Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-6011882-20130418172159/@comment-6011882-20130509153545

And, in an interesting twist to this topic, the Android card market is in the midst of a pretty severe depression right now.

Many of us are quite happy with the convenience offered by the addition of Full Scale Attack for the raid event. However, LoC strangely decided to make another change which has had some very adverse effects:  The removal of PP rewards from the Hidden Bosses. They are apparently still given as participation, etc rewards for the secret bosses, but their complete removal from hidden boss rewards has turned the raid event from a net profit for most players into a net loss, and has completely crashed the Android card market. Granted, the market was already falling a bit due to the quick re-realease of powerful cards such as Tia back into circulation, as well as players becoming impatient and selling quick to lowballers instead of holding to their price. I also think that the number of real new players vs. alt accounts has undergone a steady decline, and thus there is not much of a rare card market anymore with few exceptions such as extincts and Lush, Apop, Ice Drag.

It seems that all players right now are so desparate for PP they are no longer getting as raid rewards that they are accepting amazingly low offers for their UR's. For example, one can easily find a PM Kae for 75-80 or a Maat or Gilga for as low as 25, because that is how desparate people are to get a hold of PP to rank in the event. Even ED is scarce because it is still needed to find more bosses quicker in raid, and of course, people want to hoard them for the upcoming Oddyssey.

I've heard that the removal of significant PP raid rewards was an effort by the LoC admins to get more sales of their PP packs, but I think it will actually have the effect of making mid-rank players like myself LESS likely to spend money, and instead just hoard our pots and not worry so much about ranking. Another reason for that is how broken the ranking tiers are right now. Regardless of whether I coast and try to stay below 2000, or work my butt off and madly use up PP to break 700, and fail, I'm getting the same rewards. And if I do succeed, I'm only gaining another Athos, which I could easily buy for under 10PP, especially in this depressed market. Better to just stay at 1800 lol.

Finally, I think that Full Scale, while a time saver actually is a bit less efficient than hammering away. Since it works like a single compounded attack, you are only given one chance for your raid skills to activate. If they don't, you basically just did minimum possible damage on your raid boss, at the cost of a full bar's worth of PP. That and no 1:45 or more woth of regen because you killed the boss in under 10 minutes, and you're using a lot more pots during a raid event than you used to.

Wondering how bad you iOs guys are having it this raid as far as a shortage of PP, especially given that card value on your side has seen somewhat of a decline over time.