Raid Economy+Skill Squish=Crummy

"Zakracoon;c-2421680" wrote:
Totally agree mate, CG basically made the game better with the gear qol update months ago an instead of tweaking it down a slight notch they've taken away all of it, an made the old currency valueless. Unless they bring back normal guild currency, get1/2 mod slicing mats etc back into raid economy they're are going to see a huge drop in numbers which will end the game, and end it fast. 2 top ten players in fleet shard told us they were going back to casual play an not spending a cent or rouble until this all is returned. Forcing people to p2p is not how this game started but it looks like its how it will end it!

Hard disagree - this game has never been more F2P friendly. You can earn a tidy crystal income in GAC as F2P where-as when crystals were in squad arena, if you weren't whaling (or had established a sizable hoard of gear and crystals) on every new meta team you were being left in the dust with little hope of catching up. In the early years of this game my strategy was to go after every other new meta - which gave me time to hoard in between but my crystal income was on a yo-yo string. That was awful.

Relegation after a win or a streak of wins feels bad. That simply shouldn't happen. I don't have a solution for that but I agree that it's not a good player experience. I wish they would fix that somehow.