Speaking of mods another big problem that's not being addressed is that there are hundreds more units in the game now but THEY STILL HAVEN'T INCREASED THE MOD CAPACITY LIMIT!!!!!
I argue with myself about this. On one hand I want the mod cap to increase because it is annoying. But then I look at myself in real life. I will get more storage for my PC because I ran out of space. Then I just fill it up again and hit my cap once more then complain I am out of space instead of deleting old files haha
@@AhnaldT101 yeah but I and most people don't want to have to remod every toon before every battle. Give us enough space to leave our mods on toons without having to juggle constantly.
I feel like the mod cap wouldn't feel nearly as bad if you could shift your entire rosters mods in the click of a button. Like you can with hot utils....
@@AhnaldT101 I see what you're saying there but for me at least I build up credits then do mass upgrades but I like to build up blue C or higher mods with speed and sometimes I'll have a ton of E mods sometimes those E mods turn into something useable but I find 70-90% of the time that's not the case and I've just wasted a ton of credits. Thanks to all the new ways to get credits I'm not constantly running out anymore but I'm not upgrading much either right now. 1 character from 1-85 is 6.5 mil credits not including abilities and mod upgrades/rerolls I still have a ton of characters I could 7* but I'm not using anytime soon each of them are 1 mil to 7* assuming they're already at 6* I can easily run through 70 mil in one day and I've done it. Luckily working on long term projects allows me to take time in between to stock up but it sucks getting on every day or every other day and ending up with mods in my inbox. And I don't even have 50 mods with speed already on them with 0 upgrades.
That’ll be huge if it comes to the game, especially for ships. I always have it on x4 and it feels like it’s what normal speed should be lmao. x1 in fleet battles feels painfully slow
At 13.3M gp, I just quit last week for these exact issues. Chores are not content, and making things simmable doesn't preclude anyone else from playing things manually. A diverse player base requires common sense flexibility to make the game fit in their lives, and as your account grows, so does the amount of chores and time commitment. Veteran accounts will continue to drop like flies. An old adage says that time is money, so when CG doesn't respect my time, they no longer deserve the money.
Yup. I quit awhile ago cuz with the new raid system I could see they were just going to keep going down this road, and not respect Players time at all. I recommend Marvel Strike Force. I wasn't much of a Marvel fan other than the movies, but it's just such a better game. It's a million times more f2p(it still has p2w aspects but its a lot less painful unless ur an endgame player) the devs communicate with players all the time, and they constantly update the grind so you can keep up, you'll just be behind spenders rather than constantly falling further and further behind.
At about 12m GP I quit 2 weeks back. Too much work and too much drudgery. I actually just found I didn’t have the time to keep up with the Datacron-driven GAC meta shift. It’s not a bad thing, just didn’t work for me anymore.
Community is a big reason I stick around playing this game. I love Star Wars. But if it was just me and a phone, I don't think that would be enough to push through. Capital Games rarely doing any favors for us, so it's got some rough spots. As long as the Kyber Club is open, I'll be around. LLTKE
The time sink in SWGOH has been a problem for a while, but the Naboo raid RNG fest feels like the straw that broke the camels back. It's too much. Unfortunately 'time in game' is an analytic used to judge a mobile games success, so minimal incentive for CG to address the issue.
Love the game but this absolutely needs to be addressed. I actually like Conquest because it can be done off normal business hours. GAC is fun but the biggest issues is that it needs to be done during the workday. Or I have to do it all over night and not leave much for during the day. I can’t check my phone much during the work day so it’s a problem. Plus, I have been saying for a long time that most of the PVE content needs to be simmable. There’s no reason that you have to continue doing the third sister event over and over or the cargo ships battles on auto over and over and over again. Either it should be that you get three stars and then you can sim or if you beat some thing 10 times you should be able to sim going forward.
After the grand arena update where they you were being paired with people beyond your GP. Months later I quit, couldn’t compete and the grind is too long
I’ve contemplated quitting for a very long time because I find it a chore to play GAC and it’s far and away my favorite part of the game. I would rather auto one battle for rewards than play and win, just for me to rank up and have to play MORE battles. Having that on top of the dailies, is just insane. Nothing feels rewarding.
I agree. The game is a massive time sink and trying to progress in the game feels impossible. Unlike other games I play, such as Honkai Star Rail (not including gacha mechanics), leveling the characters in Galaxy of Heroes takes way too much time and trying to push up in the game (via guilds, grand arena, and journey guide) feels like it takes more time then I have to play the game. (For the comparison, it would take about 2 weeks to level a HSR character to a usable status, but Galaxy of Heroes takes what feels like closer to 1 month per character. Too few resources for too much content). Now I do think the slow resource/leveling method works, but there has to be something else to do in the meantime. I also play Genshin (yes I do like Hoyo games), but while it certainly sucks to get artifacts for your characters, there’s still stuff for you to do in the game (quests, general exploration,etc). Galaxy of heroes, you use your energy and then your done. You play grand arena and you either stomp or get stomped (rarely do I feel like you get even matches in the lower tiers). There isn’t anything else to do other than leveling and play the same 4 things over and over. I know it’s a stretch to compare the two, but I feel like the idea should come across. Generally, I would say we need a better reward system, we need more simple maybe even experimental things to do other than the core gameplay, and overall a reduction in the time required to play the game (specifically journey guide characters). Hopefully my points make sense.
The game has become such a chore. It really started with Conquest IMO. The only meaningful quality of life update we have gotten in years has been the ship load out. And really that's not much of a breakthrough time saver. I just pick and choose what game modes to concentrate on. And I mix it up to keep it fresh.
Conquest and GAC need to be better balanced. I mean on conquest maybe 24 battles a day? Just add up those minutes, if you hit 100c refreshes it is nuts. GAC 5v5 is an hour, 3v3 is much more, i honestly dont have the time. The game mode needa a major rethink. If you customize defense RIP The Raid i dont mind that much, 4 battles and i have 3 days. RotE is too long, way too many battles and every 24h is too much. It all sounds doable until you add up everything on a day, those conquest/gac/gc/raid/dailies/plus tw ot tb.. these are 3-4 hour time commitments
I think part of the issue is that none of the game modes nowadays feel particularly fun or challenging. For example, I didn't mind playing the old sith raid as much because it was fun and challenging (in a good puzzle type way) to figure out. Now the new raids are just recycled b1 units with no challenge to figure out other than do you have enough relic levels on these random characters, (challenging in a bad way)
This is the reason I stopped playing. Why should I spend so much time on this game when I can play several better games for less time. It’s better to keep up with the game through your videos rather than playing it myself cause I still like talking to my brother about the state of the game and what’s coming up next.
Gotta be honest as an old player that had to start from scratch earlier this year. For the amount of characters the game now has the format and speed it takes to catch up or keep up for the vast majority of players is way to high. F2P player and those that only spend here and there have no real intention to play other than to click a few buttons every day until a few years has gone by and then they can properly team build and theory craft. It’s mind numbing and downright soulless to anybody but whales. The game was great with this balance when it first came out and for the first 2-3 years. It’s now bloated into a micro-transaction hell. Gear requirements alone for F2P players is beyond insane.
@@ichxro I dont know, for me, started this month, been okay so far, so issues. Spent 0$. I started this game because I saw Captain Enoch in a random clip on youtube. The game a event at the same time giving me the character. Great coincidence. I have a captain Enoch team now. Since game gave me the other 2.
@@urahara_daioh Raid takes too long to get any character you want. Spending feels terrible because you just waste money and dont get the caracter unless you want to break the bank. By the time you get the characters you wanted when you started, you have nothing left to do in the game.
Crazy my age demographic is 3% of your viewers. Got back into this game in June of 2022 before my junior year of high school right when Raddus came out and haven’t looked back. Crazy how fast it’s gone by
My biggest issue is that it takes me like 3 weeks to take 1 character from Tier 12 to Relic 1. Too many pieces of gear that need 100 smaller pieces and I get maybe 5 a day, so do the math. I normally only log in at midnight for like 10 minutes to do all my dailies, I don't log in again for 24 hours. I get to unlock 1 GL a year.
@@stwida91 I've been playing this game for 10 years man lol a raid maybe gives me like 10 pieces of the 100 I need, but guess what? There is another piece that needs 100 parts.
Gear faming (Especially the drop rate, sometimes really absurd), cantina energy refresh time still long af. Shard drop rate, ships blueprint, tons of problems
I’ve been strongly debating quitting swgoh because I just don’t have the time to commit anymore. It’s a drag to login 10 times. spend 5 minutes for a battle, 3-5 times for arena and fleet. Unlock battles. Raid. TW. GAC. Conquest. Modding is another animal. The end game requires like 3 hours a day. It’s just never ending.
