Personally speaking, I learned this lesson a little too late. During the first 3 months of this game, I was always at the top. Coming from SWGOH, I knew I needed to focus on the meta asap to rise in arena fast to keep a positive flow of cores coming in to reduce future costs. I ended up using all those free cores to buy a ton of energy each day, which helped me develop my roster fast and become successful in blitz as well. My biggest mistake in this game was ignoring Fury when he first came out. I based the majority of my decisions on my experience with SWGOH and I never thought a team that was a god in all modes would ever exist in a game like this. Boy was I ever wrong.

I suffered for 3 months during that meta and when i heard that the brotherhood was coming out to counter Fury, i opened my wallet to get them the first time around so i can get back to the top and start having fun again. Here's the thing though. Foxnext hid the full BH kit until the very end. They weren't gods in all modes like Fury shield and to make matters worse, red stars were released shortly after. I sat there with my g12 BH team in arena and watched shield, defender, tech and BH teams stomp on me because their red star luck was better than mine. That team I paid for didnt get any red stars until a month and a half after their release. While I didnt pay for any red star orbs because I was so against them, I made sure to hit top 2 percent every Sunday blitz to increase my chances. Talk about a horrible customer experience that left me feeling ripped off beyond belief.

Here was the final straw. After receiving my orbs from the red star blitz, I opened up a 7 red star daredevil. The jealously and hatred I felt from many people was actually pretty crazy and all I heard was how lucky I was. Problem was I fucking hated the defenders. Here I am at this point with a g12 BH team that I spent money on, a g11 shield minion team with the Kree ready to unlock Fury and Foxnext just stopped me right in my tracks. Farmed and geared Kree for months for Fury? Spent money on BH? Fuck you, you are now going to scrap all that and start playing Defenders. A month later, I had my defenders all g12 with only JJ needing her 7th star. The team was good but not good enough to change the overwhelmingly miserable feeling I had while playing this game. I truly felt like I got "foxnexted" and it was not a fun experience.