Board Thread:Frustrations and venting/@comment-2089224-20140124183642

So - been playing for a little over 2 months I guess. I love the G1 Transformers and initially I found the game a fun diversion - the art is very cool, the weekly events bring a certain freshness to it, and though there's very little gameplay to speak of it scratched my CCG itch. These last two events though, I've discovered that I've reached a point where most of the fun has withered away.

I now have a decent deck, which means that there are very few cards worth adding to it. There's not much to deck construction beyond slotting your heaviest hitters, which means that all the cards I pull from the bridge - all those beautiful cards with the wicked art and cool names - are all useless, so the thrill of new cards is basically gone.

As far as I can tell, there are 2 characters in the current event that are worth adding to my deck - Rodimus and Kup. Unless I'm paying for them, that means checking to see if by some incredibly small chance I pull one from the Bridge with Character medals, or grinding like crazy to get at least 2000 Ruby medals and hoping I get both the Robot and Alt Kup with the 2 pulls those buy - and if I don't, he's useless too.

As far as the current event goes I love the theme and teaming to beat up bad guys is fun but I'd need to place at least 3000 in the ranks to get one character that's any use at all and the time investment to do that is significantly massive. The rewards just aren't that compelling.

I suppose I'd do better in the events if I was spending money - maybe that's what the devs are pushing me towards.

To me, the real tragedy is that there's a lot of unused potential in the game. Characters already have classes that could be set up to be weaker/stronger against other classes, or enhanced if you have a leader and 2 lieutenants of the same class, or a Command character as their leader could confer a bonus... there's a number of possible options there. Setting up some lower-level "arenas" for decks composed of R1 soldiers / R2 leaders, R2/R3 and R3/R4 would make me care about pulling cards again, and let me use some of the characters I love but have no place in the current structure.

I guess I can't complain too much - the damn thing is free, and I'm essentially playing on the backs of people who pay into it. But I'm not inclined to pay into it. I wish I was. I really do. 