Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-9324192-20130524014522/@comment-9008292-20130524102546

Well I think the main issue is that there is ultimately no incentive for doing well in an event to get these "ultra rare" cards. The event ends, you get these cards, MTM them, then next event starts and your better off purchasing the X3 or X5's then you are using the cards you just won. Not to mention, after that event, the X5 card someone paid a few dollars for is now worth more than the card you spent more than 100 hours trying to achieve.

The X5 card stats should alter after the event and be no better than the R4's you can find in normal packs such as Metroplex/Trypticon/Jazz/Starscream/etc... There would still be an incentive during the event to purchase them for the X5 point boost, but more incentive to win the reward cards and medals to find the cards that would be more powerful outside of any 1 given event.

I think ultimately they will need to think of some other event types and then things will become a lot better. Take Blood Brother for example, they have PVP event, Tower Boss Event, Capture the flag event, and a boss event which is similar to what transformers has now. BB does X3 and X5 bonus cards but they only do those cards for the boss event. So the cards you win in other events/packs are very useful to do well in the other events. Not to mention that these "pay cards" aren't typically some of the best in the game. They obv help everyone during boss event, but also prove useful to new players to help them build a decent deck quickly, but not give them a power house deck after 1 event for spending $100.

They still make a ton of money off Blood Brothers and typically the most powerful event reward cards are the boss event which makes it a huge incentive for long time players to still buy the X3 and X5 cards. They also pretty much do events back to back, but they cycle the events. This gives players who only like the boss event time between events yet gives the avid players who want new prizes the "fix" they are looking for. It also changes things up so you are not just constantly doing the same thing over and over again.