Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-212.143.231.38-20130626110537/@comment-10726652-20130626151335

212.143.231.38 wrote:

anyways, it thought the X1 and X2 are a win win thingie (for mobage and for the player base). I totally agree they are a winner from Mobage's perspective because they really suck up cubes, but I disagree that they're a win for the player base. Certainly not the whole player base.

The only area in which they are a clear win for the player base is for people for whom 20k or 30k points is a big thing. And I suspect 20k will be more it - notice how they withdrew the 30k X2 before they withdrew the 20k X1.

This isn't a universal win for the player base either because I think it generally only directly benefits lower mid to lower end ranked players. I don't think people under rank 1500 benefit from them at all and I think it's debatable down to maybe rank 3000.

Thing is you have to remember that while you are picking up 20k points, about 500 other people are picking up 20k points at the same time. So in real terms you're not picking up as many points over the competition as hitting something else for 20k which only gets distributed to maybe 10 other players.

How many normal 20k point bosses regularly escape? A fair number. So the extra medals must be tempting people to spend the cube.

Unfortunately frankly medals are just a joke. A typical L6/L8 gets you many more points and typically 6-8 gold medals. Make that 7 medals for ease of working, that's a net 8 gold medal increase from an X1 and a 17 gold medal increase with an X2.

But look at it rationally - what difference does a few extra gold medals make? Again for the mid to higher end players with recent episode R4s in their deck - absolutely nothing unless they pull a current episode x3, x5 or x10. Elite level R4s won't make any deck over recent episode R4s. So you get an Elite card. Yay. Then erm, it sits there because it's incomplete, and in all probability by the time you're lucky enough to complete it - even if you don't have them now - you will have a bunch of Episode R4s in your deck that means the Elite won't get in.

Your odds of pulling an R4 are very long - just see how many people on this forum complain of cracking lots of medals with nothing in return. Your odds of pulling the other half of that R4 again are even more miniscule. And your odds of that R4 being a current Episode raid card are even longer.