Anakin Skywalker is one of the most important characters in the Star Wars franchise. It is his fall from the light side that brings us Darth Vader, perhaps the most iconic villain of all time.
So, why is the plan to have Malak outperform him? Survey Star Wars fans off the street and nearly everyone will recognize Darth Vader / Anakin. But who is Malak? And more importantly, who cares? Why are obscure characters from video games taking priority over iconic figures from the Star Wars canon? (I know, I know, it’s so people will pay to win, I get it... just frustrating as a fan)
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You see how ridiculous it sounds?
So you're unironically saying that more people will recognise a trooper helmet than Darth Vader's helmet?
Oh well, I was sure OP's logic was that Anakin is important because he leads to one of the most iconic villains of all times. Which is not clearly a Stormtrooper. Anyways, let's do it with your logic instead: OK, so in your opinion Anakin is less important than Malak because people will recognise stormtroopers more than Anakin (which is also arguable, I'm not sure this is true) so Malak deserves to be stronger. Please realise this is what you're saying.
"weak"....unless you meant how long it took before his turn prior to the rework.
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If you read carefully (shouldn't be too hard), not once in my previous two comments did I mention Malak.
The point was, power levels in this game are not defined, and neither should be, by how recognisable a character is.
His point was very clearly that in this game, there is no correlation between a characters popularity in lore vs. their power in the game.
New characters are more popular than old ones. This is intentional to keep the game evolving, keep players busy chasing something, and keeping the revenue coming in.
They have already said that the Anakin re-work is as intended: it’s a ftp option to help beat the newest meta teams sometimes.
This seems totally reasonable to me:
People who spent on Malak (or acquired him through good resource management) have a team that is capable of holding pretty well on defense. They can easily climb the ranks and they hold in between (for now). Meanwhile those who didn’t get him have an option that is not as reliable but does allow them to climb.
So anyone can climb well, but those who “invested” in the newest meta team have an easier time of it...and therefore an incentive to “invest” the next time.
All these Kotor characters don’t exist in Star Wars!
Why? Malak was at least in COMMAND of his forces after Revan.
Vader was a gopher for Palp right up until his death.
Sad.
yes it can, if they base ingame strenght and usefullness of characters on lore. The meta would never change because the same character would always be the strongest.
Calm yourself there sparky, the ways and reasons it came to be that way aren't really the point, but whatever.
I'm just putting forth the fact that Malak Ruled the sith and was THE threat at the time once Revan lost his memory, nearly wiping out the Jedi and Old Republic.
Vader was second in command and outlived his master by like 4 minutes.
Just because you grew up watching the OT and you read the Vader comic, don't let that twist your perception of the entire Star Wars timeline and galaxy into bitter anger that another has been elevated in a mobile game.