One Year Later - Why Marvel Snap's Card Acquisition Is Still Bad

Listen my opinion is my opinion and it is subjective, but I've also added my experience in regards to the Spotlight Caches/keys. My experience is not yours, and my experience isn't to crap on what you think or gone through. If you had awesome pulls AWESOME! Congrats you have luck on your side. I haven't been too lucky with the pulls, which has made card acquisition for me a pretty bad experience. I go over a bit on Marvel Snap' economy, and the fact that card acquisition is IN CONCEPT on the road map. That means even Second Dinner knows that the system is getting out of hand and that it wasn't THAT much of a good idea.
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[@GodbodyRoku]

Ok here we go. Card acquisition has felt bad for me for my experience. My experience is not yours. This is not towards anyone that don't have bad pulls and all the luck in the world. I talk about monetization and albums for a bit because they contain spotlight keys and some bundles do as well. Some of those bundles cost 70-100 bucks to get spotlight keys or tokens. You have every right to spend as much as you want.. you have every right to grind as much as you want, but I won't take people that do like the spotlights to trash others with bad experiences and vice versa. You can rightfully disagree but don't be an a-hole about it. If this is not your type of video just move around respectfully.

[@ydgmdlu]

Complaining about stuff that doesn't really matter isn't helpful to the community. In fact, it just adds toxicity. If the card acquisition model in Marvel Snap is unacceptable to you, then you can quit and switch to a different digital card game that has what you would call a better model. Good luck with that, because I'm sure that you'll only find games with worse card acquisition models, and the ones that might be better are now all dead or in maintenance mode by their developers.

[@GodbodyRoku]

@ydgmdlu why doesn't it matter? If they decided to change card acquisition then that means it was a problem. Also if this video wasn't for you you yourself didn't have to ride second dinners dick to make this comment. I also play MTG Arena and have been getting a lot of cards way more than I had with playing Snap.. the money spent in MTG makes more sense than the money spent in Snap. How is it toxic when I make a video but Alex can make his comments and doesn't get any flack for it but I say the same things he says and now it's toxic for the community? But you can tell people to quit and that complaining does nothing while YOU are complaining about people starting a conversation about how card acquisition needs to change? Be for real dummy.

[@nebulagray88]

I have enjoyed this game a lot when i first played it, but near the end of the pool 3 grind, being unable play new and more fun stuff, along with dailies feeling like chores, i just stopped opening the game suddenly and never looked back. From time to time i check ive things have changed in the hopes of being motivated to play again, but it seems unlikely.

[@lf.l5766]

Same. I was spending every months and playing everyday. But not being able to play the cards I want if I don't spend a lot of money. I'm out, haven't been playing in 3 months. I was Infinite top 10k for 12 months.

[@HTCenjoyer]

Grinding all this week a key spotlight to try to get Makkari, well... I ended up unlocking an useless variant of X-23 cuz I had her card long time ago... Now all I want is to uninstall the game and go to neck myself (its only an exageration) after grinding like that only for a variant that doesnt change the effects (just like ultimate cards). Its like you said, no one told me to open the spotlight it falls on my shoulders but it just feels like my hard work didnt have any effect on my progress in my collection. I Think I'm going to disconnect for the game the rest of the week.

[@madmax8261]

fam im in the same boat… sometimes it even takes longer than a week to get a single key. & i complete every mission all i ended up with was that variant… smh

[@ydgmdlu]

Why were you even trying to go for Makkari? The card is not even good.

[@jonathanstorms4530]

With how the challenge systems work, it is quite literally impossible 2 grind out four keys in a week.

[@alexfedak5500]

I have loved this game since the very start but that clip of Alex sums it up best. With new /improved forms of card acquisition being "in concept" is beyond laughable and shows where Second Dinner places the spotlight on the development side. I'm pleased to see stuff like the new Deadpool event and I can only hope they have some plans in the near future for f2p/lowbudg players

[@bryanep]

I stopped playing this game about 8 months back due to burn out and recently looked into get back into it. Used to buy the season pass too so not completely FTP but looking at the state of the game no way I'm getting back into it.

