I don't know if you remember what CREs used to be with regards to % of chance to win an item. To get rank 5 item would be anything from 0.02% to 0.5% which is pretty shite. It meant that you would always (pretty much) have to make all spins to get the item. 

Fast forward to now, CREs, well most of them anyway, come with 5% to win the main prize, which means your chances much higher to get the main prize without having to make all spins. Now add to this the fact that since the new tournement mode was put in, you can pretty much f2p your way into getting 200 acoins a day, a day!!, by only having to play 8 games. To win anything in the old world tournament, it would take a week to get 200 acoins if you, like me, refuse to nolife away to compete with the rest of the world for 1st place. 200 a day gets you enough acoins to save up between CREs to then pretty much each time get the main prize at 5% without on occasion having to spin till the end.

The game is now much better for f2p players because with a fraction of the effort they would have had to make before, they can get the premium content without spending any real world money. Hell, scan receipts into Google Opinion Rewards (android app) and you can get up to £8 a month just for that, and get a Gold Pass for peanuts, or other content if you so please.

Honestly:)

Yup, the only problem is even after earning your resources you still gotta play the waiting game. Would be better if we didn't have to.

Also would be better if we could get this weapon from gear hub.

You would be playing the waiting game, agreed, a bummer, but without the waiting game you wouldn;t have enough time to accumulate the acoins, so yeah, it is what it is. I still think it is much better than the endless grind you would face before if you wanted to get the same gear f2p.

I second your notion to get the Hornets into GearHub for ingame resources, can't remember if they got buffed in the rebalance waves, but I definitely see loads more loadouts with it present now than before. Even some top tier bumsweats are rocking two 16s on their Deathwalkers! ;)

Crate rushes don't give you time to save they make it so you have to skip an item and wait for it again if you don't have what it costs in the crate rush at the time it cycles in. Even though you may get what it costs much before then.

I just wanna grind and use my resources.

They wont because they would loose money and they feel the need to make sure whales are happy and not everyone, all that matters is whales so goog luck

if all that mattered was the whales then clearly they would have left it as it was because back then for f2p players to ever properly compete with p2w was to start paying to win. come on, isn't this logical? i fear that if i spell it out even more clearly then Plarium will realise and revert back to the old way:)

I love that STILL nobody answers my question. They released hornets to gear hub yesterday but won't answer my question.

Nice you listened to me when I said to release the hornets to gear hub but I've asked the question about release timings at least 3 times now and you still won't answer it.

I like how they do anything to avoid answering the question. Even just releasing the content. Maybe I ask this question with a new thread for every paid item.

So your question is about "how it's determined which items make it into gear hub for in game resources sooner vs late", right? I'm genuinely curious why this matters so much.

As far as I know (I could be wrong) Plarium has never set any expectations about when and how they release content for in game resources. Players have inferred a formula (one year after initial release) based on the general trend. Expecting stuff on a schedule that players invented is probably unrealistic.

I personally assume there is no formula, and each decision is made on the fly, and undoubtedly one factor would be how much money the gear is making the company. That relieves me from any disappointment because I'm not looking forward to a schedule that Plarium never committed to.

crap weapon anyway comparing to other legendaries

Plarium never set any expectations about when they release content? Except they did. When they released disc launcher 8 into the game it took 3 months for it to appear for f2p. But then the times get longer and longer. I would expect there to be a limit to how long they'd hold an item from f2p but there doesn't appear to be.

They also said once that more desirable items are made free sooner and less desirable items are kept for longer but it's clear the opposite is true.

I would really like if there was no gap between ite being dropped in their first crate rush and their drop to gear hub. I don't see actually why they wait to drop it to gear hub. Let alone an indefinite amount of time that they lie about the factors contributing to the release of items.

Why it matters is pay to win. War robots, the other big game like this, releases new OP items every month that take 2 freaking years to become available and by that time they're totally obsolete. I can see the same thing happening here in mech arena. The time it takes for META to become available for free takes longer and longer, and f2p has less and less time to use the newest META. It feels like they're slowly becoming like war robots, and trying to push any and all f2p out of the top players.

So you're frustrated with the long release times. That I get. But you were making it sound like you're frustrated that they're not releasing their release schedule formula :-).

Unfortunately for us f2ps, their approach is basically just capitalism at work. But on the flip side I personally don't think that these days, as an f2p, things are terrible. The stuff that is available to us is also very strong. Plus there are the crate rushes with better chances than before. If you are patient for some time, and resist the temptation to spend your resources for a while, you can make pretty decent progress. 

No I am upset they aren't telling us their release formula. They promised us transparency so I'm looking for a bit of transparency. They're looking like liars.

Also F2p stuff is okay right now because of the recent rebalance. We're already getting new META items and there's still a possibility for those to take yet longer to become f2p than the last META. This is important

Well good luck to you. I'll just consider myself lucky that I am not bothered by this particular issue :-).