Why is Chaze called p2p?

"Tuftedpaper85;846239" wrote:
Chromiums aren't a real farming option unless you're spending money. Yes, I could probably save up enough crystals over the course of three months to unlock baze, but that's at the expense of everything else going on in the game

Well, unless they've fixed the droprate, or you get really really lucky. I believe it was over 1000 USD average worth of chromium packs to unlock Baze for players at the start, so that is about 150,000 crystals. Good luck farming 150,000 crystals in 3 months.

Shardshop and Chromium characters are considered P2P. Shardshop because it's only paying players who have enough shards to convert to actually buy shardshop chars, and Chromium because you have to buy Chromium packs. And you're more likely to get hundreds of Chewie shards than the shards you actually want.

And no, that doesn't mean you cannot technically unlock/star those characters without paying a dime. It just means that it's incredibly suboptimal to acquire those characters without paying. Converting all your crystals into chromiums means no gear buys, no energy refills, no mod packs, etc. All of which will progress you more than getting a single ungeared, unstarred, unleveled character. And converting all your cantina/arena/GW energy means you can eventually unlock a shardshop only char (Grievous, Baze, K2SO for Apple), but you're giving up on everything else you might get out of those credits (either lots of other characters you don't have yet, or gear from the shard shop).