"Random9;c-1598133" wrote:
"SoonerJBD;c-1598088" wrote:
"Stud3099;c-1597992" wrote:
"SoonerJBD;c-1597983" wrote:
They will not make a change like this. Krakens will stop paying $300 for every marquee toon, and whales will stop occasionally paying that much for a marquee toon with a good kit if they can farm them quickly a few weeks later. They don’t want you to be able to easily farm these new characters. They want you to buy them. They will try to get you to buy them via the incredibly overpriced and deceptively marketed 3-330 shard packs. Then they will try to get you to buy the via slightly less overpriced Chromium packs, then via moderately overpriced crystal purchases via shipments, then via refreshes.
They are apparently committed to this business model, so do not expect any changes.
My proposal was up to 6 months after the initial release before a hard-node toon becomes farmable from 3 hard nodes or farmable within a store. The whales and Krakens have long moved on to the next shiny thing by that point.
Still not going to happen. The knowledge that the only way to get new toons in a reasonable amount of time is to buy them drives sales. They don’t want anyone thinking, “Well, I can just wait a few more months and farm them.”
I’m not saying your suggestion is unreasonable. I’m just saying there is no way they will do it.
@SoonerJBD I don’t think you know what you’re talking about. They put several toons into the Cantina table on low energy nodes. KRU for example is super easy to farm and his ship is included. Clearly they are willing to put marquees in accessible places. Whales will still spend a lot of resources on the new toons to have them a few months early at 7 stars gear 12
They tend to put the more desirable characters on the higher energy nodes and definitely not on multiple nodes as suggested. KRU’s node was a bit of an abberation. It was definitely one of the better nodes they made available over the last six months. Keep in mind he also isn’t part of the meta and wasn’t required for an upcoming heroic character. The vets were put on higher energy nodes that made them much tougher to farm.
