Poll on New Updates

This update is that bad it couldn't be any worse. :) I don't like anything about it. They went with game being pay 2 win, to being more f2p friendly and going back to p2w (or at least pay to play otherwise you are gonna drop hard).

No more $ from me for CG. Now you need to be extremely lucky with feats (incoming Tuskens and Jawas, good luck with that lol) but hey, even if you do, players that bought pass will still get more and gap becomes even bigger than before. :)

I wanted to buy some incoming LSB's but right now I'm considering uninstalling the game and just forgetting about it.

This is also my first time to voice my opinion on any forum, but these changes made me so mad that i can't how i can ever make any progress without spending money on the game. I dont mind spending if when i feel like i want, but now it feel like im force to do it if i want to make any progression.

I've been playing nonstop for 4 years, but i cant see myself in this any longer.  

I’m pissed about this.

I was intrigued at the beginning by the load of new quests and trackers; watching bars fill and numbers go up is how you sell games. Good show.

Then I realized how many of those bars were locked behind requiring the brand-new character. Then I looked at GC, and realized that where before they maybe locked up a quarter of the feats behind the new hotness, now they’ve moved to HALF the feats, and didn’t even bother concealing the ‘give us money’. It’s frankly insulting.

I’ve been playing SWGOH for eight years; started back near the beginning. Five GLs, almost all the conquest characters, heaps of investment. I’ve never been a whale, but I’ve put PLENTY of cash into this game. And… I think I may FINALLY be finished with it, and its increasing reliance on extorting more money, more and more regularly. 

I’ll sit with that decision for a bit, but I am not here to play a subscription, where I have to dump 20-60$ per month into a mobile game just to enjoy my time with it and not have it rubbed in my face. Screw that.

Not  a fan of the update. Changes to the GC are rubbish.  I am not F2P by an stretch, but I do like to have a choice on what parts of the game I spend money.  With the updates and the way the episode pass has been implemented, it has the feel that GC  wants to direct me where I spend my money. I do not want to buy newly released toons as there are a gazillion other toons I need to build up first.  Locking previously free rewards behind having to purchase newly released toons shards does not sit right with me. I usually purchase the Conquest pass as it accelerates the ability to get conquest toons which are usually really good for GAC. I also purchase LSB's to get caught up on toons I would never get otherwise and finally I will spend on crystal packs from time to time. I feel those costs are manageable as they help with rounding my roster out for GAC. 

Purchasing new toons does nothing for my roster other than takes away from other priorities.

I guess I will just have to miss out on GC rewards and will look to not spend anymore on this game at all. 

Not a fan.

1. Do you think this update is good overall, bad overall, or a blend? 

it’s a blend at the moment because cg made poor design decisions that the player base is rightly confused by, but it’s good for light spenders while bleh for krakens and meh for ftp once it becomes apparent they aren’t losing anything   

For you, what aspects are good and what aspects are bad?

good- the pass replaces conquest 10 dollar pass as best bang for your buck.  yes, it is so much better that i will increase from 10 to 20 dollars per month by buying this while dropping my conquest pass purchase 

bad- poorly rolled out.  cg should have kept the 4 completable feats by non pass buyers while adding in the shard and pass feats.   this would have lessened the feeling of “you’re taking things away from me.”

  don’t update to the user, but still keep track of quests that aren’t unlocked because of shards. the constant updates are annoying to the player once they realize they’re not getting rewards   

front load the omnis and ec on free track- players who aren’t going to buy the pass will adjust but throw them the bone going forward of less overall game time by letting them realize they can skip gcs now and still get their 16 omnis  

Are you considering leaving this game due to this update? no

Why or why not? 

it’s really not a bad update and with a few minor tweaks even ftp might say  that.  once players adjust to how the rewards are delivered i think people view this similarly to raid reward changes, bad dopamine rewards but same to significantly better rewards depending on track   

This is a good update.

Feat Tracking is being beta tested right now by us. Episode Quest tracking can easily be updated and improved for Conquest Feat tracking.

You have direct control over what rewards you get for Episode Currency. These rewards span every bottleneck in the game. No more piles of useless crap. I want X, I get X guaranteed.

The game now has an established cadence with promised content delivery. No more radio silence. No more guessing. You get X content over Y span from Z era.

Episode Pass is not required. It just adds value, as dollars should. It provides fun quests and weird challenges to your daily grind. I haven't used Kanan in awhile, so it was nice to have an incentive to bring him out.

Was a weird choice to start off with such an obnoxious GC, but still a good step for the game in the long term.

I understand that it takes funding to run a game like this. I've thrown in $30-40 a year, which is the value of the game to me. 

Forcing players to fork over $20 a month to stay on pace is absolutely ridiculous. I did a cost comparison to other f2p games. World of Warcraft, for instance, has at most a $15 per month subscription, with $12-13 being sufficient. For a game at that level, I understand paying that much, but $20 a month, or more, is way over the top.

I'm only staying on for my guild and in hopes that EA will recognize the error of their ways. This level of price gouging is nuts.

1. Do you think this update is good overall, bad overall, or a blend? The downside ruins any upside. Game now just looks like daily paywall and every mode is a paywall. Every screen you goto has a pass now. for me $240 a year just to get basic material rewards is not going to happen. Whats next a pass to play glactic arena.
2. For you, what aspects are good and what aspects are bad? Paywall in your face everywhere, If you miss one quest on one day as a FTP you fail. 50% of basic challange is now inside a $300+ paywall everey month (eg need new 5-7 star character)
3. Are you considering leaving this game due to this update? For the first time in five years did not want to do it.
4. Why or why not? Game has moved from paying for new content to pay to play.
5. Any additional thoughts or comparisons with previous updates?  This is clearly a money grab, I hope CG fails so badly that the whole board get sacked.

this update its kinnda good and bad. im almost f2p, i bought some of the LSB. its looks good the UI. But for the love of god dont show me feats that cannot be done without paying. lock them with the pass. they can show like a tab or a botom that say something like " Pass+ - Extra 1.000.000 points", and a f** red dot with the ammount of achievement done so far.
the other thing is the GC. you al ready have the game mode running "free to play" you cannot turn it to a p2w mode bc nobody will like it. i understand that if the math are right f2p achieve the same goals as before, even withou those two feats. Change the rewards kill the game mode. as you create a pass you have to create the game mode for the pass not take it away from others. SUMMARY: its a good update with a bad implementation as always. looks good, feels bad. At the end of the month we will see if the rewards actually are the same.

its to early to say i'll stop playing, but my guild(90% f2p) is on fire right now. and it's not fun to play this way.

CG needs a live stream at least once a month to explain the updates they are launching.  

Everything about this new update and UI is designed to push FOMO; buy this pass, buy the conquest pass, buy more shards of this character every two weeks or you won't be able to take part. It's an unsavory experience however the math stacks up and it's not subtle, it's actively tracking and giving you notifications of feats you're completing but won't get rewards for unless...you spend. Really gambling industry, predatory stuff going on here.