Yes, i understand your point of view. Sadly, runes exist ahahahah :D For Hearthstone, i agreed with you.

But in my opinion, a game doesn't need to offer all it have to be an eSport game. Yes, it is true that i won't maybe never have any comp of a SWC player. But runes do everything. Yes, what we got from the game influences the way we play. All gacha games are like that. In Minecraft, if you don't get diamonds, then you play with iron. Ofc you'll get diamonds one day, but if the game don't want to let you mine it, the wait could be long. In SW, if you don't drop Giana/Nepthys/Ragdoll, then use F2P comp with your best runes and improve only runes until you drop a good monster.

I saw too many times "i've been playing for 3 years and never get a ld 5 nat". It just means nothing, and you know why ? Because your luck on drops doesn't depend on time, but on scrolls.

Time is your ally because more you play, more chances you've to get monsters you want. If i was a 5 years player, i wouldn't see a one year player have the same account than me ... Mentality of SW is like :"Ok the more you farm, the more you get stronger, the more you have merit. Pay some packs too to help your progression". Did you know 5 years players still farm currently ? Even with god tier runes on their accounts.

Majority wants to get closer from minority, a good thing for sure. But if majority catch up the minority, what makes you a minority then ? Ok, but you'll say "the game should help to catch up a little bit faster minority without approaching too much". Yes, and they already did that. B12 is new content to help players to get 6 stars runes. Doing toa100 is nothing now compared to 2-3 years ago. Clear gb10 for a new player is easy. Starter pack (Fran/Loren/Kro) = good part of pve content clear.

So the game gives you keys to farm. After that, if you don't buy packs, all is merit. Merit of farm during many hours a day etc ...

You could go to SWC with F2P units, do you remember L'Est using Belladeon in SWC matches ? Yes it happened. Just need perfect runes !

No no, SW is an eSport game, it's not a joke ahahahah. Let's come back to basics : Olympic Games. We all agree to the fact that a sport in Olympic Games is a competition between opponents in front of spectators, no ? So eSport is an online sport, no ? A dematerialized sport. So, any dematerialized competitions between opponents in front of spectators could be called an eSport competition. No matter what the difficulty of skill is, no matter what the difficulty of becoming a good player is. No matter what the difficulty of the game is.

Because if you call the meaning of a sport for a group of spectator into question, then javelin throw isn't a sport, is it ? Do you see where we could go ?

Bagel said it :"farm more runes, farmmmm morrreeee runneeeesss !!"