My pledge, in response to the latest cash grab

I never spend a dime on iOS apps. Why? I get bored with them soon...so why waste $s

Hi Qeltar, I understand your frustration. Do you want to join my poll to ask for QGJ? https://forums.galaxy-of-heroes.starwars.ea.com/discussion/8972/shall-we-demand-qgj-shift-to-gw-shipment-after-the-gw-refresh-update#latest

I think it would be a good idea, but I never make demands I cannot enforce. We have absolutely no power here whatsoever, other than not to spend our money. So I am going to just spend less for a while.

Same. I made the occasional purchase but I am now going to be completely f2p. I'm not paying a company that does stuff like this.

I don't get it. You only get the same number of GW tokens every day anyway. It's not like you're losing out on any shards. You can only buy them a couple of times per day anyway. Or have I missed something?

"Nonemo;79482" wrote:
I don't get it. You only get the same number of GW tokens every day anyway. It's not like you're losing out on any shards. You can only buy them a couple of times per day anyway. Or have I missed something?

The cost to refresh shipments used to be 10 GW tokens. You could refresh 40 times for the cost of 5 shards. Many people, deciding they didn't actually want to spend resources on the tusken raider or whatever, were stockpiling tokens hoping something else more interesting would be put in there. They would have been able to use up their stockpiles relatively quickly. Now they can't unless they spend a fortune in crystals. (Which I refuse to do on principle now anyway.)
I do think only 10 tokens was probably too generous, but to go from that to 50 crystals is just a complete cash grab.
And of course, they had to spring this on us with absolutely no warning, as usual.

I've never been much for purchases. This is actually the 2nd app that I've paid for or paid for IAPs. (first one being Monument Valley and its expansion, TOTALLY worth it, though now it's free through Amazon! ;)) But seeing how the tendency is to increase everything, and hinder the gameplay time, to incentive more crystal purchases, has really hold me back a lot by doing the next purchase.

New missions released keep being more expensive in energy costs. Refreshes costs keep doubling to incoherent amounts. And packs are just a huge gamble. Then low drop rates, high amount of grinding needed, and frustrations on arena or GW just takes care of the rest. XD

I see 0 ROI most of the time, apart from the Heroine Bundle, which was a bit overpriced too, but compared to regular purchases, and the amount of time or money that it'd have been needed for those, it was "worth" it.

Is it possible they're doing this because their monthly financials are looking bad? When your company isn't doing well it's very common to try and nickel and dime your customers to make your balance sheet look a little better and show revenue growth.

Secondary thought:
This is a business and if the business doesn't do well they may decide that 70% margins aren't high enough to keep the doors open.

"Qeltar;79487" wrote:

"Nonemo;79482" wrote:
I don't get it. You only get the same number of GW tokens every day anyway. It's not like you're losing out on any shards. You can only buy them a couple of times per day anyway. Or have I missed something?

The cost to refresh shipments used to be 10 GW tokens. You could refresh 40 times for the cost of 5 shards. Many people, deciding they didn't actually want to spend resources on the tusken raider or whatever, were stockpiling tokens hoping something else more interesting would be put in there. They would have been able to use up their stockpiles relatively quickly. Now they can't unless they spend a fortune in crystals. (Which I refuse to do on principle now anyway.)
I do think only 10 tokens was probably too generous, but to go from that to 50 crystals is just a complete cash grab.
And of course, they had to spring this on us with absolutely no warning, as usual.

Yup 10 tokens to 50 cystals is ridiculous price

Monument Valley was super cool. :)
I've spent a fair bit on this game, not nearly as much as some, but enough that some people would consider it strange. This is my entertainment, I spend virtually no money on myself, I don't drink or gamble or have an Xbox or go out to fancy restaurants. So if I want to spend $99 a month on a big crystal vault or whatever, who cares, people spend more than that at Starbucks.
But when they pull crap like this, which is so obviously just another short-term way to try to make money, the only relevant response I can come up with is to spend less. Well, aside from raging on the forums for an hour or two, of course. ;)