The scoundrel event conundrum

"JRA;489587" wrote:

People didn't avoid farming this class because they like copying everyone else.

A recent scan of arena teams would easily disprove this argument. Dooku, Rey, RG, QGJ, IG86... over and over and over again.

"JRA;489587" wrote:

Forcing people to farm them by holding credits hostage is lazy.

Again, no one is forcing anyone to do anything, and credits are not being held hostage. Don't want to farm the toons? Fine, don't farm them and don't do the event.

"JRA;489587" wrote:

Also, I have participated in some events, and missed others. That's fine. No big deal. But this is not just an event. It's a weekly thing that is replacing profit mining. It not being presented as an occasional, or one time thing with **** rewards. It is being presented as our new credit source after continually jacking up the level cap created an unnecessary credit crunch.

Most people (including myself) weren't even doing the profit mining event in the first place because we didn't want to spend energy on it. Please point me to the thread where the devs said that this was going to be our only source of credits from now on, I'd love to see that one.

This is all nothing more than pure jealousy on the part of people who haven't been building up scoundrel characters. They're taking away an event that people weren't even using in the first place, and replacing it with something that people might actually do. People aren't losing anything. They're gaining something, namely an event that adds value to scoundrel characters, which as people have admitted, weren't very valuable up to now.

People complain about scoundrels not being valuable, so the devs create something that makes them valuable, and now they complain and act like they didn't want them to be valuable in the first place? Hogwash.

This game is full of examples where people get rewards for building up certain groups of characters. This event is no different. There are lots of people out there like me who've invested significant resources into their scoundrel characters and haven't gotten much back in return. Why should we have to continue to suffer simply because someone else decided to ignore scoundrels? That was THEIR decision, not mine, and certainly not the developers'.

It all comes down to the fact that whatever you put your resources into should give you something in return. If you put your resources into pumping up your arena team, great. No one is faulting you for that. Hopefully you've gotten whatever you wanted in return for doing that. But if someone else wants to build up a team for something other than arena (like a gear-farming raid team, or a credit-farming scoundrel team), they should be rewarded for that too, and if someone hasn't been putting in the resources for it up to this point, that's their problem, not mine.

I haven't bothered to look, but I'm guessing there was a similar amount of crying when the raids were released and (SHOCKER!) the raids required people to use characters that weren't a part of their core 5-char arena team in order to get the top rewards, and I'm guessing the same thing happened when the Yoda event came out. I'm sure if they do something similar with the training droid event there will be similar moaning and wailing, as well as with any other future events.

Just because an event requires someone to put resources into characters that aren't on their arena team, doesn't mean that the event is a bad idea or broken. It means that there are other people playing this game who may have a different strategy than theirs, or who might view "success" as something other than being in the top 20 arena teams.