On a “Sense of Pride and Accomplishment” and Gen Ani

"CookieCrispp;d-215927" wrote:
EA gave players an option, to trade their valuable time or money to achieve access to a powerful character. This makes sense, it both created an atmosphere of exclusivity (having him before the “masses” unlocked him) and gameplay. To parallel this, Gen Ani at the moment allows players who unlocked but could not 7* him exclusivity (until the event invariably rolls around again), but gated the usage until their ability to 7* him. This creates less value in the mind of the customer, compounded if they could visualize the literal mountain of gear equivalency that the GET could purchase. This reduces the amount of players willing to spend on him. And yes, we saw a massive uptick in spending, which I am sure is expected every single major event.

The result of this ‘experiment’ is that the *only* people who will ever undertake an Epic Confrontation are those who have saved their GET sufficiently to go to 7* straight away. That is going to be an ever decreasing number of people. The days of people panic farming/refreshing/spending to qualify for an event are gone because we now all know that any toon released at 5* is just not worth having for the spend. We will spend the 6 months following initial release FTP farming the requirements, taking advantage of the inevitable ‘touch ups’ to the required toons, saving the needed GET, and will be able to go straight to 7* at the same time as anyone who got the toon first time round but didn’t have GET anyway. Net result is that CG loses money, community laughs at uselessness of Epic toons that CG liken to Raid Bosses, and people quit the game because it’s all too much of a joke.