#PackStrike

We definitely need better rewards. NMS players can barely stay competitive right now unless they devote all of their time to grinding and flipping cards. I don't have that sort of time. I play only 1 hour and 30 minutes a day from Friday until Sunday because any more would interfere with time that needs to be spent studying and completing homework. I'm tired of having bare minimum rewards like the 84+ from TOTW, not being able to get a free AKA player until November, and the Legends Promo being completely unattainable. 

I also find the sheer amount of packs that can only be opened with money disgusting. I bought the game for about $60. I'm not going to pay twice that amount on a bundle that will most likely give me maximum 85 overall cards. Pack odds are terrible. Last year rerolls were what made me most of my coins. This year they're the main reason I don't have any. Last year having five GTs on my team was completely attainable. This year I'm not sure I'll be able to afford ONE. 

I also think the new power up system makes NMS even harder. Last year I could pick out a power up card for about 3k coins or so and just use training from binder trash so that I could upgrade it to at least a decently competitive card, even if I couldn't afford the final card. The Power-Up-Passes also helped me get cards that normally were way out of my price range. And the power up investing was beneficial to the market in my mind. Randall Cunningham's power up was incredibly expensive, but that meant that anyone who pulled it (and it wasn't that hard to pull as a low overall card) could make about 100k easily.