown all over the place and was just curious as to what each is.

What defines each? I'm really curious to what the community thinks. I'm at 1.9 million GP and I started in March of this year so going on 8 months. Am I whale? Kraken? Tuna?

Its about how much they spent in the game. There are 4 types of labels:

F2P: Probably the most obnoxious group that are very entitled and like to plug their status the most (fyi, i'm F2P). They've never spend a dime in the game and its meaning is corrupted. The game is VERY F2P friendly than it used to be. Back then, you had some toons that were locked behind money. You could not acquire these toons without spending money and the characters you could acquire for free were less powerful than they are now, with a smaller selection and it was extremely difficult to beat a team of Paid Toons. So it was considered a huge achievement if you could beat toons like clones or Sun Fac using the weak F2P toons. It was proper bragging rights. Now its just a status symbol rather than an impressive feat.

Dolphins: Light / Thin spenders. They might drop $9.99 for a 30 shard pack. They might spend $50 bucks on a pack or crystals each month or less. They consider themselves almost completely F2P and walk around with the F2P status while finding it difficult that there is someone in this game that is F2P and can beat them.

Whales: People who occasionally drop big once in a blue moon. They might drop $300 on a single or buy a crystal vault a month. They might see a really really good toon that brings a lot of value and shell hard on that toon. Sometimes you lose against a dolphin or F2P with better mods or toons they farmed and you feel bitter and resent and you justify your loss by calling that person a whale. It has a negative meaning and being called a whale is suppose to devalue your accomplishments in the game. (Oh you can only score so good in the raid because you paid for it, oh you can only win because $$$ etc.) From what I've seen, whales are usually chill people who are happy to admit they are one. I'm glad there isn't a big divide in both sides.

Kraken: THEY. HAVE. EVERYTHING. MAXED. OUT. These people have their checking account linked to wire all their earnings to SWGOH. Jokes aside, they are heavy spenders, if Whales spend $300 per month they would be people who spent like $1000 or more idk. Just a lot.

These are all based on the size of the sea life so terms like tuna, shrimp is basically mean dolphin

Interesting that you gave each personality features. Here’s my take:

Free players: vast majority (95%) of players in the game. They don’t spend money in game. Most likely to become frustrated and lash out whenever a character event comes around that they aren’t ready for.

Guppy/minnow: 3% of playerbase. They may have bought 1 or 2 things in game. Total spending under $50. I’m a guppy. Most likely to pretend they’re free players because the “only spent a little.”

Dolphin: 1.5% of playerbase. Regular spenders. Total spending in the hundreds of dollars. Most likely to do well in arena without appearing to spend.

Whale: 0.3% of playerbase. Enthusiast spenders. Total spending in the thousands of dollars. Most likely to throw a fit about “underpowered teams” being able to climb in arena.

Kraken: 0.2% of playerbase. Rich completionists. Total spending in the tens of thousands of dollars. Most likely to quit the game after buying everything.

A lot more than 5% spend money. I would say maybe 55% never spend, 40% spend only once or twice to get someone they really like, 4% spend very modestly to help gain an edge in farming and arena, 0.9% spend to get a powerhouse upgraded once every month or two, 0.1% want almost everything maxed, and of those, 0.01% will max everything on the spot.