When AhnaldT101 has a kid with the lady of Ahnderaan….the streams will cease…and since you’re the biggest name in the game, it’ll be a sad day, cuz trust me when I say this…once you’re gone, the game will slowly fade into oblivion…I’ve been a SWGOH guy since launch, I’m 50, I don’t create content, I play when I can, but when people like Ahnald leave the game is when the game starts to fall off…it’s a shame but it is what it is…I’ll play til it’s gone…and I know my guild of 40+ year olds will keep playing…but as far as whales/krakens(that keep the game alive)…when they leave the game will cease to be…so lemme be the first to say, thanks Ahnald for the great content and keeping everyone entertained, once u leave, it’ll be over…I’ll keep playing, but it’ll be like force arena, I’ll try to open it, and it’ll say NO LONGER AVAILABLE…I hope this day will never come, but watch,everyone will know when our guy decides to step away, the game will slowly die…so enjoy everyone and LLTKE
Yea its time for a qol update, from more mods space and simmable events to maybe finally getting 2 shards per ship drop. How are ships still only 1 shard? Also for new ppl stuck doing conquest on easy, the rewards are ATROCIOUS. LIKE WHERE IS THE PAYOFF TO HELP THEM ADVANCE?
To be honest, I don't mind playing and spending time on the PVE content in the game. Yes, you spend a lot of time, but you don’t worry. You just play it calmly. Routine. But GAC. I used to love it very much. But now GAC is draining a lot of energy and draining you dry. And you just wait for it to end and want to give up on it. You have hit the wall and hell awaits you further and further. Fierce rivals who are always stronger than you and only a miracle allows you to defeat them. I think it's time to change something in the GAC. Adding a new league would be an option, but only those with 11-12 galactic power could get there. Well, the rewards are correspondingly higher so that everyone would strive to get there. Let there be a kiro for every victory and the final reward would also give a lot of kiro at the end of the season. Perhaps this would revive the GAC. And it made it more honest. Because I'm tired of the GAC. The gap between donators and free-to-play is increasingly a huge chasm. A bunch of new packs and donated datacrons. If they add a new super expensive meta flagship, it will be a gap of a light years.
3 hours a day and more during conquest is getting out of hand 😅 there's zero doubt I'd be a better human being and member of society if I never logged in again
My only complaints are simm'ing 5 battles on a hard mode node for shards and getting 0 shards. Drops should be less rng dependent. Guaranteed shards per battle would be nice. At least adjust the rng to make rewards per battle much more rewarding. It's really a pain in the ass to put all your energy into something and getting nothing for it
I do as little as possible in SWGOH. I love the collecting of characters and gearing them up. I think the actual gameplay is very very bad and boring. Its all rock paper scissors crap that has very very bad power creep.
Some high iq ideas for free? I think the root problem is what makes it what it is.. it's somewhat of an enigma, surely all I feel from this is... or how it could be greatly improved.. would be to not require the backs of the players as much.. somehow even if that ment, God forbid I say an add or two implemented. Or how about this.. an event where your roster is null and void.. you are given a random temporary squad through some free pack thing.. from there theory crafting becomes the niche, from there you will grow to new heights I think.. however thr game is niche in and off itself.. hard yatch to stear
If I didn't have the money invested into the game, I would quit right now. The time crunch of the game is not the biggest or top problem for me. It does factor into the Darkside/CON of the game though. It's the flipping RNG .... ALL the time (#1 on my list)! Wasn't this fixed or addressed 4 years ago? I have watched Xaereth and Sarah's videos, a couple other streamers, and mainly your videos for help with, well everything. You are all great at what you do and do for the SWGOH community. Thank you! It's just that I can Lightside battle 38 times and not get 1 item to drop that I am farming for. I am posting this after 6 consecutive losses just now, and having spent 1,250 of the purple Crystals for Darkside energy to unlock GL S.E.E. I have Relic'd up 1 level most of the needed characters, changed out MODS, and upgraded MODS to 6 dot B (probably just wasting MATs). I have already given up on GL Leia due to the stupid RNG. I have ROLO at Relic 8 and MODs at 6 dot B for that event. Same with Captain H. Solo. I just wish there was a glimmer of HOPE, and better rewards for some of these events. I agree with you! CG/EA needs to reorganize some of the events. Example: 15-minute breaks at work are not ideal to play Naboo manually. Thank you all again for your videos and content! ~ Viper
You know something’s Terribly Wrong when you can have 29k in purple crystal, and you have nothing to spend it on. 9.6mil GP, 4 gls, working on Jabba, only missing DTMG, Amidala, and Luthan. Not interested in Aphra, Katan-dalore or Profundity. All these new toons are an obnoxious money grab and segregating the community from the mega krakkens. Yeah people who have Great Mothers and Morgan up and running with her perfect cron is a Mega Krakken. As F2P, it’s feeling very personal.
I'd like to see fewer overlapping events. Double the rewards for TB and TW and make them one week a month instead of two. So, for example, it'd be two weeks of conquest, a week of TB, a week of TW, and then back to the beginning. If they REALLY wanted to get crazy, they could shorten conquest to a 1-week thing (which I doubt because datacron money) and make GAC one week. And then, of course, increase the ability to sim- Jabba event, the after-conquest GL event, ship shard events, etc. I've known people that complained about "not enough fights" but they still simmed most of their daily stuff, and you can replay multiple galactic challenges a week all you want. You've always had the ability to play as much as you want if it really means that much to you. Heck, that'd be a great excuse to add (and probably monetize) a sandbox mode- fewer "mandatory" fights for time crunch people, more fights for people that want them.
Yes, they need to add more simming in the game. We keep here and there getting new assault battles, and they have simming, so why not go in and add them to many others. Baffling they haven't made new mythic teir events yet 1 of the tiers is simmable. Idk why not all 3 are. Another thing anything with multiple rewards to select like the personal rewards in raids and the conquest rewards should have a claim all button. Those little nods of quality of life will help in the day to day. Then going forward yes improving TW is needed as well. Maybe I know it's a bit much and still takes time but maybe having a monthly sim ability to the raid. First raid in a month requires a playthrough and rest of month you can place the same score without playing it. Unless you wanna improve it. Will help guilds have their members hit the raid more frequently. Maybe the cost will be 10+ sim tickets to use up those endless amounts we have or atleast that's based on the teir. (Still miss new characters there). Gac should give players an option of 3v3 or 5v5. 5v5 reareds are same as current rewards but 3v3 will give like a 10 to 15% more onto of current rewards. So players can play which mode they want to. Also side note 3v3 and 5v5 should have separate match making brackets for them
Lol I recall a time, maybe 5 years ago, where everyone was complaining about a severe lack of content. Have the scales tipped the other way that much? For that, I applaud CG.
I firmly believe that cg stacks the schedule on purpose. I honestly think that is the effort to incentivize people to buy the conquest pass and things like that. I fear their biggest flaw at this point especially for the raid, is that if you have the gear, or resources invested, there should be bonuses that make those teams practically automatic. And they don’t. Top runs for the raid alone require significant investment. Tb as well. They made it 6 phases instead of 4. They cut down the waves but there is so many more missions. It’s very destructive for most of the population
I have a shitton of free time, but they really need events to be simmable, because i wanna have fun in a game. TB, Jabba event, Ultimate journeys arent fun
i wish they switched the weeks of TW and TB. if conquest started when TW was happening that would make the load easier overall, as the second week on conquest when their is less to do in it you get TB happening
I live an active busy life (besides not having kids lol) but I’m always more bothered by lack of things to do and the 1d, 2d, 3d waiting periods, I manual a lot of battles just feel like the characters I have invested in seem “worth” the investment, I feel cheated almost when I grind a character up to R7 just to never use them on defense or watch them fight on auto
I love this game to death, but sometimes it just becomes too much and I have to take a break. I think everyone in the swgoh community has felt the impact of this problem at one point or another sadly
Honestly, I think I might be one of the few people that actually like the grind in this game for f2p, because it makes me feel like the game is endless while I’m trying to push for my first gl. I want to say more but I’m too lazy to do so but one complaint I have about this game is lack of new features and how trash squad arena is, because currently while farming for finalizer, and farming for jkr, it’s basically a routine that I follow everyday and pretty do nothing else but follow this routine until I get jkr and finalizer, and squad arena is annoying because I literally only have a team of 5 gear 12 teams and majority of the teams I have to against have gear 13s with low or high relic, making squad arena for f2p players practically unplayable.
