Before I say anything I wanna be real here and say that I have spend money on this game, and at this point theres probably more people who have than you havn't. But with the sith update its just gotten to much. I've been playing this game since just after release and its changed A LOT. Marquee characters need to STOP !! I get it you have to make money but bragging about how good this February was going to be and how you are going to go above and beyond, then realising 2 new characters in a marquee event only so you can make as much money as possible selling them in packs before realeasing them on 1 single hard node thats going to cost you 100 energy for MAYBE 2 shards is meh !!! ND came out last February and aince then you have only moved him to one single place, yes technically free to play but an absoutley ridiculous farm time. I would have though that with all the hype around this realease and with all the flak EA got for microtransactions you would have showed this community that you care about us and not just our money by giving us these characters f2p but NO. MONEY MONEY MONEY and then maybe down the line (4 or 5 months) throw them on a single hard node to keep everyones mouth shut. Its the same with every new character that comes out (outside of legendary events and raids).Chances are nobody important will read this message and it will just be lost, and everyone else will probably give me hate for moaning about it, but I think its time for a change. Give us DN, SION AND MARS in arena shipments or guild events or something !! Just having a tough time getting excited about this game at all anymore. Surely I'm not the only one who thinks like this.

At least you get the toon for free these days. The players from day 1 couldn't get a whole bunch of characters unless they bought chromiums. F2P can still hold their own in arena using Empire or JTR teams, and top F2P squads are at 3.2M GP. Resist the urge to pay unless it is absolutely essential to get the 7* character at day 1. By the time id bring a character to L85 G11 he would prob be released at a farmable location anyway.

So spending 100K on a mobile game is reaaonable... please

"John_Matrix1985;c-1479542" wrote:So spending 100K on a mobile game is reaaonable... pleasePlease tell me that wasn't a response to my post. I refuse to believe that someone got 112 from 2+2.It's not about being reasonable, it's not about being fair, and it's not about right or wrong.It is about one thing only - making money.

"AnnerDoon;c-1479531" wrote:I'm curious... Were new characters available for free before the marquee events were introduced? Because, I don't remember that. I remember new releases being locked behind aurodium and chromium pay walls. K2SO :D

It'll prob get taken down because you said something bad about "them" I leaned that the hard way. While I agree I hate how money is the main thing, its the only thing that keeps this game going, without money, no staff to make new content, no new content, by by players. This raid however, deffo feels p2w

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Lochaber1984
7 years ago
At least you get the toon for free these days. The players from day 1 couldn't get a whole bunch of characters unless they bought chromiums.

F2P can still hold their own in arena using Empire or JTR teams, and top F2P squads are at 3.2M GP. Resist the urge to pay unless it is absolutely essential to get the 7* character at day 1. By the time id bring a character to L85 G11 he would prob be released at a farmable location anyway.
Lochaber1984
7 years ago
So spending 100K on a mobile game is reaaonable... please
JaggedJ99
7 years ago
"John_Matrix1985;c-1479542" wrote:
So spending 100K on a mobile game is reaaonable... please

Please tell me that wasn't a response to my post. I refuse to believe that someone got 112 from 2+2.

It's not about being reasonable, it's not about being fair, and it's not about right or wrong.

It is about one thing only - making money.
guhrkensalat
7 years ago
"AnnerDoon;c-1479531" wrote:
I'm curious... Were new characters available for free before the marquee events were introduced? Because, I don't remember that. I remember new releases being locked behind aurodium and chromium pay walls.

K2SO :D
xGriiMErZz
Seasoned Novice
7 years ago
It'll prob get taken down because you said something bad about "them" I leaned that the hard way. While I agree I hate how money is the main thing, its the only thing that keeps this game going, without money, no staff to make new content, no new content, by by players. This raid however, deffo feels p2w
JaggedJ99
7 years ago
Nature of the beast.

They can't just release toons for free. No money = no game. On the other side of it, there is always going to be a point where a new toon gets released that can't be 7* without a lot of money and people look at the 9-12 month wait and say "yeah, had enough".

Fatigue happens. Some take a break and never come back, but the game has to make money.

It is what it is.
Human3001
7 years ago
Agree 102%
Player_7ctrhms9
7 years ago
"JaggedJ;c-1479510" wrote:
No money = no game.

It is what it is.

This.

Relax and enjoy. Or don't.
JaggedJ99
7 years ago
"Lukes_Tauntaun;c-1479514" wrote:
"JaggedJ;c-1479510" wrote:
Nature of the beast.

They can't just release toons for free. No money = no game. On the other side of it, there is always going to be a point where a new toon gets released that can't be 7* without a lot of money and people look at the 9-12 month wait and say "yeah, had enough".

Fatigue happens. Some take a break and never come back, but the game has to make money.

It is what it is.

Yes the game has to make money, but they've gone the route of relying on a relatively small number of whales and not giving much incentive to people wanting to spend moderate amounts of money. If the incentive and reward was there for people with $20/30 to spend every month or two then the game would be just as profitable if not more so. And no, $10/15 packs don't count for new toons who then can't be farmed for a couple of months unless you then want to spend a further $300 on packs that give you 5 crystals each time.

Mobile games rely on the same psychology and tactics that casinos employ. It would definitely not be more profitable geared towards those with $20-30 to spend each month.

If those $20-30 deals were any decent value then whales would also gobble them up and the average cost of the toon they pay for now would go down due to the extra value those low spender enticing packs are. The $20-30 a month market would not make up the difference.

All you have to do is look at the monthly crystal pack to see it in action. Let's not kid ourselves, they did the maths on this one before removing it.They would have known that they could afford x amount of those pack spenders to become f2p as long as x amount slightly increased their spending to the next level and whales increased their spending to compensate for no longer including the packs in their consumption.

If the bottom line wasn't positive from this move they would have brought the packs back or replaced them with something rather than just waiting it out for people to forget about it and move on.

TLDR - you can't create packs of reasonable value for a $20-30 spender without it being accessible to everyone, directly altering their bottom line.
kello_511
7 years ago
"Lukes_Tauntaun;c-1479514" wrote:
"JaggedJ;c-1479510" wrote:
Nature of the beast.

They can't just release toons for free. No money = no game. On the other side of it, there is always going to be a point where a new toon gets released that can't be 7* without a lot of money and people look at the 9-12 month wait and say "yeah, had enough".

Fatigue happens. Some take a break and never come back, but the game has to make money.

It is what it is.

If the incentive and reward was there for people with $20/30 to spend every month or two then the game would be just as profitable if not more so.

And what is this statement backed by? What data do you have to support that it would be “just as profitable if not more so?”

Since we all know that you have none, consider who DOES have that data. EA/CG are pretty big and profitable companies, do you really think it wouldn’t occur to them to gather and analyze this data? And since this is the model they chose, do you really THINK they decided on this because their metrics supported your claims?