New Toon Release Cadence is brutal

it’s definitely compacted to the second half of the year but punishing one is the 15th marquee of the year which matches last year.  

Obviously, we have more marquee(s) coming to finish off tano and that’ll really determine things.  if we have a new sabine, new hera, huyang and a ship besides punishing one needed for tano then yeah it’ll feel even more over the top.  

However, assuming the ship is a chase, that would bring us to 18 marquees and 2 chases for the year compared to 15 marquees, 4 chases and reva last year.  definitely not the same in the players mind but cg is going to cg and would argue it is the same.  

I agree with this - but it is certainly a lot in a condensed period, but with a GL treat dangling- in reach with a note that says: Coming Soon.  Coming soon means a week or a few- not months. Let’s also recall the R9 inclusions, and is clearly a commitment. The rewards though are some solid new toon squads and hopefully a top tier GL that is worth what appears the most effort in relic commitments and new marquees to-date.

Love the game and just want to see what the next marquee round “coming soon” is - to at least validate why I’m investing so much more in this GL pursuit. 

It is just as easy not to spend  a dime on this game if you started from the beginning.  As ftp, I've gotten to the point that I can almost keep caught up.  At this point, I try to keep a 30K crystal stash for stuff like galactic chase or a new capital ship.  Once I pass that mark, I have been using crystals on the non farmable toons.  I just got my DTP up to R6, so I'm almost caught up on Ahsoka requirements except for Enoch, but I just purchased 50 shards for him.  I got Morgan up to R5 before a switch to DTP, so I have almost done all I can do at this point for Baylon.

The bigger problem is, they no longer wait for a toon to be farmable before they drop the new big thing.  In past, they may have only gave days or maybe weeks of farmable time before dropping an event, but that was at least something.  To drop all this at once is a bit much, especially if they require a new ship and a few more marquees for Ahsoka.

Honestly, I'm surprised the game lasted this long.  That is the main reason I refuse to waste money on these games.  So many seem to disappear in a year or two, so you are really throwing your money away.