Thoughts on CG and their approach to the player base that keeps them employed

The people who keeps them employed are the thrust fund kids who justifies all these paywall by spending thousands of dollars on gacha games on a weekly basis. Some people purchase every single thing that are purchasable on a daily basis to be able to beat other whales and be able to say they are #1 on gacha games.  Contrary to what you may believe, people who spend money every now and then are irrelevant really because their spending is vastly dwarfed by the top players.

Whist I see issues with the new update this is still a FTP viable game. You don’t need a pass to enter any event or game mode. But of course most content will promote spending, if you are FTP I would expect to progress more slowly, but not have previously achieved rewards diluted.

My main concern is whether FTP pass is equal to GC rewards, which will be seen at the end of this episode. All estimates aside we need to see how it all plays out for players as many changes may impact the outcome. The feats may not be achieved in GC but dailies and other episode quests may contribute enough.

My second thoughts as someone often getting the conquest pass or pass +. I doubt I will pay for both concurrently. So I am disappointed they did not come up with a season pass which goes across all game modes. Or a deal so those who already spend regularly on conquest pass are not expected to purchase both at full price, as it’s starting to get expensive on the regular.

I agree about the two passes.

I was buying the plus version of the conquest pass, but this time I’m just going with the regular version. I know I’m not their target market, but it’s hard for me to justify spending the money on two plus passes.

A combined pass for the 28 day period that covered all events and was closer to the original Conquest pass prices would definitely be more attractive. Especially as I buy those passes to try and make the game take a more reasonable amount of effort. 

It is factually untrue that previously F2P content is locked behind a Paywall.

2 Feats a GC + Dailies = the same rewards.

The two feats that are locked to new content are NOT required to get the rewards. People are incorrectly conflating the inability to complete feats with lost rewards.

Yes you are not doing every feat. But you are also getting progress on the track from your dailies. Daily quests were made easier to complete and they contribute to your Omicron farm (which they weren't before).

There are two aspects though.

One, rewards. At this point it is flat out disingenuous at best to say nothing ia lost for ftp as we really dont know how it will shake out.

Two, content access is basically lost when 3 or 4 fears are behind a paywall. If you dont happen to have all tuskens, for example, if you dont pay for the pass or the new character there point in doing the content as you cant get a single reward. If anything they should be looking to make content more accessible, not less.

Before, having the proper faction was 1 of 4 feats. You could still max 3 feats, now? No faction, no cash, no feats.  Maybe this is a rare gc where it aligns this poorly or maybe not. It is too early to tell.