The Whale is Facing Extinction
This game is built on a 3 tier system of whales, dolphins and FTP. It has historically been a balanced ecosystem, where one cannot survive without the other. The whale is becoming an endangered specie...
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The Fulcrum packs actually gave the game a nice boost in revenue- it rose to around #10 on the various app revenue charts over the weekend.
They also got a nice boost during the May 4 double drop boost (although I think that was more dolphin/fish driven).
Eventually they will release level 90 gear or 6 dot mods and will have one of their best weeks ever revenue wise. But I think they want to release more new content first so more players feel the cost is justified.
They already have a new event (GVG or whatever it will be) coming that will allow players to use their whole roster, although it remains to be seen whether they will release any new mods/ gear or whether it will just be Zetas or something.
I've also got a feeling they will release a meta breaking dark side character at some point (maybe Thrawn soon). So I don't think you'll be waiting for too long.
Over the long run, I think that games will have to become less whale focused as many if not most whales are low to mid income and will likely avoid whale-focused games in the future. Mobile game makers will have to focus on getting tens of dollars out of a substantial fraction of their playerbase rather than thousands out of a tiny percentage (or fraction thereof). Although this will presumably result in less income and fewer games overall it will also probably result in better games as well (not P2W or overly grindy with low QOL).
They also got a nice boost during the May 4 double drop boost (although I think that was more dolphin/fish driven).
Eventually they will release level 90 gear or 6 dot mods and will have one of their best weeks ever revenue wise. But I think they want to release more new content first so more players feel the cost is justified.
They already have a new event (GVG or whatever it will be) coming that will allow players to use their whole roster, although it remains to be seen whether they will release any new mods/ gear or whether it will just be Zetas or something.
I've also got a feeling they will release a meta breaking dark side character at some point (maybe Thrawn soon). So I don't think you'll be waiting for too long.
Over the long run, I think that games will have to become less whale focused as many if not most whales are low to mid income and will likely avoid whale-focused games in the future. Mobile game makers will have to focus on getting tens of dollars out of a substantial fraction of their playerbase rather than thousands out of a tiny percentage (or fraction thereof). Although this will presumably result in less income and fewer games overall it will also probably result in better games as well (not P2W or overly grindy with low QOL).