Would love to see a damage based raid where you get 5 minutes to do as much damage as possible and submit. 3 attempts is 15 minutes and boom raid over the stronger you are the better you do.
Love being part of that 3% demographic for the past 5 years lol. Love your vids nonetheless Ahnald, keep doing what you do best, making living in the empire great everyday.
Question for everyone who sees this: Do you believe that if each node dropped gave you all the items on that node that it would help you out? Instead of wasting energy on the same node to get one part that you need to upgrade your character because I've had that problem where I just gotta hope I get it first try I understand it's sorta like a Gatcha game where it's based on luck and all that but still I'd like to hear everyone's thoughts
The biggest problem with the game for me is datacrons.Only pvp is fun and not a chore and they managed to destroy it.I said since launch that this will make the most people to quit,not one of my guild members is having fun right now with pvp.
Shut up, it's the time sink, datacrons are temporary and they usually aren't that bad, and only really affect the kyber players, because the lower players who are the majority aren't dealing with them as much.
It’s sad bc it could be solved by them ditching bonus stats and catering more towards less-used legacy characters than the newest characters and Lord Vader for the 87th time
The game is not enjoyable for me now. I like 5v5 gac. Other things I dislike or hate. I hate that I can’t get enough resource. I don’t like 3v3 gac. The squad and fleet arena are useless. The tw and raids are boring. Tb is something else, I just deploy and do the sm. I don’t have the time to the all cm, which I would be able to complete successfully. The farming is terrible. I need like a 1000 mk7 kryotech shock prod prototype salvage and I can get like 5-10 a day. Besides I need salvage for relics and I need shards and so on. I won’t spend money in the game because it’s so expensive. I don’t feel like it would help me a lot if I buy some stuff with money. I spend my crystals because it can be a lot after a gac or a tb. Also they need to add new stuff to the stores. I can’t buy anything useful day to day. I like to play with a lot of hope it’ll change for good.
CG aint listening, as long as the whales keep their income up they wont change anything that benefits the players which really sucks because we as a playerbase fully have the power to stop them even making a single sale and forcing them into making the entire experience more user friendly but it will never happen
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again - double the rewards for TW and TB and run the cycle once a month - Week 1 - TB Week 2 - 2 TWs Weeks 3&4 - Conquest There. Problem solved. Alternatively, in TB, once a guild hits a certain star count, let us SIM it. 5 TBs in a row where phase 1 is 9:star:? SIM P1. All the GCs, Events, etc that we do = 3:star:? SIM! Why make us do stuff over and over when the SIM feature is available? 300 crystals to SIM your raid for last raids score? Done. Want a better score? Play it out.
I never get past first crait in conquest. 1. The challenges are impossible if you dont have a monster roaster. 2. Too much time that it takes... same with GA, when you climb the amount of teams you have to go through is rediculous.
Dude, I been "quitting" for the last year. I cant keep up anymore. I love Xaereth and Sarah's commitment to us as players. But I been asking the same thing for a long time, why do I play? Do I play for me or because I have to? They keep pulling me back in, now with Nightsisters, theyre drawing me back in. I cant! I need to walk away but its so hard to walk away.
I've changed my time settings a few times just for this reason, and to get the daily requirements done at reset (which is an earlier time) so I have less of a commitment throughout the day
Every morning I spend around 1-2 hours. 2 for sure with conquest. But it's GAC and TW that make me have to spend time outside my morning time. Unfortunately that has hurt me the most.
I stopped playing 2 months ago, and then randomly got an email this week from EA saying my account had been banned for violating guidelines. Guess I'm never going back now
Yup blue milk is wet... Tell CG I need a few things. A Relic tag in characters. I would like to see all of my relic 6 toons and other relic levels. Ok...we need another Old Republic jedi to complete a Jedi revan team. Another Empire Tank, so it would make Krennic usable.
that really sucks. Sarah will be missed in the community. She's the only female CC that I know of and now she's leaving. Granted, a child and family are far more important than swgoh.
The time sink is the number one factor in me quitting for 2 years. I was burned out. We REALLY need more QoL changes to this game. There are days where it’s just way too time consuming to want to deal with. And some of it feels unrewarding for the amount of time you sink into the game. I miss the CG Carrie days. She really advocated for us as players. She did a lot for us to get regular QoL updates. Ever since she left we just haven’t had them like we used to. We need to be able to sim way more in the game. Anything that you can 3 star we need to be able to sim. If you have beaten a game mode or event “x” amount of times you should be allowed to sim it. They need to cut down on the time. Conquest is a big time grind. It feels like If you miss a day or two in conquest you’re screwed. Add in GAC for a week while conquest is going on. Or TB. The TBs take forever. It’s not that enjoyable. Conquest takes forever. I miss what conquest was when it first came out. That was actually fun. It’s a boring grind now. You still have a fleet arena climb daily. TW having to check in multiple times per day. The raid is annoying. I REALLY miss the Endor raid. It might have been nauseating and stale. But it was so much quicker. This raid is an RNG fest and takes forever for every battle. I love the idea behind it. But it was poorly executed. We need more mod QoL updates. We need datacron QoL updates really bad. Need to be able to sim more stuff. Some event rewards just don’t feel worth it for the time commitment. I do love the game which is why I play. It’s why I came back to the game. But it can be the most frustrating game to play bc there should be way more done for the players to play see up on the time and just making small improvements every few months. We put a lot into your game. Give us a little back in return
If only they would fix Territory Wars to be fun and give you increasing awards! I like that idea of having more zones. I like the idea of having a pyramid of zones where the back zone is the top of the pyramid and you can attack any zone from any direction so that we don't get stuck behind two walls. You could also have each zone only have 10 defensive teams because there will be 3 times more zones than the current TW. You could even have a few zones that are 3v3 only teams for attack and defense. Maybe make it so that TW has 1 day to setup defense and 2 days for attack.
What they should do is a two week guild war for the first half of the month and guild raid on the other half of the month like warhammer 40k tactics do it a great way to keep players playing
Honestly, TW needs a huge revamp and would make a lot more sense if it felt similar to GAC. I think GAC would be more well received if you could pick 3v3 or 5v5 each round to compete in the one that you care more about and then there needs to be a better balance in timing between PvE (Conquest, TB, Raids) and PvP (TW, GAC) having two of the same type at one time either feels like too time consuming (PvE) or not enough to do (PvP).
Honestly fax, i have been playing this game for 5 damn years and i still dont have a galactic legend, nor do i have what it takes to survive higher raids despite having Both revans, GK etc etc. The lightspeed bundles helped a mega ton but that was about it. Had it not been for those packs i guarantee you i wouldn't be abke to plah the game normally Ti many resources to collect, too many things locked hehind conquest and what not i mean ive never been able to complete conquest fully If you rememer Ahnald i once commented "People called me crazy for leveling my bad batch, WELL WHOS LAUGHING NOW???" Yeah, they're still not 7* yet- and this isnt even factoring in Omega Theres just so many things to do and grind for that honestly its put me off for weaks on end
I took a break from the game (only ended up being a month or so break) because it took TOOO long just to get the dailies done, it would take like 20 minutes for those, nearly an hour for 3v3 and such and I just was not having more fun in SWGOH compared to other games. However I came back with a new routine on it, and also I've been having a blast with The Great Mothers where despite them being G8 and 3 star are nuking out R5 teams because of my R5 Spirit.
As somebody who's been playing this game off and on since the end of High-School, I can say that yeah this game has a huge drop off after a while. It's taken me a while to grind my Empire and Phoenix squadrons and now that I've been able to gain an income I've started using it to gain an edge. I think this game has a lot of potential but it needs to cater more to new and existing players by eliminating the long and excessive grind. It's taken me forever to grind materials to upgrade my heroes vs just buying the 4.99$ packs, which actually has saved me lots of time instead of waiting days for the upgrade mat challenges to show up. I know the game caters mostly to whales but I think if they made it to where grinding didn't take as long or feel like such a drag, the pay off would feel much more rewarding than potentially waiting months/years for maybe one character
TW would be better if instead of facing 1 territory of 50 squads it was 5 territories of 10, making like 50 territories. And officers should have the option of applying the same guild defence as previous war, where you can then edit it in the set up phase if needed. Raids should have a "submit previous score" option TB should have a "SIM" option that appears of you start the battle with a squad that's already completed the battle previously with a full squad surviving, but manually have to play the extra rewards battles. This would cut down the "chore" so much that GAC and Conquest would be more enjoyable.
This video resonates a ton. I’m a 21 year old college student and I also work 30h+ a week. Plus I am involved in a club on my college campus. So all of that combined with being in a relationship keeps me to the point where I can only play one game which is SWGOH. Thankfully my GF plays too so I can play with her. But I don’t have any time for another game because SWGOH takes hours every day if I do everything.
