Hmm I am actually quite disappointed that they are giving out Merits from chests. I thought 2 DEC from a Silver chest was bad enough, now I am getting 2 Merits from a Silver chest.
If we assume 2000 Merits is equal to 80 DEC (1 Rare 4 Common cards in a Gladius Pack), 2 Merits is equivalent to 0.08 DEC. Which is quite depressing, considering 1 DEC is less than USD 0.01.
I think the effect is shown in the number of battles, which has fallen from 5 million a day to 2 million a day. Seems like more players are choosing to sit back and rent out their cards instead of playing for these kind of rewards.
Yep, agreed. There are so many players complaining about the rewards and sudden drop in Focus/Reward points in each league after new Wild/Modern Format.
2 days renting also a burden on players, I don't understand why would someone pay for the cards for 2 days while the focus lasts for 1 day.
Rewards cards are cheaper by the dozen in the market, they are just not making any difference in the gameplay.
New players are very furious about the starter cards, they regret spending $10 on Spell Book.
Bots are again on the rise with new tactics, not much left for a real player.
Yeah a lot of valid points there. Agree with them. Thanks for sharing.
The Merits doesn't solve the bot problem if that was the intention. The bots will still burn the Gladius cards once they get hold of them.
Bots are very intelligent and their AI beats the game ecosystem. So bad for human players indeed.
Captcha can solve this problem but them each battle will take a lot of time or maybe only verified account to participate in the game.
I definitely didn't get why rentals went to 2 days. That makes not much sense to me. The best way to escape bot town is to play in higher leagues with more owned cards I believe.
I got an epic gold foil from Gladius packs which is worth 10K DEC. Of course this is the exception but it shows that the value of Merit might be a bit more than you calcuated. In my opinion the wild/modern format didn't bring much advantages to the game. It simply split the rewards which is definitely not a nice thing.