[@fallguybuddy2654]

Stopped around 6:38 Yeah Red Hulk, Hi-Evo, and most recently cannonball. Ball is whatever i said to myself "it'll hurt but it wont be for a while"....came sooner than expected. Red hulk was so fast omg like wtf. Evo was the one that was least anoying for me cause I remember last yr everyone got him and then boom change. Arishem has the exact hype but I dont expect the card to be Evo lv good. My prediction is when they get desperate enough, thats when they'll take action. If I had to say a number it'll be 9months to 1yr. In concept is BS but when enough plp leave the game they will be forced to fix/change/update whatever.

[@TheBerg28]

We are we spending spotlight keys one by one? That is gambling, and of COURSE YOU FEEL BAD when you don’t pull the new card. Only spend keys when you’re guaranteed to pull what you want. 4 keys minimum to pull the new card. Second dinner has said they don’t WANT people to have all the cards. In games where devs HAVE given all the cards free to play, people stop playing because they get disinterested. Same sentiment is shared here among the players approaching pool 3 completion. The problem isn’t card acquisition, the problem is FEELING like new cards are unattainable-and of course it feels that way when you only spend one at a time. I’m not saying the system is perfect, but instead of wallowing in misery of your own doing, adjust your strategy and improve your mental health.

[@GodbodyRoku]

Nowhere in my video did I say that I was spending my keys one by one

[@TheBerg28]

@@GodbodyRoku I know, I’m talkin to people in the comments. I mean NO disrespect. I respect you for puttin the time in on this video and expressing your thoughts. Just wanted to start a conversation.

[@GodbodyRoku]

@TheBerg28 I'll say this. Its really hard to get 4 keys in a week. The most I get is 3 and that is spread apart on some days. I know you're supposed to save 4 on the ONE card you want.. the thing is we only get a week to try and go for the card if you want it.. God forbid you spent all 4 keys and then a meta defining card comes out and you have to skip the card because you spent all your resources trying to get that card. That's why the card acquisition was only for new players to try and get cards they didn't have before compared to the ones like me that was getting everything until the spotlight keys came out. It just doesn't seem like good practice in putting trash spotlight caches together to get a wonky variant when you wanted that new card. That's where for me it's a trashy kind of practice. Yes, if you spend on one key each time it's gambling and when you don't get the card and end up with a wack ass variant you feel bad. You gotta spend gold to refresh missions to grind and get credits to upgrade a card to get on the collection track and try to go up 120 levels before you get your key. It's a ridiculous amount of grinding on top of trash spotlight packages like why has Modok been in 4 spotlight packages since its inception? For me it's been frustrating and you want to take a break but you're getting the feeling of if I take a break I will never get these cards that are in every single top 10 deck by these creators and it the FOMO takes over. Appreciate your comment bro I also blame myself a bit in the video but I understand people's frustration when it comes to card acquisition.

[@ydgmdlu]

​@@GodbodyRokuyou're just dodging the points about how you're not meant to have every card. You can unlock two or three cards every month completely free-to-play. Whining about "meta-defining cards" is BS. There is literally no card in the game that you can't climb ranked/Conquest without, not even Red Hulk or Nocturne or White Widow. If a card is so good that it goes in every deck and has an over 25% play rate, that card will probably be nerfed (look what happened to Red Hulk). And regardless of whether it gets nerfed, no card has ever had over 50% play rate, which means that the majority of players get by just fine without using any given card. The FOMO is entirely caused by spending too much time on KZbin watching other creators show off every card. If you spent no time on KZbin watching Marvel Snap videos, then you'd be able to focus on the cards that seem fun to you in a vacuum rather than constantly worry about chasing the meta.

[@GodbodyRoku]

@ydgmdlu bro we are obviously gonna disagree on nearly everything. Just because they don't want me to have every card doesn't mean that they have to cost nearly 100 bucks to get if I DO want that card. You say f2p but not everyone is a grindy sweaty player. Conquest has what 2-3 variants? 400 gold? To play a mode that not a lot of people play to begin with including me. You skipped over a lot of my points f2p don't get nearly enough rewards compared to someone who just buys the season pass.. whales get more due to buying most of their resources so they're able to be nearly collection complete. Card acquisition math TO ME doesn't add up. And yes I guess every single deck doesn't need xyz card but it doesn't exactly help when you get out powered and over matched in nearly all the games you play against the top meta decks. I'm at a pretty high collection level so matching against decks that are tier 1 while using a tier 3 is where you get out matched. RNG is a factor so you can win those games but tier 3 simply will lose majority of games against tier 1 let's be real.