The Marquee release structure owns bones.
Releasing characters via Marquee event is the best thing to happen to this game. You get the character to 3* for free, you get a chance to test them out with any squad, you get a bunch of mods that yo...
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Marquee is a double edged sword.
On one hand, yes you get the new characters at 3* with $9.99 for a jumpstart at 4*. On the other hand, if you're in a non spending guild, how long before you can't even fill platoons at day 4?
Let's do the math here, because the price point for these new toons are getting ridiculously insane. If you buy the $10.00 pack it's about $200 - $300.00 depending per new character. Let's split the difference and call it $250.00 with that $9.99 pack included. In a period of less than a MONTH, we had:
17th May 2018 - Vandor Chewbacca,Young Han Solo / 25th May 2018 - Qi’ra / 30th May 2018 - Enfys Nest / 7th June 2018 - L3-37 / Young Lando Calrissian / New Falcon
That's 7 new Solo characters at $250.00 per character. Approximately $1,750.00 just needed for platoons. Range Trooper after that, now Shan and Bindo.
I'm not complaining, so please don't take it as such. I just choose to not day 1 these after I did that with Fulcrum (and look how that turned out if you remember what happened). So, wait for them in PVE shipments. Cool, I can do that. If you're end game and top arenas you can easily stash a vault's worth of crystals pending you have nothing pressing to spend crystals on. I spent on this game and I refuse to pocket check the next guy or gal because that's not my main point. What I'm worried about is this is whale / Kraken burnout. That's not good for the game.
Here's what I will complain about:
Darn near every single one has gone hard node and even more so, DS hard node. They've said nothing new
for GW / Arena / Shard Shop / Cantina token as these are usually entry to mid level characters but don't put in URRRURURWTHever, Lobot, Kit, etc. etc. I mean, put something new in there.
I'd be interested to know where we are in the life cycle of this game and what the ratio is between new accounts and ones that retired.
On one hand, yes you get the new characters at 3* with $9.99 for a jumpstart at 4*. On the other hand, if you're in a non spending guild, how long before you can't even fill platoons at day 4?
Let's do the math here, because the price point for these new toons are getting ridiculously insane. If you buy the $10.00 pack it's about $200 - $300.00 depending per new character. Let's split the difference and call it $250.00 with that $9.99 pack included. In a period of less than a MONTH, we had:
17th May 2018 - Vandor Chewbacca,Young Han Solo / 25th May 2018 - Qi’ra / 30th May 2018 - Enfys Nest / 7th June 2018 - L3-37 / Young Lando Calrissian / New Falcon
That's 7 new Solo characters at $250.00 per character. Approximately $1,750.00 just needed for platoons. Range Trooper after that, now Shan and Bindo.
I'm not complaining, so please don't take it as such. I just choose to not day 1 these after I did that with Fulcrum (and look how that turned out if you remember what happened). So, wait for them in PVE shipments. Cool, I can do that. If you're end game and top arenas you can easily stash a vault's worth of crystals pending you have nothing pressing to spend crystals on. I spent on this game and I refuse to pocket check the next guy or gal because that's not my main point. What I'm worried about is this is whale / Kraken burnout. That's not good for the game.
Here's what I will complain about:
Darn near every single one has gone hard node and even more so, DS hard node. They've said nothing new
for GW / Arena / Shard Shop / Cantina token as these are usually entry to mid level characters but don't put in URRRURURWTHever, Lobot, Kit, etc. etc. I mean, put something new in there.
I'd be interested to know where we are in the life cycle of this game and what the ratio is between new accounts and ones that retired.
