The problem is the price, not the payment.

Skyblitz1776 wrote:

If they are trying to shut down the game........

What a silly comment

Qui dunks on fools for the love of the game. 

Well, outrageous prices and fomo tactics have been part of this game for 10 years, so I'm not sure about all the death knell comments.

As for Vader not being farmable, he should be soon, and the datamine shows Maul event being here for a month. So that seems unusually generous of them.

Huh, I have a FIVE star Cassian and spent nothing.  Not sure where that $150 price estimate is coming from.

Two prior guilds I have been a part of, one at 450 million GP, had so many players quit over this nonsense that the guilds dissolved. We all were moderate spenders. I’ve spent more on this game over the last 8 years than I have on my entire Steam collection. The death knell will be a CG post “thanking” us for this “journey” and such other corporate niceties, as they announce discontinuation. Players quitting because of CG nonsense accelerates that post. You can check the data yourself. This game had far more players and would have more players if they adopted a more modest monetization strategy.

The FOMO factor is fine. The game developers need to eat. That is not the issue. The issue is the extreme prices combined with a rate of power creep that nearly makes the game unplayable if you don’t pay the extreme prices.

See attached photos. How many crystals did you spend?

If a player spends on episode pass, that’s three passes to 4 star for $60.  $30 per character to buy the pack to get them to 5 star, which is $180.  That’s assuming a player does not have 20k crystals to buy every pack because not everyone spends crystals wisely.  Ahnald101 did a great video on the cost if a player paid straight money to level to 7 star and it came to $1300 to get all toons to 7 stars. 

Yep. Ahnald has done a few videos like that through the years and the comments are filled with people who have quit or would spend if CG was more reasonable.

Folks in my current guild have largely concluded that spending nothing is the only way to *really* win. That in turn hurts competitiveness which hurts fun. And fun is the whole point. Sad state of affairs.

Did the 5999 pack for each new marquee, all of which were earned through normal gameplay.