Long post again...Number nerd back again now that the end date has been clarified. This is like being given a recipe for a delicious cake and you can't get the ingredients to make it for a large chunk of the player base.
As I've previously said, completing the free version of story pass was never an issue for the majority of my club. This format and the points needed, they don't stand a chance. The very limited way to earn points through non paying means (spinner and timer boxes) being capped is a hindrance for sure, not to mention there are way less ways to progress through this than there were with the different stages of story passes.
Members who are loyal to their PotD/PPotD club will be forced to hop out for sessions, flashes or last bars which in the end could hurt the PotD/PPotD clubs who already struggle to get members in and keep them because of the path this game has taken.
So now to the numbers to put this in a discouraging perspective.....
For mostly getting points from parties alone (no DN use or box opening since not everyone can afford that for a supposedly free version of something and assuming players don't have a sub running for a drop boost)
- 250,000 points = 2,976 points needed per day = 28 PotD/PPotD per day
- 205,000 points = 2,440 points needed per day = 23 PotD/PPotD per day
- 165,000 points = 1,964 points needed per day = 19 PotD/PPotD per day
- 130,000 points = 1,548 points needed per day = 15 PotD/PPotD per day
- 100,000 points = 1,190 points needed per day = 11 PotD/PPotD per day
- 75,000 points = 893 points needed per day = 8 PotD/PPotD per day
Now if we factor it in with people maxing the capped points for spinning and timer boxes, that takes off 4,500 points. So we'd be at:
- 245,500 points = 2,923 points per day = 28 PotD/PPotD per day
- 200,500 points = 2,387 points per day = 23 PotD/PPotD per day
- 160,500 points = 1,911 points per day = 18 PotD/PPotD per day
- 125,500 points = 1,494 points per day = 14 PotD/PPotD per day
- 95,500 points = 1,137 points per day = 11 PotD/PPotD per day
- 70,500 points = 839 points per day = 8 PotD/PPotD per day
So all of that proves the free methods of earning points (parties, timer boxes and spinner) basically don't help anything and are realistically impossible for anyone who doesn't go to sessions, flash or hop for lbh to even come anywhere close to finishing what is supposedly a free option of something. Much less even more unrealistic for smaller stat players to get much of anything at all from this.
Personally, if it was closer to realistically possible to finish this I wouldn't mind spending a little out of my pocket to get there, but seeing how far off this is with effort alone for what is supposedly free, I won't even want to bother. I'll just get what I get and move along, like I've been doing more and more with how cash grabby this game is now.