Poll on New Updates
Hi everyone! I’ve been a Galaxy of Heroes player for almost two years now, playing consistently every day. I’m a grind account—typically not caring how long it takes me to grow, generally being very...
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Horrible update based on the following:
“Throughout this process, or journey we should say, we prioritized what makes Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes compelling for many types of players while simultaneously smoothing out portions of our game that we felt would have the most impact on a player’s day to day experience. Our main focus was to make sure we kept all our groups of players top of mind with every decision we made. One group in particular we wanted to focus on with these changes was our Free to Play players and how they will interact with the new Episode and Quests systems. This approach guided us to create experiences and opportunities that allow many types of players to be able to enjoy the latest Star Wars experiences.”
If there focus was to destroy ftp, then they were spot on. Rewards are now double gated behind the pass and being forced to whale on every single marquee, which seem to be coming fast and furious. As a ftp, it is hard enough to keep up with the constant insanity of dropping major toons, without having the prerequisite toons even farmable. Baylan is a prime example. Two toons not farmable at release. I seriously doubt I will be able to get him on his second time around and I only need to farm two more toons, but need to get three to R7. On top of that, they have put another GL just around the corner, that requires a million marquee toons.
For GC's, I could almost always get top box. Now I can't even get half the rewards because I won't waste money on this game. Any savings in simming other parts of the game are going to be lost in all these little quests we have to do (ie. win with Huyang and Kannan, use abilithy x 10 times, etc.) since we have to run those manually and have to hunt through nodes to find certain things (like win against HK w Huyang). It makes the game even more tedious. Coupled with the absolute disaster they created in ship arena, they aren't helping us much. The game is feeling much more like a job. There are too many events, candance is too quick. They really need to slow things down. You end up with three events at once (conquest, GAC, and TB) too many times.
GAC - three out of four weeks, only one week off
TB/TW - constantly running between the two. One always flows into the next
Conquest - two weeks on/ two weeks off. Can be incredible grindy. Also too many in a row with toons and no ships. Now that omi's are impacted by the changes, it is exceptionally hard to keep up with release of 3 omi characters. I have been exclusively putting omi's on conquest toons recently and I'm still probably 11 omi's behind, not counting the new Rey. Then there are the journey type toons that I can't get omi's on either.
At this point, even if I had six months where the game just ran without adding a single new thing, I seriously doubt I could get caught up. I'm a first day player with 12M GP and I feel like I can't keep my head above water with all the whales out there. I keep getting squished in GAC every single time I gain an inch. It feels like you could go 9-0 and only go up a few points, but once you lose that first match, you drop a thousand.
Overall, the game experience is becoming more and more miserable with almost every change being negative, especially for ftp.
Excellent point—the expansion of content without proportionally expanding the paths available to obtain resources will stagnate player growth and keep free-to-play players from ever being able to catch up, let alone compete.
