Please increase gear drop rates

"UnstopableSteve;c-1621327" wrote:
I agree its very little in this game it gets you nothing. There really should be pricing laws and I'm sure in the next few years there will be.

Developers are taking extreme advantage of people regardless of their wealth.

Fixed price points in the gaming industry have forced their hand on alternate monetization methods. During the Super Nintendo era, the price of a full cost AAA title was 50-60 US dollars. Today, the price of a full cost AAA title is about 60 US dollars despite development costs growing tremendously, and the value of a dollar being a little over half what it was 28 years ago, but any price hike and the market refuses to buy.

Variable and voluntary price structures are what let companies stay afloat while bringing the quality of games the market demands.

"UnstopableSteve;c-1621340" wrote:

"YaeVizsla;c-1621336" wrote:

"UnstopableSteve;c-1621327" wrote:
I agree its very little in this game it gets you nothing. There really should be pricing laws and I'm sure in the next few years there will be.

Developers are taking extreme advantage of people regardless of their wealth.

Fixed price points in the gaming industry have forced their hand on alternate monetization methods. During the Super Nintendo era, the price of a full cost AAA title was 50-60 US dollars. Today, the price of a full cost AAA title is about 60 US dollars despite development costs growing tremendously, and the value of a dollar being a little over half what it was 28 years ago, but any price hike and the market refuses to buy.

Variable and voluntary price structures are what let companies stay afloat while bringing the quality of games the market demands.

This brings a valid point. People will refuse to pay price increases yet spend thousands on low quality games like this.

That is because developers exploit peoples addictive tendencies and also people forget the value of money when it is not physically in their hand. I bet if you put a few thousand in a whales hand then said give it away for a few crystals they would refuse.

This statement is made a lot, and it's really a little but of a misunderstanding. We all have different levels of disposable income and our own values of what is worth it for our personal enjoyment.

How much someone will spend "at the drop of a hat", is sometimes hard for others to understand and lead to assumptions about other people, that doesnt make it true.

No, no one is kidding you. 7 months is a drop in the bucket. The game has a long cycle, and you are in the first 1/4 of it.

"Kyno;c-1620990" wrote:
No, no one is kidding you. 7 months is a drop in the bucket. The game has a long cycle, and you are in the first 1/4 of it.

How long do the developers realistically expect you to play before you get bored though. The game is obviously supposed to be a grind but its getting worse all the time.
Lack of gear, character overload, endless marques its just getting frustrating there is no fun just addiction.

"UnstopableSteve;c-1621000" wrote:

"Kyno;c-1620990" wrote:
No, no one is kidding you. 7 months is a drop in the bucket. The game has a long cycle, and you are in the first 1/4 of it.

How long do the developers realistically expect you to play before you get bored though. The game is obviously supposed to be a grind but its getting worse all the time.
Lack of gear, character overload, endless marques its just getting frustrating there is no fun just addiction.

Sounds like the game might not be for you.

Planning and focus are the key to good development.

Fighting the "I need them all now" is the key to staying calm and staying on target.

Many of us have been here for over 2 years.... so that's a good starting point, and we know they have a road map out another 3 years....

I have played a few games like this and understand completely how it works but this one is just to slow even you admit to it partially.

You say planning and focus is key yet they bring out new characters all the time that make all your planning and investment pointless.

I actually thought about making embo 7* as im building for sith. But why bother I cant gear him and epecially not a full bh team.

Yes it's a marathon pace, nothing happens fast.

If your plan is to have the new toon for some reason you can make it happen. But if you are running a plan that doesn't, dont get distracted by the new and shiny. That's the point if the plan.

"Kyno;c-1621045" wrote:
Yes it's a marathon pace, nothing happens fast.

If your plan is to have the new toon for some reason you can make it happen. But if you are running a plan that doesn't, dont get distracted by the new and shiny. That's the point if the plan.

This is funny because characters that are new and shiny to me are now 4 generations old. They are constantly getting replaced before you can properly get 7* and gear them.

No new characters will frustrate people so the logical way to make people happy is to increase resources.

You planning argument doesnt change the fact that people are getting increasingly frustrated from f2p, small spenders like me even to whales who are admitting to frustration.

"UnstopableSteve;c-1621057" wrote:

"Kyno;c-1621045" wrote:
Yes it's a marathon pace, nothing happens fast.

If your plan is to have the new toon for some reason you can make it happen. But if you are running a plan that doesn't, dont get distracted by the new and shiny. That's the point if the plan.

This is funny because characters that are new and shiny to me are now 4 generations old. They are constantly getting replaced before you can properly get 7* and gear them.

No new characters will frustrate people so the logical way to make people happy is to increase resources.

You planning argument doesnt change the fact that people are getting increasingly frustrated from f2p, small spenders like me even to whales who are admitting to frustration.

They have been increasing the resource availability, it is way better when you started than it had been for the previous almost 2 years.

The design has always been to frustrate to some extent.

Increasing resources doesnt make people happy. It actually leads to people leaving due to hitting other bottle necks sooner, this was explained by the devs when they changed the early game rewards. The design is to always have goals for someone to be working to.

New toon or not, everyone playing is pitted against people in the same situation and only when comparing to people who have been more invested in the game (time or $$) will they feel like they need more.

It's all paced and I'm sure they look at all the data, they increase the availability of gear slowly and exactingly

I do see the point that old players that have everything need something to work on. But newer players like me are being overwelmed brand new players dont even know where to begin.

Its too daunting the sheer amount of characters and squads with the rate of unlock.
Like i said 3 characters gear 12 with 7 months and £180 investment. How many characters in total? And growing. You got to admit that is beyond reasonable.