No, I think it's mainly because the new system of rentals make it easy for an account to reach Diamond or Champion with a single day of rentals. And then they don't have to spend anything else the rest of the season. Players like @jacekw have already demonstrated how this can be done.
A botnet or a human player can just spend 1 day farming each of 15 different accounts, renting the same set of cards each day (for each account) and get 15 season end rewards.
With this upcoming change, in addition to 1 day of playing, it just means people will also need to maintain their rating/league for the final day of the season. More importantly, it also means that a given card can only count its power towards one account on the final day of the season.
While this is true, now new players will have to spend so much DECs the day the season end to stay in the rank they are in, probably making it non profitable.
As a new player that is using the rental system quite a lot I will see how this turns out, but I could think of stopping to play the game if I'm not able to reach higher leagues at a reasonable price.
In our league we have few people that relays on rental to reach higher leagues, as well in PeakD guilds army.
I don't get how this change could help new players as stated in the blog post, to me it looks is actually just helping mavericks to improve the rental prices the day season ends.
Time will tell but without some kind of rental protection for locking in a card for a set period, how do you think this will play out?
Is this true though? I thought similar but was told that once you reach a rating/league it sticks. Would appreciate some clarification on this :)
This is a change they're making. Right now, a player could rent enough cards to get the power for Champion, get them, and park until the end of the season. Now, they'd have to rent the cards for the entire season because your league will automatically drop if your power drops.
Ahh, right, thanks. I forgot about the cards' power :)
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I asked a dumb question and then deleted it. haha. You'll still probably get the alert. I was wondering why they wouldn't be in Champion if they just stopped playing, then I remembered collection power and how it lowers your league if you lose the power. Answered my own question. haha.