Im not even happy I unlocked padme?
Whale here, top in arenas, always win GA, most the time win TWs, and now I have a separatist droid squad with one zeta, a GR team with zero zetas, and a complete lack of desire to gear up new squads unless they are meta for either arena or fleets.
The zeta income since the gg rework until now, compared to how many characters have been released with necessary zetas is out of control. If I can’t zeta up the needed abilities please explain why I would care to gear them up and spend crystals? I know we are getting a free zeta but that’s not going to fix the issue. Either stop with the zetas on characters or give us more opportunities to earn them. Yes I have padme, yes I have malak. Players under 2 years are at a massive disadvantage with mods and zetas, but with mods you can at least spend crystals to “even” the playing field, zetas are an entirely different story.
Gg 1-2
Droideka maybe 1
B1 -1
B2 -1
Dr 3
Hk 1-2
Malak 2
GK 1
Anakin 1
Snips 1
Padmé 2
Me being at the .... tip of the spear .... I assure you I earn a zeta every 9-10 days on average. So let’s say 15 of these are needed which would take 150 days to obtain, since January 1st we are now only 122 days into the year leaving you a month away from being able to complete all of this. I’m certain new reworks and characters are in the works with 1-2 zetas on every one, please explain why I want to gear them up if I can’t zeta them up? The zetas are the biggest issue I have with the game currently and is the sole reason for me to NOT want to spend.
The zeta income since the gg rework until now, compared to how many characters have been released with necessary zetas is out of control. If I can’t zeta up the needed abilities please explain why I would care to gear them up and spend crystals? I know we are getting a free zeta but that’s not going to fix the issue. Either stop with the zetas on characters or give us more opportunities to earn them. Yes I have padme, yes I have malak. Players under 2 years are at a massive disadvantage with mods and zetas, but with mods you can at least spend crystals to “even” the playing field, zetas are an entirely different story.
Gg 1-2
Droideka maybe 1
B1 -1
B2 -1
Dr 3
Hk 1-2
Malak 2
GK 1
Anakin 1
Snips 1
Padmé 2
Me being at the .... tip of the spear .... I assure you I earn a zeta every 9-10 days on average. So let’s say 15 of these are needed which would take 150 days to obtain, since January 1st we are now only 122 days into the year leaving you a month away from being able to complete all of this. I’m certain new reworks and characters are in the works with 1-2 zetas on every one, please explain why I want to gear them up if I can’t zeta them up? The zetas are the biggest issue I have with the game currently and is the sole reason for me to NOT want to spend.
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I saw this happening with many other mobile games. Sad.
Guess I’ll move on soon.
I agree, but at least omegas you can frequently get with crystals. Pretty much every bottleneck in this game you can alleviate by using your crystals. That will either hurt your wallet if you are buying extra, or hurt whatever else those crystals aren’t going to if you are using your “income” crystals, but still, there is a way to get past it. Zetas there is literally nothing you can do if you are already getting 1st in arena. It’s never really made sense to me.
Balance is key. If Zetas become buyable chaos will arise. Also, your a whale so stop tryna buy yourself Zetas.
"I win at everything always, and I won at this, but I'm upset that winning at this won't make me win even more at other things, which I also already win."
Malak x2, dr x3, hk x2, cls lead, 3po wt f, gg unique, mission, carth since I started tracking at the New Years. Most everyone saying zeta income is fine is a combination of older players who have 60+ zetas and or f2p with less teams which is fine, but please tell me why I should spend crystals on shards and gear if I can’t make the teams viable with the necessary zetas?
I lost by 9 points having managed to clear anyway.
This has been my ongoing experience of GA from day one, but is always worse after an update. Atleast one match always occurs just after an update, and before niggles are resolved.
I acknowledge that internet speeds in China add to my problems as compared to others, but Zetas are the top reward in the game and they should be more earnable through the game (how about raid rewards update), however they should not be a reward for having faster internet, which is what they become if in GA.
I would make the argument that China is now the largest spending nation in the world on mobile games, but regrettably the platform problems in SWGOH has largely alienated the once healthy China player base. Star Wars is not as popular here so the game has to survive on its merits as a game. Sadly it hasn’t.
If they can resolve the crashing issues, which I would guess are not isolated to China (anyone with slower internet), then I wouldn’t object to zetas as a regular GA prize.
Eh? I'm about as far at the butt end of the spear as you could be lol and I earn more Zetas than that!
Currently have 78 in the bank waiting to do something with.
Keep zetas as a paywall of sorts if necessary but increase the number of and drop rates of the other two. Zetas should be hard to get and we should be trying to figure out which toon should get one. As the power increase can be significant. But there needs to be a little bit more of an ease to get toons just prior to applying zetas.
I'm pretty sure he means a full zeta lol not 1/20.
Ah, I've got ya, thanks.
The point is that whales are no longer at the top. I just chewed up a whale in GA because their gearing had outpaced their ability to zeta/mod their toons. This wasn't one of those stupid bloated whales, either. They had done all the right things with their roster.
Whaling on gear brings you into a GP bracket with players who have been around and earning zetas for longer.
The core argument is that if zeta abilities are being introduced into the game faster than zeta mats, then:
A ) nobody will ever be able to have all the zetas. This isn't necessarily a bad thing but it irks the completionist in me.
B ) new players will never be able to zeta old teams because they'll always need to be focused on the hottest new thing, especially with the introduction of harder legendaries and mythic battles which require zetas even to unlock new characters.
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This! I’ve been preaching this forever. In every thread on this subject. I would gladly spend money to gear and farm some of the older decent squads but what’s the point if I can never zeta them to make them viable? All these new squads they are releasing take 4-8 zetas. How am I supposed to zeta these new squads AND go back and zeta some of the older ones that were put in the game before I started playing? I will ALWAYS be behind on zetas compared to older players, which directly impacts GA. Besides that, it disincentives me from spending to gear older squads.
No, it's not.
Forum says, I'm playing this game since November 2015. Starting a little dolphinish at the beginning, I switched to be F2P completely for various reasons. As of today, I bought a 20th zeta-mat for a full zeta - which I don't know whom to give it to. Most of the zeta-abilities a crap. You're just needing some of them zetas.
Well, I got the zeta on FO TIE Pilot! What a waste...
Farming a new toon takes so much time, if you're not having the needed zetas ready when having the said toon 7*/GXII plus some zetas to spare on older toons, your whaling is wrong.
Link your roster and let us see how wise you've been with your zeta allocations.
Farming a new toon takes no time at all if you whale. That's the whole point of this thread. The zeta bottleneck is a disincentive to spending money, increasingly so since CG has been pushing 2/3 zeta toons on us with increasing frequency.
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Again I would like to point out, this prohibits NEWER players, you’ve been playing since release of course you have a ton of zeta materials but with games you must allow new blood to come in and compete which is on the verge of impossible. I’m nearly 18 months in, I can’t imagine how someone at 12 months and is a whale is feeling.
Did you even read the thread?
*sigh*
You don't understand the problem because you're not one of the players affected, you haven't even been playing long enough to understand what the problem is.
Crumb has already acknowledged that this is an issue and has taken it to the development team. Don't worry yourself about it, everything will be fine.