Board Thread:LOC General Discussion/@comment-108.35.154.66-20130911165857/@comment-76.79.134.150-20130924213907

There is actually quite a bit of trick-down economics in pp/ed. I'm using my guild mates as an example. Many of them originally did not have pwr15+ cards 3 months ago. However, with event UR rewards being worth way more now, it has motivate our guild to fight harder to earn those cards. Remember, while the pp price of cards shot up, the pp/ed required to rank well in event hasn't increased by the same amount. So now you can make much bigger profit selling event reward URs now than ever before, and with only a modest increase of cost in pp to do well in events. The result is that now many of my guildmates are able to earn enough pp to purchase those pwr15+ cards.

Don't get me wrong, there are still sucky aspect in our current market situation. Namely that if you don't try hard to play the events or spend money on card packs, the gulf between haves and have-nots are getting wider. But I think there's also a stronger psychological factor where people can believe that if you can do well even once in event, or get a lucky-pull from card packs, then you can be "rich-for-life". That sort of things do make some people to play harder.