Release Cadence

"greycloak;c-1320981" wrote:

"Kyno;c-1320967" wrote:

"greycloak;c-1320896" wrote:
The spirit of the cadence (I thought) was
1 - $ to farm --> Crystals to Farm --> 2 -
hard to farm (ex. shard shop, takes lots of time, lots of free resources) --> 3 - easy to farm (in both time/resources)

That sounded pretty good and fed lots of business AND fan concerns.
It has not been realized (ex. Baze, DN never got to that last step). When tons of panic farming, premium toons (great if you have all the stuff to get the 7star on out of the bag, crushing when you don't), and (arguably) less popular/useful factions are being pushed, it is hard to find a satisfying answer to "Is there a way to keep up with the meta, TB, GW, all the toon releases while still feeding the fan in me who wants to farm my favorites?"

Answering that in the affirmative is not so hard when it takes a month to farm your "favorite" toon to 7 star (after waiting for them to get to the "easy to farm" stage), but really is rather difficult when your "favorite" gets stuck on a single hard node (or event that comes back 1.5 times per month, for example).

greycloak

Unfortunately "the last step" as you put it was never stated as a goal or anything like that in the release cadence. The last step was always stated as a node or shipment and that's it. This is also the step that is being handled differently with the new toons.

https://forums.galaxy-of-heroes.starwars.ea.com/discussion/91791/character-release-cadence

The idea of the release cadence was to get them from "initial release" -->> "farmable", because there was a void in between those steps previously.

The release cadence was all about getting toons to farmable and that's it. How easy/hard/long the farm is from that point is another discussion that can be had but has nothing to do with the release cadence.

Your steps are a little mixed up.
1- event and packs (packs are both $ and crystals )
2 - chromium and shipments (crystals only)
3 - farmable ( free = time and resources)

Kyno

You are convoluting the spirit/idea of something with implementation. For instance, as noted, with several new toons, things are being handled differently than the explicit implementation from the cadence post you referred to (and that has been mentioned by me and perhaps others in this thread...so we are well aware of it). As that implementation is different, one must either cry foul (i.e. "YOU DIDN'T DO EXACTLY WHAT YOU SAID") or ask, "Is this in the spirit/idea of what was claimed." Of course, the latter is subject to multiple interpretations.

"The release cadence was all about getting toons to farmable and that's it." According to the reference link, the intention of the release cadence was about:
* Give new character releases the pomp and circumstance they deserve.
* Release new characters more regularly to keep the game fresh.
* Get the characters into your hands!
* Additionally, for those of you that are able to complete the events and are so inclined to purchase packs, the events will enable you to progress part of the way to their 7 star version for free.

Let me highlight "Get the characters into your hands"! Let's not get hung up on "They're implementing exactly as they said they would." when the statement was "The spirit/idea is not being lived up to." Luckily, I assume "We’re going to be monitoring your feedback and the data as it comes in on these events and make the appropriate tunings to bring you the best experience we can." is still happening (which is why we all take the time to write this stuff).

I would just like to point out the release cadence is only for marquee event toons, so there are only 2 toons following a modified version of the last step in the cadence. (MT and Wicket)

My point is that we have a timeline for them to be farmable (the spirit of the release cadence ). So they will be in your hands, just not the exact way stated in the cadence. I understand this may not be what people want or are looking for but the implementation again follows through with the idea of where this cadence came from. To get released toons farmable.

Your feedback is always appreciated and I'm sure will go to the right eyes and ears, but my point is that they are not changing things that much and therefore may not consider that any major changes need to be made, because the "spirit of the cadence " is being honored. I just hope people can understand that changes don't always occur, not because they don't listen, but because they are not always necessary.

Edit to add:

Both spirit and zombie are in (from how its worded) immediate recurring events, so they are going from release to farm with no void. So they are also "in the hands of the players" without needing to go through the cadence. This IMO would also be following the spirit of the cadence, even though they are not marquee and we're not subject to the same system.