Thanks, CG
You've made this game basically unplayable.
I speak as a nearly 8 year player, having built a pretty decent guild from the ground up, and have gladly engaged with pretty much every step of the game. We skipped LS Geo TB, because that was whale food and never worth the time.
I've been excited about a lot of changes people had been harsh on, especially datacrons. Sure, some are ridiculous and make certain counters unwinnable, but they're seasonal and go away eventually.
Relic Delta had eliminated skill from the conversation, now the bigger number always wins regardless of strategy. It's demoralizing to the extent that I barely WANT to try. GAC is unwinnable in Kyber without whaling for full R9 squads, because that's all you seem to want to match me against now. "Skill level matchmaking" was a nice pipe dream, but I guess you've thrown out the pretense on that now, too.
Coliseum was an even more impressive failure - you took something as potentially cool as a daily raid system and made it atrociously abhorrent to play, with pitiful returns on investment. I usually pick up the cheaper Episode Pass because it was one of the better values for money, but now that I've got the second unit I can comfortably say I'll never pick it up again because it's malarkey. Minimal progress, not even enough for another level up, and I really don't see how engaging with this is going to increase enjoyment at all. It took 3 months for units to be farmable anyways, I'll just do the bare minimum and welcome the grind afterwards.
Sadly I've got nearly 50 people relying on me to pilot a guild through this dumpster fire of an update, and the best I have to offer them is my own experience of "it sucks, just grit your teeth and hope it gets better. Maybe the devs will actually listen to the 100% of player feedback about how bad this is for a change".
This game means a lot to me. I run my guild in paced of a seat friends who passed in 2020 who never asked to be in charge, but did his best anyway. I built a guild up from 3 newbie accounts to a pretty decent mid-game guild tackling the newest raids and pulling 18/19 stars in ROTE. It hurts to see it being destroyed by money grubbing antics of uncreative devs whose only ideas for improvement is to make whaling for bigger numbers the only path to power and success. No more strategy, no more cool counters, no more fun. This game is supposed to be moxing and matching your favorite characters' digital action figures from across the eras to create fun and interesting battles, and now it's just a black hole for suckong money out of people.
This, coming from "the most profitable Star Wars game of all time".
You let EA in too deep, and the 10th Anniversary is the headstone on the death of this game.
I hope you're proud of yourselves, because I'm honestly ashamed of having given you any money at all.