User blog comment:Roxybudgy/The way it's meant to be?/@comment-25563155-20160113215153

While I do understand some of your points (the gameplay does get extremely repetitive, especially so in the long term), I usually have no trouble getting all the event cards with only playing on the bus to work and a bit in the evenings. Granted, this event had a high number of extremely useful returning cards (essentially they re-released my entire LAWK deck all at once), but that's why it was longer than usual. Also, while the RNG for UR drops is total bs (this is my 4th event in a row with 0 FAW drops for a cumulative 0 out of 1000+ kills), Nubee provides multiple ways to get cards: likeability, top 3k ranking (which is not hard to get at all) and item exchange. With the likeability rewards, you essentially only needed 2 single SR drops to get a mixed evolution of Huang Long and Summer Oracle. That's VERY manageable. Remember, mix evos are at most a couple of hundred soldiers worse than perfect evos. In most likelyhood you'll never encounter a fight in your entire time playing VC where such a small difference actually matters.

Now Jean... yeah, she required significantly more time as you probably want more copies of her. I'm fine with that; I have no problems with a game requiring some effort to get multiple copies of a very powerful card.

LAWs... well, sure, they do require you to play a but more, especially in events where you want to spend most of your time getting the returning AWs. Imho the LAW fights are one of the most boring things in the game, as they are not really hard, just freaking long. If you're having trouble with getting LAWs, you might want to look for a more active alliance; even if you only assist on a couple of LAWs a day, that's still free chance for drops for you :3 In this event though, grabbing SAmmy from sacred treasures was an easy bypass. If you spent some time farming Jean, you should have enough treasures no problem.

Overall I feel that VC is doing a pretty good job on playing time management. Sure, you do need to spend a lot of time if you want to get multiple copies of UR cards (especially those that rely on UR drops alone with no amalgamation possibilities) and obviously you need to play a LOT to get the RR card, but they pretty much let you get all event cards by spending your free vitality alone. I honestly don't understand how people can keep going for high ranks event after event without getting bored, but lately I had no trouble getting everything I want with about 1 hour of playtime per day (and none of that is focused entirely on VC - I'm either on the bus or messing with the game while watching YouTube).

If you feel that's too much for you, then yeah, VC is probably not the game for you.... nor are any trading card games or most mobile games, for that matter. Trying to chain the players to their mobiles is becoming a more and more common trend, unfortunately. I'm actually having more fun playing a Gameboy Advance emulator on my mobile than any other game :P But really, VC isn't all that bad in this aspect. Ayakashi Ghost Guild (Another trading card game I used to play), for example, used to require you to use all your free energy AND some cash items just to be able to complete events. And you couldn't even dream about getting anything decent from ranking rewards (especially not a UR card) without spending some serious cash.