You're awesome Gerbil, don't forget it and wish you well in your life. It's always wonderful to get your insights. I'd add the new raid structure to the list of trying to retain players if it didn't take so long to just do 1 run.
First, you're awesome, always loved your content, take care of yourself. Glad you won't be completely gone. Loved your business 101 breakdown, totally agree, and their are things they can do to rejuvenate. On the subject of time investment, which you touched on more in your last video, now this one, it comes down to a case of "careful what you wish for." That timeline graphic you showed is great. Right about the time when the content updates became sporadic, was also when the community was saying they were bored because there wasn't enough to do in game. Now they complain about having too much to do. Well they got their wish, so... 🤷♂️ It's a lose-lose situation, can't please everyone all the time. If CG were to do more frequent content updates, but each requiring less time investment, it still would come out the same total time. We're at a pick your poison stage and the poison tastes sweet, the game is in a great spot, but it could easily go one way or the other, hopefully that direction is up
If SWGOH adds new game modes than they need to retire some old ones. What I would suggest is reinventing arena as a sandbox mode. Same rewards but you can put it up to five teams and members of your shard can play against any team in the sandbox. One of the things I really loved in the early game was being able to borrow characters from allies to get through LS, DS, Cantina battles. It made me want those characters for myself. Reviving that as a sandbox would benefit both existing players and veterans.
Their P1 ship literally ruined my Profundity fleet, almost 2 years of development and now I can't beat the Executor fleets in my fleet shard, if I start over with Executor it will be a long 6 months
Hello there Gerbil :) Amazing video, really nice insights, I also think as chatGTP SWGOH is a mature game, zero risk to die soon or never since Star Wars fandom will always exist. Best wishes for you and family. Thank you for sharing content. Hope you still do Collaboration with Nooch, both of you are amazing, as a 40 years old player and Guild Leader I really appreciate both of your insights, I won't find them anywhere else. May The Force Be With You!! #KeepStrong 💪🏽💪🏽!!
New player experience newest change. The first 85 levels now take 25 to 35 days. With Phoenix and bounty hunters given to you at 4 to 5 stars and a faster path to executioner. But I think it got more people to make alts with the computer launch. I know I did.
I think CG is trying to bring in new players with them completely revamping and accelerating the starting experience. It's a start but, I think they have a ways to go. As someone is who new to the game (Jan 2024), the only way I felt I could compete and punch up was by buying as many LSB's as I could to cut down on farming time. It's a very daunting feeling coming into the game when you look how much time and energy it takes to compete on a moderate level.
I had always considered myself a pretty big Star Wars fan growing up and yet when I first started playing swgoh in 2020 I probably hadn't heard of 1/3 of the characters (such as KOTOR, comic or cartoon based characters). I've made efforts to branch out into the Star Wars world beyond the live action but CG continued to release characters first introduced to me via swgoh (Starkiller, Malgus, Hondo, Dr. Aphra, etc...) I agree with your examples as being niche but in my experience this game has always had niche characters, at least for the last five years. Maybe it's been in the maturity phase this whole time and that's your point? Anyway thanks for the vid! I know you're stepping back but I appreciate the occasional thought provoking content over some streamer doing daily clickbait fodder any day!
While Jar Jar is well known for his infamous status , I would say all the other gungans ( including Boss nass ) are mostly unknown/forgotten for the overwhelming majority of SW fans. Seriously, ask anyone that doesn't play the game who the leader of the Gungans is, I doubt 5% of them would give you a name. Let alone remember that there was more then one Gungan 😹
I predict that if CG goes back into Old Republic era content, they will have a very sharp spike in interest and revenue, draw back old players, retain renewed interest from current players, and pull in some new players. While Old Republic content isn't beloved by all SW fans, it is undeniably one of the most popular segments of the franchise, and there has been desire for more Old Republic content for awhile. You have KOTOR 2 characters, like the Exile Meetra Surik and her companions. Mandalor Canderous, Atton Rand, Bao-Dur, Hanharr and his human female rival (I forgot her name), Handmaiden Brianna, etc. Then you have Malgus' counterpart, Satele Shan, descendant of Revan and Bastila. Revan Reborn and Emperor Vitiate are both GL contenders, and Vitiate has two other forms they could probably milk. Satele's trooper husband could be a marquee, as could Darth Marr and even my name-sake Darth Jadus (who I helped write and create for SWtor and is actually named after my own legal name, even though I'm a woman and he's a male Sith. Yes, I was a minor writer for SWtor back in the day, under Mr Freed). They could even sell the ancient Sith whose legacies left long shadows across Kotor to Swtor, like Exar Kun, Marka Ragnos, Naga Sadow, Freedon Nadd, and Ajunta Pall. These names are quite popular amongst a certain part of the fanbase, and that part of the fanbase WOULD spend a lot to obtain them. I see a gold-mine just waiting for CG to plunder. The amount of time they've allowed to pass since the last Old Republic content could be very smart on their end, if they release more in the future, because it created a passive but strong desire in this community for more. Making people wait for more when they expect it's possible can create stronger interest over time, but if they wait TOO long, it will fade quickly. Oh, how did I forget? A NEUTRAL Kreia would be a fascinating addition, as well, especially since Hondo is the only other Neutral toon atm. Anyway, you get my point. I enjoy new content from the films and shows, but I have seen the desire in the community for more Old Republic era content for awhile. I think this is CG's best bet to turn Maturity Phase into another Growth phase, rather than a slow decline. I hope they don't try High Republic era first though, because I'm afraid the low interest in that due to much of the Acolyte's reception could give CG a false sense of failure about OLD Republic content. I think Disney is making the same mistake. They think if High Republic content flops, that that means Old Republic content would flop too, and that's just so not true. They are not comparible.. But hey, this is all just my opinion. What do I know? I only worked for and wrote for LucasArts back in the day. I only have a Sith Lord named after me....
I'm a day 1 player, f2p, but I've dropped a few dollars on LSB to round out my roster. I stopped playing for 2-3 years after the tier 13 update, I have not been able to recover from that hiatus. The grind is way too tedious. The developers should half the mats if they want to retain players, or to keep the interest of new ones...
I agree with almost everything of what you’re saying. But gungans for me are not niche. I enjoyed jar jar. I’m actually SUPER suprised it took this long for gungans to come to the game. Are they my favorite? Nope, but I still enjoy them. In fact, my favorite faction is the galactic republic, and we got some galactic republic this year. padme Qui gon and obi wan are 3 of my top 5 favorite characters. In my mind they are huge characters. So these are FAR from niche.
I'm not sure I want more modes TBH. I want to be able to play less so I avoid burnout. The more you unlock the more chores there are. Conquest being two weeks is too much.
Summoners War is a far older game then SWGoH. It got a huge influx of new players by going on steam. Before that content creators had far less views / subscribers then SWGoH and possibly SW was in the decline phase but by going on steam they went back to growth phase.
Yep, $150 for 1 new character out of 360 (not including ships)….. that’s $150 to increase your roster quantity by as little as 0.2%. Seems like a good deal to me… lol I miss $20 classic Nintendo games! Lol
Only way a game like this will " die " is when people stop spending millions on it 😜😹 Seriously, how much does it cost them to draw a few pixels and write some text for the abilities. The profits must be incredible 🙀
Running multiple accounts is a real quick way to burnout. Restarting the raid multiple times is a real quick way to burnout. Creating too much content is a quick way to burnout. Grinding through every GAC round is a quick way to burnout. Just sayin
