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"Ravens1113;c-1995342" wrote:
That’s what you see when people want different farming locations aside from a store that the devs themselves said was supposed to be for farming gear?
Hmmm weird...I don’t see anywhere people demanding free maxed characters right away...hmmm
What I’m seeing is the community wanting a 7* unlock after grinding, leveling and gearing 15 different toons. I also see them asking for age old gear bottlenecks to be released with the introduction of new ones (kyro’s, relics, G12 finishers).
I could be wrong on that one though. Or you could update your prescription for your glasses cause you seem to be blind ?

They said the GET store is for gear. They said standard energy is for gear. They said fleet energy is for gear. And cantina energy is for signal data now. Guild currency is for gear.

...and all of those things are also for shards. You manage your resources. You make your choices. And you keep on keeping on.

They never said no more GET toons. But there isn't a distribution method other than direct by event that doesn't conflict with gear or relics pretty directly. "Shards or gear" is the most basic choice in the game.

People complain about hard node farms, GET store farms, now cantina farms too.

You say people aren't demanding being handed free maxed characters, but when they're complaining about every other way of distributing characters, every other change in the game? Yeah, that tends to be what folks do.