jackvett wrote: A hearty chuckle to the folks who are tossing around "pleasures of deckbuilding" as a reason to spend twenty to thirty bucks on this nonsense. Y'all are kidding yourselves. You like being able to pay to win, you can just say it.
EDHdad wrote: Alright. So if it's scientifically proven that they HAVE to charge $30 each for a certain card, because there's literally no other possible way to make money, then why not charge $30 each for every card?
If a Big Box is 600 crystals, why not charge 600 crystals for a player's choice of a single card?
Ohboy wrote: EDHdad wrote: Alright. So if it's scientifically proven that they HAVE to charge $30 each for a certain card, because there's literally no other possible way to make money, then why not charge $30 each for every card? Are you looking for an answer that isn't "the game would be impossible to play"? If a Big Box is 600 crystals, why not charge 600 crystals for a player's choice of a single card? Because 600 crystals for a big box doesn't even guarantee you a random mythic. This is like asking why you can't just buy the prize in a raffle for the price of a ticket.
blacklotus wrote: Ohboy wrote: EDHdad wrote: Alright. So if it's scientifically proven that they HAVE to charge $30 each for a certain card, because there's literally no other possible way to make money, then why not charge $30 each for every card? Are you looking for an answer that isn't "the game would be impossible to play"? If a Big Box is 600 crystals, why not charge 600 crystals for a player's choice of a single card? Because 600 crystals for a big box doesn't even guarantee you a random mythic. This is like asking why you can't just buy the prize in a raffle for the price of a ticket. I remember the old going rate was 1050 crystals for a big box for a guaranteed random mythic.
Ohboy wrote: Stop with the hyperbole already.
Elexsynn3411 wrote: As far as mythic bundles go, do they typically rotate the Mythic? I haven't been playing long enough to know. I am really jones'n for the Bandit of Grier Reach (sp) for my Arlinn deck.
Ohboy wrote: Are you guys seriously telling me you aren't competitive without buying cards? I refuse to believe you're that bad at this game. Stop with the hyperbole already. Your complaining is not going to get the devs to change to a format more favorable to non whale players. We already have an extremely good deal as it is. Some games don't even give you access to exclusives, ever. We wait... 2 months? And not having exclusives isn't even an issue with the bad AI. All this talk is doing is convincing people to spend less money on the game. The very people who are subsidizing the game you profess to enjoy. You prefer micropayments? That's how you get less free cards and entry fees for exclusive events.
Ohboy wrote: Elexsynn3411 wrote: As far as mythic bundles go, do they typically rotate the Mythic? I haven't been playing long enough to know. I am really jones'n for the Bandit of Grier Reach (sp) for my Arlinn deck. Doesn't work that way. And if it did, you'll see people really get pissed off. The game sets aside some mythic cards in the current set as exclusives that can only be bought with cash. They go on sale for a week, and then it's gone. When a new set is released, these exclusive cards become ordinary mythics that can be looted from boosters. Bandit was never an exclusive, so you have to get him from boosters.
jackvett wrote: Ohboy wrote: Are you guys seriously telling me you aren't competitive without buying cards? I refuse to believe you're that bad at this game. Stop with the hyperbole already. Your complaining is not going to get the devs to change to a format more favorable to non whale players. We already have an extremely good deal as it is. Some games don't even give you access to exclusives, ever. We wait... 2 months? And not having exclusives isn't even an issue with the bad AI. All this talk is doing is convincing people to spend less money on the game. The very people who are subsidizing the game you profess to enjoy. You prefer micropayments? That's how you get less free cards and entry fees for exclusive events. Awe I'm sorry you big fatty whales with all that money you can't spend wisely aren't having as much fun. At least yunnnnn turned a bad reputation from his initial brag thread into a hilarious point of view. Dude's winning, you're just a hassle to read. If the powers that be couldn't figure out a pricing structure better than $30/arrangement of pixels that you yourself are saying does functionally no better than an uncommon/rare, then they're pretty stupid. I don't really want to subsidize that stupidity by supplanting it with my own stupidity and buying a $30 arrangement of pixels that does nothing. Even at the cost of you poor, lovely whales losing your $6,000USD of stupid purchases. If you want to throw in more Us vs Them language, feel free. Really easy to pick apart your points when you just flame half the forum with every post.
angry angry man wrote: This is how you achieve this. Antagonize your patrons. That's just not smart.