Why I stopped slicing mods to 6*
The title should be "Why i stopped slicing my BEST mods to 6*"... When mods 2.0 came out me and a few guild members had this discussion about this restriction and how it affects the game going forw...
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"Zanads;c-1660819" wrote:"NicWester;c-1660481" wrote:"Zanads;c-1659466" wrote:
CG is either vastly overestimating how many characters the general player base has at G12.
They literally know exactly how many g12 characters people have.
True, but they have proven to be fairly bad at inferential statistics 101 in the past. Furthermore, they are absolutely terrible about looking at raw numbers without then also investigating PRACTICAL impact. If they were better at both, they would get a lot less backlash from their decisions.
...or they're doing it on purpose to make money, and **** us, that's why.
It's that last sentence. As someone astutely pointed out earlier in the thread, there will be (in the not-to-distant future) a raid/marquee character that will be arena meta at 5*. But the only people who will be able to put 6* mods on him/her will be those that whale out to 7* AND g12.
It's really not that difficult to see the "keep the whales spending" MO going on here. It's present in the top-heavy HSith reward structure and the direct manipulation of the fleet meta with Ships 2.0.
Same...stuff, different game aspect.
This game was very f2p-friendly - and, too be fair, still is. Just not as "friendly" as it once was. And it continues to become less so with every "update".
