Pay to win??
June 21, 2016 2:44AM
edited June 2016
Is Swgoh joining the growing club of "pay to win" games to play at the top level or is it down to gold old fashioned time, effort and skill??
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Pay to win?? 123 votes
Pay to win
27%
34 votes
Time, effort and skill
18%
23 votes
A mix of both
31%
39 votes
Mind numbing grind fest
21%
27 votes
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This.
Yeah, there is no winning. There is just farming forever as the cap gets moved up.
Whenever that happens pay players will pour money in and in a matter of days will be untouchable in arena... For a while. As long as we are given a bit of time, us free players can catch up. We just have to be super careful how we spend our resources. One wrong move can set us back for months.
Money helps, but it isn't impossible to "win" arena occasionally after the whales get to romp for a month or two.
Do I win when I am number 1 in arena forever? Do I win when I 3 star all the light and dark side battles? Do I win when I am first place in my guild every raid?
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I have no problems with game developers and publishers making money. If you took away the money, the game, the IP (star wars, which you know they license for like um money) would cease to exist. We would not have a game.
EA and CG are in the business of making money. The game is f2p, but you can also pay money for certain advantages. This is how every single f2p game works unless it is ad based.
No offense but the question is kind of silly. Yes I would love it if they gave the game away for free and everyone was free to play.
Without money though this game would not exist.
Oh of course mate I agree with you 100%, It wouldn't work if they actually took the ability to do it away, the point I was trying to make which I probably could of worded better was are the people that are spending absurd amount of cash on the game ruining it for the people that done because they can't keep up??
You would be appalled to learn what people spend on virtual bobbles. 5% of players make the game companies 90% of the cash. That is how mobile games work and it is not unique to this game.
Like others have said, you can do just fine as F2P you are just going to be slower. Honestly the really good F2P players are the best payers in the game hands down. They have a much better grasp on resource management and also think very hard about decisions since they are not shelling out cash to take the easy way out. If you are F2P take pride in it.
I personally occasionally buy crystals but not often. I am not 100% F2P but I also wont go after toons that are only available though packs.
Yup and again I agree and I do think that the F2P players generally enjoy the game more and get a greater sense of achievement put of it.
Myself I can say I think I've bought around 3 sets of the £4 crystals over the course of several months and I'd like to think I wouldn't want to spend much more than that rich or not.
Ps. This has made my night shift go by a lot easier ha
I pay to play and am definitely not winning, but I'm having a great time. I take pride in what I do, and I have accomplished a lot on this game. I do tier 5 & 6 raids, and usually sit in t50 PvP, so paying != winning. I don't spend my resources frivolously. I have a goal in this game, and I am very close to reaching it.
Without paying players, this game wouldn't be half of what it is now.
Without non-paying players, this game wouldn't be half of what it is now.
Very well put mate
500 arena crystals. Spend it all on shipment refreshes. Now you will get to buy some raid gear.
There's still a few F2P out of the million that will get more luck in shipments than you without buying refreshes.
no thank you~
In theory yes a F2p player can hang in there but it will take several months and during that time you have characters added, characters changing, meta change, gear grinding and lvl cap increase.
Because the difference in gear 9-11 is so huge, yes this game has become pay to win. Also people need to understand if P2p players arnt winning in arena they sure are in raids.
If you pay to play and are not top tier it's not because you lack skill, it's because you made poor purchases.
And on the strength of that, I have to say that FTP players can compete. But only after a mind-numbing grind.
the idea that all content is available to all so it is not pay to win is ludicrous, there are heroes only available when you spend real money, some of these heroes are pivitol raid heroes or pvp synergy buffs that far outshine anything F2P has.
ok so, all this content will be available for free at some point but the question was "Is Swgoh joining the growing club of "pay to win" games to play at the top level or is it down to gold old fashioned time, effort and skill"
while time and effort will allow you to play every aspect of the game if you pay enough money you can buy yourself a clear advantage in raiding and pvp, although f2p can compete they can not claim the top for raids or pvp which makes this game completely pay to win.
and it has been since day one, unashamedly i might add.
not true. how do f2p people farm Rex shards? they do not. you buy them with chromium packs making Rex a pay to win hero.
you could save up your daily crystals and maybe buy 2 chromium packs a week, to farm a hero this way would take years and although possible is just a complete waste of time.