I came to the same conclusion she did. I took a different route though. I cut out conquest and use it for occasional fun. I dropped from kyber to aurodium. I joined a guild that literally is calling itself the “Retirement Cave.” We don’t get 25 people for TW, oh well. We run the old sith raid. I can still get enough stuffs to collect the newest characters without paying on the second run. I am always at a datacron disadvantage and a character advantage in GAC. I do no research on counters anymore. So I can get my backside handed to me by accounts half my size and mod score, but one that has the right datacrons. We also run the old separatist and geo TB’s. I can auto them. I do like TB, ship arena, playing GAC my way, and having a life. If I ever want to get competitive again all I have to do is farm datacrons and find a more competitive guild. I doubt I’ll do either, but ignoring the latest raid and conquest is the way to stay playing and enjoy life.
I came to the same conclusion she did. I took a different route though. I cut out conquest and use it for occasional fun. I dropped from kyber to aurodium. I joined a guild that literally is calling itself the “Retirement Cave.” We don’t get 25 people for TW, oh well. We run the old sith raid. I can still get enough stuffs to collect the newest characters without paying on the second run. I am always at a datacron disadvantage and a character advantage in GAC. I do no research on counters anymore. So I can get my backside handed to me by accounts half my size and mod score, but one that has the right datacrons. We also run the old separatist and geo TB’s. I can auto them. I do like TB, ship arena, playing GAC my way, and having a life. If I ever want to get competitive again all I have to do is farm datacrons and find a more competitive guild. I doubt I’ll do either, but ignoring the latest raid and conquest is the way to stay playing and enjoy life.
I miss Gridan. But yeah, I'm hating on the Naboo Raid just because of all the time it takes to do well. Unlike Krayt or SBR, I can't simply mod them and forget about it but I have to use loadouts because I don't have super epic mods, so the time it takes to restore mods to everyone I've taken them from adds another 10-15 minutes AFTER I've done my runs ... and I swear they made Luminara an RNG goatfuck because they released them as an LSB before the Raid, because consistently her squad is the one I have to run the most to max. As for suggestions - anything that has stars for completion should subsequently be simmable. I don't get why they can't do that with Smuggler's Run 2 ... just aggravating af!
My fix would be: Make conquest last 3 weeks, adjust energy to this setting, gives more opportunities to do it, less of a stress timewise and more options to get extra energy with crystals. Make TW attack phase last 3 days, will make it more fun, less of a hazzle and prolly make several battles more competitive. Remove defense step in GAC and make attack phase 2 days, more time to do it, and you can always fix defense. And ofc make the leia / jabba / galactic ticket events simmable.
Quit this game gave my account to someone about 4yrs ago..if it were not for Ahnold..I wouldn't follow this game..time is money and money is time.. Thank you for making the time and money so we can still enjoy the game vicariously through you!!!!
A phrase i made up, that I can’t get out of my head, with this game: “click audit” They need to just track how many damn buttons need to be pressed, and cut it by 50-80%
The cycle is pretty funny. I left in 2021 when I found out my gf (now wife) was pregnant. Galactic Challenges had just arrived with the new engine and we were being promised waves of content and polygons because the game at that time was boring. I remember Cubs screaming "MORE CONTENT!!" on stream every day and the whole community being bored. Now I'm back and really enjoying learning all of the new modes and getting up to speed with the new toons, etc. and the community says there is too much to do!! I have definitely noticed the time commitment has raised. but to me it seems like there is so much more to do and the rewards are SO much better than they used to be. That being said, quality of life updates are huge for games like this, and maybe now is the time. Stepping away from this game can be a good thing I think, and was for me. When I left, I kept watching Ahnald, Cubs, Urzzz, etc. because nothing really beats Grand Arena live on the weekends and the community has always been fantastic! I needed the break at the time, and am now pumped to be back in the grind. I love letting my little girl spin my characters and telling her their names. :) Anyhoo, all the best to Sarah, and thanks Ahnald and the other creators for all you do!!
i want to point unobvious one : free energy available only for 2h after its initial popup time, thats the worst for me, i have played many gacha / hero collecting games and goh is one of those few old ones that never revisited that part, there is tower defense gacha game called "path to nowhere" that has free energy refreshes too and this energy available through the WHOLE DAY its like 6am and 6pm (or whatever) when it pops up and if you login once a day at 7pm - youll be able to grab BOTH refreshes at once the other thing that i want to point (not related to time commitment) is conquest model, i am a returning player with not that developed roster, i am hitting one of those chests in the middle cuz i do not have roster and characters to do feats, i would consider getting conquest pass (at least the basic version of it), but i dont see myself paying for only half of the rewards (cuz i am not able to hit the last chest, so half of the reward are not reachable for me) i dont even want to start on mods, that remains the most frustrating part of the game for sure
My guild do a relax TB now - we do lesser CMs (some phases no CMs only SMs). Instead of 42 stars we get 39 stars now but with the extra SMs and the extra time for other things i think that is the right step for our guild. We had to much members who burned out of the game and stop playing ... I hope we get a quality-of-life soon that we can sim more battle. The new raid is horrible ... its so bad ...
I love GAC and its the main reason I play but the matchups STILL since the change are just worse than ever. Its either a no show, they don't try or its a stomp out due to GP. The competitive integrity is just not there for the overall majority and the enjoyment for it is just drifting away because of it. It very rarely feels good to win and that I outdid my opponent in any meaningful way. When before it was how you approached your roster and very small differences that could give you the upperhand. Such as mods or having certain teams your opponent doesn't.
Hot take here- CG needs to suck up a lot to new players. Im a new player for the most part (2m account on levi fleet shart, 1m account fresh). CG is doing a terrible job of making this game entry player friendly. New blood doesn't exactly matter because the shear time its gonna take to see my 1m account get anywhere close to 10m+ is just impossible. New players are gated behind all these hard node farms, kyros, and relics. (not saying it should be free) But who the hell in their right mind is gonna farm idk what 3 years of kyrotech, just to be behind all of you anyway. So new players arent gonna come, old players arent gonna stay. Where is the player retention?
Speaking of mods another big problem that's not being addressed is that there are hundreds more units in the game now but THEY STILL HAVEN'T INCREASED THE MOD CAPACITY LIMIT!!!!!
That's what I'm sayin
I argue with myself about this. On one hand I want the mod cap to increase because it is annoying. But then I look at myself in real life. I will get more storage for my PC because I ran out of space. Then I just fill it up again and hit my cap once more then complain I am out of space instead of deleting old files haha
@@AhnaldT101 yeah but I and most people don't want to have to remod every toon before every battle. Give us enough space to leave our mods on toons without having to juggle constantly.
I feel like the mod cap wouldn't feel nearly as bad if you could shift your entire rosters mods in the click of a button.
Like you can with hot utils....
@@AhnaldT101 I see what you're saying there but for me at least I build up credits then do mass upgrades but I like to build up blue C or higher mods with speed and sometimes I'll have a ton of E mods sometimes those E mods turn into something useable but I find 70-90% of the time that's not the case and I've just wasted a ton of credits. Thanks to all the new ways to get credits I'm not constantly running out anymore but I'm not upgrading much either right now. 1 character from 1-85 is 6.5 mil credits not including abilities and mod upgrades/rerolls I still have a ton of characters I could 7* but I'm not using anytime soon each of them are 1 mil to 7* assuming they're already at 6* I can easily run through 70 mil in one day and I've done it. Luckily working on long term projects allows me to take time in between to stock up but it sucks getting on every day or every other day and ending up with mods in my inbox. And I don't even have 50 mods with speed already on them with 0 upgrades.
Give me a 16x speed for auto
I believe our beloved data miner made a custom build of SWGoH where he has an 8x option....
That’ll be huge if it comes to the game, especially for ships. I always have it on x4 and it feels like it’s what normal speed should be lmao. x1 in fleet battles feels painfully slow
THIS
This would be great for them last min gac stallers or just want to buff your opponent and attack the last 30mins
They probably wouldn't because it would make a lot of defense teams weaker and a lot of offense teams stronger for that to exist
At 13.3M gp, I just quit last week for these exact issues. Chores are not content, and making things simmable doesn't preclude anyone else from playing things manually. A diverse player base requires common sense flexibility to make the game fit in their lives, and as your account grows, so does the amount of chores and time commitment. Veteran accounts will continue to drop like flies.
An old adage says that time is money, so when CG doesn't respect my time, they no longer deserve the money.
they need to m=gives us guaranteed shards for every win enough is enough this rng nonsense is stupid
yeah it should be 100% drop rates
Yup. I quit awhile ago cuz with the new raid system I could see they were just going to keep going down this road, and not respect Players time at all.
