Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-5996974-20130521101634/@comment-136.166.44.135-20130521184935

The balance is to keep casual players interested while also keeping the hardcore paying as much as they are willing to pay. Ideally, you want to entice the casuals to pay a little too.

The guaranteed x3/x5s are a great way to get people to pay a little. I've bought raid cards in every event so far, because it's cheap to get one of each and they help a lot.

The problem is that it's now just as easy to pay for those guaranteed cards again and again and make your deck ludicrously powerful. Mobage doesn't want to eliminate the guarantees, because people are paying like crazy, but it's unbalancing the game for those of us who don't want to drop big bucks every week for a deck full of brand new raid cards.

By catering to that minority, they risk chasing off the huge number of casuals...or at least discouraging them from spending any money.