Been playing since 2016...
So I've been playing SWGOH for almost 6 years now. I'm not a kraken, but I might be something like a narwhal or large dolphin. So I've spent more money than I care to think about. I've been in top 20ish guilds for most of that time. Never really thought about quitting before, but datacrons are pushing me that way faster than a fully functioning Millennium Falcon.
This game was built on an ecosystem where things were relatively predictable. Level your toons, gear/mod them up, know your kit, incorporate new toons/squads as they come. Now come datacrons. Counters no longer work. Toons you spent years investing in are negated by an overlay that seems to have no purpose other than forcing us to purchase materials not available in any game mode but GC. It's beyond frustrating. For me at least, it's a deal-breaker.
I get there is a need to make money, and maybe people haven't been buying r9 materials as fast as you hoped they would. But when you squeeze for too long and we get so little in return (when was the last time you actually gave us new content?), it just wears too thin. Hoping you do an about-face on this disaster in the next few weeks. Otherwise I'm out at the end of the month.
This game was built on an ecosystem where things were relatively predictable. Level your toons, gear/mod them up, know your kit, incorporate new toons/squads as they come. Now come datacrons. Counters no longer work. Toons you spent years investing in are negated by an overlay that seems to have no purpose other than forcing us to purchase materials not available in any game mode but GC. It's beyond frustrating. For me at least, it's a deal-breaker.
I get there is a need to make money, and maybe people haven't been buying r9 materials as fast as you hoped they would. But when you squeeze for too long and we get so little in return (when was the last time you actually gave us new content?), it just wears too thin. Hoping you do an about-face on this disaster in the next few weeks. Otherwise I'm out at the end of the month.
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Please don’t spend money on datacrons. You might as well put your wallet in a blender
I’m in a top end guild as well and we have had lots and lots leave and more say they are going to asap once they find replacements. (Who?)
Nothing new to play with our rosters is ridiculous. Why have a roster then?
Every year we should be getting at the least 1-2 new areas to play. Not vs each other but to ourselves.
I like playing vs others but more so enjoy playing content with a good storyline.
Haven’t had that in years I’m afraid.
I will see my almost 10 1/2 mil account go to trash by Xmas at this rate.
No communication- no bug/ QOL fixes- no new content- no make goods anymore for being unpaid beta testers- officers burnt out (me included).
Game was so good it was the top of the list, then some **** hat decided that they should put the game on cruse control and stop making new content and since then has slowly killed the game. Why!?!?
Game use to make millions and millions. Why not keep that cow alive? Is Kathleen running the show from behind the scenes? Lol
I'm out of the mk1 pieces. There is no way to spend money or crystals on them... I think.
The single intern working on this game forgot to hit the 'publish' button on the DataCON paid $100 packs during their one weekly hour of time allocated on the shared, single dev laptop at CG.
More realistically, I think the intention during all 'experimental/pilot exhibitions' is to gauge crystal spending, engagement, use, and bugs. I'm sure they'll be properly monetized after the exhibition period. Not that I would ever recommend spending on something as temporary, (IMHO) lazy, and poorly balanced as dataCONs, the seasons after the exhibition will actually be a better 'investment,' as they'll last six months before auto-scrapping instead of three.
Yes, you can "buy" materials to upgrade datacrons with crystals, ally points and shard shop currency. For datacrons that will expire in a couple months and then more will be added. Datacrons are temporary omicrons used to suck resources out of players that they might be hoarding, or using to buy gear (you know, that stuff CG PROMISED us they were working to improve output of?) What's up with the gearlaxy anyway? you haven't said squad about it in 6 months now?
At that, CG has taken a temporary piece of garbage and added it to the game which devalues any roster. Temporary abilities that, if you're lucky enough to get the stupidly overpowered ones, reduce the opponent's team to uselessness. (Along with the AI purposely targeting non-stunned characters to stun them) Yes, a level SIX datacron ability stunning entire teams and keeping them that way for an entire match. How is that fun again CG? And again, who's idea was it to make these so stupidly excessive? If you get specific datacrons and place them on defense in GAC, TW, or arena, only someone else with luck or similarly stupid datacron unlocks will be able to pass. (I know! Just waste more resources on materials for temporary omicrons in hopes of getting the excessive abilities, either through upgrading more datacrons or rerolling them!)
As an example, the stunning every character with every ability, even if it's an attack that MISSES is extra stupid. Like, who seriously thought this was a good idea to implement? (Yes, I've tried rerolling and burned through materials trying to get it. I'm not that lucky I guess.) What good is it to have R8 and R9 characters if they get stunned the entire match because of your stupid datacron abilities?
Seriously CG, you just have no clue how stupid this garbage is. The "idea" of datacrons is fine, it's taking the abilities to the infinite level of excessiveness is what's stupid. Stop taking things in the game to 4500 when you should be taking them to "11". It's stupid.
This is the kind of thing that makes people stop playing. You're trying to implement something "new" and make new "content" but then some putz who makes the decisions and is more concerned about revenue than the game being fun decides to turn up the stupidity level of new content. (If your goal is to get players to stop playing, then I guess it's working?)
Please understand this, CG. This is part of why it’s being received so poorly.
When opponents have the super-OP Datacons, it significantly devalues all the time and resources we’ve put into building our rosters over the last 7 years.
conquest and datacrons killed it for me.
swgoh has become such a time sink and datacrons pushed me over the edge.
tbh, I am glad they introduced datacrons.
it is such a relieve leaving swgoh behind me and not logging into it several times a day.
with my free time I can make forum posts about a game I don't play anymore.
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Not only for building rosters, but also modding, scouting, watching counter videos....
But so far I haven't spent any money on datacrons. Sure I spent some in game resources - shard shop currency, ally points and also crystals - but nothing that I wouldn't have spent on other things anyway. I have a lvl 9, a lvl 8 and a lvl 6 as my best ones so far. And it didn't cost my anything other than a slight shift in resource focusing.
On the guild side of things, we've had 3 people leave our guild due to datacrons - but so far it has been players who were already kind of burned out on the game, and had considered quitting anyway. But if I remember correctly we actually had more people leave when they revamped Conquest into it newer more grindy form.
So IDK ... I hate datacrons as much as the next guy, but I don't think they will break the game much more than Relics or the Conquest revamp have done.
Now that’s an old movie. Great quote.
GAC and TW were many players favorite game modes
Speaking of guilds, ours has seen some of the top players and long-time contributors since guilds debuted quit the game. That is very telling. If more quit, I may be forced to find a new guild for the first time since guilds became a thing.
What guild are you in?
However, datacrons have nothing to do with it, they don’t affect my gaming experience. Just regular boredom after 7 years of farming.
I felt similar "insta-win" concerns when GLs came out, but that was less RNG and more $$$. I think I kinda prefer RNG to $$$, since I don't $$$.
I can only agree. Datacrons is the single worst thing they have implemented in the game.