I recommend Marvel Strike Force. I wasn't much of a Marvel fan other than the movies, but it's just such a better game. It's a million times more f2p(it still has p2w aspects but its a lot less painful unless ur an endgame player) the devs communicate with players all the time, and they constantly update the grind so you can keep up, you'll just be behind spenders rather than constantly falling further and further behind.
Damn. I wish I was at 13.3m lmao. But sad to see ya go
At about 12m GP I quit 2 weeks back. Too much work and too much drudgery. I actually just found I didn’t have the time to keep up with the Datacron-driven GAC meta shift. It’s not a bad thing, just didn’t work for me anymore.
Shout out to that 0.7% 65+ demo playing galaxy them old timers holding the ship down in retirement.
Community is a big reason I stick around playing this game. I love Star Wars. But if it was just me and a phone, I don't think that would be enough to push through. Capital Games rarely doing any favors for us, so it's got some rough spots.
As long as the Kyber Club is open, I'll be around. LLTKE
*Sees title*
Where does the list begin?
Not to mention I’ve been bugged (or “new featured”) to not be able to play youtube or spotify while I play
Same! I need to play the music on another device now 😢
I’ve been able to do it by pressing button to play the video while it’s in the corner of the mobile screen
It is a plot to stop people watching me while they play their conquest. Tin foil hat has spoken....
Patch is ready for release to fix that issue
That's been a bug in my game for years now
Did Xaereth dirty with that pause screen haha
Thats mobile gamer in disguise
The time sink in SWGOH has been a problem for a while, but the Naboo raid RNG fest feels like the straw that broke the camels back. It's too much. Unfortunately 'time in game' is an analytic used to judge a mobile games success, so minimal incentive for CG to address the issue.
Love the game but this absolutely needs to be addressed. I actually like Conquest because it can be done off normal business hours. GAC is fun but the biggest issues is that it needs to be done during the workday. Or I have to do it all over night and not leave much for during the day. I can’t check my phone much during the work day so it’s a problem.
Plus, I have been saying for a long time that most of the PVE content needs to be simmable. There’s no reason that you have to continue doing the third sister event over and over or the cargo ships battles on auto over and over and over again. Either it should be that you get three stars and then you can sim or if you beat some thing 10 times you should be able to sim going forward.
I agree. Conquest is really my favorite because there is not time constraints (outside the 2 weeks). I can play when I want and as much as I want.
I stopped trying to be too competitive. Can't compete with the big time players anyway.
And i'm completely fine by that.
After the grand arena update where they you were being paired with people beyond your GP. Months later I quit, couldn’t compete and the grind is too long
Itsabeautfiuldaytobeintheempiretoday
You're dang right!
I’ve contemplated quitting for a very long time because I find it a chore to play GAC and it’s far and away my favorite part of the game. I would rather auto one battle for rewards than play and win, just for me to rank up and have to play MORE battles. Having that on top of the dailies, is just insane. Nothing feels rewarding.
I agree. The game is a massive time sink and trying to progress in the game feels impossible. Unlike other games I play, such as Honkai Star Rail (not including gacha mechanics), leveling the characters in Galaxy of Heroes takes way too much time and trying to push up in the game (via guilds, grand arena, and journey guide) feels like it takes more time then I have to play the game. (For the comparison, it would take about 2 weeks to level a HSR character to a usable status, but Galaxy of Heroes takes what feels like closer to 1 month per character. Too few resources for too much content).
Now I do think the slow resource/leveling method works, but there has to be something else to do in the meantime. I also play Genshin (yes I do like Hoyo games), but while it certainly sucks to get artifacts for your characters, there’s still stuff for you to do in the game (quests, general exploration,etc). Galaxy of heroes, you use your energy and then your done. You play grand arena and you either stomp or get stomped (rarely do I feel like you get even matches in the lower tiers). There isn’t anything else to do other than leveling and play the same 4 things over and over. I know it’s a stretch to compare the two, but I feel like the idea should come across.
Generally, I would say we need a better reward system, we need more simple maybe even experimental things to do other than the core gameplay, and overall a reduction in the time required to play the game (specifically journey guide characters). Hopefully my points make sense.
it will never happen as long as whales and loser like anhald keep spending money and defending and supporting cg no matter what
The game has become such a chore. It really started with Conquest IMO. The only meaningful quality of life update we have gotten in years has been the ship load out. And really that's not much of a breakthrough time saver. I just pick and choose what game modes to concentrate on. And I mix it up to keep it fresh.
Conquest and GAC need to be better balanced.
I mean on conquest maybe 24 battles a day? Just add up those minutes, if you hit 100c refreshes it is nuts.
GAC 5v5 is an hour, 3v3 is much more, i honestly dont have the time. The game mode needa a major rethink. If you customize defense RIP
The Raid i dont mind that much, 4 battles and i have 3 days. RotE is too long, way too many battles and every 24h is too much.
It all sounds doable until you add up everything on a day, those conquest/gac/gc/raid/dailies/plus tw ot tb.. these are 3-4 hour time commitments
I skip 3v3 purposely just to derank myself to make things more bearable once 5v5 comes back. Maybe I join the last match up to get the season rewards.
I think part of the issue is that none of the game modes nowadays feel particularly fun or challenging. For example, I didn't mind playing the old sith raid as much because it was fun and challenging (in a good puzzle type way) to figure out. Now the new raids are just recycled b1 units with no challenge to figure out other than do you have enough relic levels on these random characters, (challenging in a bad way)
Amen 🫵🤌
This is the reason I stopped playing. Why should I spend so much time on this game when I can play several better games for less time.
It’s better to keep up with the game through your videos rather than playing it myself cause I still like talking to my brother about the state of the game and what’s coming up next.
I love the grind so much that I just signed up for an alt GRINDR account.
I think it's better than most gatcha games. Raid, Watcher of Realms, they take way more time.
This one is okay
Strongly agree
Gotta be honest as an old player that had to start from scratch earlier this year. For the amount of characters the game now has the format and speed it takes to catch up or keep up for the vast majority of players is way to high.
F2P player and those that only spend here and there have no real intention to play other than to click a few buttons every day until a few years has gone by and then they can properly team build and theory craft.
It’s mind numbing and downright soulless to anybody but whales. The game was great with this balance when it first came out and for the first 2-3 years. It’s now bloated into a micro-transaction hell. Gear requirements alone for F2P players is beyond insane.
I want to like Raid, but yeah it's just awful.
@@ichxro
I dont know, for me, started this month, been okay so far, so issues. Spent 0$.
I started this game because I saw Captain Enoch in a random clip on youtube. The game a event at the same time giving me the character.
Great coincidence. I have a captain Enoch team now. Since game gave me the other 2.
@@urahara_daioh
Raid takes too long to get any character you want. Spending feels terrible because you just waste money and dont get the caracter unless you want to break the bank.
By the time you get the characters you wanted when you started, you have nothing left to do in the game.
Yes, it is a time sink. They are way too greedy for money
Crazy my age demographic is 3% of your viewers. Got back into this game in June of 2022 before my junior year of high school right when Raddus came out and haven’t looked back. Crazy how fast it’s gone by
My biggest issue is that it takes me like 3 weeks to take 1 character from Tier 12 to Relic 1. Too many pieces of gear that need 100 smaller pieces and I get maybe 5 a day, so do the math. I normally only log in at midnight for like 10 minutes to do all my dailies, I don't log in again for 24 hours. I get to unlock 1 GL a year.
This resolves itself as you grow.
Early relics feel horrible.
You'll basically get a relic per raid later in in your swgoh journey.
@@stwida91 I've been playing this game for 10 years man lol a raid maybe gives me like 10 pieces of the 100 I need, but guess what? There is another piece that needs 100 parts.
@@squalltheonly Between raid rewards and your daily farming between raids, I typically find it's more than enough for a relic.
A? A problem? I can think of alot more than 1 being ignored.
SWGOH has a big LIST of problems.
Gear faming (Especially the drop rate, sometimes really absurd), cantina energy refresh time still long af. Shard drop rate, ships blueprint, tons of problems
I’ve been strongly debating quitting swgoh because I just don’t have the time to commit anymore. It’s a drag to login 10 times. spend 5 minutes for a battle, 3-5 times for arena and fleet. Unlock battles. Raid. TW. GAC. Conquest. Modding is another animal. The end game requires like 3 hours a day. It’s just never ending.
