Why so late?

It rewards players who have invested in characters that might not be meta, while encouraging everyone else to farm them as there is now a reason.

Also, this is completely different than the Thrawn situation. Phoenix were only farmable for around a week before that event. FO have been around pretty much since the start of the game. Yes two of them are behind hard nodes, but FO plays a significant role in the current trilogy, so it would only make sense that they're needed for something.

"Kameleonic;d-135746" wrote:

Why make it so hard on people who were not ready? Why give so little time to invest?

Really?
Because they don't wants you to be "ready".
They want you to spend money (on the packs in these cases), like ALWAYS with every single event/ game mode/ new toons/ update in the game.
Is it really not that obvious?
It's €A. This is never gonna change.

Maybe the intent wasn't for everyone to get him to 7* immediately?

If they do, they release toons in marquee events which is 100% distribution.

"sneeekypants;c-1288226" wrote:
Maybe the intent wasn't for everyone to get him to 7* immediately?

If they do, they release toons in marquee events which is 100% distribution.

This

Well the FO was going to have his time so I started farming FOSTP and FOTP a long time ago (especially after the CLS event). The rules are pretty clear to me but I understand your frustration. If I have one advice : start farming your resistance squad now!

It is all about being ahead of the trend. In my case I don’t care about Arena (I use my Jedi squad and I am always between 100 and 200) so it allows me to focus on rare toons.

Lobot and ugnaught will also be required at one point when we will come to the city in the sky.

Ok I am playing this game 3 months after it has been released so I am certainly an exception.

Hold on tight ! The BB8 event will come back like R2 and legendary

1. Yes, €A
2. You can't unlock BB8 unless 7*. We can't even have him at 3*...

Even IF we all had him now at 7*, what great difference does it make?! Not one character in this game is so incredible. There is a counter to everything.

Even IF they gave a character at 7* away for free, it would still take great investment of resources to get it up to a high standard. Point being: everything in this game is something, or nothing at all. To me BB8 is just another character that I will get eventually, but will be obsolete in no time.

A few thoughts, none of which will make you feel better. From the way you wrote your questions, I suspect they're mostly rhetorical, anyway, and you really want to vent.

The first principle that you're going to have to accept if you want to enjoy this game is this: if you want to be competitive, you should expect to be ALL IN. You farm every toon, you spend $10-$50 a week on crystals for refreshes to farm gear and shards, you need to 100% keep up with the pace of character release. If you can do that, you can reasonably expect to always be prepared for events that give you as little as a few weeks of notice for what characters you might need to qualify.

If you aren't willing to do that, you need to change your expectations. This is a game about priorities. If your priorities are this game, you'll spend some money on it to stay ready. If it's not that much of a priority, you have to realize that you'll need to make priority calls within the game. One of those MOST IMPORTANT priorities is whether you'll focus on the characters you want, when YOU want them, versus the characters CG/EA wants you to focus on, when THEY want you to focus on them.

Both First Order and Phoenix were pretty weak factions when they came out. First Order got a lame rework (changes to Advantage), and then got a MUCH better rework with the advent of Zetas. FO was actually one of the few teams where you could invest heavily in zetas and get a good payoff. They were arena viable for a while, even against the dreaded triple-cleanse meta. And a few FO characters really shined -- Kylo Ren with a zeta is nearly meta himself in some game modes, FOTP does sick damage and has a great ship, Phasma remains an excellent early-game all-purpose leader and rancor raid team member, and FOO has some interesting special-purpose use in a few raid phases (Rancor, HAAT P1) in addition to his FO synergies.

There's also the odd similarity in how Kylo's Shuttle and the Ghost and the Phantom are theoretically good ships that sat unattainable for some time. Kylo's ship much more so.

But there's also a few MAJOR differences. Phoenix has never been arena viable at the end-game (it is currently a decent team for low-level arena and even GW). Phoenix has not yet gotten a rework. Phoenix doesn't currently have any zeta skills -- and Phoenix was launched after the zeta era began so up until a few weeks ago, you could reasonably believe that they would never get them and would thus be doomed to mediocrity.

Also, and I think this is the most important of all: Phoenix was launched in March 2017 and Thrawn event was in June 2017. First Order characters came out in Dec 2015 through maybe January or February 2016. They've been in game for more than a year and a half. We've had plenty of time to get them, we just didn't know for sure that they'd be used to get another character, but the signs have been there for a long time. Jedi for Yoda, Rebels for Palpatine, Empire for R2, ANH rebels for Luke, Phoenix for Thrawn, and now FO for BB8. You just need to choose where your priority is.

Conclusion: Sorry, you had a lot of time. And if you want a cool new First Order toon (Snoke? and maybe Old Jedi Luke in the vein of the CLS event), you should start farming Resistance now...

"Kameleonic;c-1288231" wrote:

2. You can't unlock BB8 unless 7*. We can't even have him at 3*...

Ummm you can have him from 5*

Thank you, I do appreciate your response, and you are absolutely right. My problem is that I have invested money in this rather regularly, but it is so... Inneffective. Spending €20 per month is clearly meaningless. So I now refuse to pay anything again, EA's loss.

Farm Resistance... You're right, but why and how? I am too busy farming for Hoth, or for Droids in the hope one day I get past the first stage of the Endor battles... There is too much, so you can never really focus purely on what you want. If you want to participate in events you have no choice but to keep following what you are told or advised to get.

I am literally at a loss to the mentality of EA. You are offering a game that simply isn't fun.

"Kameleonic;c-1288237" wrote:
Thank you, I do appreciate your response, and you are absolutely right. My problem is that I have invested money in this rather regularly, but it is so... Inneffective. Spending €20 per month is clearly meaningless. So I now refuse to pay anything again, EA's loss.

Farm Resistance... You're right, but why and how? I am too busy farming for Hoth, or for Droids in the hope one day I get past the first stage of the Endor battles... There is too much, so you can never really focus purely on what you want. If you want to participate in events you have no choice but to keep following what you are told or advised to get.

I am literally at a loss to the mentality of EA. You are offering a game that simply isn't fun.

It's a very slow farming game, many people have been farming for almost 2 years. You're right that 20 euros won't make any type of dent, probably don't really see a difference until you spends thousands.

If very slow daily, daily farming isn't your type of thing, it's really isn't the game for you.