Not wasting my time with new update.

Whammaster

I refuse to buy the 5x packs and take part in the mana jewel events.

Not only did you limit packs to 5x with the same guarente rare, you didn't even make the price 1/3rd! Of what it originaly is. Then we are to assume entering the event with jewels will give us our 60 crystals back in a single pack ( that no one should buy to begin with ) and we get a set amount of jewels after that according to your level. WHAT A SCAM.

I accepted it when you raised the base price of the the starter pw's from 10 to 50. But this just creates a gap between p2w and f2p. So congrats D3, you did what A lot of people were warning what was gonna happen.

Yawgmoth

Fully agree. The math on the rewards is all over the board terribad.

Nerfed crystal rewards from events, nerfed value per crystal spent in the new pack bundles. And worst of all - paid events with rewards worse than free events used to have! Now we'll have to spend time playing 12 rounds a day just so we don't get a negative return on the events! There's a booster but we used to get boosters in multiples from free events.

Despite having a good amount of crystals stockpiked, I'll most likely be skipping the new paid events. Value per time spent in them approaches zero.

Paid events would be fine if the rewards were significantly better than in free ones, here they're practically worse.

DSidey

I've boycotted it. I encourage others to post their boycott.

JerBear

I just started playing a few weeks ago and even at that point was iffy on the drop rates and a pay to win scheme that seemed a bit too greedy but this update was the nail in the coffin. What a way to over-milk and ruin a potentially good gaming experience. Oh well, I eagerly await the next online MTG game.

Nezumi

I agree with the general sentiment here. Almost everything this update has brought makes me unhappy. The new events sound cool and I want to participate ( I will participate tomorrow since you gave me 100 crystals to "try it" and I will) but the reduced prize payouts for events and the cost of packs with reduced total number of cards just make my angry.

I wish you would have just rolled back this entire update. There is nothing good here. The entire player base is unhappy. The newer players are having a hard time figuring out how to make progress and obtain cards. The older players, like me (I've been playing since the first month this came out), don't know what to do either. I no longer want to spend my crystals because I can't earn them as quickly. The new event has a poor payout. The cost of planeswalkers increased to 650. Packs seem to be dropping fewer rares and mythics and there's also fewer cards in them.

Instead of providing multiple crystal sinks, I believe you have all just done the opposite. Players are going to hoard them and not pay any money for these things anymore. Soon, people will just walk away from the game. After all, the money we've already spent is a sunk cost. It will, however, prevent you from receiving more from any of us.

The only thing that was fine to me was a new currency. I'm fine if that's a way to get guaranteed mythics. It can trickle in. It can be a bonus. You shouldn't have touched anything with current crystals however.

For the first night in a year, I'm losing my willingness to play and I may just let myself fall out of the top 10 for QB and who knows what's next.

Please look to fix your issues with this update quickly. Once players decide to leave, there's no way to get them back. You need to do something before we all just walk away.

LoVe1AnGe

I boycott it too. This is really as if they just kidding us in making elite more elitist and saying to beginner "get off from there kid".

I really don't understand where they want to go.

Astralwind

It's not called boycott. It's called making a smart and informed choice.
Just simple calculation will tell you that it's not going to be worth it at all.
And I am definitely staying away from those events that need me to pay currencies to join.
Bore me enough and I will quit the game. So what if I have already built up quite a bit of rare and mythic cards?
I would rather take a small loss at this juncture than continue to lose more.

Tilwin90

I agree with what is being said here. While I do not mind the option to get smaller packs now and invest fewer jewels, all in all, it's a waste for us the players.
Previously we had 14x for 600. Now we have 5x for 300. That's not a fair deal really! We lost any real advantage for saving up crystals for higher number of packs, unlike the previous discount we benefited from. It's the same for the 3x really which now simply costs 180 (3x1 pack = 3x60 = 180). This does not get overlooked by the players!
The number of dupes is just as bad too. I get that I am promised a rare on the 300x pack, but even so, nothing guarantees that rare is worth it really.
So all in all, I find these "adjustments" to be laughable and aim nothing else but profit. Typical for "free to play" games.

As for the purple crystals, oh please... "Make them special" my tush!
- The pack does not guarantee a masterpiece, nor does it guarantee the lack of a dupe mythic.
- 1 crystal per progress? Are you kidding me?! At 400 crystal/pack, good luck with that.
- The fact that people can pay for these crystals ruins their purpose really. I know of other "free to play" games that differentiated between coin bought with real money and coin for events. Allowing to purchase the coin for events with real money is a big no-no and completely invalidates arguments that come to support the "rarity" of the purple crystals. Nothing special there.

Until drop rate is improved and the duplicates issue solved, I'm saving all the crystals I can get. No more investments other than planeswalkers.

majincob

Tilwin90 wrote:

I agree with what is being said here. While I do not mind the option to get smaller packs now and invest fewer jewels, all in all, it's a waste for us the players.
Previously we had 14x for 600. Now we have 5x for 300. That's not a fair deal really! We lost any real advantage for saving up crystals for higher number of packs, unlike the previous discount we benefited from. It's the same for the 3x really which now simply costs 180 (3x1 pack = 3x60 = 180). This does not get overlooked by the players!
The number of dupes is just as bad too. I get that I am promised a rare on the 300x pack, but even so, nothing guarantees that rare is worth it really.
So all in all, I find these "adjustments" to be laughable and aim nothing else but profit. Typical for "free to play" games.

As for the purple crystals, oh please... "Make them special" my tush!
- The pack does not guarantee a masterpiece, nor does it guarantee the lack of a dupe mythic.
- 1 crystal per progress? Are you kidding me?! At 400 crystal/pack, good luck with that.
- The fact that people can pay for these crystals ruins their purpose really. I know of other "free to play" games that differentiated between coin bought with real money and coin for events. Allowing to purchase the coin for events with real money is a big no-no and completely invalidates arguments that come to support the "rarity" of the purple crystals. Nothing special there.

Until drop rate is improved and the duplicates issue solved, I'm saving all the crystals I can get. No more investments other than planeswalkers.

Agree. They implied a boost to rare/mythic drop rates AND some anti-dupe de-randomizing algorithms, but instead just lowered the value of the packs.

tulant

There is not a single thing said in this fourm i could not agree more with. They have ruined the game for a lot of players.

NinjaE

I'm officially done with this game. Have fun everyone!