User blog comment:Roxybudgy/The way it's meant to be?/@comment-29272680-20160113175619/@comment-25102474-20160114075631

I typed my post at around 11pm at night after coming home from work, making dinner for my partner, doing the dishes and other household chorse, and then spending 1-2 hours on using up the last of my brittle keys.

1) Experience has taught me that I shouldn't expect FAW drops, and there have been many events were I got 0, but the point of my post is to question whether this is how things should be.

2) It is a waste of time, I don't think anyone would argue that it's a good use of time, I don't see the connection between the value of time and spending money. But I choose to spend money on the game because I want the pretty cards, just as I spend money on F2P MMORPGs for storage space and pretty outfits for my characters.

3) I generally try to do that. I currently have max 257 vitality. If I play before bed, then I will drain my vitality to around 100, so that when I wake up in the morning and catch the train, I have almost max vitality to work with. Usually I can drain all that vitality on my train ride to work, and by the time I head home, it has refilled to around 200 again, which I then use up on my way home. And if I'm gunning for a particular card, I make sure to drain my vitality before 10-11pm to get the free daily vitality refill.

For events where I fail to complete the event map, it's usually because I focused on fighting every AW I encounter, instead of skipping them to rapidly progress through the map.

4) When I brought up Huang Long, what I was trying to get at was that despite my best efforts, I still failed to get a perfectly almagamated HUR Huang Long. I can understand failing if I only played casually, but I honestly think I put a lot of effort into it which makes the outcome frustrating. The tiny difference in soldier count doesn't bother me, rather it's the feeling of incompleteness tugging on my OCD tendencies.

5) Again it may just be down to luck, but I tried this with the Santa Perchta event, and only managed a little over 20 keys from repeating area 1-1 and 5-1 (I did 5-1 when I wanted to drain vitality quicker) over and over again, only encountering the bonus a few times. I guess I'll try it again for the current event, we'll see~

6) Not quite sure what your point is here. I'm no stranger to spending 3-8 hours non-stop playing PC games, and I don't think there is anything bad about people who rank 1-300, I just find it hard to imagine spending that much time and effort on a simplistic card game.

I'm not offended, I actually do like the game (mainly for the art), I wouldn't spend thousands on a game I didn't like. But after playing for almost 2 years... the amount of effort demanded for some of the rewards just seems disproportionate.