Why does CG hate their player base?

1q8cn22l5uve wrote:

The change in bulk purchasing was brought up by whom precisely?

There's been a few topics.  This is the one I remember and got involved:

What’s the deal with raid store changes?? | EA Forums - 13310211

1q8cn22l5uve wrote:

the metrics are in and you are clearly in the minority.

harvestmouse1 wrote:

I'll readily admit I'm in the minority here, but it is subjective.

Which is what I said, it's still subjective though;  your opinion vs mine.

1q8cn22l5uve wrote:

the metrics are in

There's a few issues I have with this, which don't make it conclusive.  Don't get me wrong, I'm generally in agreement with most of your points.  I believe though that there is a lot of 'opinion' here than fact.

Firstly, you cannot trust anything a YouTuber presents as 'fact'.  They're making a video for you to watch.  The more dramatic, the more views and the better they do.  They want you to watch their overly-exaggerated PoV video.

Purchase graphs are not a constant.  They're continually going up and down.  There are peak and troughs for reasons we don't know or forget.  You can present any graph to some point in the past that looks very poor in comparison.

I believe, that spending (rather disappointingly) was up during the first few characters of Coliseum.  This probably buoyed CG into believing they were on the right path. So, it's difficult to see the 'true' figures.  Figures from before, figures from now and 3 characters in and the 'real' long-term figures.

The worry, and what probably has happened (in my opinion) is that some long-term gamers have quit.  I took a month of, seriously considering quitting (because of the PvP changes) and evaluated continuing.  These have been replaced by new players that can see a better way in the game if they spend a fair bit of money.  The Coliseum offers a very good avenue into the game for those little whales that want to grow into blue behemoths of the deep oceans.  

What does this actually mean though?  If the spenders that have gone are basically pass purchasers and the ones coming in are 7 star Coliseum players; how many of the new whales replaces the sporadic spenders?   Is the environment healthier for this change in player-base?  Will these new players stay or get bored and move on?  In which case, were CG right in the distinct P2W moves they've made in the last 6 months?

I'm pretty sure Mr Clickbait YouTube doesn't know the answers, no matter how much he shouts.

I like you think CG have made a mistake, but..............it's my opinion.  I think if............(saw this in another worry-mongering youtube video), that if CG plan to introduce a new Relic level every 6 months, I'll have to go; I'm not a big spender.  However, I am competitive and love my PvP.

I think we (you and I) are right to be worried, and I think CG is in a precarious position that they may not fully understand.  However, it's just what I think eh......my subjective opinion.

EA_Aljo wrote:

Let's watch the personal comments and respect each other's opinions.

Was that me?  If so I'm sorry.  I meant it in a 'loving' way rather than a direct insult.  If Duncan took offence, I'm sorry, it wasn't meant to be offensive.  If I need to apologise or edit, I'm happy to do so.