General Skywalker 5* vs. 7* Unlock
So now that everyone has vented about the requirements of this event I want to appeal to the decision-makers up in CG about whether or not he will unlock at five star or seven star.
Because this is an epic confrontation they’ve established with the Malak event that he will most likely unlock at 5* and you will have to chase shards in the Guild Event Store. Seeing how there’s already a vast majority of needed characters in GET 1 it makes sense that they would put Skywalker shards In GET 2. The most obvious problem with this is we’ve been grinding on the new territory battle for almost 3 months now and we don’t even have a single six star Negotiator available to any player right now. To have to choose between two new powerful character/ships would be an extremely unpopular choice. The alternative of putting it in the other GET Store is problematic due to the fact that that currency is dramatically reduced for people doing the Geo territory battle.
The other thing I can’t understand is why they would put him behind a currency that has no monetary value to them? If he’s locked at five stars for months that means no one can get him past G11 except for people that stockpiled currency. With the recent introduction of gear 13 and relics most people have been spending that currency trying to level up their characters to enjoy and play the game. With the extremely steep requirements for this event you’re going to have people that have to gear up characters and spend resources that they might not have normally just unlock Skywalker. you will also have people spending money to purchase the gear that isn’t readily farmable in character shards it’ll be needed to make this happen. I for one am not 100% ready and I’ll have to spend some crystals to make it happen. The most discouraging thing I can think of as a player is that the first piece of brand new content that we’ve seen in months, that has the highest requirements of any event we’ve ever had, will unlock half of a character. Make no mistake about it if he is unlocked at five stars he is half a character. Not being able to take him to gear 13 and add relics will limit his max potential and ability.
The other thing I can’t understand from CG’s perspective is that it limits their ability to make money. Having him unlock it five stars will effectively prevent a large portion of the player base from panic farming in buying gear and leveling this character up with resources for months. Everyone has the stuff to get the guy to gear 11 they probably will not have the stuff to take him all the way to gear 13 and relic seven. If this character is as good as every other epic and legendary character we have received in the past people will be swiping the credit card as fast as possible to max this character out. Why in the world would they want to gate that behind a currency that makes them no money it literally makes zero sense.
Long story short, you haven’t announced anything yet, but please for the love of God have this character unlock at seven stars! I can’t think of anything more disappointing than investing all my time, energy, and resources collecting all of the legendary characters and all of the ships and all of the gear necessary to unlock this character and getting half of what I expected. Please don’t make the first piece of new content that you’ve introduced in months feel like a disappointment and a waste of time.
Because this is an epic confrontation they’ve established with the Malak event that he will most likely unlock at 5* and you will have to chase shards in the Guild Event Store. Seeing how there’s already a vast majority of needed characters in GET 1 it makes sense that they would put Skywalker shards In GET 2. The most obvious problem with this is we’ve been grinding on the new territory battle for almost 3 months now and we don’t even have a single six star Negotiator available to any player right now. To have to choose between two new powerful character/ships would be an extremely unpopular choice. The alternative of putting it in the other GET Store is problematic due to the fact that that currency is dramatically reduced for people doing the Geo territory battle.
The other thing I can’t understand is why they would put him behind a currency that has no monetary value to them? If he’s locked at five stars for months that means no one can get him past G11 except for people that stockpiled currency. With the recent introduction of gear 13 and relics most people have been spending that currency trying to level up their characters to enjoy and play the game. With the extremely steep requirements for this event you’re going to have people that have to gear up characters and spend resources that they might not have normally just unlock Skywalker. you will also have people spending money to purchase the gear that isn’t readily farmable in character shards it’ll be needed to make this happen. I for one am not 100% ready and I’ll have to spend some crystals to make it happen. The most discouraging thing I can think of as a player is that the first piece of brand new content that we’ve seen in months, that has the highest requirements of any event we’ve ever had, will unlock half of a character. Make no mistake about it if he is unlocked at five stars he is half a character. Not being able to take him to gear 13 and add relics will limit his max potential and ability.
The other thing I can’t understand from CG’s perspective is that it limits their ability to make money. Having him unlock it five stars will effectively prevent a large portion of the player base from panic farming in buying gear and leveling this character up with resources for months. Everyone has the stuff to get the guy to gear 11 they probably will not have the stuff to take him all the way to gear 13 and relic seven. If this character is as good as every other epic and legendary character we have received in the past people will be swiping the credit card as fast as possible to max this character out. Why in the world would they want to gate that behind a currency that makes them no money it literally makes zero sense.
Long story short, you haven’t announced anything yet, but please for the love of God have this character unlock at seven stars! I can’t think of anything more disappointing than investing all my time, energy, and resources collecting all of the legendary characters and all of the ships and all of the gear necessary to unlock this character and getting half of what I expected. Please don’t make the first piece of new content that you’ve introduced in months feel like a disappointment and a waste of time.
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G12 finisher and relic packs are also a good revenue generator that would be locked for several paying customers if the new character is capped at 5*
The top 50 in my shard will, as they always do.
It’s a 5 star unlock...
(I don’t know if they’ve said, just offering up some hope)
Your first sentence is contradicted by the next two. There is a monetary value to GET based entirely on whether or not you stockpile it or spend it on gear. Very high spenders, aware of the Malak precedent, likely have stockpiled their GET, spending money to get the various gear pieces they could otherwise acquire, in case another Malak came out. For those that haven't, releasing him to the GET store incentivizes this hoarding and spending cash behavior in the future so as to not miss out on the next epic encounter character.
Just because you can't buy GET for cash doesn't mean there is no money making purpose behind putting him there.
How stupid can you be to release him as a GET1 toon?
Common CG, do something right for once. This means we wont even play your two new TB for months...
Your source was wrong, the recommended gear level is relic 3.
Those images are fake. The event hasn't even started yet and it starts for everyone at the same time. The update notes from today talking about the event say you'll get enough shards from the event for a 5 star unlock. His shards are already in the guild event store for GEC1 and it says you have to unlock him at 5 stars to buy the shards. It's basically the same as Malak....don't know why anyone would have expected anything different as its the same type of event as Malak.
I seriously can’t understand why they do this to us??!
Like I’m ready to spend to get him and you have made it completely unnecessary to panic farm for this. It takes MONTHS of TB’s to get the 70k needed to 7* him. Of course he will still be useful at 5*, but for the love of god why can’t you let us find JOY in playing this game? You have a massive player base begging for content and the first real piece of it will feel like a let down even when you succeed. Even if I wanted to give you money to speed up the process you have made it impossible. I don’t understand your logic on this. You are actively preventing yourselves from making money and disenfranchising your player base simultaneously. Bravo.
IMAGES ARE NOT FAKE. SPEND 50 CRYSTALS AND REFRESH YOUR CHAMPION STORE AND SEE FOR YOURSELF!
But save your GET1 and 2 because from here on out, they are going to do 5 star unlocks.
Ahh you currently have it from 2 duh. Unless LS Geo has more get1 your point is irrelevant as 2x ds will probably equal 1 ds plus 1 ls. Actually probably less as people will have to ramp up on ls geo compared to where they are on ds...
This makes no sense. They actually ARE rewarding all the people spending to relic up toons. Now they won't be completely and utterly useless against this godly GAS kit. It will take months to make him 7* so all the people playing with Shaak, Padme and GG nuke teams, can still stay somewhat relevant in arena. This is actually the most F2P friendly move they could have made. I honestly can't believe they are rewarding the people who will NOT unlock him tomorrow. Bizarre strategy. Weird flex CG but ok.