Why GET for GAS Makes No Sense

"Lio;c-1978505" wrote:

"Nikoms565;c-1978485" wrote:
Any bets on how soon GET becomes a monetized commodity?

Why would it? What's the point of letting people whale out on toons/gear if you can't force them to use it in specific game modes like the TB? They just invested a ton of work into building out Geo TB. Making us use GET to buy GAS and Malak just ensures that we all (including the big whales) actually have to play the game.

Just buying the toon is boring and arguably bad for the game.

Except that GET is more easily obtained in earlier TBs - so that seems counter intuitive. That also implies that CG/EA care more about people playing than people paying. Not to be a pessimist here, but they don't. If they did, they would focus more on content and less on ways to monetize said content.

All of that said, the only way this might make some sense is if the rewards for Geo LS TB in November drop more GET1 than Hoth. Then they wouldn't have to monetize GET - whales would just jump to guilds that were doing better in Geo LSTB.

But honestly, if we're going to talk about what's "bad for the game" - how about lack of arena diversity and the destabilization of guilds? Which, quite frankly, seems where this is headed.