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HaywoodJBLWM
Seasoned Hotshot
8 hours ago

The New(old) Datacron Cadence

The new datacron cadence is bad, and you should feel bad. No part of this change is player friendly. It's so painfully obviously designed to drive more spending to try to match the kinds of datacron inventories we were able to farm previously, and for fear that our opponents will be spending and will have more full inventories than we're now capable of having without panic spending.

While I'm sure it's working on some, for players like me who've been around forever, and are not big spenders, and remember the game when it was much more player friendly, all it's driving is increased dissatisfaction with the game. I've never been a massive spender, but I was spending. I haven't since the horrendous anniversary updates. It's just not the same game anymore. It's not the game I've been in love with for 10 years.

That being said, this effect is cumulative. I chose to keep playing after the anniversary updates when many I know did not, to see how things are handled moving forward. For every awful predatory change you're making from here, you're doing nothing but driving increased game dissatisfaction, and you're only going to be able to do that so many times before you're just going to drive us straight out of the game. Do your long time consumers a favor and pull your heads out of your butts CG, will you please? 

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  • I would hope you understand CG is not targeting you, me or other veteran players for retention, and instead want new players to turn into whales.  New whales who will spend on the Eras is what CG wants.  There will be some veteran whales who spend on Era, but they are really hoping to make new whales.

    Just the like Star Wars 7, 8 and 9 were not made for the die hard fans, Eras is not made to be veteran friendly as they stated.  Everyone starts fresh every era.  Disney tried to break into the Chinese movie market with Force Awakens because in 1977 Star Wars never debuted in Communist China under Mao.  One western movie was allowed into the country on a very limited run per month, and Star Wars, Empire and Jedi did not make those lists.  So Disney turned to a new movie market with the debut of Force Awakens, and it's argued that the Chinese did not embrace Star Wars just as were not embracing the new Eras.      

    https://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-35251572

     

  • gufu21's avatar
    gufu21
    Seasoned Ace
    1 hour ago

    He's absolutely right. The new datacron cadence is awful. But we've done this before, so you knew that already, didn't you, CG?

    • For Pillars of War, before the change, I got 2.5 FDCs and about 15 regular DCs.
    • For Bounty Protocol, I got 1.5 DCs. 
    • For Armor and Instinct, I think I'm ending up with 1.75 FDCs and nothing else. 

    And I've been getting 3 Conquest energy refreshes every day of Conquest. 

    Datacrons are basically paywalled now. 

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