Pure Speculation

"Aero;943946" wrote:
I wouldn't get your hopes up. The end goal is to get you to spend money, not get you to max everything. The current list of limiting factors are: training droids, credits, shards, ability mats, mods, and gear.


One of these needs to be the money grab. If too many are money grabs then it drives people away. It is set up pretty good now. Training droids are easy never think about it, credits are readily available but still have to manage it, shards (besides new characters) are obtainable at a good rate of progression, ability mats can't be purchased for the most part and make the game feel more fair, mods are the total RNG factor for gamblers, and gear is your money grab.

Hope for the best, expect the worst. I agree.

But much like the meta shift, they could be working out different ways to bring in income, if they increase our toon count at the current rate for the next year, they will choke off more points of income as it seems more and more impossible for even paying players to keep up.

The way I look at it, kraken s pay while they are interested l, cost is not an object.

Whales do have a budget and manage it with what is interesting, don't always need to buy new toons, but will when it suits them.

P2p, larger number that will spend, but can be squeezed out if they keep increasing cost.

If they raise the cost ("if" haha) of a 7* toon. They can loosen the choke on gear, it brings more P2P in and they will probably spend the same amount, because they only allowed us to keep the same rate of gearing, but increased the number of toons. This allows them to shift the same income stream to different areas it's better for business.

This shift can be seen by the "low" cost to get one more star on a new toon...

Again all speculation, but hoping this is some change working through....Probably wrong.