Things I think need to be addressed.
- Arena and ship arena are essential to growing and gearing your roster. Having a fixed, unchangeable ~2 hour block of required play to keep up just doesn't work if a real world schedule conflict aris...
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"Yarrg;d-154166" wrote:
- Arena and ship arena are essential to growing and gearing your roster. Having a fixed, unchangeable ~2 hour block of required play to keep up just doesn't work if a real world schedule conflict arises. This needs some kind of method for the player to adjust it, even if a limited number of times or at a crystal cost.
- The f2p vs p2p gap has widened substantially over the 2 years of the game's existence. When JTR took over the top of most arenas, it really put the gap front and center. Unless you had stored up about 8k of crystals for buying her shards plus another 6k for extra refreshes during double drops (possible, but would take months of saving without spending on anything else), you didn't get her f2p. People who bought all those extra refreshes and farmed to the max every single day came up about 100 shards short. There are counter teams, but they drop like a rock on defense. Also, all of the new content focuses on having a wide range and quantity of highly geared toons, rather than careful and strategic resource allocation.
This game went from a minor time and resource commitment to a major one. There is now a required investment of about 3 hours a day to play at the high ends of the game, combined with an investment at least $20 / month just to keep pace with shards and gear (with some choosing to add a 0 to the end of that number). These both seem high for a mobile game...they are a closer match for a MMORPG.
Yarrg
1) it's very possible to manage to be in the same prize tier without being on within 2 hrs of payouts.
2) I'm mostly f2p and ranked 29 in arena right now. Only toon I paid out for was JTR and she hasn't moved me much in arena.
3) I don't play nearly 3 hrs or spend $20/month.
4) this is basically an mmorpg? Really?
You have to prioritize your time. If you want arena progress than you have to prioritize that way. If you want to run a weaker team because you prefer those toons than that's fine but you have to accept the hit. There's plenty of meta teams that are stupid easy to access as a f2p player.
