ChrisTot wrote: ChrisTot wrote: loroku wrote: raidan wrote: I think it's to be more friendly to new players. To help them level their planeswalkers to gain additional ribbons in quick battle. However with the inability to purchase rune packs, new players will be at a further disadvantage to gaining new cards. I agree, although I'm still surprised people were dumping thousands or tens of thousands of runes into getting common dupes and the occasional uncommon. Apparently the devs were, too. But you're right in that even wasting a jillion runes on 3-packs was still a possible way to increase your collection, and removing that (even if it was a poor choice) still impacts newer players. I'm one of the people that spent 16k+ runes on the 225 packs, and now that the change is in place, I'm wondering why more people didn't do the same thing I did. If I could do it all over again I would, and the moment I heard about the update, I updated them at every turn possible until the update went through. You can earn 3 cards in less than 15 minutes. Now you have to wait 8 hours. Also, I've gotten plenty of rares and even had a mythic from those as well.
ChrisTot wrote: loroku wrote: raidan wrote: I think it's to be more friendly to new players. To help them level their planeswalkers to gain additional ribbons in quick battle. However with the inability to purchase rune packs, new players will be at a further disadvantage to gaining new cards. I agree, although I'm still surprised people were dumping thousands or tens of thousands of runes into getting common dupes and the occasional uncommon. Apparently the devs were, too. But you're right in that even wasting a jillion runes on 3-packs was still a possible way to increase your collection, and removing that (even if it was a poor choice) still impacts newer players. I'm one of the people that spent 16k+ runes on the 225 packs, and now that the change is in place, I'm wondering why more people didn't do the same thing I did. If I could do it all over again I would, and the moment I heard about the update, I updated them at every turn possible until the update went through. You can earn 3 cards in less than 15 minutes. Now you have to wait 8 hours.
loroku wrote: raidan wrote: I think it's to be more friendly to new players. To help them level their planeswalkers to gain additional ribbons in quick battle. However with the inability to purchase rune packs, new players will be at a further disadvantage to gaining new cards. I agree, although I'm still surprised people were dumping thousands or tens of thousands of runes into getting common dupes and the occasional uncommon. Apparently the devs were, too. But you're right in that even wasting a jillion runes on 3-packs was still a possible way to increase your collection, and removing that (even if it was a poor choice) still impacts newer players.
raidan wrote: I think it's to be more friendly to new players. To help them level their planeswalkers to gain additional ribbons in quick battle. However with the inability to purchase rune packs, new players will be at a further disadvantage to gaining new cards.
Lennie wrote: we must not forget that the game is new .. let time see how the game progresses ... you can not have everything at the beginning
ChrisTot wrote: loroku wrote: raidan wrote: I think it's to be more friendly to new players. To help them level their planeswalkers to gain additional ribbons in quick battle. However with the inability to purchase rune packs, new players will be at a further disadvantage to gaining new cards. I agree, although I'm still surprised people were dumping thousands or tens of thousands of runes into getting common dupes and the occasional uncommon. Apparently the devs were, too.But you're right in that even wasting a jillion runes on 3-packs was still a possible way to increase your collection, and removing that (even if it was a poor choice) still impacts newer players. I'm one of the people that spent 16k+ runes on the 225 packs, and now that the change is in place, I'm wondering why more people didn't do the same thing I did. If I could do it all over again I would, and the moment I heard about the update, I updated them at every turn possible until the update went through. You can earn 3 cards in less than 15 minutes. Now you have to wait 8 hours.
loroku wrote: raidan wrote: I think it's to be more friendly to new players. To help them level their planeswalkers to gain additional ribbons in quick battle. However with the inability to purchase rune packs, new players will be at a further disadvantage to gaining new cards. I agree, although I'm still surprised people were dumping thousands or tens of thousands of runes into getting common dupes and the occasional uncommon. Apparently the devs were, too.But you're right in that even wasting a jillion runes on 3-packs was still a possible way to increase your collection, and removing that (even if it was a poor choice) still impacts newer players.
fruithead wrote: I too fail to understand all the people in this thread desperate to drink the developers kool-aid.
Keegan wrote: If this were a game put out by a big studio, I'd be as upset as the next person. But it's not. There are only three developers. More precisely, there is one developer, one QA person, and what I'll call the product manager. Would you like them working on the game, or reading and posting here, while keeping a work/ life balance? I'll defend them because as of right now they certainly deserve it, with the work in patching the game as well as feature development. The game will continue to evolve, hopefully as positively as it has so far.
ChrisTot wrote: In my opinion, in addition to handling the tasks you're already working on, feedback is important.