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HondoLane · 11-04-2022, 11:45 AM

I was not hit hard by this (because I had so many extra PS3 diamonds I was planning on selling) but...

...this latest mission set is a pure screw job.

First, you needed two diamonds or a diamond and perfect to complete any mission, doubling the hardest part of the set - was one diamond (sometimes a high diamond) to complete the PS2 and PS1 sets. The rewards increased as well, of course, right? Nope. Just 2 historical packs (which was already a weak reward compared to CC, ie). Why would you increase the mission difficulty for a running series with no reward increase?

This just feels greedy.

Second, the missions were poorly designed so that the 'modern' mission has few cards and will be insanely expensive for most people - only 3 diamonds and you need 2 of the 3? And Perfects are USELESS for this mission and act literally the same as a diamond no matter how you put it in. Absolutely dumb. 'HR' set has 7 diamonds, You couldn't have moved one of those over to 'modern'?

People have been whining about missions all year - I haven't been one of them, actually. But this right here is just disrespectful to the player.

11-04-2022, 11:45 AM	#1
HondoLane Banned Join Date: Jun 2022 Posts: 167 Infractions: 0/1 (1)	Platinum Series 3 mission set is a screw job I was not hit hard by this (because I had so many extra PS3 diamonds I was planning on selling) but... ...this latest mission set is a pure screw job. First, you needed two diamonds or a diamond and perfect to complete any mission, doubling the hardest part of the set - was one diamond (sometimes a high diamond) to complete the PS2 and PS1 sets. The rewards increased as well, of course, right? Nope. Just 2 historical packs (which was already a weak reward compared to CC, ie). Why would you increase the mission difficulty for a running series with no reward increase? This just feels greedy. Second, the missions were poorly designed so that the 'modern' mission has few cards and will be insanely expensive for most people - only 3 diamonds and you need 2 of the 3? And Perfects are USELESS for this mission and act literally the same as a diamond no matter how you put it in. Absolutely dumb. 'HR' set has 7 diamonds, You couldn't have moved one of those over to 'modern'? People have been whining about missions all year - I haven't been one of them, actually. But this right here is just disrespectful to the player.