Spenders vs Free to Play
I would like to address some issues that are starting to overrun the forums and I refuse to sugarcoat anything. So please keep responses civil and constructive as I will try my best to do as well. I w...
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The call for being civil and constructive is nice to read. It would be good if you could also apply this to your constant complaining about other posters here.
That said, there are some valid points in this post. Also some incorrect claims, and some important missing elements.
"They won't nerf hard to farm characters. They won't nerf chrono only characters." -- They already have.
Due to the complexities involved in interactions among characters, sometimes the designers create monsters that they didn't anticipate. These need to be tamed. Sometimes these are chrono chars. Sometimes F2P. There are currently several broken/OP characters, some of which are P2P and some of which are F2P. They need to be fixed to ensure game balance.
Flaming and/or mocking everyone who points out that there are imbalances is uncivil and unconstructive.
"Learn to let go of Luminara/Sid/JC. .. They were great pre 60 but are getting outdated due to the meta changing to damage over defense." -- Written literally hours before a new update. We have no idea what the meta will be now. And F2P / low-P2P players don't have the option of simply "letting go" of their best chars, whom they put all their resources into. I seriously doubt Sid and Lumi are going to become bad options for F2P after this update, even if they aren't as dominant as they are at present.
"Don't whine on the forums." -- Until you get a "Mod" tag next to your name, you have no business telling other people what they should and should not do here. Plus, you whine more than most people here.. and you do it about other people, which is worse than doing it about the game. (The forum is here for feedback about the game, not about other players.)
The major missing part of your essay is that it reinforces the false dichotomy: "F2P", whereby you seem to mean people who spend no money at all, and "P2P", meaning "whales" who spend thousands of dollars on chromium packs. There is a lot of room in between these extremes. You do touch on this by mentioning small purchases, but overall there's too much "F2P vs. P2P" on this forum while ignoring the big part in the middle.
There are people who have achieved great success as pure F2P. Others have done even better with small expenditures, such as $5 packs or crystal subs. There are also people like myself, whom I call "dolphins"... we spend more than the average player but don't play the chromium lottery. I have so far spent about $100-120 on the game, and I am doing just fine. (I could do better in Arena and probably beat anyone there except for a couple of whales, but I just don't care that much about it.) This is a sizable amount of money, but again, many people spend that much a week on lottery tickets or dining out or whatever. This is just another form of entertainment.
Finally, I think the most important point to emphasize is that this is a GAME, and it should be about having fun. This is often lost. It's easy to get wrapped up in the competitive aspects.. but that doesn't have to be the case. I for one enjoy the game much more when I simply focus on building my team, and only worry about ending up in the top 20 or 50 in Arena and not the top 5. It's not worth the aggravation to me to deal with the clock-watching and sniping. Many people just enjoy the gameplay and collecting characters and trying out combos.. and that's all they need to do.
That said, there are some valid points in this post. Also some incorrect claims, and some important missing elements.
"They won't nerf hard to farm characters. They won't nerf chrono only characters." -- They already have.
Due to the complexities involved in interactions among characters, sometimes the designers create monsters that they didn't anticipate. These need to be tamed. Sometimes these are chrono chars. Sometimes F2P. There are currently several broken/OP characters, some of which are P2P and some of which are F2P. They need to be fixed to ensure game balance.
Flaming and/or mocking everyone who points out that there are imbalances is uncivil and unconstructive.
"Learn to let go of Luminara/Sid/JC. .. They were great pre 60 but are getting outdated due to the meta changing to damage over defense." -- Written literally hours before a new update. We have no idea what the meta will be now. And F2P / low-P2P players don't have the option of simply "letting go" of their best chars, whom they put all their resources into. I seriously doubt Sid and Lumi are going to become bad options for F2P after this update, even if they aren't as dominant as they are at present.
"Don't whine on the forums." -- Until you get a "Mod" tag next to your name, you have no business telling other people what they should and should not do here. Plus, you whine more than most people here.. and you do it about other people, which is worse than doing it about the game. (The forum is here for feedback about the game, not about other players.)
The major missing part of your essay is that it reinforces the false dichotomy: "F2P", whereby you seem to mean people who spend no money at all, and "P2P", meaning "whales" who spend thousands of dollars on chromium packs. There is a lot of room in between these extremes. You do touch on this by mentioning small purchases, but overall there's too much "F2P vs. P2P" on this forum while ignoring the big part in the middle.
There are people who have achieved great success as pure F2P. Others have done even better with small expenditures, such as $5 packs or crystal subs. There are also people like myself, whom I call "dolphins"... we spend more than the average player but don't play the chromium lottery. I have so far spent about $100-120 on the game, and I am doing just fine. (I could do better in Arena and probably beat anyone there except for a couple of whales, but I just don't care that much about it.) This is a sizable amount of money, but again, many people spend that much a week on lottery tickets or dining out or whatever. This is just another form of entertainment.
Finally, I think the most important point to emphasize is that this is a GAME, and it should be about having fun. This is often lost. It's easy to get wrapped up in the competitive aspects.. but that doesn't have to be the case. I for one enjoy the game much more when I simply focus on building my team, and only worry about ending up in the top 20 or 50 in Arena and not the top 5. It's not worth the aggravation to me to deal with the clock-watching and sniping. Many people just enjoy the gameplay and collecting characters and trying out combos.. and that's all they need to do.
