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Saladfingers

There are games with even worse currencies; I've played games that have 3 different currencies for when you use actual cash...games like that usually use Gold and Gems as well as fragments and gold conversion currency and even have their own marketplaces for trading. Grinding DL is a joke compared to other grind games.

Xain

That still doesn’t make it ok. They continue to nerf the aspect that draws people in.

Anoymous

You'll complain too anyway if those games makes things harder for you just like what Konami did to DL.

<< Anonymous

Saladfingers

Back when I started the game, I remember Events being more spread out. Granted, the gems were a bit more attractive and were sufficient to get me between events, but they weren't as frequent as they are now. We are seeing events, back to back, with a nerf to the gem rewards...I haven't done a comparison but I would say we are obtaining pretty much the same amount of gems per month as we used to.

<< Anonymous

Saladfingers

You can't get much harder than games that require 5+ hr farm sessions for materials that you will have to repeat multiple times to complete 100%. zOMG! was harder to farm than DL, and that was a casual game that required 3 hr farms at most.

<< Anonymous(Saladfingers)

Xenon

Someone on reddit make a few statistics about it and it seem that the overall gems get down. Even with 'more' events, they are declining. So no win(especially when we consider most events are just recycled).

<< Anonymous(Xenon)

Saladfingers

I would like to see the statistics, could you link, please?
I don't mind recycled events, I hate recycled rewards though. Even if the net Gem rewards go down, the amount of Tickets being given and special campaigns has also increased a lot since launch. There has to be a balance in the rewards...it's just how things work.

<< Anonymous(Saladfingers)

Anoymous

Um that’s why nobody plays those garbage games and people will eventually leave this game as well!

<< Anonymous(Saladfingers)

Anoymous

Nobody asked for those other rewards for them to go “balance”. Honestly id be fine with this 🔥 if they tell us why they did it. It’s not like we didn’t ask, but they straight up IGNORED us! How much ruder can you get? HORRIBLE customer service.

<< Anonymous

Saladfingers

Actually, people did ask them to be balanced. The whole tickets and changes to PVP originated from surveys. Konami made changes accordingly and are still trying to balance out the rewards. It may not seem fair at the moment after having had more gems in the past, but there was a time when we had a lot less to work with...even I prefer the game now as to when I first started.

<< Anonymous(Saladfingers)

Valencia

If they want to balance out all of the rewards to make up for the gem nerf, then they could start giving us more cards that are better than what we usually get. Card trader is boring, a lot of the character level up rewards are not that great, event cards like dd tower usually suck, and a lot of SR ticket choices are things that you can farm the characters for.

<< Anonymous(Valencia)

Xain

Agreed. The cast at the gate needs updated decks and cards since more than half aren't worth getting. Even the cards you get from tickets are subpar. The only exception was the world championship tickets they gave out.

Not to mention if they nerf gems how do they expect us to make decks?

<< Anonymous(Valencia)

Saladfingers

I agree, that's been my main argument for the past surveys. My main frustration is with the card rewards we receive. Bitelon is a good example of the crappy rewards we get as obtainable compared to other good rewards we've received in the past, not to mention an update on the SD reward list. I'm up to 99 copies of almost each one.

<< Anonymous(Saladfingers)

Saladfingers

I would find the game more attractive if we had access to a better Ticket Rewards Pool rather than an increase in the gem count.

<< Anonymous(Xain)

Valencia

My only explanations for so many bad cards are: 1.They REALLY thought that we would be using fun decks a lot more in ranked. Xd 2. They think that giving out too many good cards for free will deter us from spending money at the card shop.

<< Anonymous(Saladfingers)

Valencia

Ikr? I feel like it is always the same kind of cards. Especially with the tickets. And there are way too many N and R tickets now. I can't even remember the last time when they changed the cards for them.

<< Anonymous(Valencia)

Saladfingers

N & R rewards are jokes, but I don't mind the Glossy Rare tickets since they can help with farming duel assessment. I hope they update by the time 5Ds is introduced and give us access to better cards in general.

<< Anonymous(Saladfingers)

Xenon

As you asked:

https://www.reddit.com/r/DuelLinks/comments/93f5gg/nonrng_gem_report_july_2018/

While the statistics are not many, it show that there aren't an increase(more of the opposite).

To tickets: Those are more or less useless. Only glossy are worth(if you even need them).

<< Anonymous(Xenon)

Saladfingers

Thnx!
The statics are for non RNG Gems given this month as well as Jan, Feb, May, and July. It's a shame he doesn't have more data, but I find it interesting that May gave us such an increase in Gem rewards...and if you average out May and July we get a 4500 count, which is pretty close to Jan and Feb.

<< Anonymous(Saladfingers)

Saladfingers

If we could find more data, we could really see just how much the gem count has fallen...with the data given in the link, we can't say much but I can say that the count is pretty much balanced considering the High & Low Points given.

<< Anonymous(Saladfingers)

Anoymous

Honestly I don't get why the hell they think N ticket is a good daily login reward at this point.

Within DL's first few months maybe, but now?

All the R tickets in daily login should be SR tickets instead, while the N tickets should be R tickets instead.....

Now that's how you make people willing to log in.

<< Anonymous

Saladfingers

I think they should be included as well, maybe once a week SR and Glossy r tickets to keep things interesting. A Glossy SR once a month would also be appreciated.