Extremely lengthy time commitments in lue of the new movie make no sense.

JZ95

At this point the devs aren't even trying to hide it. They are deliberately trying to stretch the gap between free to play and mega whales to the point where the two will be playing a different game. But this trend of 5 star unlocks followed by the use of GeT to get the character to 7 stars, in combination with relics and g13 is too heavy. GET is our best way to alleviate the stun gun, stun cuff, carbanti, gold piece and raid gear crunch. Instead of making easier to get to g13 to access relics, as you claimed, it's now much much harder because we are forced to use the tokens for character shards with Malak and Anakin. You've exponentially slowed down the early gearing progress with this decision instead of making easier like you said.

But that's not all, these characters require very long commitment, most players will be farming for general Anakin as well as Malak for months to come, perhaps years to come for players who started the game a couple years ago or earlier. This is a serious issue due to the fact that the new movie is very likely to bring very powerful characters as well.

The movie is just 2 months out and there's no way even a whale is going to be done with Anakin, full shards, gear and relic. Unless they hoarded tons of GET which I'm sure some people did, but not all. Instead of the hype for the new movie and the characters that come with it, most players will be stuck farming for general Anakin still.

The longest a single meta has lasted is probably around 6-7 months if we don't count fleet. Characters nowadays require longer than that from start to finish if we include GET farming, relics and the characters who compose their squad. This means that by the time f2p can even get near the completion of these squads they are already out of the meta. This deletes all of the excitement and sense of accomplishment as a squad that you have worked for more than half a year to max out is now nothing but a strong Grand arena squad that's no longer viable in arena.

I'm very concerned about the trajectory of the game and the dev's refusal to actually make it easier to go through the gearing progress as they keep coming up with ways to make things take alot longer.