The beauty of this game used to be in it’s similarity to a chess match. There were a limited number of robots and weapons that everybody eventually had access to, and it was up to a player’s skill to determine the outcome of most matches. The rapid release of powerful new robots and weapons, coupled with the huge increase in upgrade times has made it impossible for the average player to even remotely keep up with the paying group.

I’m no whale, but I do kick in about $20 a month to the game and I can tell you that after finally getting a Spectre, learning that it would take 30 days to upgrade it from level 9-12 took the wind out of my sails. There’s gotta be a place for middle ground those between F2P and P2W. The concept of increasing upgrade times is also good in theory, but in reality, it only widens 5he gap between whales and the middle group, as the whales get their equip,met and upgrades the day they come out.

Ditto for healers & modules: cool in concept, but knowing that on day 1, most people I play against in champion league will have mkii items and that it will a) take me 2 months to get one module and b) take all resources to upgrade it over the next month, only to have some new surpassing equipment introduced once I get close to the end is totally demoralizing.

If you take the time to read about it, you appreciate how good this game is. To have an awesome game you need to pay the staff, so the game needs paying players. My hope is that the developers do something like introduce more leagues to champion to separate the 5000 guys from the 8000+ guys, especially when squadding. That way my role could be more than an appetizer for the tier 1 guys.