Pirate Era Battle

Nope.   They screwed us over again.   CG has no idea how they said their own new Era system would work.   They announced that the new Era battle for Pirates doesn't start until the next cycle in August.   Complete and utter BS from a group of Devs that can't do anything right at the moment. 

Had I known they were going to go back on their schedule I would have passes on the $20 era battle pass. It loses its value without the Era Battle.  The cadence was the only reason I was buying into it.  Now that is gone, looks like I go back to saving my money.  CG cannot help but shoot themselves in the foot lately, with all the bugs, going back on the cadence they published, and they haven't even fixed the GL Ahsoka bug yet and they are releasing a new GL.  Maybe take a breather from trying to screw people out of their money with the push of all these new toons, and maybe FIX YOUR GAME!!!!!!!  before you don't have anyone playing or paying for it anymore. 

No it doesn't, the track rewards make it worth $20. The two full kyrotech pieces alone are worth £40 based on crystal cost.

I'd be more concerned that you are paying for something that you clearly have no idea of its value than any mistakes the devs might have made.

Pretty confident it had to do with the pirate lead being trash. 

IIRC they included the standard CYA "subject to change" language somewhere in the era schedule post. Which sucks because for one era they basically stuck to the announced schedule, then they changed the schedule but didn't give us an updated schedule in a blog post. Just corporate things. 

Dark Side Clones EB solved that problem by giving us a leader and JV had no leader at all until the tiers that require Jedi Master Mace Windu. 

Agreed, not getting a dollar for QQ and Kix because I spent for Ithano base on the published cadence calendar. Screw em. 

Value is different for everyone. I don't buy gear with real money.   I did not care about the extra gear, though nice, I wanted the shards and the era battles to get toons up quicker.  I was FTP until LSBs, and was buying the Era specifically for the shards and battle cadence. 

So for you, I would be more concerned that you think you know everything and clearly need to learn there are different perspectives other than your own.  Happy YOU find value. For me it lost value.