Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-9204520-20130524201046/@comment-9234979-20130525041439

They keep ratcheting up the rank requirements. Last time it didn't make sense to bother if you weren't going to get in the top 10,000 because that's what you had to get to earn at least Cosmos robot, Cosmos alt, and Cosmos weapon. Anything less than that was useless at least for cards.

This time it doesn't make sense to bother unless you get in the top 5,000 because that's the only way you get at least the weakest reward bot/alt/weapon - Reflector. I had to bust my hump to get into the low 6000 ranks last event. It'll be tough for most average players to beat 5,000, which eliminates a lot of the incentive to play in free mode while providing strong incentive to spend money.

I think this may be the point where we truly see them motivate the last of motivatible leeches to finally pony up some cash while at the same time culling the leeches who were never going to spend anything. Speaking for the leeches who never planned to spend any money, it's hard to see any reason to really try this time, and for that matter to bother playing. What's it all for if you don't get at least one strong complete boss card out of it? A zillion medals is more of a chore to process than anything, and you're talking about using that to level up mostly strong R3s, which many of us have already done at this point, so that doesn't seem to be much incentive to do the episode.

But I suppose that kind of conveniently coincides with the burnout a number of us have mentioned feeling. Might be a nice episode to take a break from or at least return to playing casually and occasionally instead of burning round the clock.