When AhnaldT101 has a kid with the lady of Ahnderaan….the streams will cease…and since you’re the biggest name in the game, it’ll be a sad day, cuz trust me when I say this…once you’re gone, the game will slowly fade into oblivion…I’ve been a SWGOH guy since launch, I’m 50, I don’t create content, I play when I can, but when people like Ahnald leave the game is when the game starts to fall off…it’s a shame but it is what it is…I’ll play til it’s gone…and I know my guild of 40+ year olds will keep playing…but as far as whales/krakens(that keep the game alive)…when they leave the game will cease to be…so lemme be the first to say, thanks Ahnald for the great content and keeping everyone entertained, once u leave, it’ll be over…I’ll keep playing, but it’ll be like force arena, I’ll try to open it, and it’ll say NO LONGER AVAILABLE…I hope this day will never come, but watch,everyone will know when our guy decides to step away, the game will slowly die…so enjoy everyone and LLTKE
Well said
Yea its time for a qol update, from more mods space and simmable events to maybe finally getting 2 shards per ship drop. How are ships still only 1 shard? Also for new ppl stuck doing conquest on easy, the rewards are ATROCIOUS. LIKE WHERE IS THE PAYOFF TO HELP THEM ADVANCE?
To be honest, I don't mind playing and spending time on the PVE content in the game. Yes, you spend a lot of time, but you don’t worry. You just play it calmly. Routine. But GAC. I used to love it very much. But now GAC is draining a lot of energy and draining you dry. And you just wait for it to end and want to give up on it. You have hit the wall and hell awaits you further and further. Fierce rivals who are always stronger than you and only a miracle allows you to defeat them. I think it's time to change something in the GAC. Adding a new league would be an option, but only those with 11-12 galactic power could get there. Well, the rewards are correspondingly higher so that everyone would strive to get there. Let there be a kiro for every victory and the final reward would also give a lot of kiro at the end of the season. Perhaps this would revive the GAC. And it made it more honest. Because I'm tired of the GAC.
The gap between donators and free-to-play is increasingly a huge chasm. A bunch of new packs and donated datacrons. If they add a new super expensive meta flagship, it will be a gap of a light years.
Time has definitely been an issue for me personally lately. It’s a total bummer. I enjoyed Sarah and her conquest guides. Wish her all the best.
1:42 bruh I started playing when I was 8
3 hours a day and more during conquest is getting out of hand 😅 there's zero doubt I'd be a better human being and member of society if I never logged in again
I am the 13-17 years old
Same
Same fr
Get jobs.
Go to class
Start a family when your 18.
Delete this game.
@@ademgronlundberisha301 according to analdt I guess so
@@j-swizzyswoll8000 no
My only complaints are simm'ing 5 battles on a hard mode node for shards and getting 0 shards. Drops should be less rng dependent. Guaranteed shards per battle would be nice. At least adjust the rng to make rewards per battle much more rewarding. It's really a pain in the ass to put all your energy into something and getting nothing for it
The one and only Urzzz is back! Hoping that the Hall will revitalize my willingness to jump in, crazy to think it's been 8-9 years, to this point
That’s the biggest highlight in the game for me this year. I missed him so much. 😂
I do as little as possible in SWGOH. I love the collecting of characters and gearing them up. I think the actual gameplay is very very bad and boring. Its all rock paper scissors crap that has very very bad power creep.
Some high iq ideas for free? I think the root problem is what makes it what it is.. it's somewhat of an enigma, surely all I feel from this is... or how it could be greatly improved.. would be to not require the backs of the players as much.. somehow even if that ment, God forbid I say an add or two implemented. Or how about this.. an event where your roster is null and void.. you are given a random temporary squad through some free pack thing.. from there theory crafting becomes the niche, from there you will grow to new heights I think.. however thr game is niche in and off itself.. hard yatch to stear
If I didn't have the money invested into the game, I would quit right now. The time crunch of the game is not the biggest or top problem for me. It does factor into the Darkside/CON of the game though. It's the flipping RNG .... ALL the time (#1 on my list)! Wasn't this fixed or addressed 4 years ago? I have watched Xaereth and Sarah's videos, a couple other streamers, and mainly your videos for help with, well everything. You are all great at what you do and do for the SWGOH community. Thank you! It's just that I can Lightside battle 38 times and not get 1 item to drop that I am farming for. I am posting this after 6 consecutive losses just now, and having spent 1,250 of the purple Crystals for Darkside energy to unlock GL S.E.E. I have Relic'd up 1 level most of the needed characters, changed out MODS, and upgraded MODS to 6 dot B (probably just wasting MATs). I have already given up on GL Leia due to the stupid RNG. I have ROLO at Relic 8 and MODs at 6 dot B for that event. Same with Captain H. Solo. I just wish there was a glimmer of HOPE, and better rewards for some of these events. I agree with you! CG/EA needs to reorganize some of the events. Example: 15-minute breaks at work are not ideal to play Naboo manually. Thank you all again for your videos and content! ~ Viper
You know something’s Terribly Wrong when you can have 29k in purple crystal, and you have nothing to spend it on. 9.6mil GP, 4 gls, working on Jabba, only missing DTMG, Amidala, and Luthan. Not interested in Aphra, Katan-dalore or Profundity.
All these new toons are an obnoxious money grab and segregating the community from the mega krakkens. Yeah people who have Great Mothers and Morgan up and running with her perfect cron is a Mega Krakken.
As F2P, it’s feeling very personal.
I'd like to see fewer overlapping events. Double the rewards for TB and TW and make them one week a month instead of two. So, for example, it'd be two weeks of conquest, a week of TB, a week of TW, and then back to the beginning. If they REALLY wanted to get crazy, they could shorten conquest to a 1-week thing (which I doubt because datacron money) and make GAC one week.
And then, of course, increase the ability to sim- Jabba event, the after-conquest GL event, ship shard events, etc.
I've known people that complained about "not enough fights" but they still simmed most of their daily stuff, and you can replay multiple galactic challenges a week all you want. You've always had the ability to play as much as you want if it really means that much to you. Heck, that'd be a great excuse to add (and probably monetize) a sandbox mode- fewer "mandatory" fights for time crunch people, more fights for people that want them.
Listened to their videos on my way into work this morning. Always sad to lose one of our own.
Yes, they need to add more simming in the game. We keep here and there getting new assault battles, and they have simming, so why not go in and add them to many others. Baffling they haven't made new mythic teir events yet 1 of the tiers is simmable. Idk why not all 3 are.
Another thing anything with multiple rewards to select like the personal rewards in raids and the conquest rewards should have a claim all button. Those little nods of quality of life will help in the day to day. Then going forward yes improving TW is needed as well. Maybe I know it's a bit much and still takes time but maybe having a monthly sim ability to the raid. First raid in a month requires a playthrough and rest of month you can place the same score without playing it. Unless you wanna improve it. Will help guilds have their members hit the raid more frequently. Maybe the cost will be 10+ sim tickets to use up those endless amounts we have or atleast that's based on the teir. (Still miss new characters there). Gac should give players an option of 3v3 or 5v5. 5v5 reareds are same as current rewards but 3v3 will give like a 10 to 15% more onto of current rewards. So players can play which mode they want to. Also side note 3v3 and 5v5 should have separate match making brackets for them
Lol I recall a time, maybe 5 years ago, where everyone was complaining about a severe lack of content. Have the scales tipped the other way that much? For that, I applaud CG.
ALL PVE should be simmable imo with the exception being Conquest and TB. Unlocking executor is miserable even if you are just grabbing 5*.
I bailed out of the game at the start of 2023 and have just been experiencing it vicariously through Ahnold. Got to say, I feel a lot better.
I firmly believe that cg stacks the schedule on purpose. I honestly think that is the effort to incentivize people to buy the conquest pass and things like that. I fear their biggest flaw at this point especially for the raid, is that if you have the gear, or resources invested, there should be bonuses that make those teams practically automatic. And they don’t. Top runs for the raid alone require significant investment. Tb as well. They made it 6 phases instead of 4. They cut down the waves but there is so many more missions. It’s very destructive for most of the population
EA just announced they're shutting down the simpsons mobile game....hope this isolated
I would not be concerned about it. SWGoH made $7 million last month and Simpsons made $500k. All about numbers in the mobile gaming world.
I have a shitton of free time, but they really need events to be simmable, because i wanna have fun in a game. TB, Jabba event, Ultimate journeys arent fun
New Naboo raid only.
5 fights x 5 minutes x 5 tries = 125min :P
twice a week...
