Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-9713390-20130716000146/@comment-192.75.101.162-20130716151158

Play enough events and you're base deck is ok. I'm not sure that's true any more, at least not for a free or low-cash player. It takes 2M points just to freely get the MTM R4 raid card, and you no longer get his weapon. The lowest tier for a complete R4 card is now 5000, not 7500. These two changes make it harder for players starting out to acquire any MTM R4s, which are now must-haves in order to score very well in events these days (someone said it best here when they introduced R5s, that R4 would become the new R3. It has now). Further, Mobage shrunk the help lists and removed the X1/X2 bosses that allowed lower level players to move up the point & rank tiers a little easier.

In the span of two events I managed to acquire both halves of Kup, Brawn and Bonecrusher, complete with their weapons. In the last two events I've only gotten half of the available lowest tier R4s (admittedly I was away for most of the first one, but I saw the reward tier & point changes and realized their meaning immediately). With the continuing power creep, I can see I've little chance of progressing without laying out some more coin in the next event, given the continual abysmal R4 drop rate from medals.

But this is clearly how Mobage wants it. They reward big spenders, not long-timers. If they keep enticing the top 100 players to shell out, what, $200 or more each? then that's a quick $20,000 in revenue for them each week just off those accounts. They've little or no regard to making life any easier for the lesser tiers other than saying, "You want in? That'll be 3000 Mobacoins please."