That's what games are all about. To drain your credits, to make you buy new ones and have them drained again in these damn games.People don't understand anything when they play and encourage these games.If they've added these credits, it's certainly because they saw that they may have gone overboard in obtaining these SEC and Ex cards. An attempt to entice those who were hesitant to participate.Totem rarely makes gifts, and when they do they are not at a loss. They know there will be a return on investment.
@ComteDraculaThat's correct, and I think most people know this, unless ***** from some sort of game addiction and some important lack of knowledge of basic probability theory. Whoever wants to get these type of cards already knows that the expected amount of credits to be lost is considerable, not to mention the requirement of doing a considerable reload of credits.
I'm also pretty confident that most users are smart enough as to know that it is impossible for a random game to provide long-term benefits to the customer to the detriment to the company. After all, these are sum zero games (profits for company match the losses for customers), and they only play them with the sole purpose of getting the cards, knowing that there will be an important loss of credits during the process. Basically, almost nobody is interested in playing games, but they are rather seen as a necessary evil to obtain cards in certain events.
Totem after all is a company and, as such, they are always ruthlessly testing the red lines of their customers with the purpose of getting as close as possible to these borders, while trying not to cross them, in order to keep optimizing their benefits without causing too much disruption. However, I have the feeling that the inherent greed is becoming so voracious that this already feels like trying to check what happens if these red lines are actually crossed. This, of course, unless they thoroughly make decisions based on conducted studies of their customer's patterns and conduct, which is a theory that I cannot discard at all.
One example of this is the bundle of 5 SECs that they've recently announced during a period of barely 2 months (you were again right in your predictions that you made in your message below, by the way). This can be seen as another test to the patience of the customers, but it's up to the majority, and not only the two of us, to see whether this is already crosses that red line or not. There's only one way to know, and will be the profits they will make from this point to the end of the event.
What is pretty clear to me is that, as long as some new upper level of greed works, they will keep trying the next one. In other words, conditions to get these special types of cards will keep getting touger and touger, while probably increasing the frequency of the events. And this will keep happening unless at some point the majority of customers who participate on them cut it through the most powerful way of communication that there exists between a company and their customers: the money of the latter ones.
