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So, I'm really excited about the new cards, new gameplay mechanics, new UI update, new everything. It's all really awesome and it makes the core game - the match 3 card game - much stronger.

But opening 28 packs in a row and only getting 1 guaranteed rare and 1 random mythic? That was horrible. That was a huge, huge negative that outweighed all the rest of the positive changes to me. Combine that with the massive, massive nerf to PvP rewards and I'm left wondering: what is the point?

After 4 months I was still missing most of the rares and nearly all the mythics from Origins. And they nerfed the **** out of the drop rate. I don't really look forward to collecting the BfZ cards because at this point I'm not sure if I will EVER get any of the rares or mythics. I mean, I am not a conspiracy theorist but at this point I am completely convinced that at some point in March drop rates for rare+ became noticeably lower. Everyone has noticed it, in fact. We've got tons of posts about it. And now the odds that I'll get much of a reward from PvP just dropped considerably. And even if I do, who cares? It'll still be a **** 5-pack with 3 commons and 2 uncommons.

I'm not sure what the devs were thinking or what they are trying to protect for the long-term health of the game, but I wanted to express my feelings about the short term changes to the meta game - the reward part of the game. This game - like its half-sister MPQ - has two distinct components: a core match 3 game, and a meta rewards game. The core games are SO GOOD. They are tight and interesting and there's so much to love. The metas are horrible. It makes the games unplayable - at least to me - because the rewards are so bad I can't really make myself care to play. I get no sense of advancement. There's no progression. And what little you get is far too slow. (And then you glance at the prices for IAP and you just laugh.)

I really, really love the core match 3 game. But that's not enough. It has to have a sense of progression, a good meta-reward part, in order to keep me coming back. And the last 24 hours has shown me that this is not moving in a positive direction: in fact it's gone extremely backwards in the last several weeks. And that just isn't going to work for me: not when there are too many other distractions for my precious time.

Anyway, do with that what you will, devs. There are my thoughts.