Who's having fun?

No fun for me. All I did was spend 30 minutes on the new stuff and get what mats I could for bam from the various shipment stores. I'm trying to have a positive outlook of the game but outside of trying for bo katan in April don't have anything else to look forward to

Sometimes it feels like they're just seeing how long it takes to slowly alienate their entire player base one change at a time. With the new era/coliseum systems they figured out how to make getting new characters unenjoyable. Now the "new"/original datacron cadence is making datacrons pretty unenjoyable while making conquest way more unenjoyable because now we only have one conquest cycle to farm each datacron set. It started out a little rough. Then they made it fun, then they made it a grind, now they're making it stressful. I come home from work and game to escape stress. Not create more of it. Meanwhile, they act as though TW doesn't exist. They made some changes to start breaking GAC and now are pretty much ignoring that too. They ditched galactic challenges for the era challenge crap nobody cares about, nobody enjoys, and nobody can test anything in. Theyve left the fleet meta being the most tedious thing possible for as long as possible while keeping fleet arena as the main mode of gaining daily crystals so we're all forced to engage with it despite the tedium. They changed raids from being something fun where we all worked together as a team with our guilds to being something boring we all do alone, thats more or less just a series of discord pings that make my stomach drop every few days. What's next guys? Going to make a game mode where you pull out my toe nails? 

To be fair there was not a lot of time between release and GAC lock in and TW already locked in. They are irrelevant to me until I can get them modded in time for next GAC… as for testing we already got to test out kits in a prolonged fashion, the new character testing is usually part of the whale packs (which for some reason is fun to watch) so the prolonged farming for them will alter the structure somewhat. And yes this likely lowers hype.

FWIW; I'm having a lot of fun with stranger starkiller hatred maul in squad arena with maul at 5*. Unfortunately I see this team being better defensively in GAC which is a shame because it's a lot of fun... Won't be fun to go up against!

Not all Marquee characters that have been released are bangers (going all the way back many years) but I didn't mind the trickle feed honestly because it spaced things out well enough for F2P. Now I feel overwhelmed trying to figure out what new teams to build with the 6 remaining characters and not enough mods, relic material or ability materials, or any clue if these will be useful in future events to be able to make any kind of decisions on them.

I also want to highlight that CG is far from transparent about when we can farm the shards for these characters to get them to 7*, when the maul event will be back and what the requirements are..... Etc.

Overall I just think it's a bit overwhelming that we were dropped 7 characters all at once all going to different teams. However, that's possibly only unique to this era, and the next one being more focused on 2 specific teams will be better.

Me. Game is fun. Me play game. 

Era has gotten boring. 3 battles you cycle through in 3 days, over and over again for a few weeks.