User blog comment:Roxybudgy/The way it's meant to be?/@comment-25474140-20160114182001/@comment-25102474-20160115162323

If I'm coming across as "whiny", that's not really my intention. I'm just trying to understand why people think it is acceptable/normal/reasonable to have to spend a lot of time on what is essentially a taptaptap game. I thought more people would agree that the requirements to complete events is crazy, but I seem to be the odd duck here and I am genuinely curious why people willingly spend hours and hours on this game (it's not criticism, just pure curiosity). So far, the responses have been mostly "Suck it up", "Stop whining", or "Learn2Play" (are blogs not intended for people to voice opinions and spur discussion?). I don't think there is anything wrong with being "hardcore" about VC, I'm just fascinated by why people consider the game mechanics reasonable.

As I said, I do like this game (just not the tediousness of repeating the same battles over and over again), and perhaps other people see it differently, but I think of VC as a casual game, and since you can't trade cards (not that I would want to), and there is not really any benefit of collecting lots of cards beyond building attack/defense decks, why does it have to be so hard to collect the limited event F/AW cards? For what purpose does making the collection of event cards (minus ranking for RR card) tedious serve? I don't understand, and I'm just seeking possible explanations.

And everyone who keeps saying I should be more efficient? I already do that. For every game I play, I always hit up the largest related wiki/forums and read up various strategy guides. I've been reading this wiki and the related forums since I started playing back in April 2014. I think I do pretty well for the limited time I do play. Despite this, unless I throw in an extra half hour or hour per day, then I barely scrape in above 3000. Until the Santa Perchta event (which I threw a lot of overtime into), I never ranked above 2000 at the end of an event (I actually ranked above 1000 and got one Santa's Helper, my very first RR card).

Besides VC, I spend a lot of time on other games, I have no problem with spending hours and hours on Guild Wars 2 for example. If you think VC is supposed to be a game that requires the same amount of time and effort as an MMORPG, then I guess we'll have to agree to disagree.