Legacy Perk Requirements Reduced

You're right. No reduction in credit cost.

You're also right that YOU didn't have to grind. You're a core player, you've been here a while, you have 8 character slots and probably several alts, at least a couple at level 50.

Now flip that around and think about the casual F2P player who has 2 character slots. Getting to the high legacy levels required to purchase those perks would be tough to impossible. But with the reduced perks, eminently do-able. (These are the perks that require both legacy level and credits to unlock.)

Oh, but they don't have the credits to buy the perks, you say? Correct, sir, they do not and cannot due to their F2P limitations! But once they can buy the perks with credits OR CARTEL COINS they're set, right?!

Yes yes ... use pajoratives liberally ... that shows how superior you are.

Once again you missed the point.

The point is that the whole game is being dumbed down so much that there is no longer a sense of accomplishement for ACHIEVING a goal. There is nothing to achieve, no goal to reach by actually "playing" the game that will seemingly not be beyond the reach to "purchase". Even if you don't have a B2W cash store, if you put all the grind things in the store then you take any meaning away from playing the game. This in turn will actually increase churn. This game is already too easy as it is. This makes it even more forgetable. Less time playing a character means the player is less experienced playing their character. MMORPGS used to have steep learning curves (which in and of itself was part of the game within the game) now everything is handed to you. That is FACT and not "tin foil hat" matterial. The reason is that games are NO LONGER for GAMERS .... they are "just entertainment" for the average consumer. There is a difference. Companies need to find a way to cater to both types of customers; the gamers who gave them the industry in the first place and the "new" consumer customer main stream that "fancies" themselves as gamers ( back in the day we used to call them POSERS ).

Hush you or you will be accused of wearing a tin foil hat ( er again).

I think Celebrus said it best in another thread:

I agree, my legacy level is 48. Unfortunately, the level 50 perk will probably have 3 levels, costing 10,000,000, 20,000,000, and 50,000,000 credits. Or be purchasable for the low low price of $99.98.

Outrageous legacy perk costs FTL!!

This only has as much to do with F2P as the reason they are going F2P. They want to keep the non-hardcore crowd and they no doubt have enough feedback/statistics to realize one of their big selling points, Legacy, isn't even usable by most people, especially the perks for alts. I've been here since early access and I think I might have hit Legacy level 12. It's not like I've ever complained but if they've lowered the requirements then they've just added something to my enjoyment of the game that they didn't even have to add.

As that casual a player, can you afford the millions of credits that the perks cost on top of the legacy level entry requirement?

I've been legacy 50 for 2 months now.....when are they going to reward those of us who are truly dedicated players? Instead of adding more perks for those of us who have earned them, they make it easier for eveyone else to get the stuff we worked hard for. Seriously getting tired of this.

I have:
50
45
22
29
25
16
26

And am legacy level 31. Character levels don't necessarily reflect legacy levels...

Legacy 44 here, and I learned a long time ago that Legacy is a joke. Super low Legacy unlocks that cost tons of money. This is the problem I have with a number of games, the constant desire to get one more new sub and new box sale is more important than rewarding your long-time veteran players (well, as long as this game has been out, which is not long LOL). They could do both, but they don't, and that's why the mass exodus.

I would much rather they lowered the credit cost for the perks. I have been playing since launch and I would fit into the casual crowd I have 6 toons now and I am at legacy 24. Gaining Legacy isn't to hard but having the credits to buy perks for all my toons is hard. Getting the global perks is almost impossible I will never have 5 million to spend on a GTN terminal for my ships. I make enough money to keep my toons in good gear and that is about it.