I herby refuse to spend any more money on this game. Level 58 and still have drawn nothing but shards and don't have enough to have a single special character. The only characters I have are ones that you can farm. Today got chromium pack with only 10 Leia shards but nooo takes 25 to unlock and can't farm her!!!!!!! /end rant
Ingame name Daremo
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If you choose to spend, I'd say crystals are about it and maybe second choice would be some packs that offer value like the Dooku pack perhaps although I believe the other packs are far too expensive for what you get
There's no inbetween in SWGoH, only whale and f2p. If you spend a little money it means nothing cause you can never star those characters up. It's a really cruel model.
The only time this rule doesn't apply is if you have enough money to spend on LOTS of packs.
If you can only afford to buy 2 8 packs, inevitably you will get Maul and Leia, characters you can only get in packs. So, now you have 2 characters but no way to increase them!
Oh, I definitely agree with you. The packs, and structure for increasing pack only characters is an absurd money grab. Every pack should have a character in it, with pack only characters the rarest, obviously. As mentioned, if you're not going to spend big on packs, don't spend at all. It's a fool's errand.
But he has come handy in PVP
I don't like the text how they say drops eight of the following characters, or character shards
Since I got one toon it had felt better with it drops shards and maybe 1 toon
It's nice to pull a character but they literally mean nothing late game without being at least 5*s. So good luck with that Old Ben. I had a couple good pulls too but they're rotting in my roster. ;P
Addiction is nothing more than what's firing off in your brain. Certain brains are wired differently. Science. These companies study this and know this. They design systems to prey on your actual brain. They hire people who know all this and consult them on pay structures and other aspects of game design.
Which is why you must use you mind and intellect. Not just your brain.
Learn how the world works around you, and you'll become less of a sucker.
Unless you drop another $500 into packs, he will be a 4* maul for the rest of his existence.
This basically means you bought a 4 pack and got 3 cards.
At the end of the day, it might be more worthwhile to invest the gems into cantina energy refresh, but there are many days the drop rate of shards in those missions is only 1 out of 4 for me, so hard to justify it. In the end I like the 'chance' of drawing a complete character from packs, so it's worth it to me
Promised myself I would never do an in-app purchase, but you know how that goes.
I bought an 8-pack chromium card yesterday, and it was god awful. Here are the shards I got:
12 Jedi knight guardian (will not use)
24 Ururuururruururururrr (you need 80 to unlock)
12 Asajj Ventress (meh)
10 Grand Moff Tarkin (only 70 more to go to unlock this old raisin!)
12 Ewok Scout (I got him at the beginning of the game and have not / will not promote him). Seriously, screw Ewoks.
15 Coruscant Underworld Police (unlocked character, but I will not promote him)
Then there are supposed to be 2 new character drops. This is what I got:
7 shards of Jedi Consular (it said because I already had the character, it just gave me bonus shards. But only 7, really?!)
25 shards of Cad Bane. (Again, already had him, so these are bonus shards.
These packs should be designed to give 2 absolute new characters for the money ($20 gives you enough crystals to buy an 8 pack). I understand there is a randomness to it, but it should be balanced to avoid total suckdom.
Yeah but on the other hand, anyone with maxxed farmable characters can beat someone who has spent thousands on the game.
So you know as a fact they will never release Maul shards? I didn't know you possessed the ability to see into the future.
If they don't, you are stuck with a 4 maul forever. If they do, you are stuck with a 4 maul till then, and then you have to farm him.
Thanks for the smart alec remark though.
You can see a topic about this in the Bugs forum and it is currently under investigation by the dev. team. EA_Jesse has been looking in to the issue and made a post about it today.
I really enjoy games like this that has time zone related prizes. I've dumped about $40 USD into this since I started a couple weeks ago and so far I've been #1 in arena every day since about the 5th day or whatever as it as no one seems to be trying for #1 in my Australian time zone.
I'll keep playing for as long as my budget (maybe 60 to 80 USD) keeps me "having fun", having been playing games for well over 30 years, I'm used to a price range of $50 to $100 for games and try not to get suckered for (lots) more as I've been there and done that with losing control and blowing a heap in IAP then getting bored of the game. Also, having 2 kids that just both finally entered school age this year, money is a little more important for them than just me.
I'm glad this pay model wasn't around 10 to 20 years ago when I was gaming in any spare time, I'd have spent thousands, monthly on these type games.