Energy Packs
I was pretty excited to hear you’d be offering energy packs for 600 crystals. Then I saw the actual pack today and it’s definitely NOT a 14-15% discount. Let’s look at Cantina energy. Over 2 days you can refresh cantina 6 times for 600 crystals. That would give you 740 cantina energy. Instead you offer 640 energy with this pack and it should be offering at LEAST 750 to actually be considered a discount or even a good deal.
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So. Whales. Where most of their income is coming from. And who 99% of released content is released to cater for. The rest of us are just masochists who love Star Wars.
Your better off getting shards from shipments then buying energy and node refreshes.
Its about even if your trying to farm gear vs shipments.... Depends on drop rate you assume but for the most part your better off getting gear from shipments. Even if the energy route is better it is only marginally so.
I do not know where is 15% off thing comes from since you can't buy energy normally.
CG would have sold a lot more packs at 300c, and likely had generated more revenue for themselves.
The cantina packs can be worth it if you want to spend up a farm in cantina...
If you spent 600 crystals on refreshes today you would get 15% less energy. This is an additional purchase and saves 3 days worth of time if you were to purchase only the 50 refresh. Imo not worth it for the regular energy...
Cantina I'm on the fence for... I really need the calendar to know when jtr is going to come (ie, if/where bb8 is on it). I'm 99 shards short on chewy and 103 shards short on Han. With 3 refreshes a day that should take me 22 more days. If I buy the pack today and the 8th, I can shave about 4 days off of those farms. Now, I can also buy the $30 pack and shave 10 days off...
aah, crystal math
edit: apparantly that word isn't allowed.
Not necessarily whales. I saved up crystals for a couple months specifically to farm the Old Republic faction because I think we'll need them for a Legendary. I ended up buying Bastila from shipments with that stash, and still have enough left to spend about 700 crystals/day on the various nodes and refreshes.
As such, I view these packs as a good thing. I bought both on Friday, and will buy both today, and next Monday.
Over 4.5 days you can get that much energy for FREE
That pack should be free
Someone who knows the game
I do well in both arenas so probably average 700 or 800 crystals a day. You can only spend 450 a day on cheap energy refreshes for cantina and regular energy.
If you spend that 450 and still have 600 left plus enough to refresh the nodes to use the regular energy effectively, the packs are a good deal.
If you use all the crystals you get on cheap refreshes not so much. I bought a regular one when the bonus drops were up but that was in addition to the 50 crystal refreshes, not in place of them.
With no bonus drops, I don't think I'll buy the regular one since it gets to expensive to refresh nodes and use it all with focus on bastilla, jolee, and zalibar. I already refresh bastilla's and jolee's node. So it would cost another 200 crystals on node refreshes to use it there.
Now I may buy the cantina one if i have extra crystals after refreshing 3 times. It really depends on what gear is available today since i usually use excess crystals on stun guns, eyeballs, or other difficult to obtain gear.
With jtr Oct 11-17, in an attempt to avoid the $30 pack I bought the cantina. 600 credits for 15 shards of vet Han, plus all the cantina currency, a couple omegas, couple mk3, well worth the investment (35% drop rate was good to me)
You realize they are the one that created the demand for those characters in the first place. That’s like inventing small pox and then selling the vaccine...
Right. Create a demand. And then sell said demand. I don’t get how people are defending this. It’s not complicated. Anyone who buys this (and many other things they sell) are allowing CG to walk over them.
Lol idk about free... but yea you aren’t completely off there. The community has been saying that we have been overloaded with marquee events and new characters to farm. After creating that environment they release something like this, under the illusion of a “good deal”. While anyone with a lick of common sense can see directly through this.
Except in monopoly you use “Monopoly money” provided through gameplay. By playing the game you are rewarded with in game currency to be able to access any and all aspects of said game. A better comparison would be if you could buy the first two tiers of property with in game money. But the second two tiers including Park and Boardwalk would require you to send real money to Hasbro to access. Create the demand and then charge money for said demand.
You don't have to use real money to buy the energy packs though. Crystals are the ingame equivalent of "monopoly money", the only difference is that you can't buy monopoly money with real money.
So when you land on boardwalk and you've already purchased park place in a previous round, but you don't have enough monopoly money to buy it, you're out of luck. Where as in swgoh you can just buy some "monopoly money" with real money and purchase boardwalk anyway, increasing your chances to win in the process.
Point is that it's not always bad to create a demand, in most cases it makes the game more enjoyable. Being able to buy boardwalk anyway would ruin the game for me. For swgoh it's slightly different, i think that some ocasional spending would still be enjoyable, i just don't because i think it's a waste of money.