THAT'S TOO MUCH
Wouldn’t it be more? 125minutes=2h5. This just adds to your point lol
5*5*5=125m=2hr5m.....so it's actually worse than you say. But I get your point.
i wish they switched the weeks of TW and TB. if conquest started when TW was happening that would make the load easier overall, as the second week on conquest when their is less to do in it you get TB happening
Honestly conquest is such a time commitment, the game feels like too much when it's active and then too stale when it's not.
I just don't do Grand Arena at all. Don't enjoy it, I accept that it probably slows me down.
I live an active busy life (besides not having kids lol) but I’m always more bothered by lack of things to do and the 1d, 2d, 3d waiting periods, I manual a lot of battles just feel like the characters I have invested in seem “worth” the investment, I feel cheated almost when I grind a character up to R7 just to never use them on defense or watch them fight on auto
I might unlock Lord FAILURE when you give me 24x speed CG!
I love this game to death, but sometimes it just becomes too much and I have to take a break. I think everyone in the swgoh community has felt the impact of this problem at one point or another sadly
Honestly, I think I might be one of the few people that actually like the grind in this game for f2p, because it makes me feel like the game is endless while I’m trying to push for my first gl. I want to say more but I’m too lazy to do so but one complaint I have about this game is lack of new features and how trash squad arena is, because currently while farming for finalizer, and farming for jkr, it’s basically a routine that I follow everyday and pretty do nothing else but follow this routine until I get jkr and finalizer, and squad arena is annoying because I literally only have a team of 5 gear 12 teams and majority of the teams I have to against have gear 13s with low or high relic, making squad arena for f2p players practically unplayable.
Would love to see a damage based raid where you get 5 minutes to do as much damage as possible and submit. 3 attempts is 15 minutes and boom raid over the stronger you are the better you do.
Love being part of that 3% demographic for the past 5 years lol. Love your vids nonetheless Ahnald, keep doing what you do best, making living in the empire great everyday.
3:05 I’ve been playing since I was 8
Question for everyone who sees this:
Do you believe that if each node dropped gave you all the items on that node that it would help you out? Instead of wasting energy on the same node to get one part that you need to upgrade your character because I've had that problem where I just gotta hope I get it first try I understand it's sorta like a Gatcha game where it's based on luck and all that but still I'd like to hear everyone's thoughts
I recently quit the game I grinded it for a while but the time commitment is insane, had about 2.2 mil gp even then I just felt stuck in the game
The biggest problem with the game for me is datacrons.Only pvp is fun and not a chore and they managed to destroy it.I said since launch that this will make the most people to quit,not one of my guild members is having fun right now with pvp.
Shut up, it's the time sink, datacrons are temporary and they usually aren't that bad, and only really affect the kyber players, because the lower players who are the majority aren't dealing with them as much.
It’s sad bc it could be solved by them ditching bonus stats and catering more towards less-used legacy characters than the newest characters and Lord Vader for the 87th time
"SWGoH players never leave, they just keep taking longer breaks" - Gary, probably
The game is not enjoyable for me now. I like 5v5 gac. Other things I dislike or hate. I hate that I can’t get enough resource. I don’t like 3v3 gac. The squad and fleet arena are useless. The tw and raids are boring. Tb is something else, I just deploy and do the sm. I don’t have the time to the all cm, which I would be able to complete successfully. The farming is terrible. I need like a 1000 mk7 kryotech shock prod prototype salvage and I can get like 5-10 a day. Besides I need salvage for relics and I need shards and so on. I won’t spend money in the game because it’s so expensive. I don’t feel like it would help me a lot if I buy some stuff with money. I spend my crystals because it can be a lot after a gac or a tb. Also they need to add new stuff to the stores. I can’t buy anything useful day to day.
I like to play with a lot of hope it’ll change for good.
Yeeeeeeeeah OUR EMPEROR RETURNS
CG aint listening, as long as the whales keep their income up they wont change anything that benefits the players which really sucks because we as a playerbase fully have the power to stop them even making a single sale and forcing them into making the entire experience more user friendly but it will never happen
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again - double the rewards for TW and TB and run the cycle once a month -
Week 1 - TB
Week 2 - 2 TWs
Weeks 3&4 - Conquest
There. Problem solved.
Alternatively, in TB, once a guild hits a certain star count, let us SIM it.
5 TBs in a row where phase 1 is 9:star:? SIM P1.
All the GCs, Events, etc that we do = 3:star:? SIM!
Why make us do stuff over and over when the SIM feature is available?
300 crystals to SIM your raid for last raids score? Done. Want a better score? Play it out.
I never get past first crait in conquest. 1. The challenges are impossible if you dont have a monster roaster. 2. Too much time that it takes... same with GA, when you climb the amount of teams you have to go through is rediculous.
Dude, I been "quitting" for the last year. I cant keep up anymore. I love Xaereth and Sarah's commitment to us as players. But I been asking the same thing for a long time, why do I play? Do I play for me or because I have to? They keep pulling me back in, now with Nightsisters, theyre drawing me back in. I cant! I need to walk away but its so hard to walk away.
I've changed my time settings a few times just for this reason, and to get the daily requirements done at reset (which is an earlier time) so I have less of a commitment throughout the day
Every morning I spend around 1-2 hours. 2 for sure with conquest. But it's GAC and TW that make me have to spend time outside my morning time. Unfortunately that has hurt me the most.
I stopped playing 2 months ago, and then randomly got an email this week from EA saying my account had been banned for violating guidelines. Guess I'm never going back now
Yup blue milk is wet...
Tell CG I need a few things. A Relic tag in characters. I would like to see all of my relic 6 toons and other relic levels.
Ok...we need another Old Republic jedi to complete a Jedi revan team.
Another Empire Tank, so it would make Krennic usable.
that really sucks. Sarah will be missed in the community. She's the only female CC that I know of and now she's leaving. Granted, a child and family are far more important than swgoh.
The time sink is the number one factor in me quitting for 2 years. I was burned out. We REALLY need more QoL changes to this game. There are days where it’s just way too time consuming to want to deal with. And some of it feels unrewarding for the amount of time you sink into the game. I miss the CG Carrie days. She really advocated for us as players. She did a lot for us to get regular QoL updates. Ever since she left we just haven’t had them like we used to.
We need to be able to sim way more in the game. Anything that you can 3 star we need to be able to sim. If you have beaten a game mode or event “x” amount of times you should be allowed to sim it. They need to cut down on the time.
Conquest is a big time grind. It feels like If you miss a day or two in conquest you’re screwed. Add in GAC for a week while conquest is going on. Or TB. The TBs take forever. It’s not that enjoyable. Conquest takes forever. I miss what conquest was when it first came out. That was actually fun. It’s a boring grind now. You still have a fleet arena climb daily. TW having to check in multiple times per day. The raid is annoying. I REALLY miss the Endor raid. It might have been nauseating and stale. But it was so much quicker. This raid is an RNG fest and takes forever for every battle. I love the idea behind it. But it was poorly executed.
We need more mod QoL updates. We need datacron QoL updates really bad. Need to be able to sim more stuff. Some event rewards just don’t feel worth it for the time commitment.
I do love the game which is why I play. It’s why I came back to the game. But it can be the most frustrating game to play bc there should be way more done for the players to play see up on the time and just making small improvements every few months. We put a lot into your game. Give us a little back in return
Naboo Raid is way too long. Cut it by half....30-40 minutes sucks....it's not fun, but we need to do it. Still love SWGOH!
If only they would fix Territory Wars to be fun and give you increasing awards! I like that idea of having more zones. I like the idea of having a pyramid of zones where the back zone is the top of the pyramid and you can attack any zone from any direction so that we don't get stuck behind two walls. You could also have each zone only have 10 defensive teams because there will be 3 times more zones than the current TW. You could even have a few zones that are 3v3 only teams for attack and defense. Maybe make it so that TW has 1 day to setup defense and 2 days for attack.
What they should do is a two week guild war for the first half of the month and guild raid on the other half of the month like warhammer 40k tactics do it a great way to keep players playing
Honestly, TW needs a huge revamp and would make a lot more sense if it felt similar to GAC. I think GAC would be more well received if you could pick 3v3 or 5v5 each round to compete in the one that you care more about and then there needs to be a better balance in timing between PvE (Conquest, TB, Raids) and PvP (TW, GAC) having two of the same type at one time either feels like too time consuming (PvE) or not enough to do (PvP).
Honestly fax, i have been playing this game for 5 damn years and i still dont have a galactic legend, nor do i have what it takes to survive higher raids despite having Both revans, GK etc etc. The lightspeed bundles helped a mega ton but that was about it.
Had it not been for those packs i guarantee you i wouldn't be abke to plah the game normally
Ti many resources to collect, too many things locked hehind conquest and what not i mean ive never been able to complete conquest fully
If you rememer Ahnald i once commented "People called me crazy for leveling my bad batch, WELL WHOS LAUGHING NOW???"
