Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-72.208.5.60-20130723223629

This isn't some angsty rant trying to convince people not to play anymore. Or some bitter plea for Mobage to fix thier game. Just felt the need to share my experience in this event with other people that would get it.

The last two events for me were non-starters. I missed the starting window or couldn't really play that week. So I farmed cubes. Built up 200 cubes. My plan was to make a low cost push for T2. I spent about 500 coins this time around on two pulls. The first day went quite well. Got in on the episode in the first 20 minutes and a couple hours later I was in the top 100 (I knew this would never last, but it was neat getting into the braket). And shortly after this the backsliding began.

A certain amount of backsliding especially on the fist day is expected. On day one I was still at rank 700, so I wasn't going to complain. I started day two at rank 1500 and over the course of the day worked back up to 1200. I was feeling good about this event.

The next few days started this awful unstoppable backward slide that is starting to feel like a metaphor for life. The next couple of days I was making a profit on cubes because I simply wasn't ever seeing anything worth spending the cubes on. Barely any decent invites and my own scans were almost never worth a cube. The worse part was, I would play for 10-12 hours a day and my rank would never be better than what I started the day out. I was backsliding while playing. Loose 30 rank get a raid boss that gives me 20 back. Wait some more while watching my rank drop. Its gotten into this awful place where I am doing everything in my power to gain rank and I am still slipping backwards. It now feels like I am on a slope scabbling as hard as I can and all its really doing is reducing the speed that I will fall.

As of now, the event has 1.5 hours left. I have managed to work back up to 2260, but an hour ago I was 2250.For the past 2 days I have been. throwing cubes at anything silverstreak lvl 1 or above, but the way my invites are coming and what I am scanning myself I still have over 100 cubes left, but nothing to spend it on.

I don't think I can keep playing this game if all it is doing is eating 10-14 hours of my day and all I get in return is a vaguely queasy feeling of oncoming insurmountable failure.  