So after spending a significant amount of time, energy and money unlocking GAS I along with many others have been rewarded with HALF a character.
The only people that can actually enjoy this character are the ones that were sitting on a pile of currency you told us was made available to ease the gear crunch in game. Penalizing your most dedicated player base because they spent this currency in that fashion is disappointing to say the least.
You have a simple way of fixing this issue. It doesn’t require you to refund GET or change the event in any way.
Create an Achievement Unlock that rewards you GET currency once you completed the Clash on Kamino event.
You have retroactively done this in the past and it would fix the issue of all the players who didn’t spend the GET and allowing them to 7* him. It also rewards the players who stockpiled that currency by paying them back what the used to Star him up. It doesn’t even have to be a full 70k. Just a decent amount to show that you hear us as a community and you care about your customers.
This is honestly a straightforward and easy fix to mend the relationships with your most loyal and paying customers.
The progression system has changed significantly since the introduction of Relics. Darth Malak wasn’t released with the significant bump in stats made available by Relics which would have dramatically effected his viability when he was released. Even at 5* he was a viable option. GAS has a kit built around survivability. The Relic system makes his viability significantly reduced. For a character with the highest investment of gear, Zetas, Relics and the required units we should get the whole product not part of one.
The sooner you address this the better. I have seen numerous launch players quit the game this weekend. Some of them have spent thousands of dollars and just walked away. That’s not how I would want my customers to feel or react when introducing new content. You might want to take care of this before the release of Rise of Skywalker. You have a sure fire season of spending ahead of you that looks like it could be derailed based on how you have handled this release.
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It also doesn't help that I just don't have any emotional attachment to characters in Rise of Skywalker following on from TLJ.
He is a 5star unlock with required 7* Gear12 or even relic levels needed to unlock. Plus it will take 70k GET 1 to just 7star him and be useful.
Plus, I am still not done with Malak, because I wasn’t able to hoard as much GET1 because I needed the gear...
GAS should be a 7 star unlock.
I am definitely not looking forward to Rise of Skywalker. TLJ completely ruined the Sequel trilogy for me.
Malak was not as bad. Why? Because we were only running Hoth, that’s 10K+ GET per TB. Now we’re running Geo which is only 6K (max) GET per TB. 5 months is beyond a joke.
So false advertising there, CG? Maybe a few refund requests will be incoming.
Nah their communication was even worse with she who shall not be named.
At least now they're doing monthly Q&As
I think the problem is in the following:
Phase 1 requires
Windy cap ship, ETA, +3 GR ships
Which means Mace windy, Anakin, +3 GR characters at g10 or more.
(5 ships + 5 characters with gear)
Phase 2 requires
Padme (requiring 5 seperatists)
C3P0 (requiring 5 Ewoks)
Ahsoka and Shaak Ti,
then General Kenobi (which probably requires some characters to, I don't know, do the tank raid)
(12 characters + g12/13)
And finally, the last phase. That one I will give you for free, since you could use those 5 to get Padme, but still need gear.
In summary: 5 ships, 17 characters, with at least G10 and up to G13.
I got a 7* Thrawn with a G10 Phoenix team.
CG has made characters harder to get and less worthwhile, all while demanding more gear and taking more ways to get gear away.
They can’t remember what they said. CG this is not ok you can’t say one thing and then say fooled you this is simple Bait and switch
Uh, how so? Pretty sure a Shaak Ti lead or even a Rex lead with zBarris is better than a 5* GAS lead. I can’t really find any use for him at 5*.
No-one is going to go and grab toons on the first release anymore at this rate.
The problem is that having GS 5* is NOT going to make anyone superior to anyone without him. It will make very little impact at all, if any, and for a meta changing toon likened to a Raid Boss, that is pretty awful behaviour from CG if not addressed. They fixed Malak when this happened with him and Empire, so time to step up again and fix it CG!
As greedy as you think they are, they're not making the game 100% p2w.
They add content while ways to make money
If you're not sitting on a pile of GET1, then you know the toon is going to worthless in raids and LS Geo TB and other important game modes for at least a period of MONTHS.
By the time the character comes around again, you might still not have enough GET1 to immediately 7* him.
Soooooooo.... why would you spend to get him now, when you can get him to 7* at the exact same time that you would get him to 7* if you bypassed this event and got him the next time around?
If what makes the toon usable is the GET1, and you don't have the GET1 sitting around (which most won't, because of Malak and also because we were told this was a source of gear and we were told we would need high-gear characters to get ready for GAS), why bother with an early unlock process?
Getting the toon to 7* instantly makes spending for him worth it.
Getting the toon to 7* 5 months from now makes it worth spending for him 5 months from now, but you probably won't need to spend for him then, because you've had long enough to plan.
Whooops!
Just to let you know I tried mine agains a DR team, with no zetas... It went so so.. no horrible.
He's not useless.... small consolation, I know. But we'll have to just take it. But I feel your pain!
They described him as likened to a raid boss, we knew he unlocked at 5* yes, but they probably should have mentioned when describing him that he’s only anything like a raid boss at 7* or it really is false advertising tbh.
Think that’s the issue here they made it sound like he was going to be awesome even at 5* kinda like malak was.
No we dont just have to take it and we can voice our opinion and ask for a correction. We might not get it, but if we dont say anything now, the next epic toon will unlock at 3* and the next one at 1*.
If the world was made of people just like you, we would still be living in caves as we would just accept our lot in lives...
The reason you don’t have the GET1 to 7* is because you’ve presumably spent it on gear. CG is trying to train spenders to not use currency on gear and to use cash on gear instead. That’s how you could have bought 7* GAS.
G(A)S was announced less than a week ago (although speculated quite some time now) after a previous update note concerning the use of GET currency for gearing purposes once you are done with Malak. There was virtually no reason to hoard GET after Malak unless you decided you are just not going to believe what they say.
Edit: In addition, 3-4 months before the first Malak event there was a Q&A or Road Ahead blog about future character(s) coming to the GET store. Prior to G(A)S there was one about GET being a source of gear. Hard to compare the two.
There was no previous update note like that. The statement people keep referring to was a statement they had no immediate plans to put someone in the GAC store because they put characters into the GET store. That statement heavily inferred more people would be put into the GET store.
I just consider comparing the 3rd event of Malak to the first release of G(A)S ridiculous, to say the least.