MobileGamer tells the truth

"PukeCrywalker;c-1987612" wrote:

"PsyBaby;c-1986316" wrote:
Hoarders are not the issue. It's big fat Kraken like MobileGamer that is.

If it weren't for us "Krakens" (my main is 5.8mil alt is 4.8mil) this game would have been dunzo 2 years ago.... You think F2P keeps the lights on and the servers humming?? But worry not, us "Krakens" are bout through with this and MobileGamer is bout to quit and Anhold will be soon to follow and then when that happens lots of "Krakens" will leave as well; like myself and then CGs expenses to run and maintenance the game will exceed it's income from F2P players which btw =0$....
I have seen players that have been here since 2015 leave that I thought would never leave! At least 4 Krakens have left our guild since it was found out G@$ would be a 5* unlock and countless have left my arena shard chat and fleet shard chat. A 5* unlock with the most stringent reqs this game has seen yet? For what?? To spend hundreds of $ or a 6month+ hoard just to be allowed to spend the next 3.5 month's+/- to spend every GET1 to 7* him?? Sure there's new players coming to the game but most of them will see how impossible(atm) the catch up would be and well you know....Goodnight SwGOH....
I do love this game or rather, love the potential that's here or was here.. They should have not made this game F2P from the get go and just charged an initial fee for the app download and then monthly subscription fee of like 5$ or 10$. But that bait and switch is what they started with amd continue with today. And unfortunately is what is driving the last few nails in this coffin. Only way for this game to make it another year is for NO more players to leave and maybe some come back. Ofc I don't know their exact numbers but any fool can see all the folks leaving on their discord and in game chats and arena shards. McMole left which CG was prob ok with being they dont like him but a lot(if most most) players enjoyed McMole sometimes. However, Anhold is the one to watch IMO. When he leaves, get out the black roses....
Perhaps a different prefix would fot better in your name rather than Psy....?? Look at that, rhymes too!! See what I did there??

I think you missed the point. No one is saying that this game doesn't need p2p players to survive.
the point is that it's the players who are wiling to spend "insane" amounts of money on mobile games that make the freemium model so gosh darn profitable. If there was no one willing to spend 10k a year on some mobile game the pricess and business model would reflect that.
One could easily argue that the mechanics in place to incentivize spending are making the game less enjoyable, but that is obviously still only an opinion.