Q&A Summary
“We’ve heard loud and clear that you don’t like 5* unlocks, and that you’re unhappy with the balance of rewards given in various areas of the game, and we’re going to continue doing exactly what we’re doing now for the foreseeable future.”
It’s honest, I guess. Hoard that GET and buy those crystals.
It’s honest, I guess. Hoard that GET and buy those crystals.
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I read the entire thing and didn’t see any of that. This q&a was the most sympathetic yet and yes they’re obviously on an apology tour for the past months of trauma caused to the community. But from what they described a lot of good things will be happening in December and they still have plans for the upcoming year which gives me real hope for the game and our continued enjoyment of it.
They did basically say they're not going to change how hoarding is the best thing to do to stay competitive
A: CG_Miller - This is kind of a backwards way to think of this, but I can understand the perspective. We try to make the game engaging for all players for the time they are playing the game. This will sometimes mean that goals involve a high number of resources that we would expect a player to spend time farming. The unfortunate side effect to this is that players who were not spending those resources previously will see themselves as having a leg up compared to the other players. So in short, our goal is not to design around hoarding resources, but for those resources to be acquired and consumed over time
This is the exact quote. Basically saying it's not intentional but we're not gonna change it
Yeah it's a pretty **** response when they undoubtedly use these stores as a basis to say that they have been easing the gear crunch
They still have faith in humanity!
The bolded part is exactly what I often say myself, it's not meant to always get everything the day it comes out. At least not without either hoarding or paying huge amounts of money, but those are ways to progress faster, not the initial purpose of how the game is meant to work.
Besides that, there are other things in the Q&A that I would personally criticize... but don't want to go out of topic here.
We don’t know the frequency of an event like this so most of us will want to store away that five star character anyway - even if we can’t take them to seven.
I only store when I don’t have anything pressing to spend it on - I don’t mind spending GeT2 on the Negotiator because I want the negotiator Nd will spend on it now or later anyway - so little benefit in waiting 6 months, I actually would lose out by not having it available for that long.
The only two ways to avoid hoarding without wrecking the good parts of the game would be to have maximum caps on some item or currencies or to run more events that would require using some of that hoard. Of course people could decide to do poorly and not dip in but then there is a clear cost to hoarding and that’s ok. Anyone who passes up success today to hopefully guess right and be ahead of the curve later is paying a price while hoarding and taking on at least a little bit of risk - and that trade off is fair. It doesn’t work if there is nothing worthwhile to spend on - there is really no benefit for me to gear up my rogue one team anymore...so better to hoard the gear. This boils down to no new raid for a long time. Yes we have TB and GAC, but a new raid would have likely required gearing up some additional teams to stay competitive with rewards. We need content to encourage spending. Maybe that’s all I needed to say.
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If you think he's useless you either don't have him or you're doing something wrong.
AGAIN: we can get 1st without GAS, we can beat GAS by Padme (we kinda rock, not suck)
BUT we want shiny toy and 5* GAS is not shiny at all
Btw, do those two have to beat 7* r7 GAS on their climb to 1st?
There's one but it's irrelevant to my point.
A December 2016 shard is not easier than a December 2015 shard beciase it's a year younger.
Amazing. Everything you posted is an assumption.
Here are some facts. A shard that is one year older than another shard has 1 more year of collecting arena crystals and roster development - for every player in that shard. That roster development will allow the older shard to comolete events, join guilds, complete raids, and TBs sooner and more efficiently than a younger shard. It's simple math - not assumptions based on who may or may not have quit.
There are exceptions on every shard. There could be more whales on a younger shard.... or less. But the older the shard, the more total arena crystals that shard has in its overall rosters. There's no way to argue against that fact.
But.....you will try. Goodnight.
In game guild: TNR Uprising
I beat the REAL T7 Yoda (not the nerfed one) and did so before mods were there to help
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As much as I enjoy a good strawman argument, I'll just say this - you'd have an easier time taking first on my shard if you had started in April of 2016.
In game guild: TNR Uprising
I beat the REAL T7 Yoda (not the nerfed one) and did so before mods were there to help
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The longer both shards are in existence, the less this matters.
Second, it could be argued that a newer shard is more difficult for ftp/dolphins since it'll take longer to develop the counters to the meta.
Real summary: the game is making money, so we will keep as it is, stop bothering us.
People who say this are just trying to justify their own inability to finish well. There are plenty of non-whales who are able to compete just fine in arena.