A Sickening Realization about the Shard Shop
I was just thinking about it... we got the shard shop... what, a couple of weeks ago, if that? And at this point there's already an obtainable "exclusive" character? I assume they've determined that some people will already be able to botain the character from the start so the community will see it and analyze it.
Which means they assume a fair amount of people have hundreds if not thousands of 'extra' character shards.
Which anyone who hasn't unloaded on chromium packs, simply won't have. It's a complete Anti-F2P incentive, ridiculously expensive and ineffective as it is, on principle, they've shown the enormous power certain 'whales' have on different servers and just how phenomonally wide the 'gap' can be. It's sickening and disheartening to know, even now, some people have already gotten GG or are close because it means they have such a maxed out squad.... it's sickening thta we even have a Shard Shop with Exclusives within 3 months of a meta..
Which means they assume a fair amount of people have hundreds if not thousands of 'extra' character shards.
Which anyone who hasn't unloaded on chromium packs, simply won't have. It's a complete Anti-F2P incentive, ridiculously expensive and ineffective as it is, on principle, they've shown the enormous power certain 'whales' have on different servers and just how phenomonally wide the 'gap' can be. It's sickening and disheartening to know, even now, some people have already gotten GG or are close because it means they have such a maxed out squad.... it's sickening thta we even have a Shard Shop with Exclusives within 3 months of a meta..
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Truth is if this really bothers you, you would probably be happier in subscription based models. They still exist and do pretty well.
Overall with this game they have given good balance between f2p and p2p. If you only focus on GG you are gonna be upset though. However I see no reason for anyone to think they should be able to 7* GG immediately besides the top whales.
Every game in the world will give you an advantage if your p2p - otherwise there is no incentive for anyone to pay them for the product..And obviously the more you spend the greater the advantage is going to be.
Let me make you more sick: A "whale" that has "only" spent $1000 or so is probably only able to 5* grievous, less than half of his total shards. Let that sink in.
Thats where I am. I will unlock the 5* in a couple days and then going to use farming to get the rest. But, while you don't think it's worth it, I don't use the shard shop for anything other than vadar shards, so I see no reason not to spend them.
$60 in chromium is as good as spending $0. But $60 spent on farming can give you quite an advantage.
And the gap is actually not that hughe. Are there chromium or hard to farm toons? BIG YES. Does it give them much of an advantage? Not so much. Why? Big fat brick wall called 5 toons in 1 arena squad, 7* and gear 8/9.
Having unlocked, leveled and geared 30 toons gives you more options. It is still possible to have a top 10 arena team without them though.
Phasma, Sid, GS, Poggle, Droids, Poe, QGJ, Dooku, Daka, Lumi to name some good farmable options.
Just my 2 cents (yay got 0.98$$$$ left!).
" A "whale" that has "only" spent $1000 or so is probably only able to 5* grievous [on his launch]"
Spent money and extra shards do not increase linearly. You try to make it sound like they do.
For example, omeone who spends 500€ might have 20 GG shards, someone who spent 1000€ might have 80 shards and someone who spends 2000 might have 250. Because the more characters you have (the longer you play and/ or the more you pay), the more trash shards you receive.
So that guy with 5 star grievous will need to pay A LOT less for his second 165 shards than he did for his first 165, when he still had few characters maxed. Once he achieves critical mass, he's gonna be opening chromiums with almost nothing but repeated shards.
Erm 3,000 here and i dont even have him unlocked lol......
Shame all my Liea shards are the same value as ewok hrrmmp lol.
^ this.
"To me, there is no light or dark side to The Force. There's just the Force and I'll wield it how I see fit."
So basically people are complaining because they aren't being given grievous instantly with arguments along the lines of - I've spent $1000 dollars on it and can only get him to 5* that sucks....maybe we should consider they are basically giving you a character at 5* for free on top of all of the energy, the extra rewards you gotten from arena refreshes and all the characters you have already gotten from spending that money.
Sorry but just getting tired of people **** about not being giving something instantly for free, if you don't like it then don't spend money or don't play the game!
This is a good point, but it presumes the spend level will be the same. I am able to unlock a 5* GG only, but I know my spend level will go down due to the terrible exchange rate of excess shards. I suspect there are other mini-whales (Belugas, maybe
That's basically where I'm at. The shop has little value for me, as do all my shop points; I'm not gonna waste money opening boxes in the hopes of unlocking a 15:1 character. Maybe when there's another 10 or so characters I haven't unlocked, or that aren't farmable, I'll revisit my position. Til then, EA has lost me as a spender.
Dangerous question to ask, senor.
^ second. Who cares anyhow? Spend lots of money or no money. Just enjoy the game!
"To me, there is no light or dark side to The Force. There's just the Force and I'll wield it how I see fit."
Hundreds if you're lucky! If you spend hundreds you are bound to just pull a bunch of randoms that wont be usable especially the desired characters because you wont be able to make them viable via promoting them!!
Looks like I posted that in the wrong discussion.