Is F2P dying a slow death?
August 30, 2018 5:47PM
edited August 2018
Am I the only F2P/Dolphin who feels like after a dozen or so Marque events that the game is slowly being built towards whales, thus leaving us long-dedicated F2Ps out in the cold watching the game pick up light speed as we watch it blast away?
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There is more than enough time (as of right now) to make smart choices and plans to help service your future.
The dev team have mad comments that they felt it was better for the community to push out a bunch of toons on the front end, and then line up events for them on the back end of the year. This would be preferable to them releasing toons, having an event where they are needed and then rinse and repeat.
Just remember it’s a game to be enjoyed how you want to. You don’t have to chase the meta if you don’t want to.
I think if it wasn’t for the group of chaps in my guild and the banter we have with each other I probably would have quit the game long ago.
This. You can pretty much kiss any chance of being at the forefront of a meta shift as ftp but if you don't try to chase the meta the whales follow you can do plenty well with the ftp toons available.
I feel like that is more an unintended consequence of how much everyone hates sith raid than anything else. Instead of motivating whales in non-hsith guilds (and whales that fail to make top 10) to shell out they spent the last 6 months letting the gap between top 1% of whales and everyone else explode exponentially, convincing the community that if you aren't already at the top there's no point spending trying to get to the top .
At least I very much doubt they intended to convince would be whales that spending money in the game wasn't a good choice because the gap was too large.
It‘s too bad that you can still only delete newsletter instead of being able to mark them as read like in MArvel Strike Force.
oh ok, so your ship shard isnt full of 7* g12 double zeta hounds tooths not dying with anything
Actually more are hitting the boredom wall and getting off the hamster wheel. This type of game has no real new content, it's more rehashing existing. But many like it so...
with guaranteed speed primary arrow and speed / protection secondaries. That's an ideal arena setup right there. Sure the secondaries aren't guaranteed to roll, but relative to the original mod store, these prices are super reasonable.
They HAVE to make money somewhere. And if I were really motivated to increase rank in arena (because you know, more crystals) then $15 is a gamble worth taking for guaranteed +45 speed on a toon.
This is me. I’m just bored...and my boredom gets worse each day. I use to care about arena until STR and Traya took over. I’m still completing dailies and participating in guild events but I’m definitely not dropping cash or planning anything long term. There’s literally nothing to work toward right now.
Any headline that ends in a question mark can also be answered by the word yes.
This is the best F2P roster I've seen. Fellow 2015 starter. But thats nearly 3 years of time
https://swgoh.gg/u/sloweagle/
Starting these days... gee it would be hard to be competitive. If you are lucky to get on a non whale shard you are halfway there.
This This.
I play to be playing; not have had played. I enjoy the animations ("C'mere! I'm gonna use Thrawn's Fracture! Check it out!")
I'm pretty much a minnow (though I see myself more as a cuttlefish), and I have always been aware that the whales play a different game. That's fine. Good for them.
When my (almost-)FTP Troopers can take out a stronger squad, I feel a real sense of accomplishment. Without Zetas, even. Knowing that I earned (almost) every shard on the tables gives me a real sense of ownership.
YMMV, of course.
Also, you realise how terrible the excuse is that "f2p shouldn't be able to win or be top"? Like, I've literatlly never seen someone give up that much hope and even make up excuses as to why a game can't be good or better.
THERE is no truly f2p game , cause if the company makes no money then you have no game.
If you want to be top of the arena or beat hsith , yeah you have to pay , but guess what , if you dont you can be free to play and still enjoy the game.
If you stopped worrying about what everyone else has and enjoy what you have, the game is more fun. But don't forget what this game is , its a grind, thats the point of it. If everyone had everything maxxed , why play ?
We are in an era where anyone with a brain can be arena competitive, and it doesn't require money...... Be happy about that....
This, so much