Yeah, they're still not 7* yet- and this isnt even factoring in Omega
Theres just so many things to do and grind for that honestly its put me off for weaks on end
I took a break from the game (only ended up being a month or so break) because it took TOOO long just to get the dailies done, it would take like 20 minutes for those, nearly an hour for 3v3 and such and I just was not having more fun in SWGOH compared to other games.
However I came back with a new routine on it, and also I've been having a blast with The Great Mothers where despite them being G8 and 3 star are nuking out R5 teams because of my R5 Spirit.
As somebody who's been playing this game off and on since the end of High-School, I can say that yeah this game has a huge drop off after a while. It's taken me a while to grind my Empire and Phoenix squadrons and now that I've been able to gain an income I've started using it to gain an edge. I think this game has a lot of potential but it needs to cater more to new and existing players by eliminating the long and excessive grind. It's taken me forever to grind materials to upgrade my heroes vs just buying the 4.99$ packs, which actually has saved me lots of time instead of waiting days for the upgrade mat challenges to show up.
I know the game caters mostly to whales but I think if they made it to where grinding didn't take as long or feel like such a drag, the pay off would feel much more rewarding than potentially waiting months/years for maybe one character
TW would be better if instead of facing 1 territory of 50 squads it was 5 territories of 10, making like 50 territories.
And officers should have the option of applying the same guild defence as previous war, where you can then edit it in the set up phase if needed.
Raids should have a "submit previous score" option
TB should have a "SIM" option that appears of you start the battle with a squad that's already completed the battle previously with a full squad surviving, but manually have to play the extra rewards battles.
This would cut down the "chore" so much that GAC and Conquest would be more enjoyable.
This video resonates a ton. I’m a 21 year old college student and I also work 30h+ a week. Plus I am involved in a club on my college campus. So all of that combined with being in a relationship keeps me to the point where I can only play one game which is SWGOH. Thankfully my GF plays too so I can play with her. But I don’t have any time for another game because SWGOH takes hours every day if I do everything.
I came to the same conclusion she did. I took a different route though. I cut out conquest and use it for occasional fun. I dropped from kyber to aurodium. I joined a guild that literally is calling itself the “Retirement Cave.” We don’t get 25 people for TW, oh well. We run the old sith raid. I can still get enough stuffs to collect the newest characters without paying on the second run. I am always at a datacron disadvantage and a character advantage in GAC. I do no research on counters anymore. So I can get my backside handed to me by accounts half my size and mod score, but one that has the right datacrons. We also run the old separatist and geo TB’s. I can auto them. I do like TB, ship arena, playing GAC my way, and having a life. If I ever want to get competitive again all I have to do is farm datacrons and find a more competitive guild. I doubt I’ll do either, but ignoring the latest raid and conquest is the way to stay playing and enjoy life.
I came to the same conclusion she did. I took a different route though. I cut out conquest and use it for occasional fun. I dropped from kyber to aurodium. I joined a guild that literally is calling itself the “Retirement Cave.” We don’t get 25 people for TW, oh well. We run the old sith raid. I can still get enough stuffs to collect the newest characters without paying on the second run. I am always at a datacron disadvantage and a character advantage in GAC. I do no research on counters anymore. So I can get my backside handed to me by accounts half my size and mod score, but one that has the right datacrons. We also run the old separatist and geo TB’s. I can auto them. I do like TB, ship arena, playing GAC my way, and having a life. If I ever want to get competitive again all I have to do is farm datacrons and find a more competitive guild. I doubt I’ll do either, but ignoring the latest raid and conquest is the way to stay playing and enjoy life.
I miss Gridan.
But yeah, I'm hating on the Naboo Raid just because of all the time it takes to do well. Unlike Krayt or SBR, I can't simply mod them and forget about it but I have to use loadouts because I don't have super epic mods, so the time it takes to restore mods to everyone I've taken them from adds another 10-15 minutes AFTER I've done my runs ... and I swear they made Luminara an RNG goatfuck because they released them as an LSB before the Raid, because consistently her squad is the one I have to run the most to max.
As for suggestions - anything that has stars for completion should subsequently be simmable. I don't get why they can't do that with Smuggler's Run 2 ... just aggravating af!
My fix would be:
Make conquest last 3 weeks, adjust energy to this setting, gives more opportunities to do it, less of a stress timewise and more options to get extra energy with crystals.
Make TW attack phase last 3 days, will make it more fun, less of a hazzle and prolly make several battles more competitive.
Remove defense step in GAC and make attack phase 2 days, more time to do it, and you can always fix defense.
And ofc make the leia / jabba / galactic ticket events simmable.
Quit this game gave my account to someone about 4yrs ago..if it were not for Ahnold..I wouldn't follow this game..time is money and money is time.. Thank you for making the time and money so we can still enjoy the game vicariously through you!!!!
A phrase i made up, that I can’t get out of my head, with this game: “click audit”
They need to just track how many damn buttons need to be pressed, and cut it by 50-80%
The cycle is pretty funny. I left in 2021 when I found out my gf (now wife) was pregnant. Galactic Challenges had just arrived with the new engine and we were being promised waves of content and polygons because the game at that time was boring. I remember Cubs screaming "MORE CONTENT!!" on stream every day and the whole community being bored. Now I'm back and really enjoying learning all of the new modes and getting up to speed with the new toons, etc. and the community says there is too much to do!! I have definitely noticed the time commitment has raised. but to me it seems like there is so much more to do and the rewards are SO much better than they used to be. That being said, quality of life updates are huge for games like this, and maybe now is the time.
Stepping away from this game can be a good thing I think, and was for me. When I left, I kept watching Ahnald, Cubs, Urzzz, etc. because nothing really beats Grand Arena live on the weekends and the community has always been fantastic! I needed the break at the time, and am now pumped to be back in the grind. I love letting my little girl spin my characters and telling her their names. :) Anyhoo, all the best to Sarah, and thanks Ahnald and the other creators for all you do!!
100% agree. It is huge time commitment. There times I can’t do my GAC due to real life commitments. Same thing with the nightly Ship Arena climb.
i want to point unobvious one : free energy available only for 2h after its initial popup time, thats the worst for me, i have played many gacha / hero collecting games and goh is one of those few old ones that never revisited that part, there is tower defense gacha game called "path to nowhere" that has free energy refreshes too and this energy available through the WHOLE DAY its like 6am and 6pm (or whatever) when it pops up and if you login once a day at 7pm - youll be able to grab BOTH refreshes at once
the other thing that i want to point (not related to time commitment) is conquest model, i am a returning player with not that developed roster, i am hitting one of those chests in the middle cuz i do not have roster and characters to do feats, i would consider getting conquest pass (at least the basic version of it), but i dont see myself paying for only half of the rewards (cuz i am not able to hit the last chest, so half of the reward are not reachable for me)
i dont even want to start on mods, that remains the most frustrating part of the game for sure
Everything should have a sim button. Raids just suck now with time. Conquest should be simmed if you’ve red crated. Tb just fucking sucks.
My guild do a relax TB now - we do lesser CMs (some phases no CMs only SMs). Instead of 42 stars we get 39 stars now but with the extra SMs and the extra time for other things i think that is the right step for our guild. We had to much members who burned out of the game and stop playing ... I hope we get a quality-of-life soon that we can sim more battle. The new raid is horrible ... its so bad ...
I love GAC and its the main reason I play but the matchups STILL since the change are just worse than ever. Its either a no show, they don't try or its a stomp out due to GP. The competitive integrity is just not there for the overall majority and the enjoyment for it is just drifting away because of it. It very rarely feels good to win and that I outdid my opponent in any meaningful way. When before it was how you approached your roster and very small differences that could give you the upperhand. Such as mods or having certain teams your opponent doesn't.
First thing first I think we need TW at the offweek and conquest should be way more rewarding (Zetas, omicrons, and kyros).
Hot take here- CG needs to suck up a lot to new players.
Im a new player for the most part (2m account on levi fleet shart, 1m account fresh). CG is doing a terrible job of making this game entry player friendly. New blood doesn't exactly matter because the shear time its gonna take to see my 1m account get anywhere close to 10m+ is just impossible. New players are gated behind all these hard node farms, kyros, and relics. (not saying it should be free) But who the hell in their right mind is gonna farm idk what 3 years of kyrotech, just to be behind all of you anyway. So new players arent gonna come, old players arent gonna stay. Where is the player retention?
Am I one of the crazy ones that wish that this game had more to play? Spend months grinding my characters for very few minutes/hours in return.