Please consider adjusting the release cadence

I really don't get all the hate the OP is receiving, as a p2p player of course I want exclusivity for characters that I buy but not every new character has to be p2p. I remember the times when they added every toon from TFA into the game in f2p spots and let us all farm them for free, they also randomly threw in Chirpa into a cantina node one day, and also when they added the new Jawas with the mods release. It was nice to have these free options to expand my roster and I feel like that's all the OP is asking for, not asking for for the top p2p toons for free.

Agreed, as nice as it is to have a time table, it's far too long to wait. And I'm not ftp. They need to start releasing at least a cpl new toons as ftp. People will eventually get bored with a 6 month wait on every new toon to be released.

Another one of these threads? O please!

Everyone received 3 new sith toons, and they're all usable at 3*. So why say f2p get nothing? What kind of mind warp is that?

Also, as for p2p and f2p, fine I'll concede f2p are necessary if it makes you happy, but 1 paying customer us worth thousands if not tens of thousands of f2p players.

"greycloak;95263" wrote:
The current release cadence does very little for ftp players who have been around since Dec 2015 (or anyone who has been level 85 for a while). We want new toons that can be used in the endgame material. Currently that means HAAT. Unfortunately, none of the recently released toons are meant to get to 7* unless a great deal of $ is spent...

Please, either give endgame material where sub 7* toons can be used or make sure that some new toons can be brought to 7* (ex. sith assassin gets added to GWStore...).

Continuing to release batches of toons that cannot be used in endgame material by players who have spent a great deal of time in the game to reach said material does wrong by those players.

Let's be honest the way they now release characters basically means F2P is perpetually fucked.
Unless we somehow craft some unique teams that stay competitive.
This is why I am F2P in the first place...Much harder of a challenge...

Im not F2P, but im not a whale and cant afford these characters. i like this structure of releasing characters. I can wait 4-6months until i 7* them

"MBL_66;927027" wrote:
I really don't get all the hate the OP is receiving, as a p2p player of course I want exclusivity for characters that I buy but not every new character has to be p2p. I remember the times when they added every toon from TFA into the game in f2p spots and let us all farm them for free, they also randomly threw in Chirpa into a cantina node one day, and also when they added the new Jawas with the mods release. It was nice to have these free options to expand my roster and I feel like that's all the OP is asking for, not asking for for the top p2p toons for free.

This is a good point, but nothing was stated that this isn't going to happen. Not all the details have been worked out (or so they say).

There is also the yoda/palp style events they said would be mixed in which is for all players.

I think we have been seeing good "balance" on many fronts with new toons having counters. F2p will also get reworks. Once this system is in full swing we will be seeing toons being spread out while events are being launched, I think asking for it to be adjusted without seeing the full plan in operation is a bit premature.

Needed to add:

This system is not f2p vs p2p. Everyone will have these toons, p2p will have more use for them but that's about it. We have been seeing toons at 3-4* hold their own for a bit now and it's almost a non issue even in arena.

Exclusivity is required obviously, esp in arena, people pay to get ahead in arena - not so much for the other parts of the game. What CG could do differently is allow 1 every x new toons to be fully farmable in some shop or an EP style event, and also remove the star requirement from raids. Possibly make it a gear requirement. So many toons are usable at 3-4* these days, why shouldn't we use them in raids?

There are more than enough viable toons that are farmable right now

"Kabitoe10;926241" wrote:
They should just remove all the credits and misc stuff from the packs drop the price and get more people buying them.

Lets set this up with a base number of players.

Say 10,000 people play bit only 1% actually pay for a character at $400 each, but 20% of players would pay $100. What gets them more money.

I hope the devs really read this comment and all the similar ones on threads about pack pricing, since obviously a game development company like EA/CG doesn't actually have any employees who understand how economics work, marketing theory, behavioral psychology, etc.... I'm sure they have no idea how the numbers above work, and certainly don't have years of data across various games (including over a year of data in this game alone) off of which to base pricing schemes and release cadences.