Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-10744295-20131005173042

When are they going to increase the number of top tier spots to something that isn't a huge slap in everyone's face? I have been playing for months now and thought maybe I stood a good chance getting there this time. I currently sit at 3.5 Million points and am climbing, but it will never be enough.

To even get to 100, I would need to complete H10 another 20 times with another 20 chains and that would be simply to catch up to where they are NOW. That's another 40 bucks MINIMUM and a boatload of time. I've already spent 100+ dollars on this event and invested more than 30 hours of play time. What's worse,there are hardly any medals awarded in this event, so it's hard to even upgrade the good cards you get with rubies (I won't even get into the R5 Bumblebee nightmare for 10k rubies). I'm enjoying my time with the game but there is no chance of placing in the top tier unless I spend literally $700 or more at this point. The top guy/gal is currently at 80 million points, and it will likely double, if not triple (and by default, so will the score of current number 100) by the time this is over. Let's assume it only doubles. That would mean (if my math is right) a new person would have to spend in order to try and make it to the top of the leaderboard enough money to buy almost 400 chains. Currently whoever has number one has used I would say figuring in the other campaigns and the 15 point collections during each H10 (averaging one success every 7 times roughly) 185-190 chains. Even if it was only 160 (no way, but if), that would still be 300 bucks right there and I'd say it's closer to 200. That's a ton of money in chains alone, and that's just the 16 packs. This wouldn't include the amount of cards the person would also have to invest in as well as additional cubes and energon.

To be fair, once you have a decent deck, cubes become irrelevant except for the H10 boss, which I can finally now 1 or 2 cube (My DP is 20.5k), but you still have to get to that point first. Energon becomes the more important source but I had over 600 when I started. I burned through all of my transmetal (character, I still have a lot of weapon transmetal and 3k weapon gold medals from past events). In order to get more character medals, I have to either buy them through the paid space bridge (not gonna happen), go the ridiculous route of getting one at a time through the medium campaign, or do the regular missions and go crazy tapping missles for an hour to get one card halfway upgraded if I'm lucky. There is another way I think where I can get transmetal for completing H10, but it's not many and still difficult. They also swore they upped the percentage chance of a capture on either H5 or H6 and above and that is utter bull. This is not the case at all. Even to make it to the bottom of the top 100, and say we stick to the double score bit, that is still 22 Million points, 50-55 chains plus cards, transmetal, energon, and cubes. That would cost roughly 400-500 dollars and the top guys/gals are spending 1000 or more almost certainly. If these scores triple which I suspect they could, it gets even worse.

Maybe my math is off, but we are talking about a ridiculous amount of money to get an R5, which I've wanted just one of now since they debuted. When you figure in cheating which didn't used to be a thing on top of it all, this game loses any amount of fun factor UNLESS you decide that Tier 2 is the real top tier or you are willing to spend upwards of 500 dollars or more and spend virtually every waking moment staring at the screen (or truly cheat and hand off with people). I absolutely love the game, and they made some awesome changes by adding the ruby medals back in, adding new events, but they seriously need to make the top 100 the top 250 or 500 and if not that, do something to make the playing field more even. I have ZERO problem giving them my money. I have spent hundreds on this game, maybe even more than that now. I have a problem with paying a minimum of $400 - $1000 and putting more hours into a video game than most people spend working and sleeping in a week combined. It is insane that they not only expect that we should do this, but that people actually do. I have decided to love Tier 2 and not even try for Tier 1 until they expand the number, because it will make a difference (and no, I don't believe other's pushing to get those spots would matter) that much if they made it at least top 250 for tier 1).

I'm sure some people will tear this apart, but it's how I feel and I've been playing for a long time now and feel sorry not only for myself, but for anyone who feels the way I do. I would welcome any thoughts about this.  