Power creep at 100% now

"CaptainRex;822667" wrote:
The Gear Grind will kill this game before the power creep.

Both will. I've quit spending as a result. Why keep chasing the imaginary ring?

Tank raid wants you to have 20+ gear 9 or 10 characters, but the challenges award junk gear in droves, and the missions have a poor drop rate for pieces of the epic items for which you need 50 to assemble one unit. Then units need mutiples of these (looking at you needles and cuffs).

But then you go through the effort to find they've released the new (borderline?) overpowered hotness. Unless youre spending you'll barely get a toon servicable (especially for arena) before its out of Meta. Plus throwing these new OP characters in one off tournaments (which some have hacked) meaning a well developed roster will still wind up not collecting the character.

What I would like to see is the old tier 10 gear drop at 100% rate. Make gear 11 the grind now since all characters can get there. And tournaments pay out based on total points earned, not placement. IE get the 7 star toon if you earn 7000 points (or whatever). It will never happen though.

They have to find a balance not just between characters but for players to make meaningful progression at a decent rate, but not so fast that the whales suddenly have nothing to do.

The issue is not power creep - it's that Cherry Baze are a "power leap" when paired together. Anyone who has played a LCG understands power creep - and the need for it. But if it moves too fast, without keeping earlier characters at least partially relevant, EA runs the risk of alienating the "early game" whales, whose investments disappear in weeks instead of months.

"Loose_Lee;823512" wrote:
EA has made mistakes, big ones in this game and has done admirably in correcting them. Our feedback is key.

So be logical, be straightforward and throw in some humor to make em laugh.

Mod rollout was disastrous ( i wish i still had all my +96% protection mods now!)

But they did a bang-up job reeling things back in.

The game will not break, and the issues will be addressed, not today or tomorrow but eventually

Eventually may not be soon enough. It took over a year to fix Boba Fett. Almost half the playerbase quit before they fixed mods, but my biggest concern is how out of touch the developers seem. An interview with John Salera last month showed him claiming there was no gear problem!

"CaptainRex;822667" wrote:
The Gear Grind will kill this game before the power creep.

+1

"CaptainRex;823706" wrote:

"Loose_Lee;823512" wrote:
EA has made mistakes, big ones in this game and has done admirably in correcting them. Our feedback is key.

So be logical, be straightforward and throw in some humor to make em laugh.

Mod rollout was disastrous ( i wish i still had all my +96% protection mods now!)

But they did a bang-up job reeling things back in.

The game will not break, and the issues will be addressed, not today or tomorrow but eventually

Eventually may not be soon enough. It took over a year to fix Boba Fett. Almost half the playerbase quit before they fixed mods, but my biggest concern is how out of touch the developers seem. An interview with John Salera last month showed him claiming there was no gear problem!

It took a cpl days for them to nerf mods, I doubt half the base left in that time.

I am amazed that EA/CG can release such a ridiculous OP duo as Chaze. Winning 2v5 against arena meta squads. Did they do any actual beta-test at all??? Or was it just a greedy decision?

When was the last time they even nerfed anything? I don't have that much hope. Problems like gear have been there for way too long not to be addressed. They need to take a serious look, because between tournaments, AAT, K2SO, gearing depth, shipa, and finally Chaze, the last months have destroyed balanced, and pissed off most of the community. At least AAT was fixed, but more needs to change

"WrathofCaedus;823748" wrote:

"CaptainRex;823706" wrote:

"Loose_Lee;823512" wrote:
EA has made mistakes, big ones in this game and has done admirably in correcting them. Our feedback is key.

So be logical, be straightforward and throw in some humor to make em laugh.

Mod rollout was disastrous ( i wish i still had all my +96% protection mods now!)

But they did a bang-up job reeling things back in.

The game will not break, and the issues will be addressed, not today or tomorrow but eventually

Eventually may not be soon enough. It took over a year to fix Boba Fett. Almost half the playerbase quit before they fixed mods, but my biggest concern is how out of touch the developers seem. An interview with John Salera last month showed him claiming there was no gear problem!

It took a cpl days for them to nerf mods, I doubt half the base left in that time.

Maybe not half, but a LOT! My guild remained 100% unchanged since their inception, yet when mods were introduced, 7 people quit playing, 5 of whom were big whales. If you look at their revenue, https://thinkgaming.com/app-sales-data/68737/star-warstm-galaxy-of-heroes/from/2016-06-01/until/2016-07-31/ , you can see it plummets after the introduction of mods. Team Instinct had to issue a statement saying they would no longer spend money until mods were reduced.
I give EA credit for changing mods, but they were, and still are, motivated by money. I've enjoyed many of their updates, but I've still noticed a trend where nothing changes unless they lose revenue.

If we had live arena or tournaments the issue of balance would be even more obvious but apparently it's not a priority anymore.

Ships are not going to help either, it's another layout of balance to look for.

Fortunately beside the huge credit crunch, ships are actually okay for now.

The real problem is whales, lol. They spend more. Pretty simple, really. Let em be big winners. They earned it by spending wisely their hard earned cash. I am sure 99% of whales actually worked for all they have. Of course they would have had to, to value their money so wisely. One day they will finally win stgoh. That will be in the final update where u link your PayPal account to the game and u need to farm mods which to increase your maximum per minute donation.