Time for a different funding model?
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May 25, 2018 5:57PM
edited May 2018
I'm getting sick and tired of the Marquee thing, we want to use these characters when they are hot not after 6-10 months! I mean I watched the movie last night and I was pumped up, wanted to use Han and Chewie but I'm not going to throw away 700 bucks! Now Qira is coming and I was pumped for her too but I know I won't be able to use her for another however many months... It's kind of a bummer really, especially with those characters who accompany movies, they should be made more widely available than the top 1%...
I am not naive, I know games need cash to keep running and spitting out content but at the same time we gotta figure out something more creative because a 350$ price tag on a character is unachievable for 99% of us. Even if the character you're selling is an absolute monster, that kind of money isn't available even if we really wanted to have that character, let alone when you release 2-3 at a time... By the time we can use Qira or Han or Chiewie, the movie is going to get old and forgotten, they are just going to be regular characters like everyone else... Think about all the hype about Tie reaper, rogue one is already like 2 years old and nobody cares. Most people ain't even got Krennic yet... This whole thing is kind of sucking the fun out of it.
I am not naive, I know games need cash to keep running and spitting out content but at the same time we gotta figure out something more creative because a 350$ price tag on a character is unachievable for 99% of us. Even if the character you're selling is an absolute monster, that kind of money isn't available even if we really wanted to have that character, let alone when you release 2-3 at a time... By the time we can use Qira or Han or Chiewie, the movie is going to get old and forgotten, they are just going to be regular characters like everyone else... Think about all the hype about Tie reaper, rogue one is already like 2 years old and nobody cares. Most people ain't even got Krennic yet... This whole thing is kind of sucking the fun out of it.
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The only caveat is that they will just be at 3*, unless you spend to get them higher.
It ain't weeks, it's months and also when they end up in node 7-8-9 with 20 energy per battle that adds a few extra months on it
Why can't you use them right away? Aside from heroic raid requirements, a lot of the marquee toons (Sion, Bossk, Marr) are pefectly viable at the 3/4* level.
Marquee is what replaces tournaments
And we all know how much tournaments ****
First of all, maybe 10% of them are viable in arena at 3-4 stars and Han and Chiew aren't that kind of characters, their kits of stacking stats are for raids. Secondly, investing gear 11+ on a 3-4 star character is entirely pointless anyways if they turn out to be useless in arena. Sion since you've mentioned, at 3 stars gets one shotted against Titans when he uses his AOE, I've done it multiple times, I put retribution up with Kenobi, he uses his AOE and he gets wiped out by the counter attacks or at best he's left with 10-20% Hp so I just one shot him after that. So honestly I can't see how anyone can use him reliably on a high end arena. In my shard he's pretty much disappeared a while ago for that reason. They only ones you see at 7 star g12.
You just said that they were not viable, so maybe he thought of other areas in the game where they are viable?
You seem to have only just provided the stipulation of it being for Arena.
And we have a fixed timeline that we know when things will come around allowing us to plan ahead.
I understand that, I don't think it's a bad system altogether, however when a movie has just come out and they release characters specific to that movie, they should be a little bit easier to aquire and less dependent on cash. Like how Rey and BB8 rolled out of legendary events and stuff like that
Yeah, let's NOT go back to awesome characters (Rex) being completely unavailable unless you spend a ton of $$$.
This is a game about patience. Money is the alternative to patience.
You can still use Qi'ra. You can gear her up, level her abilities, give her mods. She's usable in events, nodes, GW, TB, challenges, TW. And when she becomes farmable, you can have her ready to go.
They give it to you for FREE, I'm really not sure how they can make it easier than that. then on top of that they have a specific timeline where you can get that toon all ready and they only thing you can't do in that time (for free), is half of TB and higher tier raids.....
I dont think there is a single person that would ever say that Legendary toons are "easier" to get than a marquee toon. all legendary toons literally take 5x the farming.
If they dropped Snoke as a Resistance legendary tomorrow, that'd take quite a while for me to get ready for. If they dropped Jango as a clone trooper legendary, I wouldn't get my hands on him any time soon.
I think you've got this all backwards. The game doesn't need money to keep spitting out new content. The game spits out new content to keep making money — as much money as possible. And apparently it does well.