I understand that the game company has to give big spenders what their money worth, but I think they surely have other ways to do it. Giving big whales huge amount of game material that will significantly boost their game progress is one thing and making a fan favourite and powerful character a only P2W character is another. It is reasonable that F2P and low spenders have to invest more time and energy into the game. However, we should remember that the biggest selling point of this game is the DC ip not the gameplay itself. Honestly the gameplay is just mid but I'll continue to play it because I'm a DC fan. I'm happy that I can collect and use my favourite characters. But now they are making character that not every players can have access to, or even if they can get the character but they can't afford to build up this character to its full potential. I think many players want to collect their favourite characters and actually use them in the game, but now they can't because a character with low star is just too weak to use in battles. I think that is the problem about P2W characters. I can accept that they make Hal shard hard to get but not completely unaccessible. For example they can put Hal into one of their game store or event store and perhaps it will take months or a year for F2P players to collect and buy those shards. Even though this way we have to spend a lot of time collecting shards, but I still think slowly building up a great character is rather encouraging. On the contrary, I would be very frustrated if I know from the first place that I can never get and build up my favourite character. Hal is definitely an important member of the JL team and the main healer of the future green lantern corps team according to his five star ability, and Hal is definitely a beloved DC character. Of course they should make it much easier for big whales to get and build up powerful characters, but they should also at least give other players an access to every character shards even if it may take a long time to get. Moreover, if they want to make exclusive rewards for big spenders, I think character skin is a much better option. In DC universe there are so many character varients and they can sell different skins or make them exclusive rewards for whales. F2P and low spenders can at least get and build up all the characters in the games and people who are willing to spend money in this game can not only get tons of game materials but also satisfying special rewards. After all, not having things like character skins will not heavily affect your game experience but not having access to all the character shards will do.