"Dweezy;c-1381377" wrote:
You also cant compare this event to CLS (which I obtained entirely f2p with time to spare)
1. All CLS requirements were farmable for a LONG time before the event. Even if you say R2 wasnt, Empire for him definitely was. Rey's were not.
2. R2 vs BB8 requirements: You had options with R2 for grinding characters, with BB8 you only have the 5 FO farmable characters. This is admittedly less of an issue since we have had a chance to grind those FO characters but the point is still valid
3. The cantina nodes for CLS requirements (Old Ben, Farmboy Luke) were out extremely early in the game and 8 Energy nodes, VS are 16 AND had only 2 weeks to farm.
To go beyond this.
1. The CLS requirements are not just-about-impossible to farm, the way the smugglers are. They aren't all the way at the top of the highest Cantina nodes, they aren't 16 energy nodes, and the drop rate is not so absolutely horrendous for shards as the VS seem to be.
Even if you work on farming VS for next time Rey comes up, they take up so much of your resources that you can't really do anything else while you are farming them. That does not make the game more fun. It makes the game less fun.
2. R2 required Empire, which many people had worked on because Empire is a core part of Star Wars and they are fun characters. (The fact that Empire continues to be marginalized despite being central to Star Wars lore is another thread altogether) The FO faction has never been worthwhile to farm, and then BB8 shows up - requiring FO to be completely filled out with basically zero notice - characters which suffer from from the same inaccessability and drop rate issues as the VS, if perhaps to just a bit lesser degree.
Everyone is struggling with the terrible drop rates for these Rey requirements. When people are doing what they are supposed to do but the game is set to impede their progress through no fault of their own like one of those claw machines, it's going to make players angry.
3. Of course, only making VS farmable at the last moment was by design. They engineered the whole thing to make Rey p2p.
I don't have a specific problem with Rey being a pay-only character, just be honest. Don't mislead people into rushing through FO and Resistance farms (and crystal and pack spending) for months and then pull the rug out from under them.
