User blog comment:Buiquangduy/New event - difficult and boring/@comment-24949969-20141001014505

I have my own rant and rage about the events as of late.

I'll make an easy comparison so people can understand why some rankers are quitting, or they're thinking about quitting:

Ranking in the past  was quite different. You didn't need to worry about trading. You didn't need to worry about bad rates. You would be a killer, you would have senders. People would not be fighting for ranking rewards as not everyone had the ability to slaughter archwitches.

To put it simply... Netherworld Princess was a 20 day event. I ended up rank 14 at 33mil total. The effort put out for that event was much less than making even a top 100 rank now at the end. The quality of the ranking rewards back then were the same quality as premium URs. Now the ranking rewards are watered down versions of premium URs. Hell even premium URs had their proc rates nerfed (crit cards, buffers.) Just take a look at the current garbage box summon.

Ranking requires more effort now than the past, and you get less. Why rank?

I understand the argument about free versus premium. I am a huge casher myself. I understand newer players need a chance to get URs too. I think it's completely unfair to newer players who have needs for the cards that are similar to the ones offered in past events, make the players work harder, and give them something much less. I'm just completely disgusted at Nubee, and I have better things to spend my money on now.

Ranking is becoming less and less appealing to me. Antigone was the nail in the coffin though. Wasted everyone's time in a 17 day event giving a card that was the same as the FAW.