Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-24705123-20131017014847/@comment-9200727-20131020174222

HypnoCT wrote: I think the Grimlock debacle really soured it for a lot of people, negating months of work collecting r5s. I'm still of the VERY STRONG opinion that characters in this game should be treated as "unique" and not have duplicates in the same deck. But we know that would hurt Mobage's short term sales and they care more about that than long term game stability. The obvious money grabs are getting pretty bad too.

They are trying new things, and I give them a lot of credit for that. However, most of it is so poorly thought out, and completely untested, that the execution is just sad. I am of the opinion lately that this game needs a ground up overhaul. We might just be rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic at this point. But that opinion would be hugely unpopular with most of the paying crowd.

I have always agreed that a version's card duplicate should not be useable in the same deck. I am not too concerned with the Grimlock issue. To me it is no different than the R5 Megatrons or the recent R5 Bees. Now that R5s have been split in twos much like R4s, it is quite a different playing field anyway. R5 Mirage and R5 Jazz were short lived great additions that got side-tracked by sweeps of game changes making those cards much less useful anyway. Decepticon R5s easily held their benefits longer and Autobots needed a buff.