Can this be permanent CG?

What’s everyone’s opinions and thoughts of this new loading screen!

CG, throw EA under the bus that way we’ll all understand.

As a way to vent and process the news, I started thinking through some of the events and decisions made this year leading up to the latest rug pull in an effort to try to understand what CG could have possibly been thinking.... (spoiler: I still have no stinking clue what they were thinking)

So here are some happenings from the last year or so....

1. Era of Andor
   • CG does bad math and as a good will offering gives everybody who at least got 4* marquees the mats to take them to G13, and people who got them to 5* enough mats to end up with the zetas
   • People are happy and general consensus is that this is very gracious on CG's part
   • People are slightly confused how they messed up this incredibly simple math... but happily forgive and forget with the make good
2. Era of New Republic
   • CG announces Era economy changes - raises the level cap, changes end of era conversions, etc... but provides no info on where these mats are coming from
   • CG also announces that all characters from this era will be GL reqs
   • Rotta event is released, and people realize that CG has altered the deal and 5* Legendary no longer provides the mats to take the marquees to G13 (even with EP or EP+ purchases)
   • CG does not provide any statement whatsoever... people wonder if this was a mistake? Will there be another make good like last time??
   • Era ends... everyone who didn't whale and buy $100s worth of era materials ends up with G12 marquees and has to manually star, G13, and relic them if they want GL Mando
3. Era of Myths and Legends
   • CG clarifies that G13 is returning as the standard for 5* legendary event (with some caveats) without specifically acknowledging what happened the previous era
   • CG announces that the return of the Rotta legendary event will only run for 7 days instead of the 30 days that had been standard to this point meaning players interested in GL Mando now must aggressively farm NR character shards to meet a much tighter window to not miss out
   • New raid is announced and will ONLY consist of Era characters, their legendary JG units, and also GL Mando
   • Era is almost over, and the announcement is made about the new mini era providing 2 new marquees required at 7* relic 7 for GL Mando. These units presumably will not be farmable for months meaning the only way to get GL Mando within 3-4 months is to whale on the next era.

So like.... what do you guys think about all of this? Was this premeditated and all of these happenings a coordinated effort to prey on a growing sunk cost fallacy and groom us into whales? Or is this just a disconnected sequence of incompetence?

I think I'm leaning closer and closer to the former the more I think about it.... I just cannot get over how communication was handled leading up to and coming out of the NR era. Every bit of that felt calculated and managed... in the exact same way that the more recent announcements have been...

Stop spending money if you do. The ONLY way to get this stuff to stop is for there to be a HUGE drop-off in spending for this upcoming era. This is likely a decision coming from the tippy top (the Saudis recently acquired EA), and the only language they (CEOs and such, not a racism) speak is money. People like Meathead can't do anything about it, so complaining to him will only go so far.

This WILL get worse until you close your wallets. I never complain about whales because they do kinda keep the game alive, but the game WILL die if those of you who regularly spend let this behavior continue.

Don't miss your free 10 Executor shards!

I'm very concerned* about this updated update post, so let's break this down:

1. The Mini Era Coliseum issue - MEC is not out and yet there is a "known Issue" with it. We know that CG doesn't beta test, that's what we players are for, so how can CG know there's a problem in the Mini Era Coliseum?

2. The missing Journey Guide tab - CG doesn't make admissions of technical errors nor do they communicate ... well ... anything. I certainly didn't get 3 CWC shards in compensation in my inbox, so the "technical issue" is suspect. AND they've given a definitive timeline on the corrective action, which I'm sure is against CG policy.

Conclusion: This is clearly a coded message from Meathead. He has been kidnapped, replaced by a clone, and is being tortured with bad pre-production artwork and blue milk lattes in a scheme to make Snowtrooper (OG) the final R10 requirement for GL Mando instead of Snowtrooper Commander due to a coding error. We must rescue him so our precarious link to SWGoH information is restored!

^{(it's also possible an intern will be fired in the morning for breaking protocol... and Meathead is home wondering about the search helicopter.})

^(\See tag, downvote on the left.)*

Finally, in almost a year, we get a new fleet node for shard farming.

This saves a lot of time I hope CG puts this on the other shops like the Galactic War Tokens (Green)

I might use so many refreshes if razor crest was confirmed to be like this.

Creator of many characters in the franchise, a character with merchandise and several appearances. Instead, they picked that random Rodian.

Sadly it’s for limited time only according to their newsletter :(

Edit: BTW there are also bulk offers for squad arena shop, so it’s a great time to spend that stockpile. One day we will hopefully have bulk buying of bronzium cards too

Been stuck at 3 shards (don't know how I got those) for as long as I can remember and I see no reason to try and get him 5 shards at a time with him not even being necessary to get so I'm just wondering how good is he?

They let this one slip with the new era details and GL Mandalorian & Grogu requirements.

I’m not crazy right. I swear there used to be a tab for your journey guide units and now it’s gone. Is anyone else seeing this in their game? If it’s true then that’s kind of sad. Idk why they’d get rid of it. It was nice that I could manage my journey way guide units in one place.

Finally 7-starred my R9 Executor today! Need advice on starting 3 (P1 + IG-2000 vs XB) and the 7th slot.

Starting 3: Punishing One, Razor Crest, IG-2000
Reinforcements: Hound's Tooth, Slave I, Xanadu Blood

Also, any general advice regarding my roster is greatly appreciated.

https://swgoh.gg/p/669155123/

In my opinion it's one of the best loading screen we had

With the mini-era coming up, I wonder how that will affect the solo journey dates for Cassian, Maul, Rotta, etc.
Usually those begin one week after an era ends ... so we're expecting them to start about Oct 27.
With the mini-era, will they delay those to November? or will they run October as expected, then run an additional set of journeys in November? If they dont do November, then it'll be after the next era, which is the end of February - a 4 month wait. I hope they realize that and do Oct AND Nov, so they dont have a 4-month break on those journeys