Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-16605998-20130827031401/@comment-13248161-20130827122245

4.71.20.114 wrote: He has a very good point though.. Why in the hell do ANY of us play this game? It's NOT fun, it's work... and on top of that, the money spent versus return on investment is non-existent. There is NOTHING you get for spending money. NOTHING. IT'S IMAGINARY. I could pretend I have a deck of nothing but R5's and its the most awesome deck ever -- I don't --but the fact is the guy who does has nothing (...) Wardeal noted in his farewell that his incredibly awesome deck (if it wasn't all R5s it was darn close) was essentially useless beyond the first day of an event - the x3/x5/x7/x10 multipliers on event cards (especially x7/x10) totally outclass every other card in the game. So you can't really "climb the ladder" to win this game; each and every week, YOU MUST PAY and you must spend an ENORMOUS amount of time. But as you said, "winning" in this game is meaningless beyond collecting artwork that you can see here for free anyway.

I'm not even going to crack T4 this time and I'm realizing I don't much care. I've hit the plateau for the amount of time & money I'm willing to invest in this thing. I'll probably be a much more casual player going forward.