What paywalls?

"JZ95;c-1980589" wrote:
Seems like you made some good choices, also some bad ones. You mentioned not getting Jedi Revan or CLS. The difference is those choices didn't cost you much because back then the latest and greatest had some counterplay. The way the powercreep is now and with whales requiring big bang for their bucks from the devs, not getting the latest characters is alot harder to be successful. You said nothing about mod RNG, you also said you weren't very successful in arena until you paid 50$ to get Jedi training Rey which allowed you to climb to number 1, find your shard chat and begin the process of earning lots of crystals which then allowed you to save up alot and hoard many resources to enable you to get future characters for "free".

I also have flashes of good RNG with the mods I have which are far from great, and I manage to climb in arena and when I do I manage to save a few thousand crystals but I can't do it consistently with the mods I have.

But you ask what paywall? Well, when you're required to use a mix of g13 and g12s with a 3 day notice to unlock characters then how can you suggest it's not a paywall. If we all had the luxury of getting multiple characters to gear 12-13 within 5-6 days then we'd probably not be having these issues. This event required months of gearing in advance and to simply use the argument that these characters are all decent so everyone should have them geared already definitely misses the point.

Sure Separatists and clones are strong, galactic republic ships were projected to be meta but not for months until people could finally get the negotiator, I'm 6 months away from negotiator it would make no sense to gear these ship Captains before geonosians. Separatist droids imo aren't that great, Geo's are better so I went with Geos. Grievous works without droideka and B1 also.

And Shaak Ti is not possible without multiple refreshes a day so that's definitely a paywall. What I've said before is that even if you have 99% of the requirements, not having the 1% means you can't get the event done so what are we even debating here

A lot of dedicated strong players will fall short, I agree. But the ships won’t be the tier that holds them back. This was doable with a pretty weak Max and capital ship and with only 1 reinforcement. You would need a strong Rex, fives, and Annie of course and you have every reason to have them at high levels pre-event.

The other requirements are steep but as others have mentioned- these are characters that we all should have had to help our guilds with TB and STR. Anyone not in that situation shouldn’t be expecting to complete the new major event anyway.