Spend spend spend
Remember the days where you could go to the store and purchase a game for $49.99 and play it until you beat it?
Now I don't mind spending money on a good game. The company and devs need to make money and they deserve it when they put a great game out there like SWGOH. However, this is getting out of control!
To take a toon like Shore from 4* to 7* requires 250 shards or 63 purchases of 4 Shards in the pack for a whopping 320 crystals each!! That's 20,000 crystals or $100+ just to level up a character and make them available in Raids or viable in Arena. That's not Gear, or Abilities, or Mods... just Stars from 4-7. What the!!!
Now your first response could be, just save the crystals daily and use them to farm shards. Now, the thing about that is, there already isn't enough to go around to farm toons, farm gear and mods. So, say I do budget 320 crystals a day (which is 2 refreshes for gear and 1 in cantina) to pick up 4 shards a day. That would take 60 days!!! 60 days for farming a toon!! We need 5 to fight anywhere but let's spend 10 months farming 5 toons from 4* to 7* that will eventually be obsolete at the end of those 10 months!! If anything, GG has shown us this! (Why go after him or anyone in the shard shop?!? Waste of effort!)
The next response could be about my experience or time playing. I have held 1st in arena, compete in Heroic Tank and have stopped farming toons in Arena and GW as I have them all. I've been around.
Then you could say, that they have always catered to the spenders and they are going to keep doing it until people stop paying. To this I respond, spenders will always be spenders. It's a completely ignorant approach to business to cater to a customer that is already doing what you want them to do. That's how you go out of business... only pay attention to one type of client.
That being said, my main point to the creators of the game is this, you are missing a huge opportunity!!
I'll give this thought, to make $1 million, you can either sell 1 person an item for $1 million or sell 1 million items for $1. If I need to explain this point any more to whoever is reading this from the company, then you need some serious help and you should replace your current strategist!!
Quick Question: How do you stop people from paying for a game? You start making it about the money instead of the game. The game will make money if it's good! You guys started that way and kept progressing. But, You have crossed over that line, into it's all about money. Once people get the whiff that it's going to take 2-3 months on one toon and they realize their goals for a game are now 1 year away... they will get bored, they will leave. I hope they do!! But, more so, I hope that you guys change before that happens.
So sad!
Now I don't mind spending money on a good game. The company and devs need to make money and they deserve it when they put a great game out there like SWGOH. However, this is getting out of control!
To take a toon like Shore from 4* to 7* requires 250 shards or 63 purchases of 4 Shards in the pack for a whopping 320 crystals each!! That's 20,000 crystals or $100+ just to level up a character and make them available in Raids or viable in Arena. That's not Gear, or Abilities, or Mods... just Stars from 4-7. What the!!!
Now your first response could be, just save the crystals daily and use them to farm shards. Now, the thing about that is, there already isn't enough to go around to farm toons, farm gear and mods. So, say I do budget 320 crystals a day (which is 2 refreshes for gear and 1 in cantina) to pick up 4 shards a day. That would take 60 days!!! 60 days for farming a toon!! We need 5 to fight anywhere but let's spend 10 months farming 5 toons from 4* to 7* that will eventually be obsolete at the end of those 10 months!! If anything, GG has shown us this! (Why go after him or anyone in the shard shop?!? Waste of effort!)
The next response could be about my experience or time playing. I have held 1st in arena, compete in Heroic Tank and have stopped farming toons in Arena and GW as I have them all. I've been around.
Then you could say, that they have always catered to the spenders and they are going to keep doing it until people stop paying. To this I respond, spenders will always be spenders. It's a completely ignorant approach to business to cater to a customer that is already doing what you want them to do. That's how you go out of business... only pay attention to one type of client.
That being said, my main point to the creators of the game is this, you are missing a huge opportunity!!
I'll give this thought, to make $1 million, you can either sell 1 person an item for $1 million or sell 1 million items for $1. If I need to explain this point any more to whoever is reading this from the company, then you need some serious help and you should replace your current strategist!!
Quick Question: How do you stop people from paying for a game? You start making it about the money instead of the game. The game will make money if it's good! You guys started that way and kept progressing. But, You have crossed over that line, into it's all about money. Once people get the whiff that it's going to take 2-3 months on one toon and they realize their goals for a game are now 1 year away... they will get bored, they will leave. I hope they do!! But, more so, I hope that you guys change before that happens